Desktop App Written in Rust, Neon and Electron
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This is only partially correct. The Electron part should be quite trivial, since it downloads pre-built binaries anyway (and the packaging process works on any platform).
The somewhat tricky part is getting the Rust code to cross compile since you need a macOS SDK. [1] shows how to make it work, though. You can't sign apps that way, which means the user has to go through an extra menu to open it the first time, I don't consider this a problem though.
Alternatively you could always use Travis CI and run your build script in a Mac VM (this is free for public projects).
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6rxoty/tutorial_cross...
> I of course could have done this myself, but it was a pain in the ass, and the 5 minutes it took for iTunes to finish its job and close it was almost worth it.
I hate to sound contrarian, but the author really needed to leverage foobar2000 better, because it can do all of that with the masstagger extension and its very simple macro language. Granted, that extension hasn't been included by default for a while, but it's highly popular for good reason, and the macro language is simple enough that it should be a cakewalk for any developer (if not the average person).
Unless you actually require something that iTunes provides, foobar2000 + masstagger is a far more useful and efficient way to organize your music library.
Reading the article: I don't think this will replace beets.io for library management, personally.
I guess one can laugh at Moby Dick and Uranus and still take them seriously when you really want to.