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I Built My Own Audio Player

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292 points nexo-v1 | 1 comments | 22 May 25 14:09 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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josefritzishere ◴[22 May 25 15:19 UTC] No.44062960[source]▶
It's interesting that most/all of the available tools for playing digital music, a well-known and very popular activity... suck. Do we think that's enshittification or product managers misunderstanding the market? In a normal universe one might otherwise expect it to be saturated with options.
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1. bigiain ◴[22 May 25 23:31 UTC] No.44068278[source]▶
I think it's a combination of both scale and people's expectations.

As the size of your music library goes up, the UX changes. The original iPod UX was (at least for me) genuinely awesome. It became less awesome as iPods got 40, 60, and larger storage, and it was pretty much unusable when I modded one to have 1TB of storage.

And related but different, everybody's expectation of what "a large music collection" is varies wildly.

I don't necessarily think this is intentional enshittification, I lean more towards "there's no right solution for everybody, and there's probably not even a dozen different right solutions that encompass most people".