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24 alternatives to I just open sourced Muxamp, a streaming media playlist in Node.js

Hey HN! I've been working on Muxamp for over a year now, and I decided that there's no point in keeping the source closed. (I never planned on making money from it.) I've learned a lot since I started, and I hope others can benefit from its release--and perhaps teach me a thing or two as well :)

Muxamp is an open-source streaming media playlist application built with Node.js that aggregates content from YouTube and SoundCloud. Developed as a web app, it allows users to create and manage playlists across… 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. I just open sourced Muxamp, a streaming media playlist in Node.js launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1MA

    Muxamp is a unified playlist that lets you search for and play YouTube and SoundCloud media back-to-back. It is my first web app, written entirely in JavaScript (thanks to Node.JS). Link: http://muxamp.com/ Features: * Easy track search * Drag and drop playlist rearrangement * Sharing your playlist is as easy as copy-pasting the URL * Attractive UI, thanks to Bootstrap and CSS * Free, no sign-up required This is a personal project of mine that I used to learn more about JavaScript and web programming. Feedback is appreciated! (Tell me if it sucks or not.) This project is hosted by Nodester…

    2012 · muxamp.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Thanks for your attention to my post. It was a big challenge to run most of Node.js packages in browser, fast moreover. Virtual File system, resolve import/export. I got cold many times, depressions, burned out, yet still alive and finished it. Many guys helped me with an advice. Many users give a lot of positive feedback. There are 200,000 monthly unique users. I work full time now because of the freemium business model. To be honest - I am happy after many years of hard work.

    2022 · playcode.io · its alternatives →

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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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    Open-source YouTube alternative that offers video, audio and image uploads, livestreaming and built-in monetization - mayeaux/nodetube

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Personalised playlists within seconds.

    2016 · murumusic.com · its alternatives →

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    A radically simpler & faster SoundCloud player

    2014 · 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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    muffon▲74

    Desktop music browser

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    muffon is a desktop music streaming browser. It retrieves metadata, audio, and video from various Internet sources, such as: - Last.FM - VK - Odnoklassniki - Yandex Music - Bandcamp - Deezer - SoundCloud - Spotify - YouTube - Discogs - Genius It has no ads and is absolutely free to use. Features: - listening (artists / albums / tracks) - music library (and compatibility with others) - recommendations (based on your library) - search (through all of the sources above) - radio (tags / artists) - scrobbling (Last.FM) - videos (YouTube) - lyrics (Genius) - tags (with top artists…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Curated indie music from Bandcamp

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Hi there HN! I'm Matthias and I've been into video streaming for quite a while now. Over the years I've built plenty of small setups, often CLI tools to test and debug streaming video. About a month ago, during my annual holiday, I started working on a simple API on top of my CLI tools. It's time consuming to craft and run multiple ffmpeg jobs, get GOP / keyframes right, merge playlists, package to HLS, ... One thing led to another and I eventually started exploring HLS interstitials, VMAP / VAST and dynamic ad insertion, MSE / EME (HLS.js in general), React (perf) as a player…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Muki▲75

    MIDI music streaming in your browser #nostalgia

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Muzie▲91

    An all in one music streaming service

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Free, fast mp3 streaming with songs/playlist from YouTube

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15RY

    I wanted a way to quickly generate new Spotify playlists from my library based on some simple user inputs. There are probably a bunch of songs floating around in old playlists that you will never listen to again so the Spotify Playlist Recycling Plant is an attempt to resurrect these forgotten gems! At the heart of this tool is a simple custom algorithm that uses Spotify's 5000+ unique genres to find similar artists. It works well for my purposes but everybody uses Spotify differently so I'd love some feedback :) Built using React and the Spotify Web API.

    2022 · playlistrecycle.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16IM

    My goal is to create a free media downloader that doesn't bother you. friendly, efficient, and has no paywalls or anything like that. I've been working on that for the last 3 weeks or so, it's not perfect yet, but it works, and I'm really excited to share it.

    2025 · saveplays.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17SA

    Hey everyone, I'm a young developer with a penchant for music and quality software. I have spent the last 16 months developing an open-source Google Chrome extension which attempts to simplify the experience of using YouTube to play music. Streamus: http://streamus.com/ Streamus currently has 14,000 users and is the #1 trending / #4 ranked 'fun' extension in the web store. I've built it entirely from scratch while teaching myself the basics of BackboneJS (and Backbone.Marionette), RequireJS, GruntJS and many other, smaller libraries. It has been a great learning…

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Spotify Playlist CD Generator

    2012 · burn.fm · its alternatives →

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    I recently launched my side project I've been building with Meteor js over the past few months. It uses the Soundcloud, Hypemachine, and exfm public APIs to pull in your 'favorite' tracks from each of your usernames provided. It's gives you a unified playlist of all your favorite tracks across the different sites. Audio is being played using the HTML5 Audio API, so it currently only works in Chrome and Safari. Built with: * Meteor JS – http://Meteor.com * Bourbon Sass Mixin Library – http://bourbon.io * Spin.js – http://fgnass.github.io/spin.js/ *…

    2013 · myfaves.fm · its alternatives →

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    I'm happy to announce the release of Polaris 0.15.0 . Polaris is a self-hosted music streaming server, to enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device. It is free and open-source software, without any kind of premium version. This release is the biggest one since Polaris' humble beginnings 9 years ago. It's technically not a rewrite but there is not much code that was left untouched. The highlights are: - New visual design for the web client (screenshots[1]) - Ability to browse the music collection by artist/album/genre, not only by file - Support for multi-value…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hybrid music player. Contribute to ondras/mp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23MA

    Here is the backstory: I used to use YouTube Music, but then I deleted my Google account. I didn't want Spotify because I hate it for various reasons, and at the same time I wanted to show off my programming skills. So here we are. --- On the client: solidjs + tailwindcss + minisearch. IndexedDB as the database. One web worker to download audio to OPFS. Another web worker for indexing with minisearch. On top of this a service worker to precache static assets and make the app work offline. On the server: bun + astro + sqlite + ffmpeg. Full-text search is implemented with fts5. Astro Actions…

    2025 · mayo.clumsy.fish · its alternatives →

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