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Re:Winamp2-Js: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and... by musage on Saturday September 23, 2017 @04:52AM (#15318869)
> there doesn't seem to be a way around the fact that web apps have no persistent access to the local filesystem

A local webserver and a little scripts for writing files. Plus symbolic links to your music folders maybe? I never tried the symbolic links part, but surely there is a way to make that work.

Re:Winamp2-Js: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and... by lewisl9029 on Saturday September 23, 2017 @05:50AM (#15318995)
That will certainly work, but the whole appeal of building it as a web app for me is the ability to use it anywhere without any local setup or installation. If I end up having to spin up a web server locally just to run it, I might as well build it as an Electron or React Native app instead and have access to the local filesystem directly.