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It feels like music players are becoming a thing for old geezers, like everything that requires you to have your data on a local disk. The 'modern' approach is
by fph 2y ago
It feels like music players are becoming a thing for old geezers, like everything that requires you to have your data on a local disk. The 'modern' approach is just streaming everything off the net, no local storage required.
(I'm writing this as a disapproving old geezer, just in case it wasn't clear.)
- RealStickman_ 2y agoThere's a large and growing number of music players for streaming from your own server. You get the best of both worlds by owning your music and having it accessible anywhere.
- oceanplexian 2y agoThey are all so poorly written though. None of the OSS media players come even remotely close to the UX of Spotify, and that's speaking as someone who has paid way too much for Roon because it's at least 80% of the way there.
- pfych 2y agoI've really been liking plexamp on my phone & desktop. It's not perfect & I've recently swapped to just using an iPod but it was good while I was using it.
- conception 2y agoEvermusic https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evermusic-cloud-music-player/id885367198 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/evermusic-cloud-music-player/i... is pretty solid.
- attendant3446 2y agoUX of Spotify - you mean annoying podcasts, ads for the concerts by the bands you've never heard of and mixes with ghost artists? My main issue with Spotify is how bloated it is, how they ruin the UX with almost every update.
- ekianjo 2y agoYou don't need to always listen to new pieces of music to enjoy music. Once you realize that you can focus on owning the stuff you like and listen to that most of the time
- edgarvaldes 2y agoPlexamp is a good player for your local files (personal server) that you can stream.
- hnuser435 2y agoI use it and it's mostly great, but the experience on Linux desktop isn't the best as it feels like primarily a mobile app.
- yapyap 2y agoeh, for the masses yes but it depends on what people u surround urself with.
- silisili 2y agoI must be an even older geezer, as I detest all the late wave music players that became full screen things that load music from everywhere. I organize my mp3s into folders by genre, then named by artist - title. To play one I double click it from the system file browser, and just want a tiny, og winamp style player to open and play that one song. Or multi select for an instant playlist.
- fluoridation 2y agoI do the same thing, and players (mostly on Android) that only support metadata-based browsing annoy me to no end. Like, just give a file browser so I can load a directory, for god's sake! It's much, much less effort than implementing a media library!
- whoisthemachine 2y ago> Like, just give a file browser so I can load a directory, for god's sake! It's much, much less effort than implementing a media library! I see you don't know the challenges of disk access on Android for developers.
- briHass 2y agoI've been using Music Folder Player (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.zorillasoft.musicfolderplayer.donate https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.zorillasoft...) for over a decade for this very reason. I think Android has now made this type of player almost obsolete. Every app has its own file sandbox and apps must go through an abstraction for media that works poorly.
- gitaarik 2y agoI use Foldplay https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pnhdroid.foldplay https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pnhdroid.f...
- cwmoore 2y agoI've never found a playlist editor better than Winamp. Open a folder tree of all of my music and I could quickly enqueue an hour of exactly what I wanted to hear and if that changed, swap in a few tracks, or an entire album or act from a folder. It took a long time to build up my library and I knew it very, very well.