Your link puts the quote "It's like giving somebody a glass of ice water in hell", which makes far more sense.
And WMP was awful, and got more awful each time. Winamp on the other hand was great, it really kicked the llama's ass.
whips, not kicked
Hey it's been 20 years, at least it wasn't "licked" :D
I mean, was Windows Media Player really that bad?
It is probably the primary reason I told the spouse to “get in the car, we’re going to the Apple Store to buy iPods.” As a Microsoft employee at the time, I’d had my fill of trying to make Microsoft’s shit music player ecosystem work out of some misplaced sense of company loyalty. Playlists wouldn’t sync, and all kinds of that ilk I’ve long since forgotten. And that’s before we get to PlaysForSure…
There were decidedly better programs than iTunes for Windows PCs. At the time, I was very into curating the genres etc. of my music collection and used a program called J River Media Center or something like that. I only stopped using it when Apple essentially made it impossible for 3rd party programs to be fully functional.
When Apple made iTunes for Windows, Steve Jobs called it “It's like giving somebody a glass of hell in ice water.” [1]
I mean, was Windows Media Player really that bad? I still miss the visualizations and even the fancy skins. iTunes in comparison was very dull and barely changed in 20 years.
[1] https://500ish.com/a-time-to-kill-itunes-2d9a24529b9a