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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah well, VLC has been open source for 23 years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Do people really use VLC to listen to music?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I used to, 15 years ago.

Good times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yes in android

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Music, no. All sorts of other audio like BBC radio dramas, yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yes. I mostly use it for video though, but since my Video and Music libraries are side by side, I play my music in it too. I'm not really interested in the visualizer stuff so I'm not looking directly at the player, but I think I know what you are going to say, that it's organization and search capabilities for music has a lot of room for improvement, ha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I used, but today I use Clementine (is still alive) and sometimes QMMP with somo winamp skins

VLC It's a good Music player if you only need to play music