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🎵🔉 A mini Spotify player with WebGL visualizations.

18 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 4 stories, 14 comments · first 2019-01-29 · latest 2025-11-11

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  1. …for "complicated" or "weird" things. For example, I curiously ran it on one of my OSS projects: https://github.com/dvx/lofi It's a cute little Electron-based mini Spotify player that gets maybe like 200 users a day and has 1.3k stars on…
  2. Ran it on a "real" OSS project of mine ( https://github.com/dvx/lofi/ ), and it was stuck at 99% loading for about 30 minutes. Then, when it finally parsed the codebase, when asked anything it always returns "Error: Internal error while…
  3. …small footprint named as an advantage instead: > Design goals > ≤ 100MB memory footprint [0] https://github.com/dvx/lofi#design-goals
    comment by app4soft · 2023-03-09 · in Show HN: Lofi, a Tiny Spotify Player
  4. > a Tiny Spotify Player Grab 80 Mbytes binary.[0] [0] https://github.com/dvx/lofi/releases/tag/v1.6.1
    comment by app4soft · 2023-03-09 · in Show HN: Lofi, a Tiny Spotify Player
  5. Maybe because the initial commit was in January 2019: https://github.com/dvx/lofi/commit/caf81d949d4c7d5177507139f...
    comment by hbcondo714 · 2023-03-09 · in Show HN: Lofi, a Tiny Spotify Player
  6. …they are actually "music videos" in the JSON payload). It's like podcasts don't even exist. [1] https://github.com/dvx/lofi/
  7. Don't mean to hijack this thread, but I built out a mini Spotify player with visualization support: https://github.com/dvx/lofi Even had a few folks contribute a couple of neat visualizations[1] :) PS: Visualizations were unfortunately…
  8. This is awesome! Will try to add it to the next release of https://github.com/dvx/lofi
  9. Anecdotal, but I maintain a mildly popular Spotify player ( https://github.com/dvx/lofi ) which needs a similar flow for OAuth authentication. I've never had an issue created or complaint about the Windows Firewall popup.
  10. …I tried implementing FFT last year in one of my open-source projects[1] (key word: tried ). [1] https://github.com/dvx/lofi/commit/285bf80ff6d7f0784c14270de...
  11. …used all the time (also happens to be fairly idiomatic) when dealing with Redux, MobX, etc. [1] https://github.com/dvx/lofi/blob/master/src/renderer/compone...
    comment by dvt · 2020-01-03 · in C++ Pattern Matching Proposal [pdf]
  12. …idea so much, I made it an issue on a the Lofi repo -- a somewhat popular Spotify player I built: https://github.com/dvx/lofi/issues/37 I'll work on it when I can get a bit of free time.
  13. …addressed (mostly dealing with graphics/transparency issues) before it's ready for prime time. [1] https://github.com/dvx/lofi/issues/6
  14. …is welcome. Download it by going here: http://www.lofi.rocks/ MIT-licensed source code here: https://github.com/dvx/lofi