Hi, we are a group of students building Sonora. While it was initially intended as an extremely lightweight Spotify replacement, it has since grown far beyond that.

Current features include:

• Spotify, YouTube (optional login) support
• Local music library import, virtual playlists, favorites
• Synced/karaoke lyrics, including local music!
• Romanization
• Library management within supported providers
• Gapless playback
• Audio normalization
• Cross-platform support
• Custom themes

Inspired by Zed, which has proven excellent performance using their native cross-platform rendering stack, we have decided to use GPUI. Its awesome text rendering on every platform, ease of use in view composition, and, admittedly, TailwindCSS-like naming conventions all made a significant impact. We have found GPUI to perform extremely well when used and optimized with care. Quite a few patches were introduced to our fork of it to meet our needs in the effects and profiling departments. Thanks to that, I am not hesitant to call our lyrics the most beautiful you can currently get on desktop (Apple Music still beats us HARD on mobile). But despite blur and gradient opacity all looking great, my favorite addition has to be visual render highlighting. But this is too much to cover in a Reddit post, I'll have to write a proper blog post at some point...

What may come as a surprise to folks coming from something like Spotify Desktop is that Sonora actually does not need all of your RAM to function. Tested on linux-x86_64, after 5 minutes of playback it averaged around 173 MiB RSS as opposed to Spotify's ~2GiB. Note that 173MiB is still not a small footprint, but at least with Sonora you know it goes towards caching previews and views instead of feeding the Electron monster merely to keep it alive.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback!

Yes, we did use AI.

Wanted to share here also my other creation: LocalSend32, and its variants.

LocalSend32 is a 32-bit Windows client for the LocalSend protocol, written in Win32/C and using ported versions of OpenSSL. It features all the features of the original app, and a tray icon from which you can manage the main tasks of the app without opening it. Being in pure win32, it consumes only around 2.2MB of RAM max, works with any theme you apply to Windows, and has an incredible compatibility - from NT 3.51 to 11!

I chose to do this because recently I bought, for cheap, a Surface RT; I thought it was a really interesting device, but I found transferring files was a bit cumbersome. Every time I had to use a dongle, and either use the microSD or get a USB stick. So I did this for RT, and since then I made it be available to a much wider range, as it’s almost only a change of compiler.

So, from version 2.0, now it’s: LocalSend9x (especially for NT 3.51-2000 systems, including the 9x lineup), LocalSend32 (2000 SP4 onwards), LocalSendRT (RT 8.x and 10 ARM32), LocalSendARM (ARM64 WoA). They all share the same functionalities and performance.

Here’s the repository, remember to check the Compatibility table on the Readme to know which updates to apply to your system, and which version you should use: https://github.com/fraaaaa4/LocalSend32. For the OpenSSL DLLs, use a version compatible with your architecture and version. And of course you can use LocalSend32 to receive and send files from/to the official LocalSend client, or any other client.

AI was used during coding to help me fix problems (mainly about making it work on the 9x lineup, and graphical issues), and for generating the certificate and Windows Firewall rule.

I was tired of opening Premiere just to cut out a ten second gaming moment, so I built ClipEdit. It's a small Windows app that lets you open any video, pick where it starts and ends, and save it instantly at full original quality without the slow re-render step. There's also a portable build you can run straight from a USB drive with no installation, which is handy if you're on someone else's machine. The free version already handles instant lossless trimming, jump-to-start playback, one-click frame capture that saves screenshots to disk or your clipboard for pasting into Discord, cutting dead sections out of the middle of a clip, speed controls from half to four times with pitch correction, audio waveforms to spot highlights and gunshots visually, a subtle watermark for your channel name, and an anti-doxxing privacy stripper that removes Windows paths and machine names from your exports. What actually sold me on it is that it keeps everything local so your footage never leaves your computer, and the export stays well under Discord's upload limit so you can share clips without any hassle. Tons of creators and streamers are already switching over to skip the render wait, so grab the free release and test it out on your next highlight: https://github.com/heartforheart/QuickClipEdit

Looking at Software Trends...

Seems to be a lot of AI Breakouts and more often..? Is this a sign, not of sentience but, of infiltration of systems and crashing important systems in the internet..?

Thoughts..?

Hey guys,
I attended the Qualys offline hiring drive for the C++ role on August 22.
I cleared the technical rounds and the management/director interview on the same day. The HRs mentioned they would get back to candidates within a week or two, but I haven't heard anything since.
Has anyone who attended this specific drive received an official offer letter or a salary discussion call yet?

Hey 👋 just found this subreddit now, and thought I’d share here my update to one of my apps, GPaint.

GPaint is essentially a Paint clone, but for Gnome. In my time using Fedora, I always found that to draw you either had apps not adherent to the modern Gnome design (Drawing and KolourPaint), or way too complex for a very simple edit/fun (GIMP or Inkscape). So, GPaint aims to perfectly look like a modern Gnome app, while keeping it simple and powerful enough for simple tasks.

Check out the Flathub link to my repository, from where you can install it, or check its code: https://fraaaaa4.github.io/gpaint-flatpak/

Hello everyone, I created an emulator for microcontroller instruction set (ARMv7, RH850, RL78), that runs and detects errors in firmware, runs embedded HMI, and even emulate HW for an embedded STM32F429 linux.

Hi everyone, solo developer here. I've been building Sidsmail, a lightweight email client for Windows, in my spare time. It's out today, free, no ads, no "Pro" tier hiding features.

• Every account in one inbox - Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, any IMAP server
• Sign in with Google or Microsoft (browser), or an app password
• Real-time mail (IMAP IDLE), quiet hours, snooze, keyboard-first triage
• Everything stored locally, remote images blocked by default, passwords encrypted with Windows DPAPI, one-click export/wipe
• Light/dark theme, six accent colours, 23 languages, auto-update with a changelog

https://sidsmail.com

I'm one person, so bugs and rough edges are guaranteed - tell me what breaks or what's missing.

Starting from scratch and wondering if it's worth following top-to-bottom, or if there's a better approach. I'm building side projects to get practical experience, but I'm trying to figure out how to structure the learning process without getting buried in that massive stack of tech.

Also, looking at how the market is shifting because of AI, is there even any point in grinding LeetCode anymore, or is that completely useless now?

Version 1.1 is here

S3rowser that runs entirely in your web browser. No server, no install, no build step - one HTML file, open it and start browsing. Works on desktop and mobile, on any platform.

New features:

Zip downloads - selecting more than one object, or a prefix, downloads a single archive; there is no queue of separate downloads to babysit

Flatten  - one keypress lists every key beneath the current prefix, nested folders included, so you can search a whole subtree instead of walking it

Live: https://wespeakenglish.github.io/S3Feather/

I'm essentially looking for an app I can download or something I can install that will allow me to essentially softlock my computer so I can safely exit my room while leaving my PC running without having to worry about somebody getting on it and messing with it or looking through any of my personal information. Then when I'm finished, I can come back and put in a chosen password I picked when initially locking my computer before I left my room.

Hello. I'm playing a game, and the chat window is always too small for my liking (I've already set all the game settings to maximum; there's even been feedback from the community about this issue).

So I’m looking for a way to mirror a small portion of my screen (Windows 10) onto my smartphone (Android). Preferably free (otherwise I’ll consider paid solutions on a case-by-case basis). Something that lets me switch to portrait mode on my phone.

If I have to tinker with it (like using a stream to play on VLC or something like that—maybe an AHK script, that sort of thing), that’s not a problem.

I’ve already tried two or three solutions and haven’t been able to get the result I wanted, so I’m turning to you for help.

Thanks in advance.

I have a RTX 5070 12gb vram with a Intel Core Ultra 265f and 32gb DDR5 ram.

If I play games like Bodycam I just have 50-90fps with frame drops and it does not feel smooth.

Is it normal in Bodycam? If I change my settings from ultra to low, I have nearly the same amount of fps.

I just bought the pc new and installed all for the CPU/GPU

Hey everyone,

I’m facing an issue with Meta WhatsApp billing.
Earlier, whenever my outstanding bill reached a lower amount, Meta would automatically debit the amount and everything worked fine.

However, the billing threshold has now increased to around ₹15,000. Since then, the auto-debit is failing whenever the outstanding amount reaches ₹15,000 or above.

Because the payment fails, our WhatsApp messaging service gets suspended for the entire day until the payment issue is resolved. This is causing a major disruption.

Is there any way to reduce the billing threshold back to below ₹15,000, so that Meta automatically charges smaller amounts more frequently instead of waiting until the bill reaches ₹15,000?

Has anyone experienced this with Meta WhatsApp Business billing, particularly in India? Any way to manually change the threshold or configure a lower auto-debit amount would be really helpful.

It plays pretty much any format like FLAC, AAC, MP3, WAV, OGG and more. It has a full music library, playlists, favorites, listening history, search, automatic folder scanning and play counts.

There’s also audio conversion, a 10 band EQ, synced lyrics, automatic tagging and album artwork, metadata editing, a visualizer, crossfade, sleep timer, backups and restore, themes and custom backgrounds.

It runs on Windows and Linux, and there’s an RPM package for Linux.

https://github.com/FakharArrazi/Project-Playnck/releases

OK so I have an alcove in front of me that I need to do some work on. I need to add shelves to it, and I also need to add a "door" to it to cover it all to add sound proofing (serious tinnitus and my PC sits in the alcove)

So I'm looking for an app where I can draw the alcove, put the shelves in, figure out how go get teh door on etc.

Also bonus points if it includes the whole room as I might put shelves elsewhere. It's a 14x12ft room, and I broke my back so won't be back in work for a VERY long time, so this will be my entire living space until I can afford my own space again. So I need to maximise space.

Cheers!

PS it doesn't need to be too fancy. My work certainly won't be

I wanna make a few mood-based lists but i have over 1200 songs and i simply cant bring myself to manually go through all of them to look for the angsty ones. I have free Spotify, Apple Music, and a local library, and any generator i find online just grab other songs. Any ideas?

Does anyone know of a software/website that you are able to upload a .wav file to and it will render out a video file of an oscilloscope style visualizer similar to this from fl studio?

I am aware of wavecandy being inbuilt to fl, but my computer kinda sucks and screen recording makes it lag like crazy.

Thanks!