How Not to Build a Music Player

November 13, 2026 The Twelve-Day War made me realize online music players aren’t a viable option for those who live under an oppressive regime that disconnects the internet across the country as a way to silence public opinion.So, as soon as the connection came back, I started archiving tracks and looking for offline alternatives and discovered Strawberry. It’s a feature-rich music player and kept me happy for quite a while, but I have this habit of looking at song lyrics and singing along! Strawberry fetches lyrics from the internet when it recognizes a song, but sometimes the lyrics weren’t line-synced and worse, it displayed the timestamps next to the lyrics which I found pretty annoying to look at. I wasn’t aware of other music players such as…