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?
> 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 installed using Software on Ubuntu and its only 153MB which is not even the size of the biggest Chrome tab I have open. If it was written in Rust it would be maybe 15MB but I have 16GB in this 6yo laptop so it is no biggy.
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
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.
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.
I jest, but it does seem like all the music streaming services have major problems with their web(/desktop) apps. I guess the majority of users are on mobile and therefore that's where all the development effort goes.
(Actually, now that I think about it, I don't recall ever really having problems with Pandora. It's been a while though.)
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.
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Auth right: proprietary software
Auth left: code of conduct (since it's not particularly anarchist; it clearly defines how power works, instead of aiming for structurelessness)
Lib right: open source (MIT-based, corpo projects)
Lib left: free software (AGPL, anti telemetry, anti CLA, usually no code of conduct, anarchist/hacker in nature)
https://fmhy.net/audio
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.
https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music
Custom YT Music desktop client with loads of plugins to customize the experience (including ad-blocking). I'm not the dev, just a happy user.
I downloaded Nuclear (the AppImage, if that matters) and booted it up. Instant 300MB RAM usage.
I think I'll pass.
[1] https://github.com/NuclearPlayer/nuclear-xrd
https://katzgrau.github.io/jerry-picker/
I am not sure that Youtube supports Nuclear though...
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?
Run the thing, clicked a song, it said it can't play it, removed the thing.
(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.
I jest, but it does seem like all the music streaming services have major problems with their web(/desktop) apps. I guess the majority of users are on mobile and therefore that's where all the development effort goes.
(Actually, now that I think about it, I don't recall ever really having problems with Pandora. It's been a while though.)
Same thing will most likely happen here too, it's just a matter of time / number of users.