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Show HN: Minimalist Google Play Music Wrapper – Electron

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Re: Show HN: Minimalist Google Play Music Wrapper – Electron

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I think it's pretty cool, great job.

I just wanted to give a positive comment, specifically about the things that people are giving negative comments about. The website design isn't boring, and emphasizes that the app differentiator is that it's looking to be a better design and have things like "album art first".

Electron does have a small resource problem, but that doesn't stop plenty of people from downloading the desktop version of Slack, or other popular electron wrappers. There's a reason a lot of people put up with Electron, it fills a gap.

Whether you did this to try Electron or design, comments on HN can be very subjective and not representative of actual reception. I personally never thought album art was super important cause I grew up with Napster, but like "cover flow" was REALLY well received. Artistic design is especially highly opinionated.

Re: Show HN: Minimalist Google Play Music Wrapper – Electron

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It is essentially like running Google Play Music in your Chrome browser, but as a native standalone app with some extra controls, nicer styles, and without having to use Flash. So why not just deliver this as a plugin for Chrome that reskins Play with alternative stylesheets and so forth? At least then my OS can use COW to share memory across Chrome processes instead of requiring a dedicated WebKit instance just for…

Please don't. Sometimes I just want to listen to music. Having to open chrome means several gigs of memory and 30 tabs.

Electron effectively means opening Chrome anyway.

Also: you do know that you can close tabs right?

Re: Show HN: Minimalist Google Play Music Wrapper – Electron

#13

I think it's pretty cool, great job. I just wanted to give a positive comment, specifically about the things that people are giving negative comments about. The website design isn't boring, and emphasizes that the app differentiator is that it's looking to be a better design and have things like "album art first". Electron does have a small resource problem, but that doesn't stop plenty of people from downloading the…

Thanks for your positive feedback! I appreciate it :)

Re: Show HN: Minimalist Google Play Music Wrapper – Electron

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't. Sometimes I just want to listen to music. Having to open chrome means several gigs of memory and 30 tabs.

Electron effectively means opening Chrome anyway. Also: you do know that you can close tabs right?

No, it doesn't. Electron doesn't open chrome and tabs. It opens a unique chrome process. And yes, I'll just close all my other work and have to reopen manually later to have a music player...
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