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Re: Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

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Post by senorrib »

tianqi wrote: post #62

The most issues I encounter with music players are related to my situation of NAS. My NAS is straightforward: I just connect a RAID to a Mac and share it, then let other Macs connect to this "server". This allows me to access it in Finder like any other directory. However, this setup presents two obvious problems for many players: First, since the directory is not always available (if I'm not at home), some players c…

My setup uses Jellyfin, Finer and Tailscale. I can access all my music even out of home and playlists/metadata are synced across all devices.

Re: Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

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Post by pwenzel »

dlivingston wrote: post #9

Beautiful app, well done. Pleaaaaaaaase make this available on iOS. Bonus points if the desktop version could do syncing with my iPhone. I could finally treat my iPhone like an iPod!

I use and recommend Evermusic for offline listening on iOS. It can fetch music from your cloud storage accounts too.

Re: Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

mkirsten wrote: post #78

Looks great! Impressive that it looks so slick and feature complete. It’s been a while since I used iTunes, so don’t fully understand where iTunes today is failing. Can you elaborate?

it's possible to get a mostly-classic experience if you use Songs view and enable the column browser, but it just seems like so many small features are buggy, don't work the same or have been removed that the overall experience just doesn't stack up. iOS syncing is as terrible and slow as ever.

Re: Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

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Post by kushalpandya »

Meekro wrote: post #54

I've been searching for the perfect "old school iTunes" program for a while. I'm pretty sure it does not exist, maybe I'll try to make one someday unless someone beats me to it? Here's what I want: * Smartlists, preferably with nested rules * Proper search, the way iTunes did it: you have a huge excel-like list of songs that filters as you type * Volume leveling * Corresponding Windows/Mac/iPhone programs, with the a…

Smart playlists will be coming soon as I've done all the infra work to support it, in fact current default playlists that app has (Favourites, Top 25 Most Played, Top 25 Recently Played) use smart playlists behind the scenes, just that I don't have a UI to edit the rules yet.

Search should already be very fast (and filter through matches across any metadata field) as the app uses FTS5 on SQLite db to search tracks. But let me know if you still notice performance issues or bugs around it.

There might be iOS app in future but no plans for Windows app as that's a separate project of its own.

For cloud storage syncing, I did consider it at one point but then scope of this app would be very large, and there are plenty good apps to sync cloud storage data, like I personally use https://maestral.app/ for syncing Dropbox.

Re: Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

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Post by kushalpandya »

newscracker wrote: post #28

Two suggestions, if you have the time to look at the effort and difficulty to implement them: > P.S. I plan publish it on Homebrew soon. 1. Please consider publishing on MacPorts too. 2. Please consider supporting m4b audiobooks (it’s a different file extension from the common m4a, but also supports chapters).

Yes, the app got enough traction already to warrant for Homebrew and MacPorts distribution, so I'll try to incorporate both!

Audiobooks support looks like a neat idea, I'll see if I can accommodate it in future, for now, I'm keeping it limited to music files only.

Re: Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

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Post by rustc »

v5v3 wrote: post #89
HnUser12 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's just a signing thing that Apple checks, you open run it by doing `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine filename` first.

Why isn't it signed properly though.

Probably because that requires a paid account ($100/yr).

Re: Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

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Post by SloopJon »

gpm wrote: post #21
dewey wrote: post #20

If you are looking for a “old school iTunes” kind of player there’s also https://swinsian.com/

The Readme mentions that app under "Motivation" > Motivation > I have a large collection of music files that I’ve gathered over the years, and I missed having a good offline music player on macOS. I used Swinsian (great app, by the way!), but it hasn't been updated in years. I also missed features commonly found in streaming apps; so I built Petrichor to scratch that itch and learn Swift and macOS app development alo…

Petrichor shows my albums as a single track. CUE sheet support is a must.

I also have a hard time seeing myself using a desktop music player without an iTunes-style column-mode browser.

Re: Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

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Post by SloopJon »

digital_voodoo wrote: post #84
thek3nger wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the people interested, Swinsian has a beta version that is actively developed. I got an update a couple of weeks ago. So it is not abandoned.

Oh, is there a way to switch to the beta channel? I love and use Swinsian, I know they're actively working on the next major version, but can't get interim ones.

Gemini says: pressing Option on the Swinsian menu changes the "Check For Updates..." menu option to "Check For Updates (Beta)..."

I don't have specific complaints about the current version, but I'm going to give it a try. If nothing else, it's probably ARM native.

Re: Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS

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Post by benoau »

kushalpandya wrote: post #85
benoau wrote: post #82

Looks fantastic, I used to love using iTunes for my music library until they screwed up queuing albums. Will there be mobile apps too?

No plans for iOS app in near future but once this one reaches a feature stability, I'll think about it, as the decision to use Swift & Swift UI was for sharing logic with iOS app in future.

BTW the feature I most-loved from iTunes was when they added the colour analysis to albums, it made each album feel more unique.

http://ssrubin.com/img/musiclibrary/iTunes.png

https://www.tech-recipes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/itun...

https://cpng.pikpng.com/pngl/s/556-5568070_flower-boy-itunes...

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