Show HN: Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source

30 points by _nqmv 5 days ago | 18 comments

mistyvales 5 days ago |

Funny, I was JUST looking for a Foobar-like equivalent for MacOS. I'll have to try this out later. I use Roon for daily use at home, but having a network-free local player that supports everything I play at native bit and sample rate is a huge plus.

nf-x 5 days ago | |

By the way, what can you tell about Roon as an active user? It costs as much as Qobuz, but it’s your responsibility to fill up your library and provide infrastructure - which is weird. Sure, it sponsors musicbrainz and lastfm for metadata and puts some nice UI, gets buddies in HiFi manufacturers, but what else?..

I’m very surprised that Roon does UNPnP for own port, potentially exposing home network through some zerodays. For that money it has to do reverse tunneling or something like that.

_nqmv 5 days ago | |

Hope you like it, let me know if you have any questions!

jwrallie 5 days ago | |

Why not Foobar itself?

socalgal2 5 days ago | | |

I use Foobar on my iPhone. The features it's missing for me

1. I often want to play a single song and then go back to random - it doesn't have this. If I pick song it's now going to play that song forever and I have to go back and manually pick "random tracks"

2. This is probably just a variant of the first but it would be great to be able to pick "Add to head/tail of que" so I could add 2 or 3 songs I want to hear and then have it go back to random tracks

3. It has no ability to sort by date added. I added 20 tracks recently. I can't find them.

This has go me wanting to vibe-code (for myself) a music player app. Unfortunately I'm on iPhone where I need a dev account and where the longest I can install it is 1 year.

jakeydus 5 days ago |

Why can’t people even write their own product descriptions without AI anymore???

nf-x 5 days ago |

Local library playback has always been a challenge when the size is in tens of thousands. But after that the main challenge is headless networked playback from separate subnets - e.g. one great stereo system controlled by multiple members of the household from multiple devices

c-hendricks 5 days ago | |

Genuine question, are there open source solutions to this? I use HomePods so audio can be controlled from any device and any rooms audio can be synced to another. Would love something more open.

fultimnigr 5 days ago |

op deleted their entire github lmao