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andrewrk
groovebasin
JavaScript2014–2023
andrewrk / groovebasin

groovebasin

Music player server with a web-based user interface.

5Distinct people
11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2KGitHub stars
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What it is

Music player server with a web-based user interface.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-03-25 19:18:11 UTC to 2023-04-14 19:09:20 UTC.

02462014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 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): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 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): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 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): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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 UTC101
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 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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 UTC101

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If you want to see a fun example of this build system in action, have a look at my ffmpeg fork which has the build system ported to zig build: https://github.com/andrewrk/ffmpeg Particularly interesting is the use of nasm as a package dependency, which is executed to compile many assembly files into object files, which are then linked into the ffmpeg static library. I'm using this package in a work-in-progress reboot of Groove Basin (a music player server) in Zig: https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin/tree/zig-pkg Point being that if you want to collaborate on the music player project, you don't need to screw around with a million system dependencies, it's just `zig build` and you're off to the races - no matter whether you are using Windows, macOS, or Linux. The zig build system is under heavy construction during this release cycle of
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Zig. I recommend to check it out at the end of May when Zig 0.11.0 is released, and a few more issues will be smoothed over. Of course, if you want to get your hands dirty and help work on a bleeding-edge build system & package manager, come on over and give master branch a try.
In Zig build system
You are correct that I also asked other online communities this question. I wouldn't say I was trying to force a narrative. I was asking out of concern. I was especially unnerved after seeing the development graph on GitHub: https://imgur.com/M09Nkx9 Also seeing there were features that haven't been implemented for the last 6 years made me even less confident about the future of the project: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/68 Even from this post: https://andrewkelley.me/post/full-time-zig.html Of all the Zig projects the author said he was going to work on: - https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin/tree/zig - https://github.com/andrewrk/genesis/tree/zig - https://github.com/andrewrk/clashos he never committed and did any of them.
In Ask HN: Is the Zig programming language dead?
I wanted to see how one of my personal projects compared, so I looked at Groove Basin. Groove Basin [1] is an open source music player server. It has a sophisticated web-based client with the ability to retag, label, create playlists, stream, browse the library, chat with other users, upload new music, and import music by URL. I just checked the payload size of a cold load, and it's 68 KB. I'll just keep doing my thing over here. [1]: https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin
In The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install
I'm particularly interested in your opinions on tagging. Can you explain what most software gets wrong about tagging? Here's the plan so far, although it's not implemented: https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin/issues/30 The idea is that you might edit tags for a file which doesn't even support tags, such as AAC. So it would let you do that, and the changes would then be reflected in the DB. However we would also have a UI pane for "Suggested Library Fixes" or something like that. This would be things like moving files to their canonical location, updating incorrect duration tags, duplicate file detection, etc. It would also have suggestions like this: * These songs have tag edits that you have made but they cannot be saved. Do you accept this change? (Proposed change: wrap the file in a container format which supports tags)
In My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player

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