I gladly pay the $15 or whatever per month to avoid that. Yeah, but unless you have tens of thousands of dollars of content, you get bored listening to the same damn stuff. Same with purchased digital content now that the idiots have finally realized that DRM is shit. At least with my CD collection I can rip and listen to it at my leisure. Problem with streaming is that you don't own the content.
It's way too inconvenient when you have more than just a few tracks.Īs much as I liked Winamp (like many, it was my player for decades), I don’t see how it could be a competitive product today when the trend is to stream instead of hoard mp3s. How many streaming services force a user to dig around through an ass load of individual folders looking for an individual file? The metadata is stored in each file's ID3 tags, so even a total loss of the database is only an inconvenience. Music streaming should be possible for any level of broadband connection today (except Verizon or AT&T where some parts of the country have outages today). That way anything at home is available from any where in the world you have internet. If you want music on your phone or tablet, copy it over using normal file manager features, not some bloated, tracking music app.Īnd if you want to access music on your LAN, just setup a little VPN into it. Xmms, xmms2, cmus are all options for cruft-less players. Who needs a DB that store metadata that isn't retained when the DB fails or you change to a different player? I've always preferred music players where I could point at a directory and say "play."Īll the extra cruft wasn't desirable.
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