[ugh]

I don’t really understand what a simple player would be good for. All those simple players were kind of ok when you had a few dozen mp3 files on your PC but they just don’t work comfortably for a few thousand files. Using the file system to browse music is no fun at all, you are just throwing away so much metadata you could leverage.

It’s trivial to let iTunes display all albums I bought in 2010. I know of no easy way to do that with a file manager.

[wladimir]

A simple lightweight player is good because my use case for a music player generally is to listen music, and not to do extensive database queries on the metadata. In that case, a simple minimal interface gets in the way less. I usually had the window in the corner of my screen so I could see what song is playing and skip/rewind tracks.

I have no problems with advanced features, but I simply don't like the big clunky windows that pop up by default.

[sjs]

I use my music player to play music. I don't sort through my filesystem painstakingly building a list, I just say "play songs in these genres" or "play songs in these genres that I've rated at least 3 stars". Technically these are DB queries but it's not like I'm typing SQL.

When I want a small player window I have that too. To each his own, but your arguments against music libraries are pretty bizarre and make no sense to me.

[ugh]

I don’t do extensive database queries. I browse my music.