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What I really want is an open-source desktop (and possibly mobile) streaming music player that supports most major services.

(I don't care if it only works if I have a paying subscription. I don't mind spending $10-20 a month for something that I use multiple hours a day, every day.)

The amount of bugs I've hit with Tidal and Youtube music just make me want to separate out the client from who I send my money to.

Testimonials on the main website are somewhat unusual - https://nuclearplayer.com/

Half the time trying to play a song doesn't work. Dozens and dozens of javascript errors in the console, most of which seem to be legitimate (trying to parse xml as json, type errors, and other serious stuff). Electron. That's three strikes, I'm out.

> When pressed for reasons what exactly is so bad about Electron, they can rarely offer anything than vaguely mumbled "memory usage" or "b-but it's an entire browser" (both of which have not been true for years, for example Electron's memory usage has improved dramatically, but the meme stuck)

I downloaded Nuclear (the AppImage, if that matters) and booted it up. Instant 300MB RAM usage.

I think I'll pass.

For Grateful Dead fans, a little while back I made an interface for digging through show recordings - all sourced from Archive.org

https://katzgrau.github.io/jerry-picker/

Any fans of the old "Songbird" browser with the tag line "Play the web"?

So this is essentially a Popcorn Time-type-thing, but aping Soundcloud rather than Netflix. Cool, I guess?

But also too bad! Because when I first read the headline (and the Github description: "Streaming music player that finds free music for you"), I had imagined this to be something entirely different, and much more interesting to me: a "streaming service" that brings together various types of copyright-free and "abandonware" music.

Think:

• pre-1930s public-domain recordings from Archive.org

• chiptunes from modarchive.org

• songs/albums available for "free" or "pay-what-you-want" on Bandcamp

• "doujin music" (https://doujinstyle.com/, but I'd also include e.g. OCRemix in this category)

• various royalty-free music libraries

• Creative-Commons-licensed AI-generated music (if you like that kind of thing)

• rips of "background music" and "muzak" from long-out-of-business companies who specialized in producing that kind of thing

• free public-shared performances of non-IP-burdened plays / musicals / opera

...but presenting all of that, through a slick, Soundcloud-like interface.

Wouldn't that be neat?

Can I add a testimonial?

Run the thing, clicked a song, it said it can't play it, removed the thing.

> Nuclear supports Youtube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp

I am not sure that Youtube supports Nuclear though...

I’m surprised I didn’t see royalty free music as a default source; e.g. jamendo offers an API with a free tier for non commercial apps[1]. Then again, there is a way to add custom sources, perhaps that would work anyway.

[1]: https://developer.jamendo.com/v3.0

There is a whole bunch of them here:

https://fmhy.net/audio

Without downloading the app.. does it support signing into a paid YouTube (music) account?

edit: Not that I can see.. in fact, don't even see a YouTube option in the portable download version I just tried.

aside: Was king of hoping it would be supported... I would like a nicer UI over YouTube music for desktop use beyond a Browser App.

if it just downloads from youtube and is just a browser, i'll just continue using http://music.youtube.com/ with sponsorblock and ublock origin.

Spotube is a much better alternative IMO: https://spotube.krtirtho.dev/

I haven't been excited about downloading free music sofware since winamp/soulseek era. Yes, I am ancient. Please don't let me down.

As a musician I support this. Works great.

I fail to grasp what utility this has over a browser window with the music site open

free sources: Does that mean playing music that have no licensing costs, or playing on online radio stations that supposedly pay artists for each play out of their advertising revenue?

They have a pre-emptive defense of Electron linked to, that others have refered to here. The criticism of Electron apps isn't merely RAM or sluggishness - it's the modern tendency to completely shit on mature, established, efficient and muscle memory based desktop UI/UX conventions that have been around for decades.

I don't see what this offers over Clementine on Linux - it offers complete local music collection (remember that?) management as well as adding streaming sources & Last.fm integration in a sane, desktop focused UI like there once existed.

No gigantic fonts and icons and wasted space that's more served for a mobile UI, and all that before the idiocy of using Javascript as a hammer for every damn thing instead of what it originally was as a means to add some interactivity to a webpage.

Then again, modern devs don't seem to care about the actual end user experience, this person essentially claims Electron is superior because Javascript and frameworks based on it are all he knows or cares to learn.

If you hook this to Soulseek, you will create a bad boy

The Mac installation instructions are very bad :(

So much electron bashing, per usual. Extremely uninteresting conversation. All the points about this have been made by 2020, there's nothing new to add.

Spotify search, which is the default, has been broken since May (according to bug reports) and the developer says he doesn't intend to fix it.

Already using it. very nice.

is that .env file purposely committed?

I just can't get to grips with the UI. It's so bad, cluttered, and unintuitive.

No Code of Conduct but AGPL and anti-telemetry and anti-CLA is an interesting quadrant on the software political compass

This reminds me of John Arnold, who shorted the housing market. There was no tool to short US Housing, until then. So he made 70 billion by shorting Housing and was considered unpatriotic, but it's a free market and would have been done by someone else.

I don't think anybody can be religiously opposed to Electron any more. It's pervasive.