> We hate subscriptions as much as you do, so our business model is simple: Simplefax is a one-time purchase that costs as much as lunch in San Francisco.
Reminiscent of Spot for Linux, another great shortcut-oriented streaming interface for those of you who ditched the Mac: https://github.com/xou816/spot
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.
Well, it matters when you have to integrate with APIs and idiosyncrasies of third parties, and whatever draconian DRM they require. It’s obviously not impossible to add support for multiple backends, but from a development effort it definitely matters.
It’s not like streaming platforms are gingerly implementing open and common standards for music streaming. Winamp had support for .m3u and streaming back in ‘04, but we’ve moved on from that.
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.
I suspect you can just play anything in your library, whether Apple Music or purchased/ripped, but honestly I don’t know.
Is it possible to get lunch in SF for $10!?
There’s also Cider, I use it on Linux https://cider.sh/.
https://marioaguzman.github.io/quicktune/
It’s not like streaming platforms are gingerly implementing open and common standards for music streaming. Winamp had support for .m3u and streaming back in ‘04, but we’ve moved on from that.
All these silicon valley apple cargo cultists are still in shock of the heresy.