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Because there are no cross-platform options between 70s terminal apps and The Whole Internet(tm)? I mean, this basically seems to be a mpd client, so the diffi
by mhd 9y ago
Because there are no cross-platform options between 70s terminal apps and The Whole Internet(tm)?
I mean, this basically seems to be a mpd client, so the difficult work has mostly been done already. But I guess a big draw of the webtechstack is that it's easier for a lot of people to do fancy animations (like the mentioned equalizer) and all the blinkenlights.
Which is interesting in the WinAmp context, as amongst the things that drew people to it were two things: Small size & fancy UI...
- pjc50 9y agoUsable cross-platform options? Not really, as we can tell by the dearth of popular cross-platform apps. I remember there was a great Cambrian explosion of music players back in the Napster era, especially on Linux. It seemed to me that the availability of good non-pirate managed options like iTunes and later Spotify gradually killed off standalone players. Maybe they're coming back into fashion.
- mhd 9y agoI'd say that there's a dearth of desktop apps, creating them in a cross-platform way is easy enough. Not that the situation got a whole lot better, but if you're doing web UX i.e. don't give a damn about native UI guidelines anyway, minor deviations that UI toolkits introduce pale in comparison. And yeah, I think there were three waves of sound apps on Linux: mp3s becoming commmon/computers fast enough (mid-90s), Amarok switching UIs and everyone writing a retro-replacement and recently music moving into the clouds, thus requiring players that connect to Spotify et al.