Sadly, the only player which will do that is Microsoft Media Player. All the others suffer from one fault or another which causes it to fail:
1. requires installing some third party "server" because sharing the directory isn't enough. The "server" then proceeds to consume all the resources of your computer, regardless of whether it is serving or not. I presumed it was trying to copy all my files to the NSA. What else would it be doing with disk drive light on all the time? for days?
2. does not look at subdirectories. Your music all has to be in one top-level folder.
3. randomly hangs and scrambles its music database (better keep a backup!)
4. hangs if you have more than some undisclosed number of music files
5. if you have more than some undisclosed number of music files, it only plays the first N files
6. displays the bit rate of the file being played. Does not display the name, artist, or album.
7. hangs if the USB stick is a large capacity one
I've tried PC software, Linux software, two different Roku media players (including the default one), 4 different internet radios that promised to play media files from a USB device
So what do I use? Microsoft Media Player.
I'm also confident VLC should work, but I haven't tried it for this purpose (because mpd never gave me a reason to), and I'm sure you've tried that already.
I think it was VLC on Ubuntu that would randomly delete or corrupt its music database. I kept having to rebuild it. The VLC support people told me I was just imagining this :-/
I don't bother filing bug reports anymore on any product (other than D Foundation things), as never in 40 years has that ever produced a positive result. Open source, closed source, makes no difference. I just complain on HN :-)
- I know all the cons of using Electron, thank you
- I started writing this piece of software 8 years ago, for me, to learn horizontal software development (ui, db, releases, binaries, cd, testing, etc), at a time I dropped out from university and I had to learn stuff in order to find a job and pay my rent
- Nowadays, I still use this project to experiment with technologies I want to learn or play with
- I truly don't care you don't like it (the app, or electron itself), my only purpose is to share something solving a real problem for me, for free
- If this app is useful to only one person other than me, and angers the HN crowd, I'll still be happy about it, and it will still be worth the hundreds or thousand hours I put on this
cheers, and happy coding!
But, it was good for music only, not for radio and other audio files.
I have never seen anything about Sayonara before but tried it after your post. Thank you.
It's lighter, more feature-full and I can let go ofStrawberry, MPV and Goodvibes.
It's an Electron application, which won't be for anyone, but it's sufficiently smooth and snappy for me.
But it’s essential for me that it imports Apple Music (née iTunes) Library.xml with all the play counts, etc.
If you manage to implement this feature, I’m in :)
> electron-builder.yml
This is a joke, right?
- Node.js
- Electron (formerly atom-shell)
- React.js
This made me laugh. Is there anyone in 2022 who doesn't know what Electron is, but does know about atom-shell?
With File System Access API this probably can be a simple web app, no need for wrapper. File support might get shorter, though.
