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Soo many good memories with Winamp!

But I always had a few major gripes with it:

- The tiny interface was hard to navigate.

- The queue was ephemeral and much too easy to clear. Any time there were more than one person controlling the music someone would by accident clear out all selected songs when all whey wanted to do was add their selection to the queue. With no way to restore it.

My personal vote is iTunes 4.5 with Winamp 2 a close second.

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Tiny interface was quite nice, and not that small, considering it was built during the age of 800x600 or 1024x720 resolutions.

Yes, most of us had CRT:s back then. But it was still too small. Someone at my uni made a better skin to solve the problem (whose name and skin I have lost since).

You can change the double click action to "enqueue item" instead of "replace queue". You can also use the "Playlist Undo" extension.

Was that really possible with Winamp 2 back then? I remember _every single person_ on our local music irc channel griping about that problem. No one had found that setting in that case, we all would have loved it.

I don't know when it was added.

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