Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

srid 9/3/2025|

There is a whole bunch of them here:

merelysounds 9/4/2025||

I’m surprised I didn’t see royalty free music as a default source; e.g. jamendo offers an API with a free tier for non commercial apps[1]. Then again, there is a way to add custom sources, perhaps that would work anyway.

[1]: https://developer.jamendo.com/v3.0

victor22 9/4/2025||

I haven't been excited about downloading free music sofware since winamp/soulseek era. Yes, I am ancient. Please don't let me down.

eek2121 9/3/2025||

Spotube is a much better alternative IMO: https://spotube.krtirtho.dev/

UncleSlacky 9/4/2025|

It hasn't worked for me (in terms of accessing my Spotify account) for several months now, I wonder if Spotify have changed their API?

twothreeone 9/5/2025||

Because the dev received a cease and desist letter from Spotify and got their API key banned: https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube

Same thing will most likely happen here too, it's just a matter of time / number of users.

4d4m 9/3/2025||

As a musician I support this. Works great.

jesprenj 9/4/2025||

if it just downloads from youtube and is just a browser, i'll just continue using http://music.youtube.com/ with sponsorblock and ublock origin.

cocodill 9/3/2025||

I just can't get to grips with the UI. It's so bad, cluttered, and unintuitive.

dartharva 9/3/2025||

I fail to grasp what utility this has over a browser window with the music site open

vachina 9/3/2025|

Server side scraping vs. client side scraping.

willywanker 9/5/2025|

They have a pre-emptive defense of Electron linked to, that others have refered to here. The criticism of Electron apps isn't merely RAM or sluggishness - it's the modern tendency to completely shit on mature, established, efficient and muscle memory based desktop UI/UX conventions that have been around for decades.

I don't see what this offers over Clementine on Linux - it offers complete local music collection (remember that?) management as well as adding streaming sources & Last.fm integration in a sane, desktop focused UI like there once existed.

No gigantic fonts and icons and wasted space that's more served for a mobile UI, and all that before the idiocy of using Javascript as a hammer for every damn thing instead of what it originally was as a means to add some interactivity to a webpage.

Then again, modern devs don't seem to care about the actual end user experience, this person essentially claims Electron is superior because Javascript and frameworks based on it are all he knows or cares to learn.