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Winamp
Raised as a usability problem by 49 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 32 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Library and playlist are separate, so playing a file takes extra stepsUnreviewed
20102026- Slow to use and failed to load existing playlists2020-02-14
- Library and playlist are separate, so playing a file takes extra steps unlike other players2013-04-27
- Can't find how to add or reorder tracks in playlists2011-11-04
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 50 complaints
- Animated custom pointers made the computer nearly unusable by consuming resources2026-07-02
- Winamp 3 felt slow to use, pushing music lovers to switch to foobar20002026-04-18
- Non-ASCII characters in ID3 tags make some files unplayable2025-11-15
- Winamp was annoying to use, with ugly themes2025-07-10
- Dark primary color makes the interface unusable due to poor contrast2024-10-09
- Grab handle looks draggable but only acts as a click target to play video2024-10-08
- Arrow keys and space stop working depending on where the user last clicked2024-10-08
- Dark blue on dark blue text is hard to read2024-09-24
- Single-click selection without hover-select is buried behind a multi-step registry workaround2024-07-26
- Some skins hide what the equalizer is doing, so users can't tell its state2024-07-15
- Hidden checkbox needed for MP3 playback pegs CPU, making the whole computer unusable2024-01-03
- Most user-made skins were garish and had terrible usability2023-05-16
- Text requires horizontal scrolling left and right to read on mobile2022-07-30
- Default install reports a missing subsystem for the chosen skin and silently reverts to the old one2022-07-30
- Site freezes the browser for about five seconds on load2021-11-29
- Scrolling jumps sections, needing three scrolls to advance and blocking manual scrollbar dragging2021-11-29
- Hijacks scroll wheel and tells nothing about the software2021-11-29
- Page is so slow to load and respond on a phone it is unusable2021-11-29
- Site loads slowly, breaks scrolling, and makes content hard to find2021-11-25
- Browser freezes while loading the page and scrolling needs repeated attempts to respond2021-11-23
- Too much scrolling needed to reach the next section; scroll indicator not draggable2021-11-23
- Modern Winamp's interface is seen as poorly designed and hard to use2021-11-23
- Full-screen autoplay videos and cookie pop-up obstruct the laggy page2021-11-23
- With responsive mode off, scrolling is unclear and the page moves unpredictably2021-11-23
- Website is unusable on a Pixel 3 phone2021-11-23
- Buttons too small to hit easily, so users needed a size-doubling button2021-07-28
- Fixed-size skins break across screen sizes and low-contrast skins are hard to see2021-04-15
- Clicking a song now takes a second or two to start playing2021-03-16
- Slow to boot and drag controls make it jarring to use2020-11-02
- Four scrollbars, none of which scrolls the main content2020-09-04
- Heavy, bloated software that ran too slowly on an ordinary computer2020-06-20
- Queue is easily cleared by accident with no way to restore it2020-06-20
- Slow to use and failed to load existing playlists2020-02-14
- Skeuomorphic design looks cool but is annoying to interact with2020-01-04
- Tiny inscrutable controls make the interface a mess2018-07-31
- Adding tracks relies on the slow, frustrating OS file select dialog2017-09-23
- Equalizer window snaps to main window vertically when dragged, unlike original which only snaps when touching2017-09-23
- Winamp main window is completely inaccessible to screen readers2017-09-16
- Winamp under Wine is unreadable on a high-resolution QHD+ screen2017-02-06
- Can't drag songs from Apple Music browsing into the queue, unlike the library2017-02-06
- Searching for songs on a phone while driving is slow and miserable2017-02-05
- Steep learning curve and an extremely unpleasant UI2016-02-04
- Interface is slow and clashing on Windows, and feels bloated2013-04-29
- Library and playlist are separate, so playing a file takes extra steps unlike other players2013-04-27
- Interface is messy and complicated with many dockable and undockable windows2013-04-27
- Winamp 3 removed the quick type-to-jump feature and felt bloated2012-06-25
- Media library artist list shows wrong artist when clicked, and sorting is messed up2012-06-25
- Can't find how to add or reorder tracks in playlists2011-11-04
- Dragging or opening MP3s produces no playback or playlist entry, with no clear feedback2011-11-04
- Can't figure out how to hide the Genre and Year columns2011-11-04