Suggestions for a music player?

[Craftable124]

I'm taking on my first major programming project. I've made plenty of simple apps like contacts, system monitor, etc before but now I am going to make a music player that has all the basic features I need to actually use it. These include ability to play MP3 and WAV, a Queue, and other stuff you see in almost every player ever.

 

The actual question: Are there any features (that aren't too overly complicated, like interacting with a phone or something) that aren't extremely common in music players already? I'm not going to distribute this unless I think I did a specifically good job on it (I most likely won't), but I wouldn't mind having some ideas.

 

Thanks for the input.

[thekeemo]

maybe it could integrate into the taskbar

[ForsakenLive]

You could do a priority queue with the playlist when it's in random mode (shuffle), as all the music players that I'm aware of would actually repeat a song more than others, which is a bummer. You could make a file for that playlist that will avoid having some songs getting played too many times (or not at all) during, let's say the last 3 days.

 

Idk, it's just an idea, it's not that hard to make and players I know doesn't have it.

[ZacDaMan72]

Unified Remote support? Shuffle that plays similar songs?

[jadar]

First things that come to mind are easy "Now Playing" labels so it will show what you are listening to on a stream. Another being extensive keyboard shortcuts, and scriptability.

[Avratz]

Foobar2000 is the benchmark

[Crabtr]

WAV support seems odd to me as FLAC is a much more popular format. Album art, library system, and playlist support. Customization is also a big factor; give me a lot of features but let me turn off what I don't like/want.

[Craftable124]

WAV support seems odd to me as FLAC is a much more popular format. Album art, library system, and playlist support. Customization is also a big factor; give me a lot of features but let me turn off what I don't like/want.

Considering this is a mostly practice program, I'm designing it with what I need first, so I can use it as my primary player. I'm giving it WAV support because I have many files in WAV, and very few FLACs. This doesn't mean I won't add formats like FLAC, but they will come second.