Show HN: Simple access to your music from the web

Re:Show HN: Simple access to your music from the web by stiray on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:29PM (#28911252)

Hm, ok, I know I am not a typical user today and I am using sailfish on phone, but what is wrong with mounting sftp? I dont need any additional services for streaming and it just works. For music, movies, actually whatever I want to use as long as it only uses the offsets for obtaining the metadata while it doesnt download the whole song/movie/... just to open it.

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Re:Show HN: Simple access to your music from the web by dusted on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:32PM (#28912057)

Tldr; optimized for my specific search intensive and jumpy "music listening flow" using keyboard and mouse on a desktop workstation behind a corpo wall.

There are a few reasons I couldn't live with that (I did samba over openvpn on my phone for quite a while, vlc as the player).

Primary reason is I want it to be https so I can listen to my music at work, on my workstation without needing to poke through their firewall.

Secondary reason is that I listen to music the entire day and want a very quick way to find what I want, browsing lists and picking files is not working for me, I got addicted to the "j" key in winamp many years ago and this is kind of that idea distilled and redined a bit.

I made this after seeing another player here on HN called mstream, I used it for a while but the UI managed to both do too much and not entirely what I wanted.

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Re:Show HN: Simple access to your music from the web by spicybright on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:55PM (#28912300)

Having a a temporary music queue you add to and shuffle around while it's playing is sadly under rated in most music players. That's how I listen to music too.

Nice work!

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Re:Show HN: Simple access to your music from the web by raffraffraff on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @03:22AM (#28915659)

This is why I MusicBee! I instantly drop a music player that cannot do this.

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Re:Show HN: Simple access to your music from the web by mongol on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:07PM (#28911767)

Can you do that with Android?

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Re:Show HN: Simple access to your music from the web by connordoner on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @04:32AM (#28916023)

There’s definitely ways to access an SFTP drive on Android, but I’m not sure how well it’d fare offline.

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Re:Show HN: Simple access to your music from the web by EamonnMR on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:49PM (#28911528)

I do something similar with Samba.

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