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333 points indigodaddy | 10 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.62s | source | bottom
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franciscop ◴[13 Nov 22 05:38 UTC] No.33580409[source]▶
> "My media content had been pushed aside into a submenu while the app promotes its own streaming media and premium services instead."

This is my biggest pet-peeve coming from Linux world. In Linux the music players you find bundled with different distros are simple, but they just work.

However since moving to MacOS, I have to either use iTunes or Music, and in Android the default music player and the latest updates of the alt music player I installed the author problem is true; they expect me to use their services and that's front and clear, while my local music is hidden away in a menu button.

This is a fairly ridiculous situation IMHO (well, solitaire in Windows getting ads/online is slightly more, but I'll never go there) since a music player that fulfills my needs is pretty easy: show a list of artists, play either the whole artist or a single album in shuffle mode.

Attempt 1: https://twitter.com/FPresencia/status/1364892370509127681

Attempt 2: https://twitter.com/FPresencia/status/1578720636645826560

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1. least ◴[13 Nov 22 06:36 UTC] No.33580648[source]▶
There are a lot of music players for the Mac, here are a few of them:

https://swinsian.com/

https://colibri-lossless.com/

https://cog.losno.co/

https://vox.rocks/

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2. jim180 ◴[13 Nov 22 08:36 UTC] No.33581201[source]▶
and there is foobar2000 for Mac[0]

[0] https://www.foobar2000.org/

3. smcleod ◴[13 Nov 22 09:41 UTC] No.33581520[source]▶
Swinsian is excellent for large libraries too.
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4. jxdxbx ◴[13 Nov 22 09:54 UTC] No.33581589[source]▶
Yes. I have about 2.5 TB of music and Swinsian does not break a sweat.
5. shrx ◴[13 Nov 22 10:29 UTC] No.33581759[source]▶
If everything else fails, there's always ncmpcpp: https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/
6. Matl ◴[13 Nov 22 10:46 UTC] No.33581829[source]▶
I find https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org to be great across Linux and macOS alike.
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7. gibspaulding ◴[13 Nov 22 13:27 UTC] No.33582824[source]▶
Woah, this looks like a fork of Clementine! I didn't know it was still around. This was my go to back when I actually kept a local music library.
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8. bayindirh ◴[13 Nov 22 14:42 UTC] No.33583469{3}[source]▶
Which in turn, Clementine is a fork of the original Amarok. :)
9. intuxikated ◴[13 Nov 22 15:10 UTC] No.33583703[source]▶
Awesome, I thought clementine was just dead without successor
10. yannikyeo ◴[13 Nov 22 17:16 UTC] No.33585039[source]▶
I'm using https://www.navidrome.org which support streaming listening on mobile clients.