[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":557},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-16559715":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":41,"post_text":43,"what":44,"said":73,"maker_in_thread":214,"shape":226,"grid":231,"attempts":519,"same_week":520,"maker_shows":32,"maker_hidden":549,"reader_version":550,"card":551},"16559715","Tiny Player","Minimal native MP3 player for Mac","title","Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.catnapgames.com\u002Ftiny-player-for-mac\u002F","catnapgames.com","tomovo",1520709104,2018,156,111,257,2155,12,"notable","creative","music player","desktop_app",[24,25,26,27],"mp3 player","mac music player","minimal music player","not itunes","loved",0.314,{"positive":31,"neutral":18,"mixed":32,"critical":33},11,1,2,26,{"design":36,"idea":38,"execution":40},{"positive":37,"critical":33},5,{"positive":33,"critical":39},0,{"positive":32,"critical":39},[39,39,39,39,39,39,39,39,39,39,39,39,39,39,39,37,42,42,39,37,42,39,42,37,42,39,37,39,32,42,42,37,37,39,39,39,37,42,39,39],3,null,{"problem":45,"audience":57,"pricing":43,"motivation":43,"time_to_build":43,"stack":70,"openness":71,"stage":72,"team_size":71},{"value":46,"source":47,"evidence":48},"Playing local music files on Mac without iTunes' bloat","commenter",[49,53],{"id":50,"by":51,"text":52},"16560019","lostgame","Features: • not iTunes You know, iTunes wasn’t so bad before they convoluted the UI\u002FUX to shit...looking at the music app on iOS 5-6 vs iOS 10-11 is like comparing a walkway to a…",{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},"16560595","neverartful","Yay for anything != iTunes. I've been contemplating the iTunes dilemma for quite a while and decided that I needed to start moving off iTunes and not be locked onto a specific…",{"value":58,"source":59,"evidence":60},"Mac users with local music collections who dislike iTunes","inferred",[61,62,66],{"id":50,"by":51,"text":52},{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"16560278","AceJohnny2","I, and everyone I know, detest iTunes. It has become the definition of feature creep, as it evolved from being a music manager\u002Fplayer for iPod to being the full \"everything…",{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},"16561904","shyn3","iTunes never worked. It's why applications like Ephpod and others were developed. It's terrible, and every UI \u002F UX update makes it more so.",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":74,"objections":101,"requests":128,"questions":155,"alternatives":170},[75,94],{"value":76,"source":47,"evidence":77},"Simple, minimal and native-feeling interface",[78,82,86,90],{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"16559865","andreiw","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…",{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"16560150","tigerwash","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…",{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"16561864","neelkadia","Simple. Minimal. Functional.",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"16560173","5_minutes","Beautiful. Good work man.",{"value":95,"source":47,"evidence":96},"Lightweight compared with Electron players",[97],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"16560597","jimmies","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…",[102,113,121],{"value":103,"source":47,"evidence":104},"Not clearly better than Cog or VLC",[105,109],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"16560669","unicornporn","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:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fkode54\u002FCog",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"16561821","LUVLC","How is this better and \u002F or different from VLC [0]? [0] https:\u002F\u002Fwww.videolan.org\u002Fvlc\u002Findex.html",{"value":114,"source":47,"evidence":115},"Lacks gapless playback and some formats such as OPUS",[116,117],{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"16560204","qwerty456127","> 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…",{"value":122,"source":47,"evidence":123},"Wastes screen space for a tiny player",[124],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"16562576","consto","For something named Tiny Player, it wastes a surprising amount of screen real estate.",[129,133,137,148],{"value":130,"source":47,"evidence":131},"Gapless playback",[132],{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},{"value":134,"source":47,"evidence":135},"Support for OPUS and more audio formats",[136],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},{"value":138,"source":47,"evidence":139},"Library management such as album browsing and ID3 tag editing",[140,144],{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"16562567","kuon","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)…",{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"16562015","haywirez","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…",{"value":149,"source":47,"evidence":150},"Artwork support",[151],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"16562266","mrzool","Very nice! I know this is intended to stay small and minimal, but I’d love to see at least some rudimental artwork support.",[156,163],{"value":157,"source":47,"evidence":158},"Is the source code available?",[159],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"16560470","_sdegutis","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?",{"value":164,"source":47,"evidence":165},"Did you write the decoder yourself or use FFmpeg?",[166],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"16560001","tombert","Did you write the decoder yourself, or do you feed it into FFMPeg or something similar?",[171,178,186,193,200,207],{"value":172,"source":47,"evidence":173},"Cog",[174],{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"16560294","ysleepy","Cog is a similarly simple open source player for macOS which also supports Opus and has a folder pane. https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fkode54\u002FCog (original author)…",{"value":179,"source":47,"evidence":180},"VLC",[181,185],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"16560133","petercooper","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:…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},{"value":187,"source":47,"evidence":188},"afplay",[189],{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"16560369","akulbe","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…",{"value":194,"source":47,"evidence":195},"Swinsian",[196],{"id":197,"by":198,"text":199},"16560147","subpar","I've been using Swinsian for this. Plays nice with a networked music library and has excellent tag editing. https:\u002F\u002Fswinsian.com\u002F",{"value":201,"source":47,"evidence":202},"Hyperamp",[203],{"id":204,"by":205,"text":206},"16560121","lachenmayer","Some really nice folks are trying to figure out the whole \"not iTunes\" issue - it's called hyperamp: https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fhypermodules\u002Fhyperamp",{"value":208,"source":47,"evidence":209},"DeaDBeeF",[210],{"id":211,"by":212,"text":213},"16560002","teach","You might like DeaDBeeF[0]. It's my go-to music player on Mac and Ubuntu. [0] http:\u002F\u002Fdeadbeef.sourceforge.net\u002F",{"comments":215,"answered":32,"key":216},8,[217,220,223],{"id":218,"text":219},"16562994","Another one is Plexamp: https:\u002F\u002Fmedium.com\u002Fplexlabs\u002Fintroducing-plexamp-9493a658847a which also uses Electron.",{"id":221,"text":222},"16560405","Author 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…",{"id":224,"text":225},"16560554","It isn't but not because I would want to keep it secret. I just want to focus on making the app better and not on managing an open source project. 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