Musikcube
Creative
music player
SHOW HN2017
340points
82comments
#56of 2,242 in 2017
Top 3%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
9 positive, 26 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 42 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Execution: 1 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, polished UI
From 3 comments
Really nice looking app. I installed it and the UI is absolutely amazing. Would love to make this my main music player. I am having some issues though, the audio quality of the…
Sholmesy on HNI've been a pretty big fan of CMUS and CLI based based audio playback for a long time.. This is absolutely amazing— much more polished than the alternatives—it feels like…
withjive on HNI think this is really nice :) Nice UI and UX, lightweight and straightforward, will try it out for a bit!
rusty__ on HN
Lightweight and straightforward
From 1 comment
I think this is really nice :) Nice UI and UX, lightweight and straightforward, will try it out for a bit!
rusty__ on HN
Permissively licensed and open source
From 1 comment
Clickables: - Permissively licensed: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/blob/master/LICENSE.txt - CMake: https://github.com/clangen/musikcube/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt - Lean…
git-pull on HN
Objections
Crashes on launch or when adding a library folder
From 2 comments
Added a folder location, then it crashed. Now it crashes on launch: http://imgur.com/a/Sb2hQ http://imgur.com/a/fKUXO
ilitirit on HNUnfortunately crashes on windows when trying to understand my library. Looks great though.
johanvts on HN
Audio artefacts during heavy bass on MP3 playback
From 1 comment
Really nice looking app. I installed it and the UI is absolutely amazing. Would love to make this my main music player. I am having some issues though, the audio quality of the…
Sholmesy on HN
Limited format support and many dependencies
From 1 comment
So it can only play a handful of the most popular formats and it requires a metric ton of dependencies. Why are you not using ffmpeg? It can handle decoding, encoding, streaming,…
eth_hero_11 on HN
Requests
Streaming service integration such as Spotify or YouTube
From 2 comments
Would love to see a Spotify integration. Yes, I know. Thats probably not the devs bad, but Spotify makeing it impossible to write a legal integration. Happy new DRM world.
JepZ on HNToo bad it doesn't do youtube. Anyone knows of a cli app that can play local files as well as youtube?
Nux on HN
mpd protocol support
From 1 comment
Do you know if musikcube has any intention of supporting the mpd protocol? I don't think it should be terribly hard to support, the protocol itself is fairly simple and stable.…
DSMan195276 on HN
Web browser frontend
From 1 comment
If I have a musikcube server running on my network, can I stream music from my web browser to it?
pcthrowaway on HN
Browse by folder on disk
From 1 comment
This is amazing! Is there a way to navigate the collections by folders on disk, not by artist/album/genre? I keep my music nicely sorted on disk and I really got used to it.
DanPristupov on HN
Questions
How does it differ from mpd and cmus
From 3 comments
How does this compare to mpd, the Music Player Daemon? https://www.musicpd.org/
AceJohnny2 on HNVery interested in this as I've tried every terminal music player under the sun. As others have mentioned, how does this differentiate itself from the main players .... mpd and…
stuxnet79 on HNI'm curious, how does this differ from what mpd tries to achieve?
mkroman on HN
Why not use ffmpeg
From 1 comment
So it can only play a handful of the most popular formats and it requires a metric ton of dependencies. Why are you not using ffmpeg? It can handle decoding, encoding, streaming,…
eth_hero_11 on HN
Whether it supports gapless playback
From 1 comment
Nice! Any chance this supports gapless playback for those of us who listen to classical once in a while?
peatmoss on HN
Alternatives named
mpd
From 1 comment
How does this compare to mpd, the Music Player Daemon? https://www.musicpd.org/
AceJohnny2 on HN
cmus
From 1 comment
I've been a pretty big fan of CMUS and CLI based based audio playback for a long time.. This is absolutely amazing— much more polished than the alternatives—it feels like…
withjive on HN
mpv
From 1 comment
mpv
raaxe on HN
mpsyt
From 1 comment
I don't know about local files, but mpsyt is great for listening to music on YouTube.
dotancohen on HN