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Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes (furnacecreek.org)

98 points by albertru90 ↗ HN
The slow and bloated nature of the Mac Apple Music app inspired us to create QuickTunes. It is a simple, fast, and native Apple Music player inspired by the simplicity of the iPod. You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate a simple multi column layout, pick something, and press Play.

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dostick
Modern player is not only about UIUX but also which music storage it supports, DLNA, Plex, Jellyfin, that’s the main feature users will be checking. If it’s just AppleMusic player.
MBCook
Another alternate client that’s great is LongPlay.

Instead of being a better UI like QuickTunes, LongPlay is specifically designed for one thing and one thing only: full album listening.

Things are presented as full albums, and they play as full albums. You can choose whether skipping skips a single track or an entire album.

Tracks in an album are always played in order.

The main picking interface? Just a grid of album covers, like that old screensaver Macs used to have.

It’s great.

leakycap
The fax app on their website is a great solution to having the ability to send a fax without subscribing to anything.
browningstreet
Any alt- Apple Music players for Windows? The Apple Music app on Windows has a lot of “native platform app” shortcomings.
eisa01
Any alternatives for iOS? I’m sick of the search defaulting to Apple Music the streaming service
dangus
It’s a pet peeve of mine to continually hear about how the Apple Music app is bloated.

Apple literally reduced the bloat compared to the past. They removed podcast, TV/movie, and device management out of the app and moved them into dedicated places.

What mythical person is struggling with the performance of Apple Music on an Apple Silicon Mac? The same Macs that can handle 4K Final Cut Pro video editing with 8GB of RAM are struggling with a 20 year old music app?

I have a lot of complaints about the app but “slow” and “bloated” are not on that list. It’s just an outdated take.

saagarjha
> The same Macs that can handle 4K Final Cut Pro video editing with 8GB of RAM are struggling with a 20 year old music app?

Yes.