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Pleasantly surprised to see Clementine in the list (though a bit disappointed with how low it is in the list). Great app, and I used it a lot because it had se

Pleasantly surprised to see Clementine in the list (though a bit disappointed with how low it is in the list). Great app, and I used it a lot because it had seamless last.fm scrobbling (Man, those were the days!). I was one of the early users of it back a decade ago, and funnily found out about the "clementine" fruit after googling why my music player has an "orange slice" as it's icon. :D

azeirah 5y ago
I tend to add whatever users request. There have been music players in the past that were requested but I was never able to add support for. The most notable request is... windows media player! I still don't know how to get real-time 'now playing' data from WMP! I'd imagine WMP being very high up on this list as well otherwise. Two others are the Amazon desktop app and the pandora fm desktop. I'd imagine my application could theoretically be used to scrobble to last.fm too for alllll music players you have on your desktop, but it'd be a bit of development work to add that There are many people coming from WMP asking me what music player they should use, my most common recommendations are Foobar2000, AIMP3 and clementine, by the way! There's a lot of really great music software out there that's just being ignored by the mainstream. It was kind of surprising to me though that YouTube (not even YouTube music, mind you) is the most popular "music player", although relating it to my own experience this makes a lot of sense. It's not even a real music player, playlist randomisation is broken, and there's a whole lot of other stuff missing and broken when it comes to playing music (no seamless transitions, ads, GEMA/DMCA/whatever based on your location, uploads removing videos etc) Accessibility is by far the most important thing here. Even Spotify doesn't even come close despite being second place
- ngcc_hk 5y ago
  For classical music nothing beat YouTube. Other I am not sure but I expect you are right.
  - smolder 5y ago
    Except perhaps in the audio quality department... I don't know how much things have changed, but I recall youtube doing a bit of compression on the imported audio.

azeirah 5y ago

I tend to add whatever users request. There have been music players in the past that were requested but I was never able to add support for. The most notable request is... windows media player! I still don't know how to get real-time 'now playing' data from WMP! I'd imagine WMP being very high up on this list as well otherwise. Two others are the Amazon desktop app and the pandora fm desktop. I'd imagine my application could theoretically be used to scrobble to last.fm too for alllll music players you have on your desktop, but it'd be a bit of development work to add that There are many people coming from WMP asking me what music player they should use, my most common recommendations are Foobar2000, AIMP3 and clementine, by the way! There's a lot of really great music software out there that's just being ignored by the mainstream. It was kind of surprising to me though that YouTube (not even YouTube music, mind you) is the most popular "music player", although relating it to my own experience this makes a lot of sense. It's not even a real music player, playlist randomisation is broken, and there's a whole lot of other stuff missing and broken when it comes to playing music (no seamless transitions, ads, GEMA/DMCA/whatever based on your location, uploads removing videos etc) Accessibility is by far the most important thing here. Even Spotify doesn't even come close despite being second place

ngcc_hk 5y ago
For classical music nothing beat YouTube. Other I am not sure but I expect you are right.
- smolder 5y ago
  Except perhaps in the audio quality department... I don't know how much things have changed, but I recall youtube doing a bit of compression on the imported audio.