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Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes
The slow and bloated nature of the Mac Apple Music app inspired us to create QuickTunes. It is a simple, fast, and native Apple Music player inspired by the simplicity of the iPod. You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate a simple multi column layout, pick something, and press Play.
- eisa01 1y agoAny alternatives for iOS? I’m sick of the search defaulting to Apple Music the streaming service
- bigyabai 1y agoReminiscent of Spot for Linux, another great shortcut-oriented streaming interface for those of you who ditched the Mac: https://github.com/xou816/spot https://github.com/xou816/spot
- zapzupnz 1y agoThe name seems awfully close to QuickTune, another frontend to Apple Music. https://marioaguzman.github.io/quicktune/ https://marioaguzman.github.io/quicktune/
- dostick 1y agoModern player is not only about UIUX but also which music storage it supports, DLNA, Plex, Jellyfin, that’s the main feature users will be checking. If it’s just AppleMusic player.
- karlgkk 1y ago[flagged]
- nizmow 1y agoWho hurt you?
- airtonix 1y agoI think it was when DHH announced he no longer uses a mac. All these silicon valley apple cargo cultists are still in shock of the heresy.
- MangoToupe 1y agoWho is DHH and what is he using now and why did he find the mac insufficient?
- MangoToupe 1y ago> https://world.hey.com/dhh/linux-as-the-new-developer-default-at-37signals-ef0823b7 https://world.hey.com/dhh/linux-as-the-new-developer-default... He seems like a non-serious personality
- quesera 1y agoSaid with affection, I presume.
- notpushkin 1y agoThat’s not true – plenty of users don’t really care about that. That said, it would be really nice to see more players (pun?) in this space.
- jazzyjackson 1y agoOK there's a bunch of jellyfin clients tho. This is an Apple Music client. why you gotta drag somebody over this.
- MBCook 1y agoAnother alternate client that’s great is LongPlay. Instead of being a better UI like QuickTunes, LongPlay is specifically designed for one thing and one thing only: full album listening. Things are presented as full albums, and they play as full albums. You can choose whether skipping skips a single track or an entire album. Tracks in an album are always played in order. The main picking interface? Just a grid of album covers, like that old screensaver Macs used to have. It’s great.
- constantinum 1y agojust curious? Can we integrate Apple Music Subscription into LongPlay? Or This works only when you have your own collection of music that you own?
- leakycap 1y agoThe fax app on their website is a great solution to having the ability to send a fax without subscribing to anything.
- browningstreet 1y agoAny alt- Apple Music players for Windows? The Apple Music app on Windows has a lot of “native platform app” shortcomings.
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- kcrwfrd_ 1y agoThe one thing I always missed about Windows was foobar2k
- HelloUsername 1y agoFoobar2000 is available on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android
- dontlaugh 1y agoLooks cool. There’s also Cider, I use it on Linux https://cider.sh/ https://cider.sh/.
- HerbsMan 1y ago[dead]
- dangus 1y agoIt’s a pet peeve of mine to continually hear about how the Apple Music app is bloated. Apple literally reduced the bloat compared to the past. They removed podcast, TV/movie, and device management out of the app and moved them into dedicated places. What mythical person is struggling with the performance of Apple Music on an Apple Silicon Mac? The same Macs that can handle 4K Final Cut Pro video editing with 8GB of RAM are struggling with a 20 year old music app? I have a lot of complaints about the app but “slow” and “bloated” are not on that list. It’s just an outdated take.
- underbluewaters 1y agoIt's not about the feature set. The Music app is the only software I use which randomly locks up my whole mac, just trying to do basic stuff like play a song or navigate albums. Doesn't seem to be related to whether I'm browsing Apple Music or my own library. This is on both my M1 MacBook Pro, and on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio in the office. It's baffling that something that worked so well in 2008 is such a dog in 2025. It's like using winamp in 1998.
- dangus 1y agoCan’t say I’ve witnessed or heard of that behavior.
- saagarjha 1y ago> The same Macs that can handle 4K Final Cut Pro video editing with 8GB of RAM are struggling with a 20 year old music app? Yes.
- RShackleford 1y ago[dead]