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I'm old so I have music files all on network media instead of these cloud services like Spotify or whatever.

As such, I have lots and lots of them and the playlist (and management of the listing) becomes cumbersome and even causes apps to hang or even quit. Any suggestions on playlist management in a music player, or an individual solution to either?

What players are suggested out there? I use windows (for Steam/gaming when I do), but am also experienced in many flavors of *nix.

I'm old so I have music files all on network media instead of these cloud services like Spotify or whatever. As such, I have lots and lots of them and the playlist (and management of the listing) becomes cumbersome and even causes apps to hang or even quit. Any suggestions on playlist management in a music player, or an individual solution to either? What players are suggested out there? I use windows (for Steam/gaming when I do), but am also experienced in many flavors of *nix.

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VLC is a solid option. Been around forever, free, supports network media streaming (audio and video). Has a mobile app as well as desktop.

mpv (mpv.io) is the best choice of desktop video player. It can also play audio but it's geared towards being a video player.

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These are my two answers as well. I I really only use mpv because there's some odd ball stuff that VLC kinda chokes on but mov will play it all. It just lacks a lot of the QoL features in VLC.

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VLC media player for the win. Open source, supported on most platforms, no user tracking.

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I'll second that. VLC is my main media player for PC

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Winamp, Itunes version 11 (nothing after); Foobar 2000; Audacious (foss) and I still use windows media player.

For android I use paid poweramp.

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Winamp, still the best.

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It Really Whips The Llama's Ass

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Can it open and access files on a NAS?

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Not sure, check their website.

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It is basically like Winamp, but I like its features, customization and skins better. Android version also seems to work really well.

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cat hitler_seech >/dev/dsp

Because real computer users listen to it raw.

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I used to use Mediamonkey, but then switched to iTunes only because of my iPhone. For $25 a year iTunes Match will upload every song and playlist and you can stream those songs from your phone via the cloud. I have many rare live recording an and every one of them uploaded to the cloud. iTunes still sucks if you don’t use a phone to stream

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Been using iTunes since the early days of Napster. Still works fine.

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Windows media player for the visualizations. Stared at those things for a long time.

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is great at handling large collections and playlists, and is cross-platform. Or if you want something more like winamp, then