Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby

Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Winamp hasn’t changed. In this instance, I consider that a good thing

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  • Shurimal@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Winamp hasn't changed, but Foobar2000 and its plugins have only got better over the years.

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  • Bonehead@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does it still really whip the llamas ass?

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    • pleb_maximus@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It sure does.

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    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To this day

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• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t ever remember a time that iTunes as a music player wasn’t a shitty product, especially on windows.

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  • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At my last job all the default company phones where iPhones. So all the windows laptops had iTunes pre-installed by IT on them.

    Having refused apple products due to poverty and being forced to use a Mac desktop at a previous job (clusterfuck) I had not seen it in years.

    It’s one of the the most poorly designed, confusing dumpster fires of a program around. The company of “it just works” my ass.

    I swear it was like 4 different uninstalls to get rid of it. Only to restart and see another mysterious program appear. I have gotten malware that was easier to get rid of.

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• SwampYankee@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was in the same boat as you about 5 years ago - I had been stubbornly using iTunes, but it was so slow and the store was just an annoyance, it was getting in the way of me actually listening to my music. I ended up choosing MusicBee over Winamp or foobar2000 because it has all the library management stuff (even a sync to mobile device function) and a great interface right out of the box.

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• flintheart_glomgold@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yah, and before that SoundJam, an indy app which Apple bought and re-skinned into iTunes.

  At the time it was all wonderful and intuitive. Drag and drop everything, beautifully curated collections, simple and dependable, and sitting right there on your hard drive / iPod so you always had everything.

  Now it’s all a sewer of bullshit, annoying and alienating to use, it makes music a miserable experience. They wonder why people don’t want to pay for it. And use the law to beat us over the head until we submit to our own misery.

  We really gotta update consumer laws for the digital age so there’s a reasonable balance between corporations and consumers again.

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