MPD

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2009–2021), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with MPD, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Hard to keep MPD reliable; client and audio stream are cumbersome to unify2021-10-18
Pressing pause takes about two seconds for audio to actually stop2021-02-16
Mpd is cumbersome to set up2017-07-26
Playlists get corrupted when the music directory structure changes2017-07-26
Installing on OS X was not straightforward; MacPorts version broken, manual steps needed2009-12-09