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Show HN: Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source

30 points by _nqmv 28d ago

mistyvales 28d ago
Funny, I was JUST looking for a Foobar-like equivalent for MacOS. I'll have to try this out later. I use Roon for daily use at home, but having a network-free local player that supports everything I play at native bit and sample rate is a huge plus.
- _nqmv 28d ago
  Hope you like it, let me know if you have any questions!
- jwrallie 28d ago
  Why not Foobar itself?
  - socalgal2 27d ago
    I use Foobar on my iPhone. The features it's missing for me 1. I often want to play a single song and then go back to random - it doesn't have this. If I pick song it's now going to play that song forever and I have to go back and manually pick "random tracks" 2. This is probably just a variant of the first but it would be great to be able to pick "Add to head/tail of que" so I could add 2 or 3 songs I want to hear and then have it go back to random tracks 3. It has no ability to sort by date added. I added 20 tracks recently. I can't find them. This has go me wanting to vibe-code (for myself) a music player app. Unfortunately I'm on iPhone where I need a dev account and where the longest I can install it is 1 year.
    - Obscurity4340 27d ago
      Try emailing the dev sometime. You wouldnt believe how many times I was able to nudge app app devs with small tweaks or feature requests (even some rather substantial ones) that showed up in the next few updates that maxe up for the trouble of getting their contact and shooting off a quick heartfelt email
- nf-x 28d ago
  By the way, what can you tell about Roon as an active user? It costs as much as Qobuz, but it’s your responsibility to fill up your library and provide infrastructure - which is weird. Sure, it sponsors musicbrainz and lastfm for metadata and puts some nice UI, gets buddies in HiFi manufacturers, but what else?.. I’m very surprised that Roon does UNPnP for own port, potentially exposing home network through some zerodays. For that money it has to do reverse tunneling or something like that.
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jakeydus 28d ago
Why can’t people even write their own product descriptions without AI anymore???
nf-x 28d ago
Local library playback has always been a challenge when the size is in tens of thousands. But after that the main challenge is headless networked playback from separate subnets - e.g. one great stereo system controlled by multiple members of the household from multiple devices
- c-hendricks 28d ago
  Genuine question, are there open source solutions to this? I use HomePods so audio can be controlled from any device and any rooms audio can be synced to another. Would love something more open.
rckt 28d ago
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- _nqmv 28d ago
  I have been working on this for a long, long time, AI has definitely helped me with some things and code polish and review, etc and I asked it to replace my less professional comments with more formal ones for open source release. That's the full disclosure. But I am a Swift programmer, and I have worked really hard on this. This app was not just vibecoded or done in an afternoon or something. And it will continue to receive updates because it is and has been my passion project for a long time now, from morning to night. I genuinely appreciate your comment because I agree, slop is becoming too popular everywhere, but that is not what this is.
  - rckt 28d ago
    Considering the amount of AI used, it’s hard to call it a passion. You don’t delegate the whole project to AI if it’s your passion. I see stuff like this on different subreddits every day. The overall look and feel matches perfectly a one-off vibe coded project.
    - _nqmv 28d ago
      How does the UI of Sol look even remotely like it was vibecoded? I literally designed the whole thing.
      - rckt 28d ago
        I don’t believe you.
        _nqmv 28d ago
        I literally have said I'm inspired by iTunes in so many places, comments or otherwise. And as I have just stated I asked AI to make the comments sound professional. That is no secret. It is not a crime to put a spin on an old, literally abandoned concept. And no, I didn't ask Claude to recreate iTunes or something. I know I can't make you believe me, but it's the truth. I will stop responding to this thread now. I genuinely apologize about the descriptions and copy having been polished that way, as I said, it clearly has given the wrong impression and it is my fault.
fultimnigr 27d ago
op deleted their entire github lmao

30 points by _nqmv 28d ago

Funny, I was JUST looking for a Foobar-like equivalent for MacOS. I'll have to try this out later. I use Roon for daily use at home, but having a network-free local player that supports everything I play at native bit and sample rate is a huge plus.

_nqmv 28d ago
Hope you like it, let me know if you have any questions!
jwrallie 28d ago
Why not Foobar itself?
- socalgal2 27d ago
  I use Foobar on my iPhone. The features it's missing for me 1. I often want to play a single song and then go back to random - it doesn't have this. If I pick song it's now going to play that song forever and I have to go back and manually pick "random tracks" 2. This is probably just a variant of the first but it would be great to be able to pick "Add to head/tail of que" so I could add 2 or 3 songs I want to hear and then have it go back to random tracks 3. It has no ability to sort by date added. I added 20 tracks recently. I can't find them. This has go me wanting to vibe-code (for myself) a music player app. Unfortunately I'm on iPhone where I need a dev account and where the longest I can install it is 1 year.
  - Obscurity4340 27d ago
    Try emailing the dev sometime. You wouldnt believe how many times I was able to nudge app app devs with small tweaks or feature requests (even some rather substantial ones) that showed up in the next few updates that maxe up for the trouble of getting their contact and shooting off a quick heartfelt email
nf-x 28d ago
By the way, what can you tell about Roon as an active user? It costs as much as Qobuz, but it’s your responsibility to fill up your library and provide infrastructure - which is weird. Sure, it sponsors musicbrainz and lastfm for metadata and puts some nice UI, gets buddies in HiFi manufacturers, but what else?.. I’m very surprised that Roon does UNPnP for own port, potentially exposing home network through some zerodays. For that money it has to do reverse tunneling or something like that.

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jakeydus 28d ago

Why can’t people even write their own product descriptions without AI anymore???

nf-x 28d ago

Local library playback has always been a challenge when the size is in tens of thousands. But after that the main challenge is headless networked playback from separate subnets - e.g. one great stereo system controlled by multiple members of the household from multiple devices

c-hendricks 28d ago
Genuine question, are there open source solutions to this? I use HomePods so audio can be controlled from any device and any rooms audio can be synced to another. Would love something more open.

rckt 28d ago

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_nqmv 28d ago
I have been working on this for a long, long time, AI has definitely helped me with some things and code polish and review, etc and I asked it to replace my less professional comments with more formal ones for open source release. That's the full disclosure. But I am a Swift programmer, and I have worked really hard on this. This app was not just vibecoded or done in an afternoon or something. And it will continue to receive updates because it is and has been my passion project for a long time now, from morning to night. I genuinely appreciate your comment because I agree, slop is becoming too popular everywhere, but that is not what this is.
- rckt 28d ago
  Considering the amount of AI used, it’s hard to call it a passion. You don’t delegate the whole project to AI if it’s your passion. I see stuff like this on different subreddits every day. The overall look and feel matches perfectly a one-off vibe coded project.
  - _nqmv 28d ago
    How does the UI of Sol look even remotely like it was vibecoded? I literally designed the whole thing.
    - rckt 28d ago
      I don’t believe you.
      - _nqmv 28d ago
        I literally have said I'm inspired by iTunes in so many places, comments or otherwise. And as I have just stated I asked AI to make the comments sound professional. That is no secret. It is not a crime to put a spin on an old, literally abandoned concept. And no, I didn't ask Claude to recreate iTunes or something. I know I can't make you believe me, but it's the truth. I will stop responding to this thread now. I genuinely apologize about the descriptions and copy having been polished that way, as I said, it clearly has given the wrong impression and it is my fault.

fultimnigr 27d ago

op deleted their entire github lmao