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Electron for a music player? It's like using matlab as a text editor. Absolutely stupid.

• pmlnr 9y ago
  Spotify is also electron :/
  • la_oveja 9y ago
    Spotify is a website, that uses web services. If I want to listen to my local music, I don't need a browser. It's just plain stupid.
    • magicalhippo 9y ago
      PlexAmp is meant to play music from your Plex library, which may indeed not be local. The Plex server API is HTTP based (something REST-like IIRC). And they wanted the player to work on multiple platforms, unlike say Foobar2000. Not saying it's the best technical choice, but given that it started as a personal side project it's a hardly fair to call it "plain stupid" to use Electron for this.
      • solarkraft 9y ago
        Yet it doesn't even support Linux.
        • magicalhippo 9y ago
          That could be because the devs simply don't use Linux as a desktop OS. Again, this was a side project after all. Given that both MPD and Electron has Linux support, PlexAmp will get it soon enough now that it has been released to a wider audience and hopefully gets more internal support.
      • pmlnr 9y ago
        > And they wanted the player to work on multiple platforms, unlike say Foobar2000. You mean something like VLC, mplayer, clementine, Quod Libet, [insert another massive amount of players based on gtk, python, qt, etc.]? Something tells me Electron is not the only choice.
        • magicalhippo 9y ago
          I suspect it's easier to go the route they did than try to integrate Plex playback into the clients you mentioned. Though of course it's not the only choice...