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The slow and bloated nature of the Mac Apple Music app inspired us to create QuickTunes. It is a simple, fast, and native Apple Music player inspired by the simplicity of the iPod. You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate a simple multi column layout, pick something, and press Play.

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browningstreet · 9m ago

Any alt- Apple Music players for Windows? The Apple Music app on Windows has a lot of “native platform app” shortcomings.

MBCook · 2h ago

Another alternate client that’s great is LongPlay.

Instead of being a better UI like QuickTunes, LongPlay is specifically designed for one thing and one thing only: full album listening.

Things are presented as full albums, and they play as full albums. You can choose whether skipping skips a single track or an entire album.

Tracks in an album are always played in order.

The main picking interface? Just a grid of album covers, like that old screensaver Macs used to have.

It’s great.

constantinum · 1h ago

just curious? Can we integrate Apple Music Subscription into LongPlay? Or This works only when you have your own collection of music that you own?

MBCook · 38m ago

I’m not sure.

I suspect you can just play anything in your library, whether Apple Music or purchased/ripped, but honestly I don’t know.

leakycap · 1h ago

The fax app on their website is a great solution to having the ability to send a fax without subscribing to anything.

entropie · 4m ago

Found the german?

bigyabai · 4h ago

Reminiscent of Spot for Linux, another great shortcut-oriented streaming interface for those of you who ditched the Mac: https://github.com/xou816/spot

zapzupnz · 4h ago

The name seems awfully close to QuickTune, another frontend to Apple Music.

https://marioaguzman.github.io/quicktune/

dostick · 3h ago

Modern player is not only about UIUX but also which music storage it supports, DLNA, Plex, Jellyfin, that’s the main feature users will be checking. If it’s just AppleMusic player.

karlgkk · 1h ago

Nobody except uses jellyfish/etc for music except for weird nerds who enjoy the act of collecting and setting up infrastructure more than listening to music.

quesera · 1h ago

Said with affection, I presume.

nizmow · 1h ago

Who hurt you?

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notpushkin · 40m ago

That’s not true – plenty of users don’t really care about that. That said, it would be really nice to see more players (pun?) in this space.

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