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CLUSTER DESKTOP-MUSIC-APPLE · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2023-07-07

Apple Music desktop clients

This cluster covers desktop clients and integrations that bring Apple Music to Linux and macOS, including GNOME desktop integration, Discord presence, and iPod library management. The dated history before the index start shows sporadic entries in 2023, a single entry in late 2025, and a small cluster of five entries in mid-2026. Among tracked members, cadence leads on traction with 60 stars, followed by platter with 10 and refrain with 0.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2023: 1SEP 2023: 1MAY 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1JUL 2026: 2AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1
JUL 2023SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 1 indie · 6 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01ZenPod11★17 days—hobbyDesktop app that manages iPod classic and Rockbox devices on Windows and macOS, syncing music and album art without iTunes.
  2. 02platter9★1 mo—indieDesktop app that manages an iPod's music library, including album art and tags, without requiring the original syncing software.
  3. 03slipmat0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop client for Apple Music that integrates with the GNOME desktop environment.
  4. 04sidra-bin0★28 daysliveopen sourceA Linux desktop client that provides access to Apple Music and streams audio content.
  5. 05Cider0★2 molivehand-codedopen sourceOpen-source desktop app for streaming Apple Music with social integrations, themes, plugins, and advanced audio features.
  6. 06cider-20★4 moliveopen sourceA paid desktop music application that provides an alternative interface for listening to Apple Music content.
  7. 07apple-music-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop app that provides a native Apple Music experience.
  8. 08apple-music-electron-bin0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceOpen source alternative to iTunes for Apple Music on desktop.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.