Feature Request - Add Desktop Variant

[JosephSanjaya]

Hi team,

I’m a big fan of your media player, but I’m disappointed to see that it’s only available for mobile devices. I use a desktop media player all the time, like Spotube, and I would love to see a desktop version of your app to ensure consistent user experiences.

[MSOB7YY]

not so easy, lots of parts were implemented only for Android

1. newpipe_extractor which powers YouTube section replaced by youtipie [MAIN] Youtube Re-Implementation (with Login Support) #227
2. waveform_extractor (may be implemented using ffmpeg) done in waveform_extractor_windows.dart
3. faudiotagger which reads/edit audio tags
   (can be replaced with ffmpeg but too much work) done in tags_extractor_windows.dart
4. folders structure tree, optimized for android
5. some other minor parts
6. then you got the ui adaptation which would be massive

i can't say it's impossible but it's not a priority and may or may not come one day

if you are looking for a good music player on desktop, check out Harmonoid, an elegant one

[MSOB7YY]

update: package:ffmpeg_kit is currently not supported for windows, which increases the impossibility of a desktop version

IOS on the other hand might be easier, if there was a good alternative for newpipe extractor

[samtabareh]

Are there any other good desktop alternatives that are similar to Namida?

[MSOB7YY]

@samtabareh didnt find any similar to namida but harmonoid is a great one

[plutonium-239]

Hi @MSOB7YY, thanks for v4.8.6 and namida in general!

I've been tracking windows support for some time and was hopeful since v4.7.2 mentioned it in the patch notes too. Is there an alpha binary that we can try? I couldn't find one in the namida-snapshots repo. I tried cmakeing the windows folder but ran into problems.

[MSOB7YY]

@plutonium-239 heyo
windows support has still much work to do, currently namida opens on windows and plays audio but its far from being usable. there are many things, im slowly getting back to focus on windows support now

stuff that is left

• ui redesigns to support dynamic/wide window size
• video playback
• folders navigation logic
• webview login
• notifications (media notification & normal notifications)
• and probably more

will consider releasing alpha ofc after it becomes quite usable

ur cmake is failing bcz of #37

[plutonium-239]

I see there were multiple commits regarding windows including 6898ac0, after all of these is there any build I can download? Even gh actions asset would do lol

[C0C0B01]

I see there were multiple commits regarding windows including 6898ac0, after all of these is there any build I can download? Even gh actions asset would do lol

Hi! I am not the developer just aware of the plans, currently most of it is functioning with missing video support, youtube being a bit odd and a few other issues. however the main issue is trying to make a good UI which is currently in the works.

[MSOB7YY]

@plutonium-239 as @ C0C0B01 said, it works but its still far from being usable, major issues is video playback, webview login & ui redesigns.
(also sql is not behaving consistently all the time)

these things can take quite a while , i will try to accelerate things and do alpha for u

[plutonium-239]

take your time!

for the sql part, if you're using sqlite then i faced inconsistency problems once when connection pooling over multiple threads - really don't know about this repo but I'm just speaking words into the abyss

again, thanks a lot!

[MSOB7YY]

@plutonium-239 that might actually be it but nah idk
i will keep investigating and thank u too <3