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Show HN: Open source music player in beta
- d4rth_s1d10us 10y agoI must say this is a very nice attempt for a music player !
- fiatjaf 10y agoThat's a pretty tough thing to ask.
- libeclipse 10y agoI'm slightly concerned at the permissions it requires. A music player should not ask for the power to make phone calls, and then refuse to work when it's denied.
- St_Alfonzo 10y agoSame here, the music player asks for permission to make phone calls and record audio. Maybe I have a different understanding of a music 'player', or this is a bug in the android permissions list.
- bcook 10y agoAFAIK, apps need this permission so that they can mute/stop when there is an incoming call.
- libeclipse 10y agoI don't recall any other media player I've used requiring it.
- bcook 10y agoDid they pause when there was an incoming call?
- libeclipse 10y agoYes
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- halflings 10y agoNo permission seems to be required to listen on a call being done: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/PhoneStateListener.html#onCallStateChanged https://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/Ph... There's one permission (READ_PHONE_STATE) required for some other methods, but it is different from the permission to initiate a a phone call.
- bcook 10y agoREAD_PHONE_STATE is precisely what the app in question uses. https://github.com/harjot-oberai/MusicStreamer/blob/master/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml https://github.com/harjot-oberai/MusicStreamer/blob/master/a...
- ianlevesque 10y agoThis used to be correct, in Android 1/2.x. It no longer is, there is no compelling reason for it to need it now that there are audio focus APIs.
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- weego 10y agoIt doesn't appear to be under your github account so where should we file issues?
- captn3m0 10y agoFound in the play store description: https://github.com/harjot-oberai/MusicStreamer https://github.com/harjot-oberai/MusicStreamer
- sirzarmo 10y agoI do hope it will be uploaded to F-droid.
- sreejithr 10y agoTo be honest, I don't see the appeal here. 99% of the time, my phone is playing music in my pocket. If the visualizations were trippy, I'd use it when smoking a J. But the visualizations look pretty static. Maybe I'm not seeing what others are seeing. Just my 2 cents.
- stedaniels 10y agoI pessimistically always think these kind of things are spearfishing attempts!
- tonmoy 10y agowell, you could clone the repo, and build it yourself to lessen the chances of such attempts.
- abejfehr 10y agoI noticed that the icon in the status bar was a music note. But because the app is called Music DNA, you should make the top bar twisted like a strand of DNA is!
- aryamaan 10y agoGenuine question: what's the need of music players these days? I mean, all the songs are locked in music streaming app (apple music, spotify)- where do you download your songs from?
- kowdermeister 10y agoOn SoundCloud you can find tons of mixes. I don't have a data plan so I prefer to listen to podcasts offline.
- jetti 10y ago>I don't have a data plan so I prefer to listen to podcasts offline. I do have a data plan and prefer to listen to podcasts offline. The amount of data podcasts can take up is crazy
- Tharre 10y agoHave you heard about that those ancient things called music CDs? That's where people get their offline music from ;-)
- owlmirror 10y agoSome people like their music without DRM and vendor lock-in. We rip it from Audio-CDs or buy mp3 albums when available. Sometimes we even resort to piracy (SoulSeek, torrent, one-click hoster+piracy blogs). Also if you often travel between borders, streaming music is just not an option. I have an offline collection of about 500GB of music, but there are people who have substantially more.
- tsm 10y agoTangential: Is there a non-Google way of getting similar functionality to what Google Music used to be? It's hugely appealing to have my own copy of everything I listen to synced seamlessly across devices. Google Music is getting it done, but there are a few warts: a) It keeps pushing its marketplace, subscription service, and "radio" feature. I'm interested in none of them. b) There's no (sane) way to make a track from my library be played from my alarm clock. c) It limits how many times I can download a particular track. That I own. Yes, I have my own copy elsewhere, but the point of Google Music is supposed to be saving me the headache of keeping things in sync.
- zapt02 10y agoYou can set up a Subsonic server, there are multiple apps like DSub and the official Subsonic app which are very polished. http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=github.daneren2005.dsub&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=github.daneren...
- grawlinson 10y agoLibresonic[0] is my go-to when someone asks for Subsonic functionality. It's a libre fork of Subsonic that removes the licensing code. [0]:https://github.com/Libresonic/libresonic https://github.com/Libresonic/libresonic