I did the same thing, ended up with cmus: http://cmus.sourceforge.net/

MPD is pretty popular too http://www.musicpd.org/ It has a client/server model and you can create your own music streaming service by controlling it remotely and streaming back over http. ncmpc/ncmpcpp is a client for mpd that resembles cmus quite a lot.

mpd with ncmpc has brought my music very close to me - just a couple of keystrokes away.

Regarding Winamp, I've always loved it's tagline "Winamp kicks the llama's ass" (or was it butt?).

I use cmus too. For those who don't know it is a command line music player with a VIM-like command line interface ("/" to search, ":set x=x" to set various options).

Thanks for that suggestion. Looking at its documentation, it seems that it does not support rating songs. Is that correct?

It looks even more like chrome now.

DISCLAIMER: I don't like chrome.

I agree. It's still more beautiful in my opinion though.

I don't like Chrome either, but a few parts of it are nice.

The thing I dislike most about recent Firefox releases is that the selected search engine influences URL bar search, which is rather annoying in my opinion, but then I removed the search feature from the URL bar, making them at least somewhat distinct again.

I wrote an addon for that issue: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keywordurl-ha...

But there is a reason why Chrome looks like Chrome. Ironically, it's the lack of Chrome - the UI is unobtrusive and gets out of the way. I see the new Firefox UI in the same way.

I don't understand how curved tabs are supposed to get "out of the way". The new design seems to use less standard UI elements to push it's own (WinXP / Fisher-Price) agenda: I don't see any gains here and I reckon they just want to appeal to the chrome crowd.

And I can't fathom why you'd focus in on curved tabs in this UI redesign. It's one of the smallest details.

Which is the big one then?

The removal of most UI customization.

I really wish browsers were like emacs and that one could replace the whole UI on a dull rainy day.

uh, with firefox you pretty much can.

Try removing the button on the top left. The one with the three horizontal bars.

There's already a Wanderlust:

https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust

...Really? There's thousands of projects with the same names.

Argh, it still has this:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686747

Edit: I would fix this myself, but don't even know where to look...

I have experienced this bug for years: everything I send over GTalk goes to the NSA.

I'm surprised Emacs was not mentioned. It provides a nice cross-platform interface to ... everything. Also everything (including looks) can be customized!

As someone who practically lives in Emacs running in Cygwin, I can second this, with some caveats: there are tradeoffs. Windows FS access and process forking are still dog-slow, even in native apps. To add to that, there are things I can't run in the native version of Emacs (w3m-el comes to mind), but you trade occasional lockups in Cygwin Emacs. Compare Linux where I run the same setup for Emacs for months if not years with no problems; even if Cygwin Emacs stays up that long, I will eventually (usually every week or so) be forcibly rebooted for Windows updates. If I never have to work with proprietary software again (especially Microsoft products), it will be too soon.