Call me crazy but iTunes/Music has always been one of the things I like most about macOS, at least after going through the settings and disabling all the features trying to push you into a subscription. I still manage my own ~500 file mp3 collection instead of paying monthly.
Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS
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#22Call me crazy but iTunes/Music has always been one of the things I like most about macOS, at least after going through the settings and disabling all the features trying to push you into a subscription. I still manage my own ~500 file mp3 collection instead of paying monthly.
These days Aperture is long gone and Itunes will let me make playlists where if I own the song, I can't play it cause it's not synced. If I don't own the song, it plays fine.
It's like nobody cares anymore, and back around 2008 that was the killer feature of the Mac - it was the computer and OS where it seemed like someone cared, about every little thing.
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#24Call me crazy but iTunes/Music has always been one of the things I like most about macOS, at least after going through the settings and disabling all the features trying to push you into a subscription. I still manage my own ~500 file mp3 collection instead of paying monthly.
I do agree that it had been getting worse and worse on Mac before it was rebranded "Music" in 2019.
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#25me too, released two weeks ago on hackernews: https://github.com/chrisallick/light-crime-audio-player getting good reviews!
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#26What's wrong with foobar2000? Used to be one of the best music players and you could infinitely customize it.
- I like the separate player, playlist, EQ windows.
- I like that I can re-arrange the windows, and resize the playlist separately.
- I like that the main player has a little EQ built in.
- I like the layout of the main window. It's perfect.
- I like the layout of the playlist window, it's also perfect. I can add "directories", "albums", etc. and again, I can resize the window.
- I like the skins. I like the classic skin, but I also love the Sonicated skin. I still have it on my Windows laptop.
- Conversely, I really dislike the "native" UI elements.
- I like that lack of rounded corners on the classic Winamp windows, such that when windows stick together, they appear as whole, and I can drag them around as one.
Mostly, it's a bunch of seemingly small and aesthetic things, but if a player doesn't have those things, I might as well just use iTunes.
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#27Vibe coded?
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#30Call me crazy but iTunes/Music has always been one of the things I like most about macOS, at least after going through the settings and disabling all the features trying to push you into a subscription. I still manage my own ~500 file mp3 collection instead of paying monthly.
Huh?
Just checked my 'collection':
Total Files Listed:
17250 File(s) 232,520,192,270 bytes
6431 Dir(s) 1,053,563,486,208 bytes free
Not audiophile scale, for sure - but only 500 looks quite low. No wonder iTunes can manage it snorts.