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Rune: A local music player reviving Zune's classic aesthetic

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Re: Rune: A local music player reviving Zune's classic aesthetic

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Post by Mountain_Skies »

handity wrote: post #8

As somewhat of a Zune fanatic, it always makes me happy to see a new Metro-inspired UI, but every one of these Zune-inspired projects falls short when compared to the actual Zune application, which imo is the absolutely pinnacle of music players. It presents your music library in a way that to me is aesthetically pleasing and entirely intuitive. The three column layout, with sorting options for each, is ideal. Filter…

About a dozen years ago my employer wanted an intranet app for our mobile devices. Initially I was disappointed to have been assigned to create the Blackberry app because even though it was by far the most common phone in use by our employees, I could see the writing on the wall with Android and the iphone taking over. But I was also given free reign on the UI, which I borrowed very heavily from the Zune's UI. While it was well received, RIM really started falling apart around that time, which accelerated the replacing of the company issued Blackberries with BYOD. I was sad to see it go but also glad to be freed of the frustration of dealing with RIM and their often offline 'signing server'.

Re: Rune: A local music player reviving Zune's classic aesthetic

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Post by BoingBoomTschak »

albertzeyer wrote: post #16

I did not test this yet, but Dynamic "Mix" Feature and Audio Analysis and Recommendations, those are features I always wanted to have for a local music player. Amarok had some simple variant of this. Spotify of course has as well, but not really for local music. That was the main reason I started my own music player project ( https://github.com/albertz/music-player ). But it never really got to the point to have a mo…

Why not use something like mpd and program an external playlist builder? That way, you focus only on what matters to you.

Reading your last commit, it seems like we had the similar idea of wanting more intelligent shuffle. Which is why I made a player that simply ingests plaintext playlists and then https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/mus/tree/75478f90269dca1b69e0d763d... to achieve what I wanted (though I'll probably modify it to avoid queuing albums sharing a primary genres; who wants 3 black metal LPs in a row?).

Re: Rune: A local music player reviving Zune's classic aesthetic

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Post by Novosell »

handity wrote: post #8

As somewhat of a Zune fanatic, it always makes me happy to see a new Metro-inspired UI, but every one of these Zune-inspired projects falls short when compared to the actual Zune application, which imo is the absolutely pinnacle of music players. It presents your music library in a way that to me is aesthetically pleasing and entirely intuitive. The three column layout, with sorting options for each, is ideal. Filter…

Might Dopamine be of interest? It has a similar 3 pane interface at least.

https://digimezzo.github.io/site/software

Re: Rune: A local music player reviving Zune's classic aesthetic

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Post by losses »

ahoka wrote: post #14
nesk_ wrote: post #4

This UI is absolutely gorgeous.

It would be an interesting idea to design a phone around this style.

Hi, I'm the developer of Rune. Your idea is very interesting, and designing a phone like this is indeed my dream. However, it feels a bit too far off at the moment. I'm currently trying to build it on a Raspberry Pi. At the very least, I can create something similar to a Zune MP3 player, which is something I've always wanted to pursue.

Re: Rune: A local music player reviving Zune's classic aesthetic

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Post by losses »

albertzeyer wrote: post #16

I did not test this yet, but Dynamic "Mix" Feature and Audio Analysis and Recommendations, those are features I always wanted to have for a local music player. Amarok had some simple variant of this. Spotify of course has as well, but not really for local music. That was the main reason I started my own music player project ( https://github.com/albertz/music-player ). But it never really got to the point to have a mo…

Hi, I'm the developer of Rune. Honestly, I was a bit surprised to see my software mentioned on HN at this time. I had planned to introduce it once it had fewer bugs, improved performance, and cleaner source code.

Nevertheless, Rune might offer the features you're looking for. It not only provides recommendations based on individual tracks but also on criteria like "songs you've liked," "all music from a specific directory," or "all tracks from a particular album." Additionally, it can categorize recommended tracks into nine sub-lists based on acoustic features, helping you find the perfect arrangement.

Thanks to its separation of front-end and back-end, Rune can be used independently of a GUI. You can also use Rune's CLI to create M3U playlists. While these features haven't been fully refined due to my limited resources, I believe Rune has the potential to meet your expectations in the future.

Here are the document of the query syntax: https://github.com/Losses/rune/blob/master/documents/mix_que...

I hope that once Rune reaches a production-ready state, you'll remember it. I'll be looking forward to that day.

Re: Rune: A local music player reviving Zune's classic aesthetic

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Post by paulcole »

whatever1 wrote: post #6

I realized that I don’t have a single mp3 on my machine these days. If I stop paying the bill I will have nothing to listen to. What have we done?

> If I stop paying the bill I will have nothing to listen to. What have we done?

We’ve created one of the most amazing values and uses of technology of our lifetimes?

Streaming per month costs so much less than a new CD did 25-30 years ago. And it’s so so so much better than buying a new CD a month.

If the average person keeps paying the (quite small) bill, they can listen to essentially anything they want to listen to (unless they have very peculiar tastes — please do not reply to tell me that the obscure 1907 ragtime classic you need to listen to is not on Spotify).

It’s incredible!

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