Caesura


Caesura is a jukebox-style music player app I plan to write for Apple platforms (iOS/macOS) meant to recapture the magic of iTunes 4-era music players on modern devices/operating systems.


You can find the (currently empty) source code repository here on Codeberg.


Rationale


iTunes has always been a polarizing piece of software. You either really hated it, or it was so resonant with how you personally wanted to manage your music that nothing else really ever came close to competing with it. I adored iTunes, and I think the 4.x version cycle may be the best music player software ever made.


As mainstream music consumption shifted towards streaming services over the last decade, iTunes would become more and more hostile to users preferring to use an offline, hand-curated music library, in favor of pushing people towards Apple Music subscriptions.


Caesura is not trying to reinvent music listening. It's just trying to offer a modern-day take on iTunes 4-era music player software across all of Apple's platforms. It will probably be just as polarizing as iTunes originally was, but that's exactly what I want, and that's what I'm going to make.


A Trivial Technology


Caesura is an experiment in adhering to the principles of trivial technologies. In practical terms, this means:



Find out more about trivial technologies here.


Release History


None yet.


Feature Wishlist


Near-Term


* Music library
  * Add tracks to library (import)
  * Remove tracks from library
  * Sorting options
  * Keyword search
  * Playback from within the music library
* Playlist management
  * Create a playlist
  * Delete a playlist
  * Renaming playlists
  * Add/remove tracks to playlists
  * Reordering tracks in a playlist
  * Persisting playlists to disk
* Playing a music queue
  * Play/pause buttons
  * Previous/next track buttons

Mid-Term



Long-Term




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