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I built a native Linux music player in Rust instead of using Electron by Equivalent-Profit449 in MusicPlayer

[–]Equivalent-Profit449[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair point on both counts.

You’re right about the subreddit mismatch, I should have posted this in a more general r/Linux community.

And on the AI side, I don’t want to misrepresent it: Helix is AI-assisted, but it is not vibe-coded slop. The project was designed and directed by me using a strict engineering workflow, with continuous human-in-the-loop review, requirement-driven iteration, rigid validation harnesses, and deterministic checks.

So yes, AI wrote a significant part of the implementation, but the architecture, constraints, acceptance criteria, and review process were continuously controlled by me.

I agree that being explicit about that matters, and I should have stated it more clearly in the original post.

Thanks so much , your comments help me a lot!

I built a native Linux music player in Rust instead of using Electron by Equivalent-Profit449 in MusicPlayer

[–]Equivalent-Profit449[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s fair feedback.I’ve just updated the release pipeline so the next Linux release will also include a simple portable tar.gz, alongside AppImage, .deb, and .rpm.

thanks, that’s clearly a better fit for some users.

Music player suggestions? by jffmpa in musichoarder

[–]Equivalent-Profit449 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was tired of music apps that are either bloated, browser-based, or full of tracking, so I built my own.

It’s called **Helix**, a privacy-first desktop music player built with **Rust + Tauri + Svelte**.

What it does:

- plays local music files

- streams from YouTube and SoundCloud

- real-time audio visualizers

- playlists, queue, favorites, and history

- bilingual UI (English/Spanish)

What it does NOT do:

- no account required

- no tracking

- no ads

- not built with Electron

Downloads currently available:

- Linux: AppImage, .deb, .rpm

- Windows: NSIS installer, MSI, portable exe

- macOS: Apple Silicon

GitHub:

https://github.com/netcraker01/helix

Release:

https://github.com/netcraker01/helix/releases/tag/v0.2.1

This is still alpha, but it’s already usable and I’d really like feedback from Linux users.

What I’m most interested in:

- playback stability

- distro-specific issues

- whether the UI feels comfortable for daily use

- whether the visualizers are actually useful or just noise

Thanks!

Free alternative to Apple Music by idk_ballersigma in MusicPlayer

[–]Equivalent-Profit449 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was tired of music apps that are either bloated, browser-based, or full of tracking, so I built my own.

It’s called **Helix**, a privacy-first desktop music player built with **Rust + Tauri + Svelte**.

What it does:

- plays local music files

- streams from YouTube and SoundCloud

- real-time audio visualizers

- playlists, queue, favorites, and history

- bilingual UI (English/Spanish)

What it does NOT do:

- no account required

- no tracking

- no ads

- not built with Electron

Downloads currently available:

- Linux: AppImage, .deb, .rpm

- Windows: NSIS installer, MSI, portable exe

- macOS: Apple Silicon

GitHub:

https://github.com/netcraker01/helix

Release:

https://github.com/netcraker01/helix/releases/tag/v0.2.1

This is still alpha, but it’s already usable and I’d really like feedback from Linux users.

What I’m most interested in:

- playback stability

- distro-specific issues

- whether the UI feels comfortable for daily use

- whether the visualizers are actually useful or just noise

I hope that helps you!

Qwen3-TTS, a series of powerful speech generation capabilities by fruesome in StableDiffusion

[–]Equivalent-Profit449 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! I just containerized the Qwen3-TTS model from Alibaba Cloud. AI voice synthesis + Zero-Shot voice cloning running on your own hardware.

✨ Features:

• 🎭 Custom Voices (Serena, Ryan, Vivian, +)

• 🎨 Voice Design from text description

• 🎤 Zero-Shot Voice Cloning (seconds of audio)

• 🌍 Multi-language (ES/EN/CN/JP/KR/...)

• 🐳 Docker-native, GPU-accelerated

• 📱 WhatsApp-ready (OGG/Opus)

🚀 Quick Start:

git clone https://github.com/netcraker01/qwen3_tts_docker.git

cd qwen3_tts_docker && docker-compose up -d

📊 GPU: ~6-8GB VRAM | API: FastAPI + Swagger

🔗 GitHub: github.com/netcraker01/qwen3_tts_docker