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
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.
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.
Mpc is literally designed to look like the media player from windows 98....just with actual functionality.
VLC doesn't need to be new it needs to be good. How about a nice forward=next in folder backward=back in folder? How about a nice click-anywhere-to-pause. How about being able to move the video player around without grabbing exactly the right piece of chrome? What about sane fucking volume normalization instead of letting you accidentally crank the volume to 200%? These are all things mpc does right.
Given your description I'm assuming Linux. Mpc is one of the things I find impossible to replace on Linux because all of the options are VLC or yet-another-half-baked-mpv-wrapper authored by lickmydragonballz93 on GitHub. On the other hand VLC has the strong half-baked UI vibes that Linux is known for, so maybe you're used to it?
VLC is fairly common but the people who use Kodi, jellyfin, or Plex are in a very small minority compared to everyone else.
Media Player Classic enjoyer here 👌
(Though for some very specific use cases I still have VLC installed and sometimes use it)
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
XBMC is still a thing?
They re-named it "Kodi" but a lot of the stuff in it doesn't work very well anymore