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NicotineD kick

By kevinch3@gmail.com

Thinking on music playback experiences, I always would have love to have Kazaa, iMesh or Ares to be more like this; where is also the default player. I think that since the download was not required anymore on the obscure era of the streaming services, we as user lost the sense of having the required structure. Also we lost our span attention making me wonder... 

Who are the ones really using those IRC channels on Ares? hahaaha

Anyway this week I've been doing a research called NicotineD. It's a mix with Nicotine and Navidrome where the integration should be great to get the simplicity of the streaming service, the database of a well stablished global network, the privacy and discretionality of self hosted.

I'm trying to understand what this user might want, how to present the results, how to deal with integrations and make it as zero click as possible.

Take a look at https://github.com/kevinch3/NicotinD

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