Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

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Post by tomovo » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 7:11 PM UTC

Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac
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Post by andreiw » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 7:52 PM UTC

Nice. Looking at this takes me back to 2000s, and leaves me thinking we’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere. Software should be simple - and that means that it should do one thing and do it well, not be stunted for “aesthetic” or other reasons...

In case you don’t, please support gapless playback. It’s an obvious feature for concerts and live performances, and a lot of software (e.g. whatever Ubuntu uses) doesn’t handle it at all.

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Post by devindotcom » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 8:08 PM UTC

I've taken to using the OS X client for Google Music, where I've backed up all my mp3s, but this looks great for when I eventually leave that ecosystem (I still use Winamp on Windows). The simpler the better as far as I'm concerned. Although the ability to search the playlist and queue items would be nice.

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Post by roryisok » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 8:23 PM UTC

I've been looking for something like this for months, ever since I switched from Windows for work. I miss foobar2000

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Post by roryisok » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 8:28 PM UTC

andreiw wrote: post #2

Nice. Looking at this takes me back to 2000s, and leaves me thinking we’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere. Software should be simple - and that means that it should do one thing and do it well, not be stunted for “aesthetic” or other reasons... In case you don’t, please support gapless playback. It’s an obvious feature for concerts and live performances, and a lot of software (e.g. whatever Ubuntu uses) doesn’t handle…

+1 for both the simplicity and the gapless playback. I wish software was more lightweight

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Post by tombert » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 8:29 PM UTC

Did you write the decoder yourself, or do you feed it into FFMPeg or something similar?

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Post by teach » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 8:30 PM UTC

roryisok wrote: post #4

I've been looking for something like this for months, ever since I switched from Windows for work. I miss foobar2000

You might like DeaDBeeF[0]. It's my go-to music player on Mac and Ubuntu.

[0] http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/

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Post by elmcrest » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 8:31 PM UTC

Closed source? Meh

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Post by ubercow13 » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 8:31 PM UTC

roryisok wrote: post #4

I've been looking for something like this for months, ever since I switched from Windows for work. I miss foobar2000

foobar2000 works perfectly with Wine

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Post by lostgame » Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 8:33 PM UTC

Features: • not iTunes

You know, iTunes wasn’t so bad before they convoluted the UI/UX to shit...looking at the music app on iOS 5-6 vs iOS 10-11 is like comparing a walkway to a labyrinth.

The amount of steps taken backwards in Apple’s UI / UX is staggering. Even the simple replacement of the Spotlight bar from an unobtrusive widget in the top right corner to a giant box in the middle of the screen, directly covering your content.