I may never have mastered vim but in Winamp 2 I had Q (queue) and J (jump to & alt-Q queue) absolutely nailed. Even with my peasantlike 15k tracks I felt like a boss navigating around my collection-as-a-playlist in split-second bursts of keyboard scrabbling. Sadly these shortcuts didn't make it into Winamp 5. Ever since, it's always struck me how popular music player UIs have become slower - doing the equivalent search/queue in Spotify or Apple Music might require the mouse and waiting for loading spinners.
9 Comments
matogoro@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 3y
Have you tried QMMP? It's an awesome modern alternative
JSkier@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y
Audacious on *nix also supports Winamp skins and the classic player 👍
Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y
I'll second that for Linux. On Windows I used to use XMplay.
thomask@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 3y
I may never have mastered vim but in Winamp 2 I had Q (queue) and J (jump to & alt-Q queue) absolutely nailed. Even with my peasantlike 15k tracks I felt like a boss navigating around my collection-as-a-playlist in split-second bursts of keyboard scrabbling. Sadly these shortcuts didn't make it into Winamp 5. Ever since, it's always struck me how popular music player UIs have become slower - doing the equivalent search/queue in Spotify or Apple Music might require the mouse and waiting for loading spinners.
llii@feddit.de · 4 pts · 3y
100 x the processing power, 10 x slower. Unfortunately that's where most software is heading.
lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y
I used to put on my music and have MilkDrop go fullscreen
natecox@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 3y
Winamp can’t be retro, it only came out a couple of years ago!!
Man I feel old.
kai@mesita.link · 1 pts · 3y
Back when software had personality lol