Last Updated on September 1, 2020
In operation
Here’s an image of MellowPlayer in action.
I’m not a fan of the presentation of the streaming services. Too spartan for my liking. There’s definitely room for improvement here.
Let’s have a look at the interface when you’re playing a streaming service. Here’s YouTube Music in action.
From left to right, there’s a button to select another streaming service, followed by back/forward buttons, reload page, go to home page, and a button to add the current song to your favorites. There’s a playback slider, skip/pause/forward buttons, the option to disable/enable notifications, and a button to open your listening history (if you’ve enabled this in Settings).
MellowPlayer supports the following web-based music streaming services in its latest version:
- Spotify – a hugely popular digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.
- YouTube Music – music streaming service developed by YouTube.
- Google Play Music – music and podcast streaming service and online music locker operated by Google.
- Deezer – explore over 53 million tracks.
- Tidal – high fidelity music streaming service.
- TuneIn – free internet radio.
- 8tracks – an internet radio and social networking website streaming user-curated playlists consisting of at least 8 tracks.
- Anghami – discover, play and download from a library of millions of Arabic and International songs.
- Bandcamp – a platform for independent musicians.
- HearThisAt – listen to DJ Sets, Mixes, Tracks and Sounds.
- HypeMachine – a music blog aggregator.
- Jamendo – discover free music downloads & streaming from thousands of independent artists.
- Player FM – a multi-platform podcast service.
- Radionomy – an online platform that provides tools for operating online radio stations.
- Mixcloud – listen to radio shows, DJ mixes and podcasts.
- SoundCloud – online audio distribution platform and music sharing website.
- Netflix – subscription-based streaming of films and TV programs.
- Plex – media server streaming.
- Yandex Music – music streaming service with smart playlists.
- Pocket Casts – listen to podcasts.
- ympd – MPD GUI.
- YouTube – video-sharing website.
- Wynk – Indian and international tracks.
Some services don’t work with the AppImage.
Next page: Page 3 – Other Features
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Other Features
Page 4 – Summary
Music streaming services are nothing but a ripoff! Why should I pay a monthly fee to stream music when I can pay once for the tracks I really like, and keep playing them forever? Plus the streaming services “channels” are obviously programmed by people who don’t know what songs belong on what genre or category. I can’t stand it when country music or blues or jazz gets played on a rock channel! Besides that, with streaming services, if I don’t have an internet connection, no music!
The vast majority of services supported by MellowPlayer offer free accounts. Spotify / Deezer and others are excellent.
“Why should I pay a monthly fee to stream music when I can pay once for the tracks I really like…?”
Hey, maybe streaming is not for you, but I happen to like a LOT of songs, so paying a flat fee is much cheaper than having to buy all of those songs (and the new ones that keep coming out).
Think about it like monthly-flat-fee broadband internet access versus pay-for-the-hour dialup/isnd.
Cheers!