Very nice! I know this is intended to stay small and minimal, but I’d love to see at least some rudimental artwork support.
Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac
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#83I so much need a music player that fits my needs on macOS that I hacked my own on top of FFPlay from FFmpeg.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fraktus/39848081275/
For me, I like to see the spectrum when I listen to music because it gives a good idea of how well the spatialization has been recorded.
Also, thanks to FFmpeg I can display all encoding details right away...
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#84BTW, anyone has suggestions for a non-iTunes, non-Vox music player supporting Applescript?
Swinsian[.com] supports "Applescript control" according to their features list.
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#85I love the "not iTunes" argument, but the thing I miss from nearly all those nice little players is library management. I have a lot of music I like to browse.
My wish list: 1) Browsing by album, with or without covers. 2) Playing a song should queue the rest of the album starting from that song. 3) I'd like to be able to "discover" music I don't listen often to. Like reverse sorting by last play date. To many time I "re-discover" that I have music from artist X. 4) When I press the play media key on my keyboard (and the player wasn't paused), it should start playing something I like/play often. 5) Of course 3 & 4 should be automatic without creating any playlist.
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#86For something named Tiny Player, it wastes a surprising amount of screen real estate.
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#87Author here, thanks for all the responses. Gapless playback is high on my personal wishlist as well. Same goes for additional audio formats. I was actually surprised that the latest macOS had built-in support for FLAC but there are a few others I'd like to add. Both of these features will require a more custom audio solution, which may take some time to figure out... but it's on the roadmap!
fwiw, https://github.com/sbooth/SFBAudioEngine is a great library for supporting other formats, helps with gapless, and is reasonably easy to drop in. I've dropped it into an audio player I created with virtually no hassle.
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#88Cog is a similarly simple open source player for macOS which also supports Opus and has a folder pane. https://github.com/kode54/Cog (original author) https://cogx.org/screenshots.php I really like it, it is still my goto player after 8 years.
Yeah, I'm not sure what this one has over Cog, which is mature and well supported.
Of course it doesn't hurt to have more than one option... but Cog seems slightly nicer of the two at the moment.
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#89Author here, thanks for all the responses. Gapless playback is high on my personal wishlist as well. Same goes for additional audio formats. I was actually surprised that the latest macOS had built-in support for FLAC but there are a few others I'd like to add. Both of these features will require a more custom audio solution, which may take some time to figure out... but it's on the roadmap!
Any chance of adding direct upload over a lightning cable instead of over WiFi? WiFi’s not working for me, though the same http server over WiFi function works fine to load music to VLC iOS. I even tried the Tiny Loader app on macOS but still times out. Thanks!
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#90I so much need a music player that fits my needs on macOS that I hacked my own on top of FFPlay from FFmpeg. https://www.flickr.com/photos/fraktus/39848081275/ For me, I like to see the spectrum when I listen to music because it gives a good idea of how well the spatialization has been recorded. Also, thanks to FFmpeg I can display all encoding details right away...
FFmpeg is a great project. Interesting how it interprets the embedded artwork as 'mjpeg' in your pic.