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Still use it. You can pry it from my cold dead hands. The dual media library / playlist workflow is much nicer to use than iTunes (not to mention the latter bec
by spronkey 10y ago
Still use it. You can pry it from my cold dead hands. The dual media library / playlist workflow is much nicer to use than iTunes (not to mention the latter becoming a bloated horrible piece of utter crap). It plays much nicer with network shares and other 'get out of the way and just let me point you at a directory of music' situations.
The UI is much nicer than Foobar - but could definitely use a little tweaking (but not a lot!).
I also used to really enjoy the skins, although these days the skinning scene is practically dead, and the default skin with Winamp Classic colours is pretty OK.
Oh how I hope active development can resume once again, and that it doesn't screw with the player too much.
- metaobject 10y agoI use iTunes for syncing my iPods on my windows machine, and then I close iTunes and open Winamp. I find the EQ settings and the overall sound quality I can get from Winamp to be far superior than anything iTunes can provide.
- roystonvassey 10y agoiTunes has got to be the worst piece of software shipped by Apple. The bloat has gotten worse over the years, takes ages to load and I have no clue how anything works with its utterly non-intuitive UI. They should have just kept it as a simple music player and put the purchases/radio/everythingelse options on a different app.
- Razengan 10y agoAm I the only one who finds iTunes just fine on macOS? Of course it could use being split into 2-3 apps (like they did with iBooks) but it's hardly as bad as the echo chamber makes it out to be. On Windows, sure. I think they should at least split the video functionality into a "TV" app, as they have started to do on iOS.
- Synaesthesia 10y agoIt's far superior on MacOS, performance is way better and it's integrated into the OS.
- diamondo25 10y agoYea, just in a way there's no easy way to assign the play button to launch Spotify instead.
- mih 10y agoBad on Windows? Steve Jobs had a different opinion - https://youtu.be/iwxnWuG_Ruw?t=1m4s https://youtu.be/iwxnWuG_Ruw?t=1m4s
- brandon272 10y agoI have a couple of minor nitpicks with iTunes (on macOS) including: - I find it a little difficult to organize and keep track of my podcasts, new episodes, etc. I'm sure I could improve this with updating podcast-related settings but I find the settings a bit confusing in terms of subscription, retention, etc. of episodes. - I find the navigation between the store and my library to be a bit strange sometimes, although it seems like Apple has made some recent improvements as I'm finding that I am now able to better move between my library and the store while browsing for music and referencing back to my own library. I do not have any performance gripes with iTunes. It rarely crashes on me. The audio quality is good. AirPlay is brilliant. It's easy to organize my library and playlists. I love the fact that I can buy music in the same app that organizes and plays the music so that I'm not manually importing things. I don't know of any alternative on Mac that even comes close to doing what iTunes does for me in such a well-integrated way. I jumped on the Spotify train at one point but basically felt like I had to abandon my curated iTunes library because there is (was?) no way for me to import anything. Apple could certainly split iTunes into two apps for TV and Music but I'm not sure that would alleviate any of the complaints that I see about it in regard to supposed bloat.
- fileoffset 10y agoAIMP3! it's the closest thing to Winamp I've found which is actually good.
- a012 10y agoI stopped using Winamp since '04 or later after discovered foobar2000. I prefer the outlook of foobar2000 than Winamp, especially its text-based layout, and it has more audio codecs (FLAC, APE, ...).
- provemewrong 10y agoExactly, foobar2000 killed Winamp, for power users at least.