Originally Posted by
anon
ungoogled-chromium can't include this functionality out of principle, and because third-party forks of Google's software are not allowed to use the Store, Sync, SafeBrowsing, etc. without obtaining their own API key (which they would never grant in this particular case). The latter reason makes it somewhat surprising that the extension does work...
With plugins, you can play modern formats like AAC and FLAC without drama. Furthermore, during the XP days, it was the only music player that could do kernel streaming at all and without lag in my hardware (if you don't know what kernel streaming is, be happy, we have advanced so much since). I'm glad it doesn't need to make or receive Internet connections to work, though, because it's a program from 2003 after all.
Using the proprietary and wakelock-heavy MX Player on Android is a shame for me, but none of the alternatives are good enough. Vanilla Music came close, but skips songs partially or completely at random (the read-ahead feature didn't solve that). VLC is very good for video, but what's the point of having to switch between two apps when one is only a partial replacement for the other. And for the record, my experiments revealed the old stock player (the one called simply "Music" with a black speaker icon) has the lowest power consumption, but it was too basic for my taste.