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24 alternatives to Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar
Beatbar is a media player that displays music visualizations in the browser address bar. Launched in 2012, it lets users play audio directly from their browser while watching animated beats and patterns appear in the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Beatbar - Media player that beats in the browser address bar launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey all, creator of Video.js and co-founder of Mux & Zencoder here. My team and I built this. I hope you like the themes we’ve built so far, and maybe even get inspired to build your own. I know Web Components are in a bit of a drama cycle right now. I’m happy to see them get any attention really. I’ve been pretty bullish on them since ~2013 when I started working with them, at least in the context of a widget like a video player. I’ve even given many related talks on them like this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Mh84SRoDg). I would never push them for a large app or…
2024 · player.style · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I made Beatsync, an open-source browser-based audio player that syncs audio with millisecond-level accuracy across many devices. Try it live right now: https://www.beatsync.gg/ The idea is that with no additional hardware, you can turn any group of devices into a full surround sound system. MacBook speakers are particularly good. Inspired by Network Time Protocol (NTP), I do clock synchronization over websockets and use the Web Audio API to keep audio latency under a few ms. You can also drag devices around a virtual grid to simulate spatial audio — it changes the…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MenubarX▲474A powerful menu bar browser. Pin websites like Native Apps.
2022 · menubarx.app · its alternatives →
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Player.style▲321Video & audio player themes for every web player & framework
2024 · player.style · its alternatives →
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Beata▲76For discovering the best new music from around the web
2016 · beata.co.uk · its alternatives →
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2020 · 8bars.app · its alternatives →
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Audio player for musicians and DJs
May 2026 · advanced-research.net · its alternatives →
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Beat Lock▲117Discover who is using your beat in music streaming services
2021 · beatlock.io · its alternatives →
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PlayTray▲82Control the Spotify web player with your macOS media keys
2018 · cleverthings.io · its alternatives →
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RadioBar▲115Open source macOS menubar app to listen to streaming radio
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Beats, a web-based drum machinefree▲160Hello all! I've been an avid fan of Pocket Operators by Teenage Engineering since I found out about them. I even own an EP-133 K.O. II today, which I love. A couple of months ago, Reddit user andiam03 shared a Google Sheet with some drum patterns [1]. I thought it was a very cool way to share and understand beats. During the weekend I coded a basic version of this app I am sharing today. I iterated over it in my free time, and yesterday I felt like I had a pretty good version to share with y'all. It's not meant to be a sequencer but rather a way to experiment with beats and basic sounds,…
Jan 2026 · beats.lasagna.pizza · its alternatives →
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2016 · lukeandersen.github.io · its alternatives →
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Beatwave▲111Create custom audio visualizers in just a few clicks
2023 · viddyoze.com · its alternatives →
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Cumulus▲160A SoundCloud player that lives in your Mac menu bar
2015 · gillesdemey.github.io · its alternatives →
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A distraction-free way to listen to music
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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