Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year. • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

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Post by lukifer » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 9:04 PM UTC

overcyn wrote: post #16

lukifer wrote: post #13

I love the design! I especially like that the Now Playing functionality is so prominent. While I like iTunes as a media database and sync tool, it's bloat-tastic as a music player, and I've wanted something faster and cleaner for years now. I have a question, though: Does this perpetually read or write from the iTunes library XML, or is the import a one-time affair? I use the hell out of ratings and smart playlists,…

Its a one way import.

Have you looked into the possibility of two-way sync, or is that a non-starter? For now, iTunes is still necessary for syncing iDevices, and keeping two libraries updated sounds like no fun.

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

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Post by dbalatero » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 9:05 PM UTC

overcyn wrote: post #29

fdb wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. Something with the filename perhaps? Can I email you a crash dump? I tried it twice and it always fails on the same file ("Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (feat. Al Alberts)")

Yeah, please do.

Best contact?

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

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Post by airlocksoftware » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 9:06 PM UTC

This is very impressive. I really like the app icon. But it's refusing to import my iTunes library (10.6.8).

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

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Post by jokull » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 9:07 PM UTC

Do you have a business model? There might be a serious market for this. Maybe keep the app free, even open source, and charge for an iOS Remote style app?

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

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Post by lukifer » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 9:08 PM UTC

the_cat_kittles wrote: post #25

jgh wrote: post #21

HEY COULD SOMEONE PLEASE WRITE A MUSIC PLAYER THAT DOESN'T TAKE UP MY ENTIRE GODDAMN SCREEN?

what about basically just a search bar and que, you search for a song, and hit enter and it gets added to the que, press skip and the next song plays etc...

You might look into LaunchBar and QuickSilver, which both offer some pretty nice features for finding songs via search.

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

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Post by anon1385 » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 9:09 PM UTC

rgbrgb wrote: post #11

Nice. I think you should be VERY up front about why this beats iTunes though as this is essentially supposed to be a replacement for a 1st party app that literally everyone uses. Can I sync my iPhone? I REALLY like that there's FLAC support.

iPhone sync is always going to be difficult: you are forever chasing a moving target, although the libimobiledevice and libgpod guys have done a great job. The encryption used to sign the music database on devices released after iOS4(+original iPad) hasn't been cracked yet (they changed it from the previous versions), although you can edit a file to tell the device to use the old db encryption if you have jailbroken your phone (I've not tested this with iPhone4S; things may have changed again). Building a product around the feature is probably unwise — Apple is a capricious master.

(Disclaimer: I develop a competing os x music player which can add music to (some) iOS devices)

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

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Post by overcyn » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 9:10 PM UTC

dbalatero wrote: post #32

overcyn wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, please do.

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overcyn@gmail.com

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

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Post by martingordon » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 9:10 PM UTC

I probably won't use this to replace iTunes, but I will probably switch to it from Cog as my FLAC player. I know SHN is no longer developed, but does Enqueue support it?

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

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Post by adam_albrecht » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 9:12 PM UTC

overcyn wrote: post #27

jgh wrote: post #21

HEY COULD SOMEONE PLEASE WRITE A MUSIC PLAYER THAT DOESN'T TAKE UP MY ENTIRE GODDAMN SCREEN?

Ecoute is decent. http://www.pixiapps.com/ecoute/

This looks great. If I hadn't migrated from iTunes to Spotify, I would definitely try it out.

Re: Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

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Post by anon1385 » Mon, Nov 07, 2011, 9:14 PM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #19

Fist impressions can never be reproduced, so I'm typing this as I go along: 1) Welcome dialog is... out of place. The design is not consistent with Apple UI guidelines, I can't tell the three options are buttons. 2) The cancel button on the welcome dialog looks like an odd man out. It's just floating there in the center, and I think the caption (cancel) is also something you can improve. 3) I think the now-playing th…

>No way to turn off Growl messages? Oops.

You should be able to turn them off from the Growl preference pane. I was always under the impression that this was the recommended way to do things, the idea being to have a central place to control them. Now that full Growl costs money and people start using Mist (which as far as I know has no central pref pane to turn off notifications) I guess devs will have to start adding individual Growl options to every app.