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chip-player-js
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mmontag / chip-player-js

chip-player-js

Web-based music player for a variety of video game and chiptune music formats.

5Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
508GitHub stars
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What it is

Web-based music player for a variety of video game and chiptune music formats.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-04-29 23:59:27 UTC to 2026-06-12 18:58:56 UTC.

01232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I guess this is the time I ask the question I ask whenever a new self-hosted media streaming server gets posted...does anybody know of any similar server for demoscene tracker files and/or retroconsole music format (bit tunes) hosting, transcoding and serving the stream? chip-player-js [1][2] has more or less exactly what I'm looking for, and I'd be perfectly happy with it, but I can't seem to get any of the docker containers I find to build properly or the repo to build due to dependency issues (probably ignorance on my part) [3][4]. 1 - https://chiptune.app/ 2 - https://www.mattmontag.com/music/chip-player-js 3 - https://github.com/mmontag/chip-player-js 4 - https://github.com/soltune/chip-player-js-docker
In Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server
A website for playing sequenced music (video games, chiptunes, and MIDI files). macOS lost native MIDI playback a long time ago. And I like to listen "interactively," adjusting tempo, soloing instruments, stuff like that. I have gone deep on a few problems, like converting Nintendo 64 to MIDI+soundfonts (there are tools for this, but nothing turn-key) or enabling support for Farbrausch V2 (a powerful but tiny synth engine). There's really no point other than to solve puzzles with a very salient musical reward at the end. https://github.com/mmontag/chip-player-js
In Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

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