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A modern offline music player for Windows

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Cadence▲262
Replace boring meetings with daily, async updates
2020
2CA
Cadence – A guitar theory app▲195
Hello HN, I just released this music theory and ear training mobile app for guitar which I've been working on for a bit more than a year on the side. The idea was to make something for the eternally "intermediate" guitarist (myself included). There are a lot of beginner apps which rely on learning songs, toolkits which give you a bunch of stuff with no explanation but not many in-between apps to actually learn and practice more generic and somewhat advanced stuff. The app contains short lessons, recaps and most importantly challenges (visual, audio and pure theory) along with a very complete…
Oct 2025 · cadenceguitar.com
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Harmony▲193
Lightweight music player for SoundCloud, Spotify and more
2016
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Harmony 0.7▲234
A lightweight music player for SoundCloud, Spotify and more
2017
5PA
Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS▲202
I have a large collection of music files gathered over the years, so I was sorely missing a decent offline music player that can serve as a frontend for the collection. I tried several Mac apps over the years, but since streaming music is mainstream now, there aren't good offline music players that meet my needs. So I spent the last 3 months building Petrichor! The idea is to solve my problem and learn Swift UI development along the way, while giving back to the community with this open-source project! Here's a list of features it has, with more getting added in future; - Everything you'd…
2025 · github.com
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Spotify Miniplayer▲510
Discreetly play music, podcasts & videos on desktop
2024
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NotchFlow▲167
Pomodoro and music controls in your notch
2025
8AM
A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware▲123
May 2026 · github.com
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Cadence▲1
lyric overlay floating over everything (Spotify & YTM)
7d ago · github.com
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ARIIA▲149
A gestural-based music player for listening on the road
2016
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VOX for iOS▲154
The #1 music player for Mac, now on your iPhone
2015
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harmony▲87
A unique music player for Android with tons of features!
2017
13MA
Muse, a CLI background music player▲34
2024 · github.com
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Pod▲112
A desktop iPod that plays local music and radio
2025
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Sublive▲120
Low-latency jamming over the internet
2021
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Cadence▲107
Record once, send confidently
Jul 2026 · usecadence.co
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Runo 2.0▲132
Metronome app that keeps your running cadence steady
Jan 2026
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Cadence▲16
A daily planner that works with your energy, not against it.
Jun 2026 · getcadence.uk
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Tuneful▲115
Native way to control your music on macOS
2025
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Melody▲73
Your personal music assistant.
2017
21
Tempo▲5
A lightweight offline music player for your local music.
Feb 2026 · play.google.com
22PB
Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows▲105
Hi HN, I'm Erwin. I built a small free open-source utility that bridges Bluetooth LE MIDI keyboards into the new Windows MIDI Services stack so any DAW or Web MIDI app can use them as if they were wired. I bought a Roland FP-90X piano partly because it had Bluetooth MIDI. On my Windows 11 PC, pairing succeeded, but my DAW couldn't see the keyboard, and notes I sent from the PC never made the piano sing. After a regrettable number of evenings, I'd separated this into three independent bugs stacked on top of each other. The first one is the famous one: Windows only natively exposes BLE-MIDI…
May 2026
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Lyricly▲74
Live lyrics in your dynamic Notch & floating on your desktop
May 2026 · lyricly-website.vercel.app
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Soundbrenner Core▲80
The 4-in-1 smart music tool
2018

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