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Re: Apple Music Web Client

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That's only if you login with Facebook to Spotify... Which isn't required.

No, you are mistaken. I have no Facebook account. Spotify phones home to Facebook the moment the app is opened. This can be confirmed with a no-root firewall like Netguard on Android.

This is why Little Snitch is fantastic.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Uses 50MB less memory as the sole tab in Firefox than iTunes does on my Mac. Easy decision to switch for normal playback purposes.

Is 50MB that important? I would just use whatever provides you with the best experience (whichever that may be).

He is either on a low powered device or overly focused on details. In my experience I have never needed to look at RAM usage on my 2017 16GB MBP, but sometimes I do check CPU usage just to see how hard that intense process is hitting the computer and when it finishes.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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This is great, no longer trying to get iTunes working in wine on linux, just play the music straight from the browser, and if you want a native app, Windows and MacOS has iTunes, no electron non-sense.

Actually Apple Music in iTunes is just a web view that leaks like crazy, to the point of making iTunes slow to a crawl, if you're quickly navigating through artists and albums.

Not much better than Electron IMO. Apple Music in the browser seems like there isn't much hope of a truly native experience now.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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seems they're using Ember.js . Reason I love spotify so much is that it's available on the web, no need to be downloading native apps everywhere. Always bet on the web. also good to see, another web property using Ember. As a react dev, competition is healthy

I’m surprised. I haven’t heard anything about Ember in years. Not since 2013 or so.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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post #63

This is great, no longer trying to get iTunes working in wine on linux, just play the music straight from the browser, and if you want a native app, Windows and MacOS has iTunes, no electron non-sense.

Actually Apple Music in iTunes is just a web view that leaks like crazy, to the point of making iTunes slow to a crawl, if you're quickly navigating through artists and albums. Not much better than Electron IMO. Apple Music in the browser seems like there isn't much hope of a truly native experience now.

What about the new Music app coming in MacOS Catalina? Does it implements the views in html5?

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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seems they're using Ember.js . Reason I love spotify so much is that it's available on the web, no need to be downloading native apps everywhere. Always bet on the web. also good to see, another web property using Ember. As a react dev, competition is healthy

I’m surprised. I haven’t heard anything about Ember in years. Not since 2013 or so.

I guess it is still a liked tool, I also read about Riot Games using it for the redone client of League of Legends.

https://technology.riotgames.com/news/architecture-league-cl...

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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Wow, us Apple Music users have been waiting for this forever! For anyone who's curious about how this product developed: - April 2016: Apple releases Apple Music API - December 2018: A third-party Apple Music web player is launched on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/playapplemusic-com (Created by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shivdhar ) - January 2019: Another third-party alternative, Musish, l…

Hmmm. This ignores Apple acquiring Lala.com in '09.

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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This is great, no longer trying to get iTunes working in wine on linux, just play the music straight from the browser, and if you want a native app, Windows and MacOS has iTunes, no electron non-sense.

Maybe someone will make a CLI for it like pianobar for Pandora.

https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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This was the reason I chose Spotify over Apple music all those years ago. Any reason to prefer Apple Music over Spotify? Spotify's recommendations have been absolutely stellar for me over the years and I have a lot of playlists and stuff "locking" me in.

Apple has long had a much better experience when it comes to offline use and private media. With iCloud, tracks you add to your library are automatically uploaded to Apple's cloud and become available on all devices. That helps a lot because you don't have to resort to using some other player for that those obscure albums that aren't streaming anywhere. After all, while Apple and Spotify have a lot of music, there ar…

As I read your comment I'm listening to "I Learnt Some Jazz Today", haha!

Re: Apple Music Web Client

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post #11

seems they're using Ember.js . Reason I love spotify so much is that it's available on the web, no need to be downloading native apps everywhere. Always bet on the web. also good to see, another web property using Ember. As a react dev, competition is healthy

I’m surprised. I haven’t heard anything about Ember in years. Not since 2013 or so.

Is it really that surprising given React is FB and Angular is Google?
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