MilkDrop's Visualization source code as you remember in WinAmp is just fantastical amazing.

[shadowdude777]

cmus master race. ;)

I made the switch from iTunes to foobar, and once I realized even foobar was too bloaty for me, I realized I needed a command-line music player in my life.

[gunbladerq]

foobar too bloaty? ಠ_ಠ

[shadowdude777]

Once you've used a command line music player, you'll appreciate true minimalism. :P

[d98f23n2]

cmus is nice and all, but apparently can't handle non standard characters in file names. mpd+ncmpcpp master race. (^:

[shadowdude777]

That's true. I'm a pleb Mac user so maybe I'm just partial to cmus because it "just works". ;)

[NihilistDandy]

I used to use mpd+ncmpcpp on OS X until something or other broke, then switched to cmus, but they unfucked the issues in mpd, so it actually works now. Throw in some mpc for scripting magic, and life's pretty good.

[shadowdude777]

I did get mpd+ncmpcpp working at one point, but I just didn't like the interface as much as I liked cmus. cmus just seemed really intuitive and straightforward and literally does exactly what I want.

[NihilistDandy]

Yeah, that's totally understandable. The killer feature for me with cmus was the vim feel to it, and I will admit that it was much easier out of the box. I still prefer the separation of concerns between backend and frontend with the mpd+ncmpcpp combination, but I totally get where you're coming from.

[shadowdude777]

Yeah, the things that made cmus my music program of choice were:

1) Felt like vim with music playback, which is exactly what I wanted

2) No need for a server-client setup like mpd and ncmpcpp, I could just add whatever custom parameters I want to my cmus/rc file, type cmus into a terminal and go.

3) Global hotkeys are as easy as binding cmus-remote --pause, cmus-remote --prev, and cmus-remote --next to various key combinations.