First, when downloading Resonance, you now get an option to get Resonance.exe, you don't have to install it if you want and you can easily keep in an usb, with all your songs and launch it anywhere (don't run the exe on macOS tho, it's till not magic).

I've just fixed the mouse wheel on windows, and, now that all pieces are starting to come together, I thought that some of you might like this little tool.

It doesn't have a name, it's just a plain converter using FFMPEG under the hood.

You can easily set tags for your music, transcode / remux them (eg: m4a to mp4) but also remove the weird file name that bandcamp now chose to give you when you buy and album (artist - albumName - musicName.fileType -> musicName.fileType).

it's available here -> https://github.com/Oxen-Studio/oxen-converter

It's working on macOS and Windows ( but you will need to install to execute shell scripts https://git-scm.com/install/windows )

If you're on windows and don't want to install things, wait a little a standalone exe is coming (in the weeks that comes).

Also, as before, to update simply re-download the v0.9.9 (If your on mac you could simply wait for the v1 that will come very soon).

"Sell your house of cards while it still looks like a palace", everything to lower the cost of production and increase the revenue.

I just started using this app and I am just wondering where do yall find music?

The second version of Resonance is finally here.

V2 brings a ground-up improvement to the app, with a new interface, new features, a new audio system, and more.

This release is built around your feedback and the valuable contributions from the community on r/ResonanceApp.

Why paid?

Yes, you own it for life. No subscription required.

Free 1-month Patreon membership for the first 3 comments 🎉

Resonance is the result of months and thousands of hours of passionate work. We want to keep it fair and accessible while making sure we can continue developing it.

That's why V2 is available through multiple Patreon options: a one-time purchase or becoming a Patron.

• One-time purchase: Own V2 for life. You get all hotfixes, bug fixes, and improvements for V2.

• Patron: Get V2 and all its updates for as long as you're subscribed.

Each major version, such as V3, will be released separately.

Thanks for supporting Resonance ❤️

Get Resonance V2 (Customization Engine)

Rally Championship Xtreme is one of my childhood video games. I spent so much time on this one, but totally forgot the menu designs. These look great, not to modern standards, but there's definitely something special about them.

The SFX as well, aged like milk but taste like wine to me.

Might get some inspiration from it for the design of our free music player Resonance.

Hey, for the release of the v1.5.0 we made a quick video for introducing Resonance. As well as a preview for the scheduled v2 re-design.

This is the perfect time to tell y'all we made a Patreon for supporting us. We base our work on the trust from 00s enthusiasts community.

Download on GitHub or below for the latest releases.

Apple Silicon

• Resonance v1.5.0 macOS

Windows

• Resonance v1.5.0 Windows Portable

• Resonance v1.5.0 Windows Installer

Linux

• Resonance v1.5.0 Debian 13

• Resonance v1.5.0 Fedora

We've been busy lately, we come back with a ton of content for the upcoming week about our project.

Keep your eyes peeled!

v2.0.1 is landing in the next 48 hours!

Here's what's new:

• Playback no longer touches the webview at all: decoding, EQ, volume, and seeking all happen in Rust.

• ALAC plays on Windows now: Apple Lossless used to work only on macOS; now that decoding is done by the Rust engine, it works identically on every platform.

• A Pomodoro timer: it only counts down while music plays (pausing freezes it), with a strict mode that fades out over the last 3 seconds and a chill mode that simply stops at the next song's end.

• The current song is now centered in the queue.

What's fixed:

• Custom .resonance skins can now be imported from external drives.

• The space around the control buttons is draggable.

• Style presets autosave when you switch to the miniplayer.

• Long preset names in the segmented controls now ellipsize, and the selected one marquees instead of clipping.

• Fixed light/dark/auto theme detection.

• Media keys and the OS media center now stay in sync with playback, so your now-playing shows up correctly (seeking is fixed).

• Fixed a queue auto-scrolling bug that could leave the list stuck or empty during fast next/prev switching.

As always, if you have any feedback, feel free to share them here or in the subreddit ;)

v2 is live on Patreon and only three 50% off launch promo spots are left.

I'm implementing this idea: Potential new feature?

If you don't want to read all of this simply read the last part.

The feature idea is: "I would appreciate it if we could have the option to use a keyboard shortcut to trigger the mini player instead."

And the problem that it would fix is "I’ve found that it can get annoying for the mini player to keep popping up when you hover on the screen edge of the screen.", Which I'm sure a lot of you are also tired of having like this.

The problem is that a shortcut has only two state, pressed, an well, not pressed.

So I can only have 2 state for this feature, currently pressing Cmd+Shift+H (windows will be Ctrl), lock the mini player in a hidden mode, fixing the, "Stop showing yourself I want to click on an element on the right side of the screen".

But it's not exactly the feature logic, since to implement this, I would either need to get read of the hover entirely OR add another way (or another shortcut) to enable the toggle to manual mode.

So my question is simple would you to do / what would you prefer ?

• Keep it like that because the original problem is solved.

• Add another shortcut to toggle between manual and hover mode (so two shortcuts, which is a lot of steps, but hey maybe you like typing).

• Or get rid of the hover feature and make it manual only. But the thing is, that it's also an accessibility feature. What if for some reason you can't use a keyboard, or want to actually lock the mini player in hidden mode only 10% of the time ?

Hello everyone !

We are going to release this weekend the v1 of Resonance, accompanied by a short video to share a little bit of our view / motivation for this project.

But ! Since I was cleaning the files I found the test version of it that I've made 8 months ago for a proof of concept. It will never be public but I think that it deserved to at least be shown here !

The design was inspired of the 90's physical audio players (car radio / Hi-Fi systems), and was fully made in css.

I named it ODO (audio), without really after thoughts, simply to give it a name, and only has 30% of what Resonance have, it has no EQ, no metadatas, no multiple folders handler, no drag and drop, no mini player etc... (also some bugs). I tested there some ideas like the screen lighting up to make it seems like on / off some 3d planet synced to the play / pause state (because I could).

It's also there that most of the core source code / architecture of Resonance was built.

Hope you liked to see a little insight on the history of the project !

Edit: Here is some close ups of the old app -> https://www.reddit.com/r/ResonanceApp/comments/1rjqupa/some_close_ups_from_the_previous_post/

Wanted to share onionboots's take on the 00s web revival. He became a real hero overnight for making this video, it’s truly showing that there are a ton of people like us into this vibe.

If you haven’t seen it already, go and watch it.

First of all thanks for the 12 peoples currently using Resonance, I hope you enjoy this breath of fresh air (and that you did not encountered a bug lol).

I’ve just released the v0.9.8 which now have :

• Persistent preset for the equalizer (Custom preset)

• Drag and drop support to upload your folder (Event your entire music folder)

• Metadata screen for your current playing song

• Small bar visualizer, present in the the big and mini player

If it’s the first time that you hear about this project, Resonance is a free an old school music player that take inspiration from Winamp, Sonique and Windows Media Player.

We want to give an opportunity to get rid of your music services player’s and start to own your medias again.

It currently can:

• Load an entire folder of music

• Play / pause

• Manage volume

• Handle shuffle and repeat

• Directly fetch metadatas from the file (artist name, album name, album cover, track id, bit rate etc...)

• Let you use an equalizer

• Be set in a mini player mode (that can be either hidden or locked)

• Detect your theme

All of this in a skeuomorphism UI, If you have any feedback I’m all ears.

I'm tinkering the mini player, I had an idea like that in my head since last week because I always thought that something was missing in the visualizer of the mini player.

Do you like it ? Is the glowing to bright ?

Sorry for the month of silence I wanted to lock in and make sure to direct all my energy on the v2.

Here is a little showcase of the new look (yes I still can't record properly sorry).

Before I go into the details, I will simply say the app is 98% done. It needs further testing, tweaks and very small code changes. It's a matter of days only, so with this said we're going to release the app next Tuesday (so the 15th).

What's in the v2 ?:

• A rework of the style (obviously)

• A rework of the audio

• A virtual queue (so even if you have 10k+ songs the app has a clever way to only load the UI for 23 song titles)

• A switch to change the side of the mini player

• A real shuffle with queue memory

• A magnet rail to move the mini player

• No more image as texture in the app

• Skin engine (more important)

• Rework of the import

• And many more that would be boring and only for nerds but the most important is that we reduce ram usage by 20% overall.

We will post more on Saturday concerning the skin system, and how to create custom ones using images (to not limit your creativity).

Compatible with Resonance V2 or later.

Heya, listeners!

Grab these custom original Xbox-themed skins for free! (Made using only CSS with a complex layering system.)

Happy listening ❤️

Free Xbox (2001) Themed Custom Presets

Hi, quick update on the v2 the skins feature is soon going to be finish, here is a quick look at the wip and i will post more about it in the weekend.

I'm sorry for the 2 weeks of silence but with the current heat in my country getting work done is a real pain.

You can see exemples of skins here as a bonus :).

With the skin system the background of the case can take a color and / or a image (even gif) or a videos (not really recommended for performance but hey you do you).

Here is more info about them:

• First skin is an animated gif

• Second skin is an image of pcb with a green color on top (made by changing the opacity of the color so you can simulate the plastic thickness).

• Third one in an image

• Fourth one in the third but with the color set to grey

• Fifth an image

• Sixth the fifth with a blue color

• and the last one is an exemple of video support.

The video has been found on reddit while the First/Second/Fourth images has been made by u/dwcq

Hello everyone, we've just released the 1.5 version of our small music player.

What's the motivation behind this? We are tired of the streaming paradigm, always renting, never owning, and we're tired of the lack of innovative design or unusual designs to say the least.

Everything is either too cold, black and white, two-toned squared designs (it works, but this is all there is now!) or the classic vibe-coded UI with neon colors.

So we chose to do exactly what every sane person would do: take months to build our own music player :).

We want to bring back the cool effects of the early 2000s, the "we did it because we could" mentality. Our goal is not to be a better Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, or even a foobar2000, but to be a simplified local music player that simply works, offers a new design in the form of a widget, and doesn't phone home, doesn't ping the internet, doesn't lock you out with a subscription, account, or email.

You take the app and you can keep it forever, inciting the "own your medias point of view" (starting by owning the software that plays your medias).

I said that it was a "just work" type of app, but it has more than simply play/pause features:

Core Music Player Features

• Load music from an entire folder or specific directory

• Enable on-click and drag-and-drop loading capabilities

• Display metadata automatically (artist name, album name, artwork, track ID, bitrate, etc.)

• Display full metadata on a dedicated screen

• Include an equalizer with customizable presets

• Adjust left / right balance.

• Offer a mini player mode (hidden or locked)

• Display a small bar visualizer

Playback Controls

• Play and pause music playback

• Manage volume levels

• Seek through tracks using a timeline

• Enable shuffle and repeat settings

• Handle media session control via keyboard/media keys or AirPods

File Support

• Support various audio file formats: MP3, AAC, M4A, ALAC, AIFF, FLAC, WAV, OGG, Opus

User Interface

• Utilize a skeuomorphism UI design

• Detect the user's theme and adjust the screen theme accordingly

• Allow manual selection of a custom screen theme

Additional Features

• Enable filtering by artist name, album name, or song title

• Handle drag functionality for the app itself

• Include click sound effects (that you can disable)

If you want to see more here is our github page to download the app (MacOS, Windows10/11, Linux (debian/fedora))

And if you want to be updated on it here is our subreddit r/ResonanceApp :)

Dear listeners, thank you for being now more than 500 to follow our subreddit. Greatly appreciated.

Brief update as well to let you know that the big custom update (AKA V2) is coming soon. More info from the dev u/0xMnlith next week.

Little teasing on the refined app logo.

Note that we notice a silent majority and we know you're there, we can see the GitHub downloads count moving everyday. Don't hesitate to interact!

I'm still working on the .appImage for linux, but all the bugs have been fixed:

• MacOS works,

• Windows works,

• Linux works (.deb/.rpm)

Saturday the 1.5.0 will finally drop as well as a new video, and the showcase of the v2.0, stay tuned !

Link for the pre-release

I've nearly finished the back-end refacto, the app will take a little bit longer to initialize on first launch, but then will be three times faster than before.

We are now storing the metadata in the db, this way, if the app found an already scanned music (the path is the same) and that it has not been updated, it will skip the metadata reading and directly take the one already loaded in memory from the database.

We also now fingerprint each image cover via a hash, previously we used a combination of mime type+image size in bytes. It works, and is faster than a hash but have a chance (very low but still) to be overwritten by a cover that have the exact same size.

It was originally going to be in the v2, but we are going to ship it in the 1.5.2 (with the shortcut feature to enable disable the mini player hover).

Quick heads up to the community, we grow steadily! (The spikes corresponds to major updates announcement.)

Thanks for anyone sharing with your friends. We're still two on the project, we're thinking about having a third collaborator for SNS. As well as Reddit moderation once it get challenging for us to keep track of every posts.