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:

Trivial: The project should be developed in a straight-forward way that is easily understandable and accessible to new and old developers alike.

Malleable: The project should be structured in an easily extensible way, such that combined with the accessibility, users should feel empowered to add any features they want or need themselves.

Open: Do whatever you please with this project's source code, as it is licensed under a public domain-equivalent license (0BSD).

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

Metadata/tag editing

Sort-specific metadata

Loudness adjustment

Song ratings

Playlist folders

Long-Term

Smart playlists

File provider (iOS)

Exclude genres from shuffle except during X timeframe (for example, holiday songs)

Two-way sync with other devices

Music sharing over a local network

-- Response ended

-- Page fetched on Wed May 1 09:48:07 2024