Gawd does Winamp still exist. I gave up on it probably more than a decade ago.
I find foobar2000 superior in virtually every way, once you get the hang of it.

Or you could use something like Kodi ... previously XBMC.

Next you will claim you still use Napster. LOL

Ha ha ha, just fooling with you ... each to their own. :)

Sure it does. Sticking to it too, does its job, no need for anything else. And classic skin means it stays there on the side when running and still manages to display the needed stuff without taking up more screen space even when looking at it.

I must have used Winamp for a couple of years at least, and then got turned off it, and it is so long ago, that the reason or reasons elude me now, and clearly I had no desire or reason to go back to it. I probably just outgrew its limitations, as I have especially been very audio & music concentric since my early teens, and I don't tolerate the lack of what I call necessary (I would actually say 'normal') features.

I've had a gut full over the years of nerds who think they know something about music, when they create hardware and software. The world is full of instant experts trying to make a quick buck, and those that employ them on the cheap.

Hell, the iPod when it turned up was a huge revelation, even if a much lacking one at times ... same with iTunes. At least we have smart phones and some really good apps now.

And I've gotta a Toyota that is 4 years old and has an audio system created by some idiot trapped in the 1980s one moment and lost in the 2000s the next ... and no easy way to replace the idiocy, because it is tied to the navigation element.

Anyway, please forgive my little rant. Clearly Winamp is fit for purpose for you, so continue to enjoy. :)

P.S. I vaguely recall installing the Winamp app on my Samsung phone a few years back, and it couldn't do what I needed, so I removed it. Now I use either AIMP, foobar2000 or Kodi on my phone, and I'm happy as Larry.

It may seem archaic, but I use desktop icons all the time. I don't like the movement that created Windows 8 where you had to jump through some hoops to even see your desktop because that OS was designed to simulate a cell-phone type interface. And I think Chromebooks, which have some similar features pre-loaded, are trash. I'm not judging those who don't use desktop icons, but I do and I like it that way.

Mine looks similar to that and I say NO!

Try us. Any problems with music production over the last 20 years?

Nope. Not at all

That looks like there is a problem.

I don't use the desktop as a place to store anything and I don't care what's on there, it has some icons right now but only because some programs create them automatically and I don't bother to delete them.

Nope. It's all covered in program windows anyway.

Only for the games I am actively playing right now and a few applications I'm always using. A mix of both desktop icons and my own custom toolbar menus.

Just for the record, my use of the word Nerds does not refer to Gamers at all. It refers to those who build and develop software and hardware, and neither does it refer to all of them, as there are many great nerds ... hell with all the programming I do I would be considered a nerd myself.

Anyway, at least one member here completely misunderstood me.

Gamers were maybe mostly nerds back in the 90s, but all sorts of people play games now, and it would be wrong to collectively call them nerds.

I also wasn't attacking Winamp and its developers with my previous post here, not specifically anyway, and like I said, I forget why I stopped using it.

I like uncluttered desktops, so I tend to not like having a bunch of icons ruining the image of whatever wallpaper I'm using at the time.

Back in the day with NoCD cracks I used desktop icons all the time but now I rarely use them even though I have a few on my PC like The Crew 2, ESO, Fallout 76, Rocket Legue, and Metro 2033 Redux. I don't like clutter so I usually just delete those icons.

I use desktop icons quite a bit, I find them helpful to keep track of what games I have installed without having to go through multiple launchers.