We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS
Details
- External ID
- 48184214
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS
- Website domain
- advanced-research.net
- Launched
- May 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 71
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8683360258481422
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and audio software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- audio player for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 510 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #87 of 511 (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
- AMExclusive · github · 2026-09-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- I made a music player inspired by late 90s peer-to-peer sharing · hn · 2026-08-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- MusicPlaygournd · github · 2026-09-09 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- I wrote a macOS C++ audio driver to fix HDMI volume controls · hn · 2026-03-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Mac-hardware toys, control your Mac's hardware like a modular synth · hn · 2026-04-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Sol, my macOS music player and jukebox app, is now free and open source · hn · 2026-09-06 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- fcbnerd · github · 2026-09-14 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.55
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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