First off - thanks for this thread. We've had some wonderful weather this April here in England, but today is very wet and much cooler, a perfect time to be at home during lockdown, after working this morning, and re-appraise' both my online and 'from file' listening and viewing habits on the various players mentioned here.
I've been lazy I guess, and used VLC for just about everything it can handle for some time. I like it for this reason -
and have been very comfortable using it for maybe 15 years. I've tried many other players over that time and before, Foobar200 is a blast from the past that I'm going to check out again - thanks for the reminders that it exists. I'm going to play around with other players mentioned above, thanks for the mentions.
Warn the neighbours it may be noisy here!
Edit - I should add that I use Spotify for streaming music and would like to use it to discover more music, but its algorithms are rubbish for finding similar things to what I listen to, or maybe my choices vary too much for them to make head or tail of my tastes.