Rmp, a Subsonic music player for generating playlists on the fly
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When listening to music, I often don't play whole albums, but string together songs that capture my current mood. In the past, I've written a tool that records my hearings and generates suggestions from my usual listening patterns[1] and used it with some scripts around mpd. This made my way of listening to music easier and worked decently, but I wished I could also sync and use this with my phone.Recently I've discovered Subsonic, a protocol for music servers and players. It caught my eye, because it supports "scrobbling" (apparently the common term for "recording hearings") and generating similar-song-lists. Pretty much exactly what I had been doing and many music players support this feature to create "instant playlists". With a little bit of hacking[2], it was easy to integrate my existing, collected hearing patterns into a Subsonic server.While I found a decent Subsonic client for my phone, I didn't find a terminal music player that worked for my style of listening. So I wrote rmp; it's really minimal, but does what I need it to do: It allows me to quickly fuzzy search my whole library and then add suggestions for already queued songs to the queue, while also scrobbling heard songs.[1] https://github.com/codesoap/songmem [2] https://github.com/sentriz/gonic/compare/master...codesoap:g...
HN · launched Aug 23, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop music players · 99 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a music player client interacting with standard Subsonic API endpoints to manage playback and generate dynamic playlists based on heuristics or listening history.
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Competitors mentioned: AudioMuse-AI
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Launched 298 days after the earliest competitor.
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