Preferred music playing software of choice

VLC all day every day

I still use Itunes, but I'll be moving to Media Monkey one of these days.

foobar2000. wish there were some skins that didn't suck. i've got it set up pretty well, though, it just looks very unsexy basic old school windows GUI.

i was all about MUSIKCUBE before foobar

which is apparently now a sweet looking terminal based player: https://musikcube.com/

I love MusicBee. I switched to it from the lovely yet ugly foobar2000 some time ago and I haven't looked back. It's very lightweight indeed, handles a big FLAC library smoothly on my old Windows laptop, and you can make it look modern/prettier with skins. Also features a good tag/metadata editor and a format converter, and can play podcasts. Here's my setup:

https://i.imgur.com/SeayxS6.png

https://i.imgur.com/BzRrpNY.png

Having been a long time Winamp holdout simply dragging stuff from my music folder into the playlist the browser and playlist organisation in foobar (which is still pretty basic rrally) was something of a revelation. Despite the name and logo it doesn't have some impenetrable 'alien' themed interface. Haven't managed to get MilkDrop running in yet though. Something to do with misaing DirectX.

Perhaps MusicBee is the next thing to investigate.

https://i.imgur.com/colUkJ2.png

got this looking smart now...

I'm using iTunes (mac) as the library manager, and the Plex app (phone) and PlexAmp (laptop) as players.

xpp winamp

right click folder -enqueue in winamp- and drag and drop both work

if what you were saying is that you want to fully integrate a file browser into the winamp media library (ie no import), The Ultimate Media Library Plugin works (I just tested on winamp v5.8 build 3660 x86)
https://winampheritage.com/mlplugin/index.php?p=umlp-download

my entire digital library of approx 64gb is now on a tiny little sd card inside in my phone. i picked up a sony phone earlier this year just for its amp stage and flac compatibility. there was a noticeable audio difference between the model and the other handsets in the store at the time. anyway, grandma is happy. what's your android music software of choice? all the ones i've looked up are ugly...

right now, samsung music app better than any other I've tried. it wasn't actually bundled with my samsung phone though, guess they have some deal to put other apps on there. I want to edit music (deleting & sorting mostly) in the app, and everything else I find is for listening only.

I use the paid version of Poweramp and I'm very happy with it. By the way, you have that SD card backed up, right?

yeah, please say you do, card in my s4 got fried when it was overheated, completely unrecoverable.

oh god yeah i'm not a donut. gdrive & ssd backup!

also if anyone knows any android music apps that have proper id3 editing functionality, especially with multiple files at once, please do tell

I use three so I can keep different playlists going without having to start them again - BlackPlayer, PowerAmp & Play Music

BlackPlayer lets you edit id3 info either individually or an album at a time

what I would really like is something integrated with google assistant, so I could say "google, delete this track" while I'm driving, and it actually deletes it rather than removing it from the play queue, guess this is science fiction still

I love blackplayer but I can't figure out how to make it work with my DAC :(