foobar2k

foobar columns UI got support for dark mode last year, and I feel the urge to mention you can finally make foobar look pretty decent without having to comb through pages of third-party themes. this leaves mIRC as the last application I still regularly use without a dark mode, which I think we can confidently say is unlikely to ever get one

most of my adolescence involved using some kind of winamp 2.x, which is still totally serviceable, but I do prefer hanging on to software that has current community support. winamp still maintains vbulletin forums even through their acquisitions and seems to have some original staff posting, so for as much teeth gnashing as I’ve done about them legitimizing NFTs there seem to be people there still interested in keeping their heads down and making decent software. I installed the latest 5.x and it looks untouched at surface level from when I regularly used it, like I untombed a program from an old IDE drive

my final stop here for now was importing all of my soundcloud downloads as a watched folder and now my genre tags are polluted in the funniest way possible with nine variations of “aikatsu”