Comment by integricho
2 days ago
For me, the ideal music player UI started and ended with Winamp, and I never liked any of the higher level ones, no need for music libraries etc. Recursive directory scan, delete what is not needed, flat playlist, can save any, the end. Also, the minimalistic window of Winamp is just perfect.
Winamp was annoying to use and the vast majority of the themes were butt ugly. iTunes’ single window streamlined UI was much better. It was perfectly happy with whatever recursive folder structure you wanted and its mini player window was just fine and was not an eye sore.
The big advantage of Winamp was that it ran on Windows, and on ancient PCs at the time.
The 'Win' in Winamp was referring to Windows. This is a Mac application.
There is a mac clone https://re-amp.ru/
Neat, but source code would be nice.
The platform is irrelevant, that UI design would apply to most platforms (MacOS for sure).
Winamp is OG, so why not both!