supersonic VS magit

Navidrome + Play:Sub on ios and the awesome supersonic for the desktop (https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic). This is the way.

Prior to this, take some time to tag your files with Musicbrainz Picard.

Hi everyone! Just announcing that Supersonic version 0.8.0 is out, now with support for Jellyfin servers! For Jellyfin users, or anyone else new to the app, Supersonic is a lightweight but full-featured cross platform desktop music player for selfhosted music servers, featuring gapless playback, ReplayGain, a graphic equalizer, infinite scrolling grid views, and more!

Navidrome is absolutely brilliant. It works very well for accessing my library; the configuration options (env vars) also give me loads of customizability.

P.S. a well-known secret is Supersonic[0]. It's an excellent cross-platform Subsonic client (which works with Navidrome!). It's not Electron-based, either. Much like Navidrome, I've had absolutely no issues with it. Love it.

[0]: https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic

Gonic is a Subsonic-compatible server that supports folders, but it has no built-in web UI so you need to find clients that support browsing by folders. My desktop client Supersonic currently doesn't support browsing by folders but I have a feature request to add it - and am looking for feedback on how the UI should look/work!

Gonic (a Subsonic-compatible server) supports browse by folder, as does Airsonic-advanced. For Gonic you need clients as it has no built-in web client. Symfonium on Android supports folders. Sonixd on desktop does as well, though it's not actively developed anymore (its successor Feishin does not support folders or the Subsonic API). My desktop client Supersonic doesn't support folders yet, but I have a feature request for it. Feel free to thumbs-up the Github issue and chime in on how the UI for browsing by folders should be designed!

Hi everyone! Version 0.4.0 of Supersonic - an open-source desktop music player for self-hosted Subsonic servers - is out now! This version adds a 15 band graphic equalizer, custom theme support, and more!

Version 0.4.0 of Supersonic is out now! This release adds a 15-band graphic equalizer, custom theme support, and more, and includes several contributions from the community!

Hey everyone! Just announcing a new release of Supersonic - the lightweight, cross platform Subsonic client! This release adds multi-server support, a filter UI for albums browsing views, sorting tracklist views, and other fixes and improvements!

I'm not sure if there's a way to do that in a consistent cross-platform way. But just wanted to say that this is a cool project! And also to mention that I have a GUI music player in Go, Supersonic, that is a client for self-hosted music servers. I use libmpv through CGO for audio playback. If you ever wanted to switch audio backends in your app, I'm open to moving the higher-level interface I built into its own go module, although the low-level mpv bindings it's built on are GPLv3 so you'd need to either relicense Teamus as GPLv3, write a from-scratch mpv binding, or convince the developer to relicense it to MIT.

Hi everyone! I have been developing a desktop music player for Subsonic servers for the past several months and I would like to bring Jellyfin support as well! The project is written in Go. I have completed most of the work in my app to make other media providers pluggable, but some quick Github and Google searching hasn't turned up any pre-existing Go client library for Jellyfin, though there are a bunch for other languages. Was wondering if I could be missing one, or if someone who knows Go and the Jellyfin API might be interested in contributing one :) (I would get around to it eventually but I have other feature development in my app to work on and if there were a preexisting client library I could leverage, Jellyfin support could land much sooner!)

Then the slowness that you're seeing is probably Windows-specific, and that's why everyone else is telling you that Magit is actually fast.

WSL might make things faster.[1] IIUC, the problem is that starting new processes is much slower on Windows than on Linux/Unix and Magit relies heavily on that. This seems to have plagued Git tooling more generally but maybe this got fixed since then.[2]

[1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/58444

[2] https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2395#issuecomment-1710...

You'll want to invest the time in learning Magit, which will change your life once you get the hang of it (and I was a heavy user of Fugitive in Vim previously!), and it's unlikely you'll find a better integration with GDB anywhere else on the planet than with Emacs, though I can't say that empirically. You just need to take the plunge and start learning it, then cut over and take the hit in productivity one day when you're feeling adventurous. You'll ultimately become far more powerful than you've ever been. Especially if you delve into elisp over time. I use Spacemacs, which is bloated and has bugs, but it has so many features that I haven't undertaken the massive endeavor to replace it from scratch yet.

> Even in this article just a few sentences after stating we should start from first principles he then jumps into the assumption of the "desktop".

Agree. Although I can see how the idea of "first principles" can be a very difficult starting point. A blank sheet of paper is a scary monster.

There's a huge breadth and depth of non-"desktop" GUIs out there, some (like smartphones) are even wildly successful. It's good to explore them for inspiration. Some of my favourites:

- Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com/about/) - I won't attempt to summarize, just dive in!

- SailfishOS (https://sailfishos.org/) - mobile UI focused on interaction through gestures / swipes; I've used it as my daily driver for a couple years.

- Speaking of mobiles, classic Nokia UIs allowed you to navigate to a specific item in the menu by pressing the corresponding digit on the dial pad. Once you learned where a particular item is, accessing e.g. your SMS inbox was extremely quick.

- Apple Watch / WatchOS (https://www.apple.com/watchos/) - I've always loved the idea of a device where one of the primary interaction methods was a wheel/dial of some sort. The watch even gives you context-sensitive tactile feedback.

- ZUIs in general (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface) and the work of Jef Raskin in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software) - this is the guy who helped design the Macintosh, but his other work took a radically different route.

- Magit (https://magit.vc/). Many common git operations are reduced to a couple of keystrokes; the obscure features are more discoverable, and the cumbersome procedures (such as rebasing, or staging individual hunks) become simple and intuitive. Also check out transient (https://github.com/magit/transient), which is the "UI toolkit" that powers Magit.

This can be done most comfortably with org-mode in emacs. It offers a lot of features, and they all operate on plain text. There are also nice integrations for git and languagetool, but I guess those are less exclusive.

How does this differ from https://magit.vc/ ?

I would rather see innovative tools that lessen our dependency on 50+ year old tech. This is still a glorified teletype. It uses AI to autosuggest git commands? Contrast with Magit[1], which (while it has a tiny bit of a learning curve, but also nowhere near 23M in funding) actually makes interacting with git a pleasure.

[1]: https://magit.vc

Also was using Emacs (org-mode)[https://orgmode.org] for years with (Magit)[https://magit.vc] package for git. I feel org-mod is a precursor to Roam Research, Obsidian, et al. Hit the spot for years but I wanted editing on mobile so that’s why I’m here. :)