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A simple, clean and cross-platform music player
- indigodaddy 4y agoThis has been around for a long time apparently. It first hit AUR in 2016: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/museeks-bin https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/museeks-bin
- xchip 4y agoAll was good until I realized it requires: - Node.js - Electron (formerly atom-shell) - React.js
- ARandomerDude 4y agoWhat’s your recommendation for cross-platform app development these days?
- xeromal 4y agoNot the guy and I don't have a beef with nodejs et all, but Qt(framework) C#/Python
- stevenkkim 4y agoHas Qt improved its aethetics/appearance? My experience with Qt apps is that they have a distinctive non-native look and feel that's a bit off-putting to me.
- mnd999 4y agoSame problem with node / electron though. It generally looks nothing like the native UI, and has a ridiculous memory footprint.
- stevenkkim 4y agoWhile I prefer native apps, I’m fine with electron and web apps as long as the ui is good to use and to look at. Some electron apps are great to use, many have terrible UIs. But in my experience all Qt apps are ugly. I was wondering if Qt has been working on improving that.
- vehemenz 4y agoI'm a bit bewildered by these memory complaints. RAM usage on desktop applications hasn't been an issue for 20ish years. Open up your process manager once in a while.
- prmoustache 4y agoIt is an issue on machines with 2GB of ram or lower. And there is no good reason we should throw away those perfectly working machines just because devs are lazy waste creators and global warming mothafokers.
- gary_0 4y agoWhat does look like the native UI? I'm not a Mac user so maybe that platform has some uniformity? Windows is a total mish-mash and just about every app and utility for the past 20 years (even MS Office) has had its own "skin". On Linux, Gnome and KDE constantly redesign things, and every distro is different, so there isn't really a standard. The only things I can think of that are consistent are the utilities that come with the DE, but most of the apps I use on Linux are either browsers or IDEs, each with their own style, or console stuff (and even then, the UX varies!)
- karmakaze 4y agoI usually go for the newest (often disappointed to find I was too early). So right now that for me would be .NET MAUI[0] and Flutter. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33523532 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33523532
- squarefoot 4y agoLazarus. Native fast compact code that compiles from small ARM boards to big PCs. https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
- aliqot 4y agoFyne Toolkit
- gchokov 4y agoI came here to comment that exactly. I am not installing anything Electron on any of my machines .. not anymore.
- butz 4y agoAt least they have been experimenting with Tauri: https://github.com/martpie/museeks/discussions/639 https://github.com/martpie/museeks/discussions/639 . With File System Access API this probably can be a simple web app, no need for wrapper. File support might get shorter, though.
- sys_64738 4y agoSo a web browser engine to play music?
- rvz 4y agoYes. Just to play music.
- cwyers 4y ago`Electron (formerly atom-shell)` This made me laugh. Is there anyone in 2022 who doesn't know what Electron is, but does know about atom-shell?
- cageface 4y agoI've been working on something similar. It's currently in electron but I'm working on porting it to tauri since I agree that ideally you'd want a music player to be lighter on system resources than electron apps are. So far the tauri version uses a small fraction of the ram and disk space. https://github.com/milesegan/minimoon https://github.com/milesegan/minimoon
- dang 4y ago"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- xchip 4y agoI did look at the project, and it didn't mention it was a leaning exercise, then, pointing out that requiring a gig of dependencies is questionable is reasonable.
- pvg 4y agoIt's a repetitive trope complaint that is reducible to "I don't like these things". Not liking these things is reasonable but it's bad HN commentary because generic repetition is bad HN commentary.
- mnd999 4y agoSee also clementine, which is the one I use. https://www.clementine-player.org/ https://www.clementine-player.org/
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- nullwarp 4y agoAlso Strawberry which, in my experience, is slightly better in supported features https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/
- squarefoot 4y agoStrawberry is a still active and maintained fork of Clementine.
- aliqot 4y agowish we had a still-active and maintained fork of winamp :/ I just want a little 3 box thing with whats playing, my EQ, and my playlist, on a native TUI/GUI. Everything now is so greedy for space.
- tambourine_man 4y agoI’ve been dreaming of developing something very close to this: a clone of late 2000s iTunes in Electron. But it’s essential for me that it imports Apple Music (née iTunes) Library.xml with all the play counts, etc. If you manage to implement this feature, I’m in :)
- alisonatwork 4y agoMusicBee can import iTunes libraries. It's a solid player that provides a lot of customizability in its front end. It's especially good for tagging and organizing your music just how you like.
- tambourine_man 4y agoThanks, but Windows only and closed source.
- woodruffw 4y agoIt won't be applicable to everyone, but I want to give a plug to Sonixd[1]: it's a Subsonic client, meaning that it'll work with Subsonic or any other music server that uses the Subsonic API (Navidrome, Airsonic, gonic). It's an Electron application, which won't be for anyone, but it's sufficiently smooth and snappy for me. [1]: https://github.com/jeffvli/sonixd https://github.com/jeffvli/sonixd
- res0nat0r 4y agoI still just use Winamp classic. https://winamp-classic.en.softonic.com/ https://winamp-classic.en.softonic.com/
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- WalterBright 4y agoAll I ask of a music player is to give it a directory with all the music files in it, and then say "play shuffle". That's it. Sadly, the only player which will do that is Microsoft Media Player. All the others suffer from one fault or another which causes it to fail: 1. requires installing some third party "server" because sharing the directory isn't enough. The "server" then proceeds to consume all the resources of your computer, regardless of whether it is serving or not. I presumed it was trying to copy all my files to the NSA. What else would it be doing with disk drive light on all the time? for days? 2. does not look at subdirectories. Your music all has to be in one top-level folder. 3. randomly hangs and scrambles its music database (better keep a backup!) 4. hangs if you have more than some undisclosed number of music files 5. if you have more than some undisclosed number of music files, it only plays the first N files 6. displays the bit rate of the file being played. Does not display the name, artist, or album. 7. hangs if the USB stick is a large capacity one I've tried PC software, Linux software, two different Roku media players (including the default one), 4 different internet radios that promised to play media files from a USB device So what do I use? Microsoft Media Player.
- mdrzn 4y agoWinamp?
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- WalterBright 4y agoThe only one that actually worked was the Turtle Beach Audiotron, until they went out of business which bricked it, because naturally the device was designed to phone home to Turtle Beach and crash if nobody picked up, even to play local music files.
- livindub 4y agoHave you looked at foobar2k yet? https://www.foobar2000.org/ https://www.foobar2000.org/
- user3939382 4y agocmus broke at some point but I really liked it. It was pretty sweet paging through song lists at 1M mph
- inshadows 4y ago> A simple, clean and cross-platform music player > electron-builder.yml This is a joke, right?
- martpie 4y agoCreator of Museeks here, a little late for the party. There are many comments in this thread, and the usual electron-bashing we're all used to at this point, so I'll just make a few points: - I know all the cons of using Electron, thank you - I started writing this piece of software 8 years ago, for me, to learn horizontal software development (ui, db, releases, binaries, cd, testing, etc), at a time I dropped out from university and I had to learn stuff in order to find a job and pay my rent - Nowadays, I still use this project to experiment with technologies I want to learn or play with - I truly don't care you don't like it (the app, or electron itself), my only purpose is to share something solving a real problem for me, for free - If this app is useful to only one person other than me, and angers the HN crowd, I'll still be happy about it, and it will still be worth the hundreds or thousand hours I put on this cheers, and happy coding!