# gillesdemey/Cumulus

☁️  A SoundCloud player that lives in your menubar.

Repository: https://github.com/gillesdemey/Cumulus
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cumulus
Homepage: http://gillesdemey.github.io/Cumulus
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: menubar, soundcloud, electron, osx
Last push: 2021-05-28T09:08:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4149, "days_push": 1923, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1494, forks 122 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:52.971287+00:00)

## What it is
Cumulus is an Electron-based SoundCloud player that lives in the macOS menubar, letting you control music without leaving your workflow. It supports media keys, track notifications, and a minimal unobtrusive interface.

## Use cases
- listen to soundcloud from the mac menubar
- control soundcloud playback with media keys
- get notified when a new track plays
- unobtrusive background music player while working

## When to choose
- you use SoundCloud as your main music source on macOS
- you want a lightweight menubar music player with media key support

## When to avoid
- you need a full-featured music client with playlists and downloads
- you need actively maintained software - the last release was in 2021
- you are on Linux or Windows and want official support

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: audio-processing, gui, developer-tools
- domain: media, desktop-applications, entertainment
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: soundcloud, menubar-app, music-player, media-keys, notifications, audio, macos, electron, desktop

## Member repositories
- gillesdemey/Cumulus (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.971287+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:33:22.091258+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gillesdemey/Cumulus (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:52.971287+00:00, sha 053017910a50)
  - homepage: http://gillesdemey.github.io/Cumulus (fetched 2026-08-29T11:39:10.998232+00:00, sha 8d69e7020b54)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.