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.
MBCook6 days 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.
constantinum6 days 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?
greymalik6 days ago
Apple Music, iTunes, and manually synced music.
MBCook6 days 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.
dangus5 days ago
It’s a pet peeve of mine to continually hear about how the Apple Music app is bloated.
Apple literally reduced the bloat compared to the past. They removed podcast, TV/movie, and device management out of the app and moved them into dedicated places.
What mythical person is struggling with the performance of Apple Music on an Apple Silicon Mac? The same Macs that can handle 4K Final Cut Pro video editing with 8GB of RAM are struggling with a 20 year old music app?
I have a lot of complaints about the app but “slow” and “bloated” are not on that list. It’s just an outdated take.
underbluewaters5 days ago
It's not about the feature set. The Music app is the only software I use which randomly locks up my whole mac, just trying to do basic stuff like play a song or navigate albums. Doesn't seem to be related to whether I'm browsing Apple Music or my own library. This is on both my M1 MacBook Pro, and on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio in the office. It's baffling that something that worked so well in 2008 is such a dog in 2025. It's like using winamp in 1998.
dangus4 days ago
Can’t say I’ve witnessed or heard of that behavior.
leakycap6 days ago
The fax app on their website is a great solution to having the ability to send a fax without subscribing to anything.
brailsafe6 days ago
> We hate subscriptions as much as you do, so our business model is simple: Simplefax is a one-time purchase that costs as much as lunch in San Francisco.
Is it possible to get lunch in SF for $10!?
jjj1235 days ago
Two slices of very good vegetarian pizza from arizmendi is $8
unixhero5 days ago
Some soup and a piece of bread, yes! Across the street from Salesforce!
entropie6 days ago
Found the german?
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bigyabai6 days 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
browningstreet6 days ago
Any alt- Apple Music players for Windows? The Apple Music app on Windows has a lot of “native platform app” shortcomings.
kcrwfrd_5 days ago
The one thing I always missed about Windows was foobar2k
HelloUsername4 days ago
Foobar2000 is available on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android
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dontlaugh6 days ago
Looks cool.
There’s also Cider, I use it on Linux https://cider.sh/.
eisa016 days ago
Any alternatives for iOS? I’m sick of the search defaulting to Apple Music the streaming service
hoherd5 days ago
https://www.cesium-app.com was great for me for a long time. I forgot why I quit using it, but I don't think it was because it stopped being great.
sleight425 days ago
Yes, please. The iOS Music app has been getting worse for years.
zapzupnz6 days ago
The name seems awfully close to QuickTune, another frontend to Apple Music.
RShackleford5 days ago
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dostick6 days 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.
jazzyjackson6 days ago
OK there's a bunch of jellyfin clients tho. This is an Apple Music client. why you gotta drag somebody over this.
MangoToupe6 days ago
Why does it matter what the backend is? A music player is a music player; it shouldn't matter where the music comes from.
slau6 days ago
Well, it matters when you have to integrate with APIs and idiosyncrasies of third parties, and whatever draconian DRM they require. It’s obviously not impossible to add support for multiple backends, but from a development effort it definitely matters.
It’s not like streaming platforms are gingerly implementing open and common standards for music streaming. Winamp had support for .m3u and streaming back in ‘04, but we’ve moved on from that.
MangoToupe5 days ago
Sure, but presumably that is different from the actual value of the app itself—the frontend. It's just a matter of effort to connect the interface to the backend. Why you'd insist on tying the two together is anyone's guess (likely convenience).
jazzyjackson4 days ago
> (likely convenience).
AKA the limited resource of developer-hours
MangoToupe4 days ago
> AKA the limited resource of developer-hours
Sure, but each connected backend magnifies value to end-user. To say any one client is worth devoting to just a single backend is crazy.
connorgurney5 days ago
But they never marketed it as a generic music player, did they? It also isn’t a toaster.
MangoToupe4 days ago
> But they never marketed it as a generic music player, did they? It also isn’t a toaster.
A music player is very much a dumb pipe (or "toaster" as you call it). There's nothing special about Apple Music that makes it a backend worth devoting an entire client to.
notpushkin6 days 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.
zapzupnz5 days ago
> If it's just AppleMusic player.
Well, considering it's an Apple Music frontend… that's really the point, isn't it?
karlgkk6 days ago
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quesera6 days ago
Said with affection, I presume.
nizmow6 days ago
Who hurt you?
airtonix6 days ago
I think it was when DHH announced he no longer uses a mac.
All these silicon valley apple cargo cultists are still in shock of the heresy.
MangoToupe6 days ago
Who is DHH and what is he using now and why did he find the mac insufficient?
MangoToupe4 days ago
> https://world.hey.com/dhh/linux-as-the-new-developer-default...
He seems like a non-serious personality