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Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

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Re: Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

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Modern player is not only about UIUX but also which music storage it supports, DLNA, Plex, Jellyfin, that’s the main feature users will be checking. If it’s just AppleMusic player.

That’s not true – plenty of users don’t really care about that. That said, it would be really nice to see more players (pun?) in this space.

Re: Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

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Another alternate client that’s great is LongPlay. Instead of being a better UI like QuickTunes, LongPlay is specifically designed for one thing and one thing only: full album listening. Things are presented as full albums, and they play as full albums. You can choose whether skipping skips a single track or an entire album. Tracks in an album are always played in order. The main picking interface? Just a grid of alb…

just curious? Can we integrate Apple Music Subscription into LongPlay? Or This works only when you have your own collection of music that you own?

I’m not sure.

I suspect you can just play anything in your library, whether Apple Music or purchased/ripped, but honestly I don’t know.

Re: Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

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post #4

Modern player is not only about UIUX but also which music storage it supports, DLNA, Plex, Jellyfin, that’s the main feature users will be checking. If it’s just AppleMusic player.

OK there's a bunch of jellyfin clients tho. This is an Apple Music client. why you gotta drag somebody over this.

Re: Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

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post #4

Modern player is not only about UIUX but also which music storage it supports, DLNA, Plex, Jellyfin, that’s the main feature users will be checking. If it’s just AppleMusic player.

OK there's a bunch of jellyfin clients tho. This is an Apple Music client. why you gotta drag somebody over this.

Why does it matter what the backend is? A music player is a music player; it shouldn't matter where the music comes from.

Re: Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who hurt you?

I think it was when DHH announced he no longer uses a mac. All these silicon valley apple cargo cultists are still in shock of the heresy.

Who is DHH and what is he using now and why did he find the mac insufficient?

Re: Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

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post #5

Another alternate client that’s great is LongPlay. Instead of being a better UI like QuickTunes, LongPlay is specifically designed for one thing and one thing only: full album listening. Things are presented as full albums, and they play as full albums. You can choose whether skipping skips a single track or an entire album. Tracks in an album are always played in order. The main picking interface? Just a grid of alb…

just curious? Can we integrate Apple Music Subscription into LongPlay? Or This works only when you have your own collection of music that you own?

Apple Music, iTunes, and manually synced music.

Re: Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK there's a bunch of jellyfin clients tho. This is an Apple Music client. why you gotta drag somebody over this.

Why does it matter what the backend is? A music player is a music player; it shouldn't matter where the music comes from.

Well, it matters when you have to integrate with APIs and idiosyncrasies of third parties, and whatever draconian DRM they require. It’s obviously not impossible to add support for multiple backends, but from a development effort it definitely matters.

It’s not like streaming platforms are gingerly implementing open and common standards for music streaming. Winamp had support for .m3u and streaming back in ‘04, but we’ve moved on from that.

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