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Re: Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

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Post by briga »

lostgame wrote: post #10

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 coverin…

Exactly, the problem is that they kept fixing things that weren't broken and making random illogical UI changes until the program got so over-engineered and bloated that it was a chore to use. The program worked fine, but I guess the team of engineers wanted to keep their jobs so they kept including these unnecessary "fixes".

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Post by lbotos »

lostgame wrote: post #10

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 coverin…

You can drag it and move it wherever you want. I usually put mine in the top 2/3rds of my screen as I'm a habitual +space

Re: Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

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Post by pspeter3 »

devindotcom wrote: post #3

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.

Can you link to that client? I didn't know it existed

Re: Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

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Post by lachenmayer »

lostgame wrote: post #10

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 coverin…

Some really nice folks are trying to figure out the whole "not iTunes" issue - it's called hyperamp: https://github.com/hypermodules/hyperamp

Re: Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

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Post by petercooper »

If you've already got VLC, which is open source, it can work and look similarly, just drag on some MP3 files and it turns them into a "playlist" and plays. Example: https://i.imgur.com/YoiWeDz.png .. bonus is it'll also play stuff like .mod, .xm and other old tracker formats.

Re: Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

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Post by tigerwash »

Awesome! I really like the minimal interface.

After I switched from Windows to Mac about one year ago, I couldn't believe I had to abandone foobar2000 and IrfanView. After some try-outs I got a bit comfortable with iTunes to play my local music, esp. different display modes (song list, album overview) of what's currently played is well done.

Your player is a nice little program, I'm gonna keep it on my mac!

Re: Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

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Post by tbodt »

lbotos wrote: post #12
lostgame wrote: post #10

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 coverin…

You can drag it and move it wherever you want. I usually put mine in the top 2/3rds of my screen as I'm a habitual +space

Fun fact: if you press and hold the spotlight icon in the menu bar, the spotlight window is reset to its default position.
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