Winamp Sucks

I have not touched QCD in decades but apparently it was still being updated as of last year:

https://quintessential-media-player.en.softonic.com/

not convinced that that's a real QCD update

for macs i'd ask elvis telecom what he uses

so I spoke to a Mac expert friend who suggested I really do look into iTunes again and that the functionality, particularly in relation to things like Serato which I use a lot, can outweigh some of its shortcomings.
I've never put my music into libraries, rather I've always kept it in folders which are carefully alphabetised on an external drive and which I access via Explorer (and more recently Finder).
But the idea of chucking all 2TB into a library and risk a jungle of broken/mislabelled ID3 tags does put me off. Will it mess up the already labyrinthine personal system I've cultivated over decades? Will it confuse Serato and mess up its own very finnickity Crate system?
Maybe the wrong thread for this question I guess...

lol have fun

I use Small Player (https://www.igorware.com/small-player) for playing sound files. It's a tiny program, starts instantly. It's great. Just plays stuff and nothing else. I haven't used it much for listening to music for hours on end or anything like that (I do all that in Spotify), so I can't guarantee how it performs. I use it mostly for listening through single mp3/wav files/folders of my own stuff, and it's always worked perfectly for me.

Oh shit, I got your PC-Mac switch the wrong way round. Tough luck.

Foobar2000 still rules. It can use your folder structure to organise its browser and it's also pretty flood for managing metadata tags. Not sure where the Mac version is at in terms of development.

Pretty *good.

iTunes - is just fucking awful in every way. It's as though the people who invented it had never understood people's needs.

Alternatives on the mac are limited. There's Swinsian and a fairly crappy foobar2000 version (PC version is much better).

For mass-tagging on the mac there's Yate, Musicbrainz Picard and (if you like command line) Beets.

Don't know about mac but foobar runs very well under wine in linux and Peter is actively looking for bugs to improve compatiblity

people like IINA as a kind of better VLC for mac.
https://iina.io

but just to preview a file, hitting spacebar after selection lets you play it immediately.

toaster plugin suddenly stopped working correctly and i can't figure out why

ffs

Happy 25th anniversary to @Winamp!

The first version of ⚡Winamp⚡ was released as freeware on April 21st, 1997!

⚡🦙⚡

Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass! pic.twitter.com/sLYQUa0g5P

— Daniel Albu (@danielalbu) April 21, 2022

Lol

i always expect more from DJ Mike Llama after that, but he peaked with the Llama Whippin' Intro

I still use it! Just for double-clicking files in Windows to listen to individual tracks or preview things. I don't use it to organize music or listen to albums or anything. But whenever I double-click an audio file in Windows it pops up and it's somehow comforting that it functions and looks exactly the same as it did when I started using it 20+ years ago.

it remains my main music player tbh

scrolling back and reading dog Latin's Mac woes, i think i had similar problems when i changed job and settled on Vox, which has worked fine ever since

I've been using Winamp since the late 90s, and it's still my main music player.

My one complaint, which isn't really a complaint to be honest, is that the Media Library is really overspecced for what I use it for - namely managing multiple playlists. It seems like an overly complex early 2000s file explorer, kind of at odds with the main window and Playlist Editor.

Foobar 4 life motherfuckers

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/winamp-releases-new-version-after-four-years-in-development