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Petrichor is a native music player for macOS. It plays almost any format and keeps your library organized based on track metadata, integrates well with rest of macOS and offers a ton of features that are mostly found only in streaming music players.
I spent the last year building Petrichor, an offline music player for macOS, the kind of player I would want to use, and the kind that didn’t exist on the platform. It is the only thing I work on during my weekends when I’m sitting at my desk, and I’m proud of what Petrichor has managed to achieve in the past year.
Although I never shared about it here on Product Hunt as I felt that in early days, app lacked the features and polish worthy to be shared on PH, but now it is closest to what I envisioned so here I'm sharing about it. Be sure to give it a try, and if you like it, a star on GitHub, or sponsoring the project would help!
Love how it pulls metadata to keep things tidy, and the deep macOS integration is exactly what I want from a local player. One thing that would make it a daily driver for me is a proper smart playlist builder, similar to what iTunes had, where you can combine multiple rules with AND/OR logic and save them.
Finally a local music player that feels like it belongs on macOS instead of being a port. Loved how the library sorted my messy metadata automatically, and the gapless playback actually worked on FLAC.
A Scrobbles integration with Last.fm would be amazing for tracking listening history. Also a smart playlist builder based on criteria like genre, year, or play count would put Petrichor right up there with the streaming apps in terms of dynamic library curation.
As someone who has a pretty chaotic local library with nested folders, a built-in duplicate finder and tag editor would be a huge win. Most native players force you to use an external app to clean things up before you even import, so having that handled right inside Petrichor would save a ton of time.
the way it organizes everything around metadata instead of folders feels so much more natural, especially paired with that clean macOS-native look. nice work
About Petrichor on Product Hunt
“An offline macOS music player”
Petrichor was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 11 upvotes and 8 comments, placing #61 on the daily leaderboard. Petrichor is a native music player for macOS. It plays almost any format and keeps your library organized based on track metadata, integrates well with rest of macOS and offers a ton of features that are mostly found only in streaming music players.
Petrichor was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Music (53.5k followers), Open Source (68.6k followers) and GitHub (41.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 57.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Petrichor?
Petrichor was hunted by Kushal Pandya. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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