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My take is that Windows is the best experience because the unsuitability of the built-in option for every day use drove me to a real solution. (In my case, Secu

by gdulli 7y ago

My take is that Windows is the best experience because the unsuitability of the built-in option for every day use drove me to a real solution. (In my case, SecureCRT.) One of the things I hate is when the default option is "good enough" so you have the danger of living with mediocrity. Or, worse, the platform doesn't spawn a rich ecosystem of competition. For example, when I was on OSX I couldn't find a music player I liked. iTunes was bad, but the fact that everyone uses it means there aren't as many alternatives as on Windows.

knolax 7y ago
It's so bad it's good?
majkinetor 7y ago
Good music players on any platform: vlc, smplayer, clementine.... You can have everything now on all 3, everything important. I almost never use non-cross platform tools.
- AgentME 7y ago
  Clementine is ridiculously laggy for me and uses a lot of CPU, even when idle. Maybe I have too big of a music collection for it? I'm baffled. I've never had performance issues from a music player before. SMPlayer's homepage says it's only on Windows and Linux. I only ever used VLC for playing one-off files. I never knew about VLC having media collection features, might have to look into that. Rhythmbox on Ubuntu has been great for me. I just want Rhythmbox on other platforms. I've been using Google Play Music instead. (It lets you upload your music collection into the cloud, which is super useful as I can now use it from devices it's not synced to, though it's not open source or an application I can run offline, and it's pretty limited in how it can sort and display songs. I can't sort songs by date added, etc.)
  - majkinetor 7y ago
    CLementine can be faster if you disable everything that you dont use since it comes with bunch of plugins that are all loaded by default. If you want non-laggy, VLC is the best (both video and audio) but its interface sucks a lot although it is probably tolerable on the long run. SMplayer could probably be ported in a week or so on OS X given it uses mplayer or mpv which are both available on OSX (its just a fronted to those tools + open sub). I also used MPD with Cantata in x-platform manner its quite nice and fast.

by gdulli 7y ago

knolax 7y ago

It's so bad it's good?

majkinetor 7y ago

Good music players on any platform: vlc, smplayer, clementine.... You can have everything now on all 3, everything important. I almost never use non-cross platform tools.

AgentME 7y ago
Clementine is ridiculously laggy for me and uses a lot of CPU, even when idle. Maybe I have too big of a music collection for it? I'm baffled. I've never had performance issues from a music player before. SMPlayer's homepage says it's only on Windows and Linux. I only ever used VLC for playing one-off files. I never knew about VLC having media collection features, might have to look into that. Rhythmbox on Ubuntu has been great for me. I just want Rhythmbox on other platforms. I've been using Google Play Music instead. (It lets you upload your music collection into the cloud, which is super useful as I can now use it from devices it's not synced to, though it's not open source or an application I can run offline, and it's pretty limited in how it can sort and display songs. I can't sort songs by date added, etc.)
- majkinetor 7y ago
  CLementine can be faster if you disable everything that you dont use since it comes with bunch of plugins that are all loaded by default. If you want non-laggy, VLC is the best (both video and audio) but its interface sucks a lot although it is probably tolerable on the long run. SMplayer could probably be ported in a week or so on OS X given it uses mplayer or mpv which are both available on OSX (its just a fronted to those tools + open sub). I also used MPD with Cantata in x-platform manner its quite nice and fast.