I just switched back to Winamp after getting fed up with the latest release of iTunes.
At least it's a real application that I can download and own for myself, and doesn't stop working just because it's no longer being supported.
This is a great example of why I don't move all my data to the cloud, or use browser-based apps for things that matter to me.
Hopefully they'll release the codebase to the world.
> This is a great example of why I don't move all my data to the cloud
Music is a great use-case for keeping data in the cloud. You can have a consistent music library and can use any player client-side. Personally I prefer the spotify "all-you-can-listen" model, but I have a bunch of MP3s that aren't on spotify that I seamlessly stream from dropbox (either to winamp or the spotify client, which allows you to sync local files).
There is so much lost when moving to the cloud.
Off the top of my head: You tie your data to one provider instead of simply physical media, you lose discoverability (will your kids browse your album choices 30 years from now?), exporting/importing quality is at the mercy of the provider (for example Amazon dropped several dozen mp3s when I migrated a few gigs to Google), and of course you place your data at the mercy of a business, (is any tech company eternal and/or always interested in providing cloud services?)
The cloud is way overdone, after giving a variety of services a go over the last few years, I'm actually pulling back.
That's why you run your own "cloud" music service. Personally I use Subsonic, and it is amazing.
https://github.com/ampache/ampache
https://web.archive.org/web/20130302160313/http://ampache.or...
https://web.archive.org/web/20130306044144/http://ampache.or...
Within the last year the project ditched their website in favor of just using github. However, strangely they didn't migrate any the content from their website to it.