Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source
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HN · launched Sep 6, 2026 · 30 upvotes (top 20%) · 1 view
Niche: desktop music players · 99 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
More like this: all 99 launches in desktop music players →
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 : 1044 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #215 of 1045 (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 0.61
- colon3 · github · 2026-10-12 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- 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
- pluck · github · 2026-10-08 · 121 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Miditui · hn · 2026-01-08 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- endfield-music-terminal · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Sonara · ph · 2026-10-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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