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Open source video player VLC will get a new UI this year with 4.0 launch:
News website Protocol ran an extensive piece on the history and status of the popular open source video player VLC, and the story includes new details about the next major version of the software. Among other things, VLC 4.0 will bring a complete user interface overhaul.
"We modified the interface to be a bit more modern," VideoLAN foundation President Jean-Baptiste Kempf told the publication. Kempf had previously shown some version of a new interface about two years ago, but it's unclear at this point how much that one resembles the one the team plans to introduce with VLC 4.0.
While the article doesn't list every change coming, it does outline a couple other possible directions and priorities for VLC.
Read the article for more details.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday February 13 2021, @08:09PM (3 children)
I guess it's wait and see what kind of UI-atrocity they can come up with. I gather it will be more then just skin deep and not just a little customization tweak. I guess if it's to horrible someone will just fork to bring the old one back -- VLC Classic or something. Otherwise I guess there is always MPC.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 13 2021, @08:51PM (2 children)
Why were you using VLC for music? Even then, I would rather use mpv.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @01:43AM
VLC for music?
Here's a weird use case, it's the only thing on my phone which will *reliably* play the music collection on my NAS over smb (at home) and https (when out wandering).
Various other players work up to a point, Aimp seems to be the best of the bunch, but as it still chokes on the network stuff I've relegated it to only playing local files.
That's only for the phones though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2021, @06:53PM
Since Google fucked their music player, it's been my go to on Android.