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Hey folks

The time has finally come. We are looking for a suitable equivalent to Winamp (5.9.0)

We did briefly try 5.9.2, but it broke lots of stuff, so... yeah

We don't want to stop using Winamp, but it doesn't play nicely with PersistentWindows [github.com] (which we have to use, as Windows 10 is an arsehat), will randomly crash, and won't allow us to put dates as anything other than YYYY

The date matters because occasionally artists more than one album in the same year, so we need at least YYYY-MM

We originally stayed with Winamp for:

• the plugins (especially to play music game sound files and to keep the monitoring from sleeping whilst music is playing);
• gapless playback (back when this wasn't something that most players had!!!)
• the dark skins (at a time before dark mode was normal); and
• the simple, easy-to-use layout
  • e.g.,
  • a search bar that searches everything, showing artists on the left, albums on the right, and tracks down the bottom, with customisation options for each;
  • the playlist on the right;
  • the album art above; and
  • the clear controls and song progress.

We're still in AuDHD burnout and we do not have the spoons or executive function right now to go on another deep dive.

So, could someone just recommend us a modern alternative that's Windows 10 compatible, ideally free and open source (but willing to pay if it's good), has dark mode, and can ideally stop monitors from going to sleep whilst songs are playing

For further context, the player we use on our Android phone is PowerAmp [powerampapp.com] and our entire music collection is in FLAC.