First of all, it respects albums. Other players like VLC and Fubar2000 would order the songs alphabetically; it’s annoying. Also in the “artist” list “The Beatles” comes right after “Beasty Boys” the way God intended.
Second it has an “always on top” feature so you can easily control it while gaming.
Winamp was made for people who listen to music the way I do. You know, old people.
Quck search suggests sorting by album will also sort by track number in it. Also I found 4 year old feature request for VLC Android for sorting by track number that was added 4 years ago.
Foobar2000 has all of these features. You might need some tweaking, but foobar can do practically everything as far as music library management goes. My default sorting is album artist, album year, disc, track number.
As for song sort, if you meant sort by track number, it would be hard to find a player that does not support that. If VLC really does not support that, that is somewhat understandable, it is not meant as a serious music player after all.
AIMP on Windows (and probably Wine). Has good converter and tag editor as a bonus. You can try v2 or v3, they are pretty different. Both support Last.fm scrobbling if it’s still relevant. The android app is nice too but I haven’t used it that much. It kept my evergrowing library nicely structurized, mostly folder-based, with a little effort. It’s russian, but I haven’t noticed it doing anything funny, and it’s probably too niche since most people use streaming nowadays.
Apparently I’m as old as DOS 2.13, but only really remember using 5.0 and 6.22, must have been 5 or so at that time.
I remember Windows 2.0 on a b/w screen (more like amber honestly), played Reversi (without knowing how it really works) and used paint to make all black images and then use the eraser to play digital mole.
Anyone else remember what a huge deal windows 95 launch was? With The Rolling Stones.
It always struck me that “start me up” was used for the launch, since the chorus has “you make a grown man cry” in it. It could just be my 16 year olds sense of humor at the time though.
I forgot about Winamp! I’m going to have to give it a try again. The last time I used it was in 2013, because there was a plugin for extracting the music from Turbografx roms to .wav files. The soundtrack of my childhood.
I’ve converted my music library to opus and it’s all offline, on my phone and PC. It’s the only way to listen to some things that get caught in licensing hell, and that’s only going to get worse over time.
It’s an open source codec. I convert from FLAC (lossless) to Opus (lossy), I couldn’t hear much if any difference between FLAC and 128kbits opus, your mileage may vary, but it saves me 10x space, very useful for a big library on an SD card compared to lossless.
You cannot compare kbps numbers of files encoded with different codecs and make assumptions on quality.
Each codec is able to compress differently good, so a 64kbps in opus sounds much better than 64kbps in mp3, for instance. 128 kbps in opus for stereo is plenty, quasi-lossless, while on other formats it is pretty bad.
Reasonable audiophiles usually agree that 320kbps mp3s are as good ar raw/wav/FLAC. They’re maybe twice the size of 128 ones IIRC, who everyone notice the drop of quality in. 160 is okay IMO for walkman or car territory.
I used Coolplayer and had a totally awesome Phantom Menace podracing viewer tablet skin I made myself. There was transparency, and the red light I included for shuffle had shading like a real LED, and you could put the buttons ANYWHERE!
This I can’t speak to, so I’ll have to give it a shot. But VLC for a desktop media manager overall is on par with MPC-HC. Like, sure you can force it to do that. But it’s never going to be as competent as a dedicated app.
Hell even the Winamp revival project WACUP would dare better I wager.
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