Shitting on Windows built-in media player if you didn't know

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In those times there had been more than one popular free app that suddenly started installing crap on user's machines.

I guess he just didn't want to become attached to junkware being installed on people's machines.

I don't have the details but may they wanted to buy the source code from him and close it?

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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 vibes that Linux is known for, so maybe you're used to it.