Title: Hi HN—<p>I&#x27;ve been chewing on different side project ideas and I&#x27;ve become fixated on creating an alternative Apple Music player.<p>I spend ~10h a day (or more!) at my desktop, mostly coding and listening to music. And iTunes, my primary music player and browser, is awful -- bloated, slow, and tied to an ecosystem of hardware music players that&#x27;s basically irrelevant to how I listen now.<p>I want to build a new, minimal Apple Music client that lets you play everything from AM with a clean, attractive interface, and consumes minimal resources.<p>Some potential features&#x2F;additions:
- Daily&#x2F;weekly links to reviews from AllMusic, Pitchfork, NYTimes, etc, so you can listen to albums alongside the reviews
- Better sorting and organization of albums in iTunes -- eliminate duplicates&#x2F;remasters, categorize into &quot;real&quot; albums vs EPs and compilations, etc
- Social features that don&#x27;t suck, based on your existing social networks (email, twtr, fb, etc)
- Better recommendations by artist, album, genre, etc
- TimeHop-style features for music from different years<p>Anyone else have this problem with iTunes? Any thoughts&#x2F;feedback?
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