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Re: Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

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Very nice! I know this is intended to stay small and minimal, but I’d love to see at least some rudimental artwork support.

cmd-i to open an extra window with artwork and meta info? I'm working on that. Still haven't figured out if it should show the info for currently played track (and switch when next track starts) or the one that's selected in the playlist. Or some special "smart" combination of the two... what would you expect to happen?

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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

Another one is Plexamp: https://medium.com/plexlabs/introducing-plexamp-9493a658847a which also uses Electron.

Re: Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

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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

Well, you learn something new every day.

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Author here, thanks for all the responses. Gapless playback is high on my personal wishlist as well. Same goes for additional audio formats. I was actually surprised that the latest macOS had built-in support for FLAC but there are a few others I'd like to add. Both of these features will require a more custom audio solution, which may take some time to figure out... but it's on the roadmap!

fwiw, https://github.com/sbooth/SFBAudioEngine is a great library for supporting other formats, helps with gapless, and is reasonably easy to drop in. I've dropped it into an audio player I created with virtually no hassle.

Thanks, it's on my radar. I think I got some errors when I tried to build it though, so I'll need to get back to that.

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I so much need a music player that fits my needs on macOS that I hacked my own on top of FFPlay from FFmpeg. https://www.flickr.com/photos/fraktus/39848081275/ For me, I like to see the spectrum when I listen to music because it gives a good idea of how well the spatialization has been recorded. Also, thanks to FFmpeg I can display all encoding details right away...

FFmpeg is a great project. Interesting how it interprets the embedded artwork as 'mjpeg' in your pic.

Well, an MJPEG is literally a stream of JPEGs.

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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…

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Re: Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

#97
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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

I have an aversion to running things through wine. I want a native mac app, and a lightweight one, wherever possible.

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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/

I did not. I can't recall why, but I tried it and it was not for me

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post #90
post #83

I so much need a music player that fits my needs on macOS that I hacked my own on top of FFPlay from FFmpeg. https://www.flickr.com/photos/fraktus/39848081275/ For me, I like to see the spectrum when I listen to music because it gives a good idea of how well the spatialization has been recorded. Also, thanks to FFmpeg I can display all encoding details right away...

FFmpeg is a great project. Interesting how it interprets the embedded artwork as 'mjpeg' in your pic.

yes, FFmpeg can open a few picture formats such as jpg, png that are used by some codecs.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> electron HN hates election apps :-/

Electron apps should stay in the browser as the Web apps they are.

And if the browser provided unrestricted file access they probably would. But we'd all be in trouble
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