We should hire some penguins to direct them to a decent OS.

I know my Llamas ass gets whipped still to this day, and I always have my traffic cones out. it even works with that failure of a google car whatever too which is . ok I guess

I'd still rather just use a cable and not have my phone force Bluetooth and whatnot

I try to get media player classic after I install windows. At least the latest supported incarnation.

I love VLC as a concept but the interface never gelled with me.

Although these days I’m more into Linux. Fedora FTW

For mp3s, I'm still kicking the llamas ass with my beloved winamp... VLC for everything else though.

Most people just use whatever their computer came with and don't think about it, and are not savvy enough to consider that there might be other options.

I tried using VLC but i couldn't get to work properly or better say i couldn't set it up to work like GOM player that i used for years before it became ad riddled garbage, but i did find MPC-HC and it was functionally the same just without the ads.

To expand what VLC was missing, it was the setting to play the whole folder and to remember where it stopped when i closed it, it might be me that was too stupid to find the setting but with MPC-HC i found the settings immediately and set it up to work as i wanted.

Sometimes people just use what's pre-installed. The last time I used Windows Media Player was in Vista. It was fine though.

I think I did associate mp3 files with media player for a bit. To prevent double clicking an mp3 from opening winamp and overwriting my playlist while I was maintaining it by hand. It would save on exit (maybe even on change as I don't recall losing changes to crashes, though they were rare), but if you loaded a different playlist (or a single mp3 "playlist"), then the previously loaded one was gone so hopefully you remembered to save.

Later on I just used the library and my star ratings for each song, plus some filters, to auto generate my playlist and no longer needed WMP.

I sometimes used the old one to play music that I didn’t want going into ITunes as it had an easier to use playlist than VLC did (at the time at least)

this for video, and foobar2000 for music.

And with a name that just rolls off the tongue, too.

If the old one still works perfectly fine, why do we need a more "modern" one. Why are we not given the choice? Maybe I don't want the extra "features" (probably some ai crap)