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24 alternatives to Daft Music
Some time ago I moved from Spotify to Apple Music for a few reasons. As someone who builds iOS and macOS apps, I quickly noticed how rough the Apple Music experience felt on Mac. It just wasn’t fun to use. So I decided to challenge myself and see if it was possible to build a full, complex, and performant Apple Music client using SwiftUI. At first, it went surprisingly well. SwiftUI made it easy to build out the main structure and experiment quickly. The UI came together nicely, and it was exciting to see how modern and flexible the framework could be. But the deeper I went, the more cracks…
Daft Music is a native macOS application that provides an alternative interface for Apple Music. Built specifically for Mac, it offers high-performance music playback with an elegant design focused on delivering a… 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.
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The Unofficial SoundCloud App for macOS
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Sleeve 2▲302A fast, modern SSH client for iOS and iPadOS, built for the new era of terminal tools and AI coding agents.
2022 · replay.software · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2013 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A take on the classic iTunes Widget
2021 · marioaguzman.github.io · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2011 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2012 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · signalsandsorcery.org · its alternatives →
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Aux for Mac▲103GitHub for music, collaborate on music DAW projects remotely
2023 · aux.app · its alternatives →
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An (unofficial) web player for Apple Music
2018 · playapplemusic.com · its alternatives →
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- 14GM
2014 · kbhomes.github.io · its alternatives →
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Muky▲200Hi, I've developed an iOS app called Muky (https://muky.app/) that allows parents to create and manage music playlists for their children. It provides a focused, distraction-free audio experience for kids. I created this app because my 4-year-old daughter loves music, but existing solutions like Tonies or cassettes didn't meet our needs. Using an iPhone or iPad directly with Apple Music wasn't ideal either. Muky aims to solve these issues under the motto "Music for the Kids". Here some key features: * Dedicated music player for children * Parent-controlled playlists *…
2024 · muky.app · its alternatives →
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Capo▲85A new way to analyze and learn to play music
2014 · supermegaultragroovy.com · its alternatives →
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SoundCloud now with Shazam DJ mix recognition
2021 · daft.cloud · its alternatives →
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I discovered Apple Music's "Smart Playlists" easily export as TSV and got carried away :) If anyone knows a way to get the same data out of Spotify I'd love to hear it.
2023 · apple-music-stats.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Musish - The open source Apple Music web player. Listen now.
2019 · musi.sh · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2014 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Lito Music▲78A lightweight Apple Music client for Windows and macOS
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Listen to Lo-fi music radio Taiki on the Lofimusic open-source player: an installable Progressive Web app (PWA) written in Go (Golang).
2020 · lofimusic.app · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2014 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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