[tryauuum]

It's kind of strange I have never seen any other player where you can just click on a folder and play music from it. Like two clicks, one on a folder (which loads the list of tracks) and second to start playing this list

of course it's doable in any player but not with such ease

[ZoomZoomZoom]

Before foobar2k there was an outstanding player named Apollo[1] with almost a perfect UI: basically, just a playlist grid. It supported associating with directories, of course, so playback was also two clicks away.

Just checked, it still works great, although, the limited codec support and no scrobbling is a dealbreaker for me. Same reason I had to ditch it years ago.

Would love to peek at the source code of that program. One of the last messages its developer Heikki Ylinen left on his website reads:

  If you want to know what the future of digital music looks like, I recommend giving Spotify a go. And before anyone says anything, I know it has been done before, but this time it looks like it's been done right. And this is just the beginning.

Pretty ironic.

[1] https://www.rarewares.org/rrw/apollo.php

[skeaker]

Hardly ironic. It's not a stretch to say they were right, Spotify is pretty synonymous with digital music even for all of its flaws. (Disclaimer, I don't use it myself.)

[ZoomZoomZoom]

What's ironic is that the tone of that message is pretty positive, even though it comes from an author of a pretty successful freeware media player for a PC. You'd think they should have known better.

[defrost]

If you liked Apollo then you might like Boom now - https://perkele.cc/software/boom

No scrobbling (that I now of), codecs up to August 2022, and recommended by the maker of Foobar2K as "more minimal, simpler, uncluttered" than F2K.

[AdmiralAsshat]

My workflow of playing music for about 20 years was right-clicking on a folder in Windows Explorer and selecting "Play in Winamp" from the context menu.

[haunter]

>I have never seen any other player where you can just click on a folder and play music from it.

VLC. Right click on folder > Play with VLC media player

[tryauuum]

yes, but this requires alt-tabbing from VLC first, so more than two clicks.

[ClueslessTech99]

I was looking for a player that had this functionality when I switched to Linux. Finally settled on Clementine which has both a library & "file browser" mode.

In the browser mode you can just right click and add the folder to your playlist. Just like in foobar2000.

[47282847]

+1 for Clementine

[nosrepa]

Consider switching to strawberry, it's a fork of Clementine. Clementine hasn't really been updated in many years (aside from auto translation merges and a typo here and there).

[The_Colonel]

I used to use 1by1 for this. It's a very minimalistic music player (200 KiB) doing exactly this.

[tmcdos]

I still use 1by1, more than 15 years.

[skydhash]

On MacOS, I used IINA for that. You drag a folder and it plays it, switching by default to Music Mode if it’s audio files..

[haspok]

Deadbeef does exactly this. It is more minimalistic / gets more out of your way, so I love it!