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by franciscop 1349 days ago
I am finishing on my free time a complete desktop music player using React+Tauri, and this looks amazing! It's just the piece I'm missing most/have lest developed, so I will definitely try it, and at the very least look inside to see the pieces.
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Have you published the code yet?

I'm working on a desktop music player too, but using Electron right now because I'm using the browser to play the audio and Chromium supports more formats.

https://github.com/milesegan/minimoon

No, but I want a more "minimal" one from what I'm seeing. I actually started with Electron and raw HTML+CSS+JS, but at some point I discovered Tauri+React and switched over and now I'm very happy programming there. It does have some major/minor limitations compared to Electron*, but also 10MB (which can apparently be reduced even further) vs 200MB and a pretty nice dev experience makes it worth it for me.

I might semi-open-source it at some point (code-readable and compile your own, or pay $4-10 for the binary) but here is the direction I'm taking so far:

General view (new): https://imgur.com/OWL56Hw

Artist view (new): https://imgur.com/HSdwUqw

Prev version: https://imgur.com/x0m01DF

The two major things I have left (which I had in my previous player) are the "randomize/linear", add lyrics, and hopefully fix the limitations.

*limitations (I've found so far, and because I don't know Rust): trickier to read file metadata (so I've made the new one organize around files/folder names), trickier to put in the tray, and I believe impossible to make the player the default program.*