CONNECTED TO SPOTIFY
MUSIC · STANDARD
The one tab you'd otherwise leave open.
Yes — a business app with a music player in it. Because the thing that breaks a focused hour isn't a notification. It's alt-tabbing to skip a track and finding four other reasons to stay there.
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ON THE STUDIO SPEAKER
✦ TUCK IT AWAY
Why it's in here at all
Every alt-tab is a doorway, and I don't always come back.
I built this for my own head. Leaving the app to change what's playing means leaving the app — and once I'm out there, my attention has options. That isn't a discipline problem I can fix by trying harder. It's a doorway I can remove.
A skip button in the sidebar is a strange feature in project software and exactly the right one for this product.
IT NEVER LEAVES YOUR SIDE
You went to Tickets, then Mileage, then the Logbook. It's still playing, still right there.
THE QUEUE
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MILEAGE
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THE LOGBOOK
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Three screens, one sliver, no tab switch. That's the entire argument — and it's why the controls live in the rail rather than behind a click.
FOUR THINGS, AND NOTHING MORE
A sliver, a pop-out, and a hard stop.
It rests as a sliver
Pinned at the foot of the sidebar: art, title, a thin progress line, and a small wave when it's playing. Hover and back / pause / forward appear.
It pops out when you need it
The fuller player is a draggable pop-over — Now, Search and your playlists — that follows you around the app. Then you minimise it back to the sliver.
Your playlists, your devices
Search and play what you already have, on whichever speaker is already going. A remote control, not a library.
And a mode can quiet it
Off-hours can hide the whole thing. Hiding it never stops the music — the same rule as every other instrument.
THE REAL OBJECTION
“This is feature creep with a bow on it.”
It would be, if it were a music product. It's four controls and a sliver — no library, no recommendations, no playlist editing, no lyrics, no social feed, and no audio streamed through Cloudbase. Spotify plays; this points at it.
And it earns its place the way everything else here does: it removes a reason to leave. If you don't want it, turn it off in Settings and the sidebar closes over the gap.
Your account, your subscription
You connect Spotify; I never see your password and I resell nothing. Disconnect and every trace of it goes.
It's the only third-party code in here
And only if you connect it. There is no analytics or advertising script anywhere in the app.
Nothing about it is tracked
No listening history, no “you focus best with jazz”, no music-and-productivity chart. It plays music. That's the feature.
Put on the thing you work to, and don't leave.
Connect it in about ten seconds, or never — it's off until you do, and no screen has a hole in it either way.
On a phone, on purpose
This is the short version of the site, cut down to what reads well on a small screen. The full thing — every instrument explained, the pricing configurator, the whole story — lives on the desktop site. So does the app: Cloudbase is meant to be worked from a real screen, at a desk, with your hands on it.