Man. I still use winamp to this day and I’ve been using them since they came out.
It’s the only music player that organizes the music in a way that makes sense. I love the library interface.
Same. My only gripe is that the ui doesn’t scale at all which makes it hard to use on 4K.
All good until “for windows” fuck that.
My guess is this is a win32 program or a codebase that is very Windows specific. It was probably discarded because it did not port very well to other platforms. Again, just a guess.
Still, it’s nice to see such a historicaly popular program get its source officially released.
Port it then, you coward, lol.
Winamp hasn’t seen real development in 20 years, and was exclusively a windows app at that time. What’re you expecting?
Yeah we’re cool 😎.
Audacious has support for Winamp skins and EQ presets, so you could call it a Winamp-like.
It’s right there in the name . WINamp
isnt XMMS a port of something ?
That’s what I was thinking.
It really whips the llama’s ass. It’s back from the death!!
Well, I mean I loved Winamp, but streaming ease of use pretty much killed it. Even then, I’ve been Linux Desktop forever, and other options there with better network and non-file aware media management tools kinda took over. Would love to see them make it as extensible as VLC though, even just for the nostalgic purposes.
As a Linux user, check out Strawberry. The name isn’t great, but the player makes up for it
as a former AIMP user, i second the Strawberry choice.
If people are interested in an lightweight terminal-based music player, they can try CMUS (https://cmus.github.io/).
Wow this brings me back. What is winamp used for these days?
Whipping the llamas ass
To play music.
Like, ripped mp3s like the old days?
Nothing wrong with how it was done back then, I still do the same today
Whipping the llamas music.
I’m still using Winamp 2.91. I’m just too used to it to change. Now, if someone added Flac support to the same interface, I’d be happy. And if someone ported it to Linux and Android, I’d pay big bucks for it.
Not sure if that version supports them, but there’s a FLAC plugin for Winamp.
Maybe I would try an Android version, but Linux would be a pass, nothing they would come up with could displace MPD+ncmpc++ for me at this point.
Maybe I would try an Android version
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.winamp.release
Have at it. It’s been there for as long as I’ve owned an Android phone.
I’m using winamp 5.666 for windows.
There is finally a decent winamp for Android, but I use the Samsung music player instead.
Would love a Winamp for Linux
First: Surprised it still exists.
Second: More surprised there are Apple AppStore and Google PlayStore links on the bottom.
Nice. It’s still my favorite music player.
No mention of license in this article. Are they going to be releasing it through a git of some kind?
If you need a quick Winamp fix -> https://webamp.org/
Damn, I’d even works on mobile
Never heard of anything on the playlist before and I doubt I would have really stumbled on it normally because it’s not the style I normally seek out but so far it all slaps. How is it they’re allowed to include this stuff on their website?
Turns out one of my favorite bands is that Playlist (Diablo Swing Orchestra), pretty cool of them to release free music under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license, TIL.
It really whips the llama’s ass
Before finding MediaMonkey Winamp was all I used. I like sticking to things I understand well.
If only MediaMonkey was on Linux
I’m not sure what can be brought to Winamp that’ll make it better through open source. Maybe it’ll be a default alternative for Linux distros? That’d be cool.
But, Winamp to me is just a program I use that plays video game soundtracks that are different formats aren’t MP3 or WAV. Like Super Nintendo with .SPC for example.
AIMP has predominantly taken the mantle on my system as default media player, it’s just feature rich and long won me over the day my PC suddenly rebooted and the song I was playing was just on pause with that program! Winamp couldn’t do this, whenever I re-opened it, song stopped playing entirely, gotta play it again.
There are likely lots of improvements that can be made under the hood. I’m willing to bet that it depends on several aging libraries that could probably be swapped out for something better.
Its maybe a small thing, but being packaged in linux repos would be huge for me
Being able to type
$sudo apt install winamp
Would be so cool
Very cool but even 15 years ago or so when I moved to Linux, I was already over Winamp and using Foobar… Loved it
I have mine configured as a background service with a Rainmeter desktop widget to play music at a moment’s notice. Works better than any official Windows option.
It’s been a while since I’ve used Rainmeter, but I love that thing. Such a flexible utility.
