CLUSTER MUSIC-DESKTOP-ONLINE · 25 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-02-12
Hybrid desktop music players
This cluster consists of desktop music players that combine local library playback with streaming from online services (YouTube, Spotify, VK, or free sources) and often include lyrics, scrobbling, and offline downloads. Dated entries before the index start are sporadic, with single appearances in Feb 2017, Jul 2017, Feb 2022, Jul 2023, Mar 2025, Jul 2025, and Jun 2026, indicating no clear trend. Traction leaders are meliora (3 stars), black-wave (2 stars), and spotify-clone-offline (0 stars).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
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 · 2 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled
Operator · 5 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21spotube-nightly-bin0★11 mostaleliveopen sourceMusic player for desktop and mobile that streams songs from online sources and supports playlists.
- 22headset-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop music player that streams music from online services and organizes playlists for listeners.
- 23Clementine Music Player0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop music player that plays local audio files and internet radio, with support for streaming services and podcasts.
- 24Moosync0★unknownliveopen sourceCustomizable desktop music player that merges local files with streaming service libraries, offering lyrics, scrobbling, recommendations, and an extension API.
- 25meridius-bin-git-electron0★1 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceA music player for VK social network that streams audio, built with Electron and Vue.js.
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.