Winamp was THE mp3 player before the time where the functionnality was included in the operating system. It was fast, not CPU hungry (even if Soritong was even lighter), and extremely user friendly.
I'm listening more and more from Youtube Music (with a payed account), but I keep my stash of organized music, and I still enrich it from Youtube with yt-dlp. I'm horrified by some of my friends with Spotify saying "I listened to a thousand artists and several thousands of songs this year", and...
A thread with no member+, with people wondering how to spot the next uptodate reference :) vndb was "uncensored" to my knowledge, not a download source for sure, but at least you could sse what was happening in the field.