We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS
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HN · launched May 18, 2026 · 71 upvotes (top 13%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop music players · 99 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 99 launches in desktop music players →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard local macOS audio player supporting common formats, pitch adjustment, and playlist management using native Apple audio APIs (AVFoundation/CoreAudio) and SwiftUI.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: IINA, Audacious Media Player, Reamp, Winamp
Concerns raised: Lacks basic features like opening folders with subfolders, App hangs when loading large amounts of files, Subjective value, not objective product value
Feature requests: Adjust BPM when listening to songs, Spacebar to play functionality, Open whole folder with subfolders
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1290 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #207 of 1291 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 195 days after the earliest competitor.
- kraken-player · github · 2026-09-16 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- I made a music player inspired by late 90s peer-to-peer sharing · hn · 2026-08-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- AMExclusive · github · 2026-09-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- MusicPlaygournd · github · 2026-09-09 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- riff · github · 2026-10-04 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Reamp · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Mac-hardware toys, control your Mac's hardware like a modular synth · hn · 2026-04-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- I wrote a macOS C++ audio driver to fix HDMI volume controls · hn · 2026-03-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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