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This is a blast from the past. I remember using at least two of those skins. Winamp had easy to use advanced features. I remember choosing it over the windows player. I eventually picked up a Gigabeat and needed to use both players.

I still don’t know if I would go back to self managed music collections. There is an impulse to do it but I enjoy the near instant satisfaction from Apple Music. The desktop Apple music player however is lacking features and speediness.



I never moved away from managing my own music collection. Maybe I'm stuck in the past but I never saw the appeal of subscription services.


I also still keep my own collection of music. But streaming is good for discovering new things, yet I'm not subscribed to any streaming service. Reason being that the software they provide is universally terrible.

What I'd really like to see is streaming services offer an API for 3rd party clients to use, so that you could for example have a plugin for a competently architected music player like foobar2000, instead of having to use the unholy abomination that is itunes, for example.


Spotify does provide an API. I've used it with various command-line clients on a headless linux box. For example, https://mopidy.com/

There is even a foobar2000 spotify component, though I haven't used foobar2000 in a long time, so cannot vouch for its quality.




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