Would be funny if Winamp gets a second life ~20 later.
It whips the llamas ass!!
qmmp does pretty well with the winamp skin, but it would be a treat to run the real winamp on linux
I would love Winamp on Linux. I just switched off Windows this year and I haven’t been able to find a media player I liked yet. I haven’t tried qmmp though.
It was honestly the one thing I still have never found a feature parity Linux alt for after years; it will always bug me no matter what other “it’s basically the same” suggested player I use instead.
That said, currently I’m making do with Quodlibet, and I have no major complaints. But nothing is an exact replica enough for me not to constantly compare it to Wimamp & complain.
My only windows machine left still runs Winamp. It may be old, but at least for playing my offline library, I really don’t know what they could possibly change. For everything else, I wouldn’t use Winamp anyway.
I install it every time I reinstall Windows. It’s not like the native music player is any better than this program that hasn’t been updated in 10 years.
I wonder how long it will be before someone ports it to Linux
There isn’t much point of that, XMMS was basically that — a faithful reproduction of Winamp for Linux between 1997-2007. Since then there’s been a ton of forks — XMMS2, BMP, Youki, Audacious etc.
Audacious is still around, sort of (last release a year ago) and it’s basically Winamp, it can use Winamp skins and has plugins.
I’m sure all of those programs are great, but in the modern world I can’t think of any reason why I wouldn’t ever just use VLC.
Any of them compatible with Winamp plugins? Because that’s my reason for sticking to the past.
It’s been too many years since I’ve dabbled in code licensing so I’m a bit in the dark as to what this implies, but if this results in a Linux fork that’s capable of running Winamp plugins…
