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music player

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Minimal native MP3 player for Mac

Shown by tomovo on Mar 10, 2018. Click the card to turn it over.

156points

111comments

#257of 2,155 in 2018

Top 12%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

LovedMost comments that take a side are positive

11 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.

Design: 5 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against

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Simple, minimal and native-feeling interface
From 4 comments
- Nice. Looking at this takes me back to 2000s, and leaves me thinking we’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere. Software should be simple - and that means that it should do one thing…
  andreiw on HN
- Awesome! I really like the minimal interface. After I switched from Windows to Mac about one year ago, I couldn't believe I had to abandone foobar2000 and IrfanView. After some…
  tigerwash on HN
- Simple. Minimal. Functional.
  neelkadia on HN
- Beautiful. Good work man.
  5_minutes on HN
Lightweight compared with Electron players
From 1 comment
- Geez, why didn't I know about this earlier? It's a life saving tool. I have been using Cog or Gog or whatever but recently gave up. This thing is exactly what I needed. Not that…
  jimmies on HN

Not clearly better than Cog or VLC
From 2 comments
- Why did you give up? I'm a Cog[1] user and I fail to see why this would be any better than Cog. It looks worse. [1] https://github.com/kode54/Cog
  unicornporn on HN
- How is this better and / or different from VLC [0]? [0] https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
  LUVLC on HN
Lacks gapless playback and some formats such as OPUS
From 2 comments
- Nice. Looking at this takes me back to 2000s, and leaves me thinking we’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere. Software should be simple - and that means that it should do one thing…
  andreiw on HN
- > Plays MP3s (also FLAC, AAC, AIFF and WAV) What about OPUS? The player looks really cool but OPUS (together with FLAC) is the audio format of today, not MP3 (in fact it is plain…
  qwerty456127 on HN
Wastes screen space for a tiny player
From 1 comment
- For something named Tiny Player, it wastes a surprising amount of screen real estate.
  consto on HN

Gapless playback
From 1 comment
- Nice. Looking at this takes me back to 2000s, and leaves me thinking we’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere. Software should be simple - and that means that it should do one thing…
  andreiw on HN
Support for OPUS and more audio formats
From 1 comment
- > Plays MP3s (also FLAC, AAC, AIFF and WAV) What about OPUS? The player looks really cool but OPUS (together with FLAC) is the audio format of today, not MP3 (in fact it is plain…
  qwerty456127 on HN
Library management such as album browsing and ID3 tag editing
From 2 comments
- I 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)…
  kuon on HN
- Great start! Would need something to easily mass edit ID3 tags and also rename files based on tags - any good solutions? Surprisingly, I couldn't find a suitable CLI tool so far…
  haywirez on HN
Artwork support
From 1 comment
- Very nice! I know this is intended to stay small and minimal, but I’d love to see at least some rudimental artwork support.
  mrzool on HN

Is the source code available?
From 1 comment
- Tiny Player looks really cool. I really enjoy seeing genuine native macOS software. I feel like it’s becoming a lost art. Is the source code available anywhere?
  _sdegutis on HN
Did you write the decoder yourself or use FFmpeg?
From 1 comment
- Did you write the decoder yourself, or do you feed it into FFMPeg or something similar?
  tombert on HN

Cog
From 1 comment
- Cog 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)…
  ysleepy on HN
VLC
From 2 comments
- If you've already got VLC, which is open source, it can work and look similarly, just drag on some MP3 files and it turns them into a "playlist" and plays. Example:…
  petercooper on HN
- How is this better and / or different from VLC [0]? [0] https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
  LUVLC on HN
afplay
From 1 comment
- I wanted to solve this very problem, and use !iTunes to play audio files on the Mac. First, I went with VLC. It's quite capable. It turns out there's a native Mac app called…
  akulbe on HN
Swinsian
From 1 comment
- I've been using Swinsian for this. Plays nice with a networked music library and has excellent tag editing. https://swinsian.com/
  subpar on HN
Hyperamp
From 1 comment
- Some really nice folks are trying to figure out the whole "not iTunes" issue - it's called hyperamp: https://github.com/hypermodules/hyperamp
  lachenmayer on HN
DeaDBeeF
From 1 comment
- You might like DeaDBeeF[0]. It's my go-to music player on Mac and Ubuntu. [0] http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/
  teach on HN