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Re: Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

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Post by avtolik »

pelagicAustral wrote: post #10

I don't think anybody can be religiously opposed to Electron any more. It's pervasive.

If I have a choice between two apps that do the same thing and are roughly equal on features, I usually go with the non-Electron one. In this case I use the Wacup music player.

Re: Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

pelagicAustral wrote: post #10

I don't think anybody can be religiously opposed to Electron any more. It's pervasive.

I will not use an Electron app unless there is no other alternative (including "don't use any app"). So, I'm not exactly religious about it, but pretty strong. In my opinion, Electron is the downsides of both web and desktop apps with the benefits of neither. So I avoid it like the plague.

Re: Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

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Post by toomuchtodo »

slg wrote: post #29
hippich wrote: post #3

Testimonials on the main website are somewhat unusual - https://nuclearplayer.com/

>As a musician, fuck everything about this Pretty wild to include a comment like this in the testimonials. Sure, you can disagree with the musician on philosophical terms over IP laws and many consumers will always prefer "free", but to put this in your testimonials shows that the developers take pride in the act of pissing off musicians. That just rubs me the wrong way.

Musicians are not the consumers, users are the consumers. Some musicians will always be unhappy, this is unavoidable due to complex issues around IP rights, compensation for art, and the length of time it takes to make changes to these systems (not to mention simply how much existing content is out there new and current artists are competing against, attention economy and all that).

n=1, I am optimizing for access to as much content as possible while providing as little economic benefit to corporations as possible (ie Spotify) while still supporting the artists I enjoy (whether that's via venmo, paypal, buying their vinyl, buying their digital versions from bandcamp, etc). I also enjoy cheeky devs/builders, can't take any of this too seriously, we're all dead eventually.

Re: Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

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Post by throwaway58576 »

> When pressed for reasons what exactly is so bad about Electron, they can rarely offer anything than vaguely mumbled "memory usage" or "b-but it's an entire browser" (both of which have not been true for years, for example Electron's memory usage has improved dramatically, but the meme stuck)

I downloaded Nuclear (the AppImage, if that matters) and booted it up. Instant 300MB RAM usage.

I think I'll pass.

Re: Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

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Post by 30minAdayHN »

slg wrote: post #29
hippich wrote: post #3

Testimonials on the main website are somewhat unusual - https://nuclearplayer.com/

>As a musician, fuck everything about this Pretty wild to include a comment like this in the testimonials. Sure, you can disagree with the musician on philosophical terms over IP laws and many consumers will always prefer "free", but to put this in your testimonials shows that the developers take pride in the act of pissing off musicians. That just rubs me the wrong way.

Probably they are employing rage marketing? I used to follow this hotel in Ireland, I think, that used to post very aggressive comments against the reviews. It became a thing and people used to stay there just for it. I think there is a TV series recently in the same vein.

Re: Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

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Post by bslaq »

throwaway58576 wrote: post #37

> When pressed for reasons what exactly is so bad about Electron, they can rarely offer anything than vaguely mumbled "memory usage" or "b-but it's an entire browser" (both of which have not been true for years, for example Electron's memory usage has improved dramatically, but the meme stuck) I downloaded Nuclear (the AppImage, if that matters) and booted it up. Instant 300MB RAM usage. I think I'll pass.

300 MB is 1.25% of my RAM. An application using 1.25% of my RAM seems reasonable.

Re: Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

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Post by anjel »

tracker1 wrote: post #28

Without downloading the app.. does it support signing into a paid YouTube (music) account? edit: Not that I can see.. in fact, don't even see a YouTube option in the portable download version I just tried. aside: Was king of hoping it would be supported... I would like a nicer UI over YouTube music for desktop use beyond a Browser App.

There are more than a few alt youtube client alternatives on f-droid.
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