Last Updated on July 13, 2021
Summary
There are native players for Linux and Windows. And if you’re not using either operating system, there’s the web site which offers similar functionality.
Initial impressions of the native player are good. I like the interface, the playlists are beautifully implemented, and it’s not too much of a memory hog bearing in mind the web-technologies used. The JavaScript errors when trying to connect accounts for YouTube and Deezer (I’ve not tried SoundCloud) were disappointing. They occur both when running the native player in Linux and Windows.
Features are in short supply. And there’s absolutely no documentation. But I’ll be keeping an eye on developments.
We’ve contacted one of the developers and the project is considering publishing the source code or releasing some/all of the components under an open source license. We’ll await developments in this regard. Without access to the source code, there’s nothing we can do to help the software move forward.
Website: ampi.co
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Developer: Alexander Zarges, SchulzKai, Nicolas Drebenstedt
License: Closed source
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Also look at MusikWave – fully open source, streams from youtube and indexes from last.fm
Yes, that’s on my radar to cover. I write about open source and proprietary software.
For everyone else, to recap, YouTube music streamers I’ve written about recently include:
Before looking at more YouTube players, there’s lots of general music players that you could look. How about Pragha and Museeks? Pragha is a fairly lightweight music player that is written in C and fully integrates with GTK+3. It supports Last.fm. Museeks is Electron based and in early development but it’s pretty darn good.
Just my 2c
I think I’ve had my quota of Electron based music software for a while, but there’s an article due for Pragha in a few weeks (subject to editorial approval).