What's your preferred decentralized Music player? \ stacker news ~tech

What's your preferred decentralized Music player?

9396 sats \ 15 comments \ @mo 15 Sep 2023 tech

SoundCloud fan from long time and looking for alternative, what's your suggestion? any nostr alternatives?

300 sats \ 1 reply \ @beorange 15 Sep 2023

Winamp, VLC, Rythmbox, Elisa, Foobar2000... anything that is a standalone app and doesn't necessarily need an internet connection to do its job.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @mo OP 16 Sep 2023

Wiamp? it still around? really? I was always upset because they are a winzoz only software and the only thing I always appreciated was its lightning logo

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryptoshalix 16 Sep 2023

HOW TO PLAY AND DANCE WITH YOUR MUSIC ANYWHERE!

Create a MEGA account here: https://mega.nz/aff=YvakZRq8M2Q
Install the Mega app on your computer or phone... or both!
Create a folder for your music and upload all files in that folder.
Use any music player both phone or computer. But, try to use standalone apps that doesn't necessarily need an internet connection. These are my choices: VLC (best), Groove music, Musicolet (Android)
[ Optional ] Install MegaSync and configure it to auto sync your music on your phone. Source: https://metactrl.com Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.megasync Apple: No Apple, those are just for eating

You can download music from internet or get from cd's that you own. I use 4kDownload with links from Youtube: https://www.4kdownload.com

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mo OP 16 Sep 2023

Wow man, it's really a cool setup. Thanks for the advice. I don't want to download music from internet anymore, just because it makes the discovery of new jewels much harder... download the whole mp3 or album to deleted after just few minutes of listening. Happened so many times. Easier to press FFWD and go to the next, if hosted online somehow.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lux 16 Sep 2023

https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @mo OP 16 Sep 2023

This is a nice find. Shame it's only for Androis. Thanks

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 16 Sep 2023

It depends on what you are looking for but mpd works well if you have the music somewhere. https://www.musicpd.org/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Music_Player_Daemon

There are many client available. I think the relatively high number of clients shows you how decentralized it is.

I knew someone who had all his music on an iPod. Pretty convenient and decentralized but highly depending on iTunes, and I think SSDs are relatively cheap now, unless you save everything in flac.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko 16 Sep 2023

I like local files on my local machine.

Not everything needs to go through the internet. And even if it goes through the internet - why should it be decentralized? Just self host.

I passionately and intensely hate what you are suggesting. Throwing tech at stuff that stuff for the sake of more tech is an annoying trend of the last few years.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mo OP 16 Sep 2023

I wish I could have just a limited db on my local machine... Need new music and love the discovery and listening to new songs

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Sep 2023

my only physical mp3 player, whatever will be that. I don't listen too much music online, except hunting new tracks on wavlake.com and zap them with sats if I like them.