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I've just released the v1.5, it's made with tauri + react (by one dev and one designer), in short we wanted to distance ourself from music streaming services, tired of the "this music is no longer available" or the "this music is not disponible in your country" or the simple fact that you have to pay continuously to keep being able to listen.

So we build our own player that we use daily, inspired by the old widget designs and winamp / sonic / windows media player.

If you want to see more, here is our github page to download the app (MacOS, Windows10/11, Linux (debian/fedora))

And if you are really curious you can come say hi on our subreddit r/ResonanceApp :)

Hello everyone, we've just released the 1.5 version of our small music player.

What's the motivation behind this? We are tired of the streaming paradigm, always renting, never owning, and we're tired of the lack of innovative design or unusual designs to say the least.

Everything is either too cold, black and white, two-toned squared designs (it works, but this is all there is now!) or the classic vibe-coded UI with neon colors.

So we chose to do exactly what every sane person would do: take months to build our own music player :).

We want to bring back the cool effects of the early 2000s, the "we did it because we could" mentality. Our goal is not to be a better Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, or even a foobar2000, but to be a simplified local music player that simply works, offers a new design in the form of a widget, and doesn't phone home, doesn't ping the internet, doesn't lock you out with a subscription, account, or email.

You take the app and you can keep it forever, inciting the "own your medias point of view" (starting by owning the software that plays your medias).

I said that it was a "just work" type of app, but it has more than simply play/pause features:

Core Music Player Features

• Load music from an entire folder or specific directory
• Enable on-click and drag-and-drop loading capabilities
• Display metadata automatically (artist name, album name, artwork, track ID, bitrate, etc.)
• Display full metadata on a dedicated screen
• Include an equalizer with customizable presets
• Adjust left / right balance.
• Offer a mini player mode (hidden or locked)
• Display a small bar visualizer

Playback Controls

• Play and pause music playback
• Manage volume levels
• Seek through tracks using a timeline
• Enable shuffle and repeat settings
• Handle media session control via keyboard/media keys or AirPods

File Support

• Support various audio file formats: MP3, AAC, M4A, ALAC, AIFF, FLAC, WAV, OGG, Opus

User Interface

• Utilize a skeuomorphism UI design
• Detect the user's theme and adjust the screen theme accordingly
• Allow manual selection of a custom screen theme

Additional Features

• Enable filtering by artist name, album name, or song title
• Handle drag functionality for the app itself
• Include click sound effects (that you can disable)

If you want to see more here is our github page to download the app (MacOS, Windows10/11, Linux (debian/fedora))

And if you want to be updated on it here is our subreddit r/ResonanceApp :)

I'm still working on the .appImage for linux, but all the bugs have been fixed:

• MacOS works,
• Windows works,
• Linux works (.deb/.rpm)

Saturday the 1.5.0 will finally drop as well as a new video, and the showcase of the v2.0, stay tuned !

Link for the pre-release

Hi everyone we have pushed to Github the pre release of the 1.5.0, it now has:

• A rework of the hover / leave detection, meaning you don't have to click on the mini player anymore to make it reveal itself (if you've not set the mini player on locked of course).
• Fixed media session bugs for the shuffle and previous music.
• Fixed mini player shuffle not working correctly.
• Fixed metadata's face having a field's value set as "0" when no folder were loaded.

And more importantly, i have the app working on linux (debian).

But for now i can only test it on a vm so i need your help to make sure everything is indeed really working. On the release page I have added a .deb (debian) and a .rpm (fedora / red hat) as well as an AppImage (which still have some problems).

That said, If you're on windows or macOS your help will still be valuable to make sure no regressions was done or even simply you feedback on the new rework of the hover/leave maybe it needs to be smoother (lowering the delay of the animation?).

PS: For the windows users listening to their musics on a mounted device (harddrive / thumbdrive) you should not be able to play the music on next launch, it is normal (it's cliché to say that, I know) but by default the app is restricted to some directories, i still need to implement a reliable way to allow the app on drives that mounted drive (which i have in mind). So sorry in advance for the inconvenience 🙏.