Most of the comments are about the UX, on which I have no comment. On Winamp, though, I thought this was a nostalgia piece!
Hear, hear. My pandemic project was digitizing all the vinyl records I still wanted to listen to, and then selling them on Discogs [1]. I combined those with my CDs, and put it all on a 256GB microSD card for my phone! Even using FLAC instead of MP3, it's plenty of space.
Shuffle randomly and listen in the car. It's better than any radio station, and no subscription fees or commercials.
It's easy to find an Android app that just does this, which is basically the same thing Winamp did back in the day.
It's hard AF to find an app for the Mac that just does this. They all have zillions of other features that get in the way. And no, VLC does not JUST do this; it does a million other things that obscure simple play-my-music functionality. I settled on Elmedia, which is sorta tolerable.
Apple's Music app and their devices don't support FLAC, but they do support Apple Lossless format. It's annoying to have 2x the files if you want to support both ecosystems, but if you only want to have lossless music in Apple-land, you can use XLD to do a one-time convert.
Hear, hear. My pandemic project was digitizing all the vinyl records I still wanted to listen to, and then selling them on Discogs [1]. I combined those with my CDs, and put it all on a 256GB microSD card for my phone! Even using FLAC instead of MP3, it's plenty of space.
Shuffle randomly and listen in the car. It's better than any radio station, and no subscription fees or commercials.
It's easy to find an Android app that just does this, which is basically the same thing Winamp did back in the day.
It's hard AF to find an app for the Mac that just does this. They all have zillions of other features that get in the way. And no, VLC does not JUST do this; it does a million other things that obscure simple play-my-music functionality. I settled on Elmedia, which is sorta tolerable.
[1] https://medium.com/@virgilhilts/vinyl-records-my-pandemic-pr...