Resident Tankie

I am utterly uninterested in current affairs. My knowledge of them is limited to what seeps through to my relatively few Facebook friends' posts. Like @remi said of his native France, it helps that Italian newspapers are utter shite, have implemented paywalls, or both. (Actually, both). I used to read foreign newspapers but it got old very fast. There are also very few publications I tolerate, and almost none that I like. Every now and then I will find myself woefully outdated with the local news (so I get some "where have you been living all this time?!" looks) but I don't really care.

@MrL said in VLC - The new poster child for everything wrong with software development:

@Steve_The_Cynic said in VLC - The new poster child for everything wrong with software development:

@MrL said in VLC - The new poster child for everything wrong with software development:

IME all media players, video or music, are shitty. I don't know if it's a uniquely challenging field or what.

One of the big challenges is that the end-users have highly inconsistent expectations of what such a program can do and how it should present those capabilities.

I don't know if it explains fully the sheer retardedness of media players.

Looking for a usable player on android, I eventually conceded defeat. Every single one is somehow broken in a idiotic way. Some examples:

- no, I don't want to be able to only play shuffled songs of chosen artist
- no, I don't want to make everything a 'playlist'
- no, I don't want whole screen surface to be the 'next' button
- no, I don't want to categorize everything only by 'genre'
- no, I don't want autogenerated 'mood' playlists thrown in my face all the time
- no, I don't want to share every click on facebook, or anywhere
- no, I don't want to rate songs with retarded stars/smileys/notes
and so on.

Try Musicolet. It has some retardation with the play queue (but it might be configurable) but it looks decent, has no ads, it's lightweight and is really the best in a very bad bunch.