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It's kind of strange I have never seen any other player where you can just click on a folder and play music from it. Like two clicks, one on a folder (which loa
by tryauuum 2y ago
It's kind of strange I have never seen any other player where you can just click on a folder and play music from it. Like two clicks, one on a folder (which loads the list of tracks) and second to start playing this list
of course it's doable in any player but not with such ease
- AdmiralAsshat 2y agoMy workflow of playing music for about 20 years was right-clicking on a folder in Windows Explorer and selecting "Play in Winamp" from the context menu.
- ZoomZoomZoom 2y agoBefore foobar2k there was an outstanding player named Apollo[1] with almost a perfect UI: basically, just a playlist grid. It supported associating with directories, of course, so playback was also two clicks away. Just checked, it still works great, although, the limited codec support and no scrobbling is a dealbreaker for me. Same reason I had to ditch it years ago. Would love to peek at the source code of that program. One of the last messages its developer Heikki Ylinen left on his website reads: If you want to know what the future of digital music looks like, I recommend giving Spotify a go. And before anyone says anything, I know it has been done before, but this time it looks like it's been done right. And this is just the beginning. Pretty ironic. [1] https://www.rarewares.org/rrw/apollo.php https://www.rarewares.org/rrw/apollo.php
- skeaker 2y agoHardly ironic. It's not a stretch to say they were right, Spotify is pretty synonymous with digital music even for all of its flaws. (Disclaimer, I don't use it myself.)
- ZoomZoomZoom 2y agoWhat's ironic is that the tone of that message is pretty positive, even though it comes from an author of a pretty successful freeware media player for a PC. You'd think they should have known better.
- defrost 2y agoIf you liked Apollo then you might like Boom now - https://perkele.cc/software/boom https://perkele.cc/software/boom No scrobbling (that I now of), codecs up to August 2022, and recommended by the maker of Foobar2K as "more minimal, simpler, uncluttered" than F2K.
- haunter 2y ago>I have never seen any other player where you can just click on a folder and play music from it. VLC. Right click on folder > Play with VLC media player
- tryauuum 2y agoyes, but this requires alt-tabbing from VLC first, so more than two clicks.
- The_Colonel 2y agoI used to use 1by1 for this. It's a very minimalistic music player (200 KiB) doing exactly this.
- tmcdos 2y agoI still use 1by1, more than 15 years.
- haspok 2y agoDeadbeef does exactly this. It is more minimalistic / gets more out of your way, so I love it!
- skydhash 2y agoOn MacOS, I used IINA for that. You drag a folder and it plays it, switching by default to Music Mode if it’s audio files..
- ClueslessTech99 2y agoI was looking for a player that had this functionality when I switched to Linux. Finally settled on Clementine which has both a library & "file browser" mode. In the browser mode you can just right click and add the folder to your playlist. Just like in foobar2000.