And jeez what happened to it anyways? It actually used to be pretty decent back in the 98/XP/7 days :(

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    who the hell still uses windows media player? I use windows and everyone else I know who uses windows never opens WMP. We all have VLC for videos, but for the movies that we all totally pay for we use Kodi/XBMC or jellyfin

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      9 months ago

      Media Player Classic enjoyer here 👌

      (Though for some very specific use cases I still have VLC installed and sometimes use it)

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        I just use Media Player Classic to rip CDs the handful of times a year I get a new CD and just want to quickly rip it without running to a different computer

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      VLC is fairly common but the people who use Kodi, jellyfin, or Plex are in a very small minority compared to everyone else.

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      Mpc is significantly better than VLC. Occasionally I need VLC to play a file but we’re now talking every 1-2 years. VLCs UI is baaad.

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        VLC’s UI on windows hasn’t changed much in over 10 years now. It definitely would benefit from a search function to quickly find certain settings to fine tune your expirience with it. But I sandbox all of my software, so no cache files or data it writes onto the drive I make it write to ever sticks around for very long.

        Any time I need to open a link from a friend I copypaste the link into a sandboxed browser that doesn’t have access to any of the shit going on in the other sandboxes instead of opening it rawdog into that same sandbox.