I’ve loved iTunes since it came out on Windows for using with my old iPods for music organization and buying music (I loathe the idea of not “Owning” your collection like Spotify does). But it always pissed me off that iTunes was locked into Apple’s ecosystem and you couldn’t manage playlist uploads or music syncing with Android devices unless you used real sketchy OTA apps that never actually delivered on what they were supposed to do. I’ve been building my own alternative for about a month now using Tauri + Rust to fill in that niche I have since I moved 99% of my computer usage to Linux now. The app itself is pretty stable and comes with the most important features I currently want (playlist support, iTunes music library imports, smart playlists, playback of HQ music files like FLAC, album display, etc.). I’m now moving on to working on good cross-platform MTP support for syncing playlists and music files to Android smart phones and DACs with a focus on not needing to compress media files and ruin sound quality to get them onto systems. If you’re interested in a free music player that does more work for you for album arrangement, check it out! https://github.com/quinnjr/tuxtunes submitted by /u/illuser
Originally posted by u/illuser on r/ClaudeCode