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music-player
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albertz / music-player

music-player

Music player - endlessly plays your music

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Music player - endlessly plays your music

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HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-10-13 16:13:17 UTC to 2024-10-05 13:12:55 UTC.

02462012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 4 submissions, 3 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024

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20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC743
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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albertzeyer·Oct 5, 2024
MPD was too restricted in functionality. It doesn't really provide such infinite play list concept. So I felt that I would fight with the limitations of the mpd API more than I really get something out of it. Here are some comparisons to MPD: https://github.com/albertz/music-player/blob/master/Compare_... Btw, my music player can even act as a MPD backend. Writing the backend part was anyway the simpler part. And that covered quite a lot of things: https://github.com/albertz/music-player/blob/master/WhatIsAM... The GUI turned out to be the trickier part. I wanted to design everything around this infinite play list concept, and that in a cross-platform way, but I didn't really finished that.
In Rune: A Local Music Player Reviving Zune's Classic Aesthetic with Modern Tech
albertzeyer·Oct 5, 2024
I did not test this yet, but Dynamic "Mix" Feature and Audio Analysis and Recommendations, those are features I always wanted to have for a local music player. Amarok had some simple variant of this. Spotify of course has as well, but not really for local music. That was the main reason I started my own music player project (https://github.com/albertz/music-player). But it never really got to the point to have a more advanced variant of this features. The best it could do is randomly play through directories, but at least prefer liked songs. I implemented the core playing engine in C++ and the remaining logic in Python, as I thought that would give me most flexibility. Unfortunately I haven't found the time to work on it since a while.
In Rune: A Local Music Player Reviving Zune's Classic Aesthetic with Modern Tech
albertzeyer·May 22, 2019
This sounds interesting. I personally would be more interested though if it would introduce some concept of an infinite queue, because that is usually the way I listen to music. I want to be able to select some music and to queue that, but when that finished, it should continue playing, with related/similar songs, or maybe according to some other rules/genre or so. Many other music players have this. Also e.g. Spotify. Or iTunes DJ mode. Amarok had this. Sometimes it was called PartyShuffle. I like the separation of the playlist/queue and the UI. But if it is an infinite queue, it is not possible to get a full copy of it. Only maybe to the finite preselected upcoming queue. But maybe that is not much of a problem then. The core infinite logic usually is implemented like: If the queue of songs contains less than N next songs, select some m
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ore songs from some database, according to some probability distribution. I implemented my own music player at some point, where my main focus was around this concept of an infinite queue. (https://github.com/albertz/music-player/blob/master/WhatIsAM... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4771999) One reason was that I wanted to take this concept much further than any existing music player. E.g. even introducing some clever machine learning models to guide the infinite music queue. I was actually quite happy with it, but it took too much time to really polish, to make it cross platform, etc. Now I mostly use Spotify, which gets close to what I wanted to implement in the first place. And they are working to improve the intelligent infinite queue, or generate playlists automatically in other ways. So, now that there is some work by VLC on the playlist, I was wondering, how easy is it to extend that? E.g. maybe some Python interface, so I could maybe plugin some neural network, and add new songs to it when it runs out of songs. That would be really nice. Related to that, what is the current state in VLC about other music player related features, like e.g. gapless playback?
In A new core playlist for VLC 4
albertzeyer·May 10, 2016
I am quite interested in this topic. There is some research on that field. Some links I collected in the past: http://thesis.flyingpudding.com/ http://dynampd.ubitux.fr/ http://erikbern.com/2015/09/22/presentations-about-spotify-m... http://erikbern.com/2015/09/24/nearest-neighbor-methods-vect... http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/08/qq_netflix-algorithm/ http://www.slideshare.net/erikbern/collaborative-filtering-a... http://benanne.github.io/2014/08/05/spotify-cnns.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8137264 http://www.playdar.org/ https://github.com/RJ/playdar-core http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3876724 https://github.com/bmcfee/librosa http://forever.fm/ http://blog.petersobot.com/introducing-forever-fm http://musicmachinery.com/2011/05/14/how-good-is-googles-ins... http://musicmachinery.com/2012/11/12/the-infinite-jukebox/
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Btw., as I am developing my own music player, my main important feature/goal is a kind of automatic DJ which automatically selects music and I also especially had a discover mode in mind. However, that main feature did not evolve that much so far because there were so much other things to implement first. For now, it only supports access to files in your file system, and it looks on tags and artist and adds quite some randomness to it. https://github.com/albertz/music-player/blob/master/WhatIsAM...
In Finding Similar Music Using Matrix Factorization
albertzeyer·Nov 26, 2013
I wonder if it was all handwritten. Esp. functions like invertMatrix or premultiplyMatrix. Or what he used to generate the code. I once used WolframAlpha to get me some complicated formulas and wrote a custom WA-plaintext-output-to-C translator for that output to use it in my code. Here is the script: https://github.com/albertz/helpers/blob/master/wolframalpha_... Example input: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=solve+a*x_1%5E3+%2B+b*x... Output: s->a = ((x1 + x2 - 2.) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)); s->b = ((- (((x1 + x2 - 2.) * pow(x1, 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - ((4. * x2 * (x1 + x2 - 2.) * x1) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + ((6. * (x1 + x2 - 2.) * x1) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - ((7. * pow(x2, 2.) * (x1 + x2 - 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + ((6. * x2 * (x1 + x2 - 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - 1.) / (4. * x2 - 4.)); s->c = (1. / 2.) * ((((x1
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+ x2 - 2.) * pow(x1, 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + ((4. * x2 * (x1 + x2 - 2.) * x1) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - ((6. * (x1 + x2 - 2.) * x1) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + ((pow(x2, 2.) * (x1 + x2 - 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - ((6. * x2 * (x1 + x2 - 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - ((4. * (- (((x1 + x2 - 2.) * pow(x1, 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - ((4. * x2 * (x1 + x2 - 2.) * x1) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + ((6. * (x1 + x2 - 2.) * x1) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - ((7. * pow(x2, 2.) * (x1 + x2 - 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + ((6. * x2 * (x1 + x2 - 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - 1.)) / (4. * x2 - 4.)) + 1.); s->d = (1. / 4.) * ((((x1 + x2 - 2.) * pow(x1, 3.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - ((4. * x2 * (x1 + x2 - 2.) * pow(x1, 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - (((x1 + x2 - 2.) * pow(x1, 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - ((pow(x2, 2.) * (x1 + x2 - 2.) * x1) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + ((2. * x2 * (x1 + x2 - 2.) * x1) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + ((6. * (x1 + x2 - 2.) * x1) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + x1 - ((pow(x2, 2.) * (x1 + x2 - 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + ((6. * x2 * (x1 + x2 - 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + ((4. * (- (((x1 + x2 - 2.) * pow(x1, 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - ((4. * x2 * (x1 + x2 - 2.) * x1) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + ((6. * (x1 + x2 - 2.) * x1) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - ((7. * pow(x2, 2.) * (x1 + x2 - 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) + ((6. * x2 * (x1 + x2 - 2.)) / pow(x2 - x1, 3.)) - 1.)) / (4. * x2 - 4.)) + 1.); (https://github.com/albertz/music-player/blob/master/ffmpeg_p... SmoothClipCalc::setX)
In Web GL Ocean Simulation
cientifico·Nov 12, 2012
Talking about the screenshots found in https://github.com/albertz/music-player * A music player should show the current song info like title or artist. There is no way to know which is the current song. * A music player should have a clear interface. * Where is the volume? * What is fillUpTo and why it doesn't have spaces? * What is addSome and why it doesn't have spaces? * Why a clear button? * Why the format, time, and more things is being show in the interface. I am a user. Don't worry about that details. * Why input boxes to show the time and current song. Can I change that? * ... Sorry for not testing but since more than 3 years I was using spotify so I just remove all my files.
In What is a music player?

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