Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source
Details
- External ID
- 49590524
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- —
- Website domain
- —
- Launched
- Sept. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 30
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7990430622009569
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and audio software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- music player for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS music player and jukebox application can be built in Swift/SwiftUI using standard system audio APIs (AVFoundation/MusicKit) with AI assistance.
Discussion
18 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Foobar, Roon, iTunes, HomePods
Concerns raised: Used AI to polish copy and descriptions instead of writing authentically, Hard to distinguish from quick vibe-coded projects due to AI usage signals, GitHub repository deleted, raising credibility questions
Feature requests: Play single song then return to random playback mode, Add songs to queue head/tail with auto-return to random tracks, Sort library by date added, Headless networked playback across separate subnets, Reverse tunneling for secure remote access instead of UPnP exposure
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 382 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #81 of 383 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 306 days after the earliest competitor.
- kraken-player · github · 2026-09-16 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- MusicPlaygournd · github · 2026-09-09 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS · hn · 2026-05-18 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Miditui · hn · 2026-01-08 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Spotify-Edition · github · 2026-09-22 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Nuvia-Musics · github · 2026-09-20 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- I made a music player inspired by late 90s peer-to-peer sharing · hn · 2026-08-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- HoH-music · github · 2026-09-27 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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