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 :)