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From the depths of the abyss it returns! Spent WAY more time researching open source music streaming applications! I went through it all just like the rest of you with RiMusic and Kreate and Metrolist. What eluded me was just one that didn't crash and lose connection, didn't run on a YT account and was privacy oriented. It took so much I'm not going to bother trying to unpack all of that time I'll never get back.

Anyways, what sets this ViMusic apart from Kreate and Metrolist is that this ViMusic runs on a piped account. So it's cloaked and super stable. I've tested it for hours now and not one crash. Audio quality is at the highest setting it can establish.

Did you miss ViMusic? What music app and configuration are you running?

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[–] xep@discuss.online 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

OuterTube is awesome! I tried it and LOVED its interface. I feel like it had the most fun interface but it crashed a few times on me and Metrolist won out. Then of course, I found ViMusic. I'd try for Outer Tune again but Vi is the only one built to use Piped instances instead of YT Music.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Never heard of this; already love it.
Thank you.

[–] Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you for taking the time to check it out! Signing up for a piped account was tricky for me. Let me grab you the link to register for the instance then sign into that in the settings in ViMusic. Also disable power saving options and if you have issues then enable invincible mode. https://piped.private.coffee/ Took me a while to figure that out and find it. Welcome to true music anonymity!

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it actually back? I know I used it or a fork for a while and it just stopped working.

[–] Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't believe this is the same original developer. But this is definitely ViMusic and the only one I found that is based on piped account instead of YT.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cool. Is it only on github or is there a repo for fdroud or something similar?

[–] Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] phonics@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Says its the final release in august. So wonder how long it will live. Perhaps it was back and left again?

[–] Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

They're keeping a more constant one going as a mod all through lite apk's and 9mod. This one didn't run so stable for me. Be sure to install the one called clone. Through the Spotify clone app I was linked to the official github for the actual new ViMusic. https://9mod.com/download/spotify-x-gold-43447

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I used it a lot until it stopped working (presumably because Google broke something), then RiMusic but that had broken queue saving, forgetting the queue randomly.

Now I use Metrolist

[–] Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Metrolist is my backup player incase something happens to ViMusic. Metrolist has solid quality and beautiful interface and really stable. But Vi is just perfect. But if Metrolist is working for you then dont fix what isn't broken.

[–] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't believe Harmony is based on Piped. Doesn't it base off a YT account? I tried it. I tried them all.

[–] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

No idea actually, but for me works with no issues