Subscribe
Sign in
Plug Two — Lightweight OS X player for Hype Machine
24
Replies
@fascinated @rrhoover Make a small donation to the hypem team if you can! https://hypem.com/support-us $6 bucks a month, or $75 gets you swag
Never knew about this app, but Hype Machine has got to be one of sites I've used consistently for the longest time. Going on 10 years i think. This will help me listen more :)
Love the design, and the app is super fast. Might be going crazy but I swear the sound from Plug is better than hypem on web.
So far nothing I've found is as enjoyable as a Fluid created app for desktop. Really like the see track stats, friends that loved it, and which blogs posted within the feed.
Big of fan of this so far. UI is clean and attractive. Also allows for lists to play continuously, which doesn't happen on the WebApp.
This seems so cool! I love HypeM - would be really nice to have a quick play option on my desktop. Unfortunately the latest version seems to be crashing every time I try to open it 😕
@danielmatthews Hey Dan, are you on the OS X beta? We've had some reports of issues on 10.11.2.
@alex_marchant @danielmatthews Hey Alex, thanks for the quick response! I could've sworn I removed the newest beta but you nailed it. 10.11.2. Shoot!
@danielmatthews :) Looks like an OS X bug, trying to figure out a workaround for beta users.
@danielmatthews Got an update available that will fix the issue. Please download here: www.plugformac.com
I already liked Plug but Plug Two is even better. :) Great job @alex_marchant The design is beautiful and is perfect with OS X El Capitan. One thing I find really different is the fact that album cover are not displayed. Why did you choose to change that ?
I discovered Plug for the first time on PH and what better way than discover Plug Two here too.
@mrcalexandre Credit where it's due, @glennui is 100% responsible for the amazing design.
Re: album art, Often the art doesn't necessarily match the track, and in general we wanted to experiment with other uses of that space. We built in a 24 hour heat map for the popular tab. For all the other tabs they show the number of favorites, which is color-coded to get an idea of how popular a track is while scrolling.
@alex_marchant @mrcalexandre So thanks @glennui for the design but you did a great development too. Thanks for your answer, I agree with you, sometimes album art are not matching the track, it was just that I was used to that. After you explained, I understand your point of view, heat map is a good way to show the popularity of a song.
I love HypeM, feature request to add mutliple +airplay. Multiple airplay is the only reason I use the janky iTunes player to hit multiple speakers throughout the office.
Just figured out a good pro tip, do an Option+click of the volume the menubar Volume control and you can select ONE of your airplay audio sources.
I just eval'd Porthole and Airfoil. Porthole at $12.99 is great but doesn't let me add Bluetooth speakers, so that HypeM, Plug Two and any other browser or system audio source plays through multiple Airplay connected sound devices for great home automation for the audio geek.
Airfoil lets me add in bluetooth speakers to the home-wide symphony, . It didn't work at first because of a conflict of installing Porthole/Soundflower simultaneously. I Prefer the Airfoil UI. Airfoil is the winning software at $29!
Great app, Plug Two!
Product Hunt