Music

via Tim Bray 🇨🇦 (@timbray@cosocial.ca): I listen to music mostly on Qobuz and have plugged it on here and the blog several times, for example https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/22/Qobuz-and-Others#p-1

Tim Bray makes the case for Qobuz as a streaming service built by people who actually love music — better artist payouts, album-oriented curation, and classical music treated as a first-class citizen. The real revelation is Qobuz Connect, which lets the phone app control playback on a cheap Mac Mini wired into a home audio system. His aside is the best part: when was the last time an app added a feature that was genuinely delightful and didn’t feel like it was strip-mining your life for profit?

Via RustTrending: A feature rich, native desktop, YouTube Music client. Tauri + Rust + SvelteKit, ad-free playback through libmpv, Last.fm scrobbling and Discord Rich Presence, no Electron.

via Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social): Attached: 1 image

Someone fed the text of the MIT License into Suno’s AI music generator with the prompt “sad girl with piano” and got back a genuinely affecting piano ballad. The highlight: it nails “WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY” with an Imogen Heap-style glissando, then immediately mangles “FITNESS” into “fistiff.”

via Nic Wise (@fastchicken@mastodon.nz): @timbray@cosocial.ca Finally found time to write up how I use Plex + Plexamp. Thanks for asking (the world) and prompting me to actually write the words

A practical guide to self-hosting your music library with Plex and PlexAmp as an alternative to Spotify, Apple Music, and other streaming services. Resonates with anyone who has accumulated a large MP3 collection over the years and wants to maintain control over music they’ve actually paid for.

Terry White chronicles replacing his aging whole-house Bose SoundTouch setup with Sonos, after years of watching a discontinued product line slowly rot — half-baked AirPlay 2 support, speakers dropping offline, and no hope of fixes. A good reminder that with connected hardware, you’re buying the vendor’s software commitment as much as the speakers themselves.

Casey Liss rejoins the program to discuss his new app Callsheet and to give David and Stephen a tour of the apps and services he uses to manage his media.

via Keith Daggett: This …

I kind of can’t get this “song” out of my head …

I recently attended a concert from Derek Gripper who specializes in reproducing various African string artforms. (If he’s performing near you, I highly recommend going!)

via Federico Viticci: If you care about music metadata, the best app for liner notes — the excellent MusicSmart by @mactanaka — got a big 2.0 update and it somehow got even better.

via Rust Trending: JasonWei512 / code-radio-cli: 🎵 A command line music radio client for https://coderadio.freecodecamp.org, written in Rust. ★227

via Peter Cohen: Jessie Ware’s new album is out and it SLAPS from start to finish.

via kottke.org: A video demonstration of the 13 levels of complexity of drumming. This was super fun and informative to watch — I didn't know much about drumming going into this and now my appreciation for this art is off the charts.

via Brian Marick: I use Roon (“The audiophile player for music fanatics”). It’s technically good, but the UX… has problems.

Me (on Facebook, now deleted):

Anyone have a favorite (Mac-based) music player for the music already on your laptop?