Winamp

natecox, 10 months ago

Winamp can’t be retro, it only came out a couple of years ago!!

Man I feel old.

kai, 11 months ago

Back when software had personality lol

lackthought, 11 months ago

I used to put on my music and have MilkDrop go fullscreen

thomask, 11 months ago

I may never have mastered vim but in Winamp 2 I had Q (queue) and J (jump to & alt-Q queue) absolutely nailed. Even with my peasantlike 15k tracks I felt like a boss navigating around my collection-as-a-playlist in split-second bursts of keyboard scrabbling. Sadly these shortcuts didn't make it into Winamp 5. Ever since, it's always struck me how popular music player UIs have become slower - doing the equivalent search/queue in Spotify or Apple Music might require the mouse and waiting for loading spinners.

llii, 11 months ago

Ever since, it’s always struck me how popular music player UIs have become slower

100 x the processing power, 10 x slower. Unfortunately that's where most software is heading.

matogoro, 11 months ago

Have you tried QMMP? It's an awesome modern alternative

JSkier, 11 months ago

Audacious on *nix also supports Winamp skins and the classic player 👍

Spudger, 11 months ago

I'll second that for Linux. On Windows I used to use XMplay.