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Re: Foobar2000

#191

Post by DidYaWipe » Sat, Aug 03, 2024, 9:21 PM UTC

rchaud wrote: post #167

DidYaWipe wrote: post #142

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Foobar2000 was always better than WinAmp. WinAmp was the best example of why standard UI affordances evolved.

No, Winamp was the last example of broadly used "appliance" software that wasn't inextricably tied into a megacorp's business model. iTunes and Windows Media Player were both bloated because of the e-store baked into the back end.

EphPod was 100% free and didn't bury its functionality in an Advent-calendar UI. It was simple, clean, and did something that iTunes/Music doesn't to this day: automatically sync new files you added to your music directory, with no need to "add to library" every time you acquired them.

iTunes, when tied to a "megacorp's business model," still suffered from piss-poor UI. Take, for example, the "LCD" display at the top of the UI that was even depicted as having a transparent cover over it... yet had undemarcated clickable controls in it (which you were likely to never discover).

So I don't see the relationship between good or bad UI and business models in this case.

Re: Foobar2000

#192

Post by DidYaWipe » Sat, Aug 03, 2024, 9:32 PM UTC

mostlysimilar wrote: post #159

DidYaWipe wrote: post #142

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Foobar2000 was always better than WinAmp. WinAmp was the best example of why standard UI affordances evolved.

Disagree. Winamp skins are the highlight of a better era of computer interfaces.

Some people don't enjoy meandering through a puzzle game of arbitrary, standards-ignoring UI instead of getting stuff done.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by nosrepa » Sat, Aug 03, 2024, 11:10 PM UTC

47282847 wrote: post #176

ClueslessTech99 wrote: post #171

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I was looking for a player that had this functionality when I switched to Linux. Finally settled on Clementine which has both a library & "file browser" mode. In the browser mode you can just right click and add the folder to your playlist. Just like in foobar2000.

+1 for Clementine

Consider switching to strawberry, it's a fork of Clementine. Clementine hasn't really been updated in many years (aside from auto translation merges and a typo here and there).