Show HN: Vusic – A Simple Web Player for Apple Music Built with Vue and Vuex

by philips4350 • 7 years ago

102 32 7 years ago

A random student’s portfolio piece offering nothing over https://beta.music.apple.com beside the use of a specific front end web ecosystem.

Latest commit X 8 months ago, 8 months from now.

tyingq• 7 years ago

I don't have Apple music, but the YouTube integration mentioned seems like something Apple wouldn't offer.

bauerd• 7 years ago

A random person's dismissive comment offering nothing besides negativity

philips43509• 7 years ago

Hi thanks for the feedback ! This is a personal project that i made to learn about css (sass) and vue. This is just something i made for fun and is not meant to replace apple's official website in any way. And i also wanted lyrics and youtube video integration, and genius api also has a really cool feature where you can select a part of a lyrics and it gives you really detailed description about that part, so i wanted a player with that feature built in. I dont think apple would implement something like that for legal reasons (?)

slipheen• 7 years ago

Someone created something that they thought was cool, and wanted to share it with their online community.

That's awesome, and I'm glad they did! Why give them a hard time for that?

Who's life are you improving with that comment?

munmaek• 7 years ago

Shallow and negative dismissal aside, if this project doesn’t randomly get stuck and force a refresh, that would be an improvement over beta.music.apple.com.

I regularly click on another song during a playlist only to have it just hang forever.

ubercow13• 7 years ago

Well one thing it offers is that the layout isn't broken, like Apples site's seems to be in my browser. Also in terms of basic functionality, you can search for a song name and click the album title to go to the whole album, which seems to be not possible on Apple's site. So that's something.

dang• 7 years ago

This comment breaks both the HN guidelines and the more specific guidelines for Show HN. Could you please read them and stick to the rules when posting? We're trying not to be the nasty sort of internet place here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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jph• 7 years ago

Thanks for sharing your learning!

This shows a good way to learn Vue, Sass, and how to integrate with YouTube and the Genius API for lyrics.

philips43509• 7 years ago

Thank you ! I had a lot of fun making it and im glad that you fell that way :)

Kiro• 7 years ago

Looking good. A few questions about the toolchain:

What do you use PostCSS for?

How are the the scss files actually compiled?

philips43509• 7 years ago

Thank you !

The scss files are compiled by webpack to normal css at build time using sass loader, I used vue-cli to automate the webpack configuration https://cli.vuejs.org/ process

Oh and the poss css file is just a leftover config file for a package that i decided not to use ( Ant Design )

tomhallett• 7 years ago

It’s always nice to see a full application as a reference (vs small snippets in docs/blogs), when you have those questions “I wonder how they solved this?”.

Thanks for putting this out there!!

philips43509• 7 years ago

Thank you for the kind words !

thomas536• 7 years ago

philips4350, can you say roughly how long it took you to build? Thanks!

philips43509• 7 years ago

It took me roughly 3 month to build if you count in the time it took to learn Vue but the project itself was made in about two months

ljm2• 7 years ago

I quite like Apple’s decision to expose a streaming API. I’m still a bit unsure about the terms and monetising any app you write over it, but it looks like a good way to get native Linux support and also add on things like Spotify style discovery.

The only thing stopping me switching is Spotify’s ability to show me music I might like. Apple mostly gives you the top hits.

kingosticks2• 7 years ago

Doesn't it only work in a browser? And so does that count as "native Linux support"?

saagarjha• 7 years ago

Maybe you can run it in a web view and put some native chrome over it?

ljm2• 7 years ago

They expose an API, you can write against it in Swift with the right libraries. No reason why you can't write against the same API in Linux using your language of choice.

Apple only provides bindings for Swift/JS/Obj-C though, so it'd be a bit of work.

AlphaWeaver• 7 years ago

Nice work here! Love me some Vue!

A friend of mine worked on a similar web player for Apple Music that got a lot of attention, Musish [0]. If I remember right, they were working on it before Apple released their web player. It's totally open source as well, so you might be able to take some inspiration from their work too!

[0] https://github.com/Musish/Musish

philips43509• 7 years ago

Thank you! Musish is what actually inspired me to create this project , its really awesome and i learned a great deal from it.

hereisdx• 7 years ago

Beautiful!

philips43509• 7 years ago

Thank you!

agumonkey2• 7 years ago

What are your favorite vue related readings ?

philips43509• 7 years ago

https://madewithvuejs.com/blog/vue-3-roundup

The articles mentioned here were very interesting, and im actually looking forward to Vue 3

agumonkey2• 7 years ago

thank you

zrules• 7 years ago

This looks good and functions very nicely. However, the playhead in the progress bar moves in discreet steps. It'd be better if its movement is smoother. the playhead inside https://beta.music.apple.com unfortunately behaves the same way.

philips43509• 7 years ago

Now that you point it out it does look kind of weird... Maybe be i should create a new component for the play progress which increments in very tiny scale. Thank you for the feedback!

ch_sm2• 7 years ago

The best way I’ve found is to update the DOM in an requestAnimationFrame loop, polling the Audio Element’s currentTime, since its events don’t fire reliably.

ch_sm2• 7 years ago

Very nice, thanks for sharing! One suggestion: music player applications benefit greatly from virtual scrolling, since lists of songs or albums can potentially be very, very long. Nonetheless, fantastic job!

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