When comparing Nuclear Music Player vs Mellow Player, the Slant community recommends Nuclear Music Player for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for UNIX-like systems?” Nuclear Music Player is ranked 27th while Mellow Player is ranked 31st.
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Pros
Pro Streaming and playing local files within a single client
Pro Cross-platform
As an Electron app NMP runs on GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under AGPL-3.0. Everybody can inspect the code, use it and improve it.
Pro Looks beautiful and modern
Pro Plugin system allowing for easy addition of more streaming sources
Pro Native
It is written in Qt so it requires less resources than a web browser or an electron application.
Pro AppImage
It is available as AppImage so you can easily try it.
Cons
Con Resource intensive
Just like any other web app.
Con QML
It written in Qt-QML which ignores all Human Interface Guidelines and make the app look like a web page.
Con Not native
It's using qt5-webengine which is not much different from electron / a webbrowser.
