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Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by agys »

sethops1 wrote: post #6

Call me crazy but iTunes/Music has always been one of the things I like most about macOS, at least after going through the settings and disabling all the features trying to push you into a subscription. I still manage my own ~500 file mp3 collection instead of paying monthly.

I buy mostly music on Bandcamp and iTunes/Music is my sole driver for my 30k local song files. It's unfortunate that it has been neglected over so many years. There is a plethora of well known bugs and the sync with iPhone works most of the times, but not always and is in general quite cumbersome. The UI has become ridiculous over time (for example: it features two search/filter fields). It would be an easy mark to simply fix and polish it a bit. Sad.

Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by krabizzwainch »

2III7 wrote: post #20

What's wrong with foobar2000? Used to be one of the best music players and you could infinitely customize it.

My newest discovery with the iOS version of foobar2000 is that it can read the files for things I have bought on iTunes and downloaded through the Apple Music app without a subscription. I was trying to go back to an iPod but lack of Bluetooth killed me.

This seems like the best of both worlds for me.

Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by chrisallick »

eps wrote: post #25
chrisallick wrote: post #23

me too, released two weeks ago on hackernews: https://github.com/chrisallick/light-crime-audio-player getting good reviews!

There's no source code? Why is it on GH then.

answered in show hn post and a github issue. source is coming in a week or so when im back at computer. claude wrote a large portion of the visualizer and im trying to rearchitect how it taps the audio feed and understand it before releasing source. it felt weird to publish code i didnt have a strong hand in. people wanted the player though so i put up the release.

Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by bitwize »

sethops1 wrote: post #6

Call me crazy but iTunes/Music has always been one of the things I like most about macOS, at least after going through the settings and disabling all the features trying to push you into a subscription. I still manage my own ~500 file mp3 collection instead of paying monthly.

Quasi-normie computer users: Linux will never take off on the desktop. I want to use my computer, not spend all day configuring it.

Also quasi-normie computer users: Windows/Mac is great as long as you go into Settings/the registry/PowerShell and disable all the user-hostile anti-features first.

Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by egypturnash »

Hamuko wrote: post #16
sethops1 wrote: post #6

Call me crazy but iTunes/Music has always been one of the things I like most about macOS, at least after going through the settings and disabling all the features trying to push you into a subscription. I still manage my own ~500 file mp3 collection instead of paying monthly.

I imagine the shittiness of iTunes doesn't really show up as much with a music collection as small as 500 files. I remember it being a slouch with more files. I'm currently at 73,000.

Works fine for me with my current collection of 21k items.

Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by gmt4 »

Marsymars wrote: post #15
sethops1 wrote: post #6

Call me crazy but iTunes/Music has always been one of the things I like most about macOS, at least after going through the settings and disabling all the features trying to push you into a subscription. I still manage my own ~500 file mp3 collection instead of paying monthly.

I feel like iTunes/Music gets worse with every version, to the point where I've effectively abandoned it finally after macOS 26. My music collection is some tens of thousands of files served via a DAAP media server - since macOS 26, Apple Music will only play music for 5-15 minutes before giving up and just stopping. For years, it's had a trivially reproducible bug where pausing Apple Music while playing from a DAAP…

I share the sentiment, even with fond memories of foobar2000/winamp/audacious, I've gone the route of just resorting to a "simpler" setup, just a collection of shell scripts to manage mpv to play my files from my disk/shares/http

This is how it looks on macOS, and Linux:

https://gmt4.github.io/mpvc/assets/mpvc-fzf-mac.jpg

https://gmt4.github.io/mpvc/

Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by lschueller »

The Buy button is kinda signaling, that they don't understand, what Winamp and this whole time was about... New tools with a frenetic mdding scene behind it, max customization, no tutorials, but digging through every file to see what you can change, bulky windows, which all needed to be arranged aside, like browser, napster, icq, winamp, your cs server chat in a thick browser.

Re: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

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Post by sunaookami »

wl wrote: post #24
sethops1 wrote: post #6

Call me crazy but iTunes/Music has always been one of the things I like most about macOS, at least after going through the settings and disabling all the features trying to push you into a subscription. I still manage my own ~500 file mp3 collection instead of paying monthly.

It seems like most of the iTunes hate has historically come from people who used iTunes on Windows because they needed to use it to sync their iPods. Apparently it wasn't very good on Windows? I do agree that it had been getting worse and worse on Mac before it was rebranded "Music" in 2019.

iTunes on Windows was horrible and it was even more horrible when trying to use it for managing Apple devices. Obscure errors, convoluted error mesages, slow... I will never miss it. One of the worst software ever created and I'm glad it's dead. I like Music.app under macOS though as someone who used MusicBee under Windows.
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