Windows still ships with Windows Media Player, which is what I use now. No idea how it rates in terms of efficiency but it does what I need better than any of the players he reviewed, and then some.
Specifically love being able to find music by year, and while not the simplest UI, it's playlist builder does what I need. Wish I could run it on my phone.
I do suspect however that my use cases are unusual in that I don't stream music, and have a large library replicated on my PC, Surface, and my phone - and I've spent years completing and cleaning up the meta data, which Windows Media Player makes really good use of.
I don't use WMP but I am the same as you. I don't stream. I see no use in constantly wasting internet on something I can download and manage diligently by myself.
Be sure that there's quite a lot of us out there still but we don't like to tout it, lest the cool kids attack. :)
Specifically love being able to find music by year, and while not the simplest UI, it's playlist builder does what I need. Wish I could run it on my phone.
I do suspect however that my use cases are unusual in that I don't stream music, and have a large library replicated on my PC, Surface, and my phone - and I've spent years completing and cleaning up the meta data, which Windows Media Player makes really good use of.