v1.21.1 is 32 bit, won't run on MacOS 10.15 Catalina

[tomhundt]

I'm running a beta of MacOS 10.15 Catalina on my Mac; it's refusing to
run Nightingale, saying it's 32 bit. (Appears in Applications with icon
greyed out and slashed through.) Only that version is available from getnightingale download site.

You can confirm 32-bitness if you have it
installed on Mojave 10.14.6, by doing Apple > About this Mac > System
Report > Software > Applications, where you see a list of what's
installed and the column "64-Bit (Intel)". There are other ways to get
the same information, e.g., by running a program called Go64.

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[freaktechnik]

Yep. Given that the last commit in this repo was 4 years ago, I doubt a 64 bit version will just appear (plus XULRunner isn't the platform anymore that it used to be even 4 years ago...). Sorry.

[drkvogel]

I just discovered my new favourite music player, Nightingale, and now I hear it's going to stop working after I upgrade to MacOS Catalina later today... Does anyone think it's worth reviving this project and getting it to work on Calalina, or is there another open source music player (that works on Mac) that I could use and maybe contribute to?

[AntoineTurmel]

If I'm not wrong x64 builds of Firefox for Mac OS X started with Firefox 4...
The current Nightingale engine is based on Firefox 3.6.x, we don't have any deps/target for Mac OS X 64 bits.
We started to upgrade our XULRunner engine, but eventually the project stalled...
I wonder how many apps will broke with Catalina due to no 64 bits support...

@drkvogel I used musikCube which is a nice terminal player : https://github.com/clangen/musikcube

[darealshinji]

macOS Catalina doesn't start 32 bit apps anymore?

[AntoineTurmel]

macOS Catalina doesn't start 32 bit apps anymore?

Unfortunately no... see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Catalina#Removed_or_changed_components

[AntoineTurmel]

One workaround could be running Nightingale Windows build with Wine on macOS ?

[darealshinji]

macOS Catalina doesn't start 32 bit apps anymore?

Unfortunately no... see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Catalina#Removed_or_changed_components

Wow, bad decision. I hope that won't happen to Ubuntu too soon. Using wine may work but seems strange if there's a native build that technically works. Another alternative would be to look for a different player that feels similar to Nightingale.

[AntoineTurmel]

Looks like 32 bits apps won't run neither using Wine 😞 https://www.pcmag.com/article/371267/how-to-run-32-bit-apps-in-macos-catalina

[AntoineTurmel]

Ok, one possible workaround:
Using : https://github.com/linux-noah/noah with Linux x64 bit build:
https://github.com/nightingale-media-player/nightingale-hacking/releases/download/nightingale-1.12.1/Nightingale_1.12.1-2454_linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

(You will need Xserver also)