Comment by Marsymars
3 hours ago
I feel like iTunes/Music gets worse with every version, to the point where I've effectively abandoned it finally after macOS 26.
My music collection is some tens of thousands of files served via a DAAP media server - since macOS 26, Apple Music will only play music for 5-15 minutes before giving up and just stopping.
For years, it's had a trivially reproducible bug where pausing Apple Music while playing from a DAAP server, then restarting the DAAP server will crash Apple Music.
After trying basically every airsonic/subsonic/plex/etc. alternative, I finally settled on simply using foobar2000 to play from an SMB share.
I share the sentiment, even with fond memories of foobar2000/winamp/audacious, I've gone the route of just resorting to a "simpler" setup, just a collection of shell scripts to manage mpv to play my files from my disk/shares/http
This is how it looks on macOS, and Linux:
https://gmt4.github.io/mpvc/assets/mpvc-fzf-mac.jpg
https://gmt4.github.io/mpvc/