Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

Post by ethersteeds » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 10:21 PM UTC

hippich wrote: post #3

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

Post by ada1981 » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 10:25 PM UTC

slg wrote: post #43

toomuchtodo wrote: post #36

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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…

Musicians are not the consumers, but it's their work being consumed and this software would have no purpose without them. And to be clear, my problem isn't that this software upset some musicians. It's that the developers highlighting that fact as part of their marketing suggests they take pride in angering musicians. That is a level of disrespect that goes way beyond the sort of passive consumer level disrespect of…

Post by ada1981 » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 10:28 PM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #116

lelandbatey wrote: post #105

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That is a detail which is the responsibility of the artist as a businessperson. If you give away pizza with a big stack of ad flyers, no one would complain when that business doesn't make that much money because no one reads the ad flyers all they do is eat the pizza and toss the ads. We live in a world where said pizza shops want to force you to look at each flyer in the ad stack, but for years they didn't sit you d…

>Eat and weep for a world where we can't just exchange money for food. Youtube sells subscriptions for YouTube Music if you want to be able to listen to the music in the background or without ads. Violating YouTube's terms of service is unethical.

Post by cpill » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 10:32 PM UTC

kesor wrote: post #77

Can I add a testimonial? Run the thing, clicked a song, it said it can't play it, removed the thing.

Post by nadermx » Wed, Sep 03, 2025, 10:35 PM UTC

charcircuit wrote: post #116

lelandbatey wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is a detail which is the responsibility of the artist as a businessperson. If you give away pizza with a big stack of ad flyers, no one would complain when that business doesn't make that much money because no one reads the ad flyers all they do is eat the pizza and toss the ads. We live in a world where said pizza shops want to force you to look at each flyer in the ad stack, but for years they didn't sit you d…

>Eat and weep for a world where we can't just exchange money for food. Youtube sells subscriptions for YouTube Music if you want to be able to listen to the music in the background or without ads. Violating YouTube's terms of service is unethical.