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.
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.
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
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 can get behind this.
Now unfuck Shoutcast next
Still whipping the llama’s ass all these years later! So glad this one never died. Way too much time getting all my music tags right so everything would be formatted correctly in Winamp when I was young.
This is the ONLY music player I found with a logical and reasonably laid out library.
Ever try Media Monkey?
MediaMonkey is the GOAT for ease of use and library management. Been using them for years since like 3.x, maybe 2.x.
It really whips the llama’s ass.
I can still hear this.
I don’t like animal abuse but I make an exception for llamas
How else will they learn to not eat hands?
Came here to say that. Somebody better warn the llama.
Baaaaaa! 🦙
Interesting. As much as I’m a Foobar2000 fan, it’s not open source. Looks like I’ll be giving Winamp another spin soon.
Musicbee is a pretty good Foobar alternative.
… which is also not open-source. But yeah, it’s areally good music player and organizer.
No mention of a license but it talks about being the “official version”, suggesting one can fork it.
Depends if it’s source available vs open source.
I wonder what language it is in and what compiler is needed? I’m tempted to make some of my own tweaks when the source is released.
No mention of license in this article. Are they going to be releasing it through a git of some kind?
First: Surprised it still exists.
Second: More surprised there are Apple AppStore and Google PlayStore links on the bottom.
Before finding MediaMonkey Winamp was all I used. I like sticking to things I understand well.
If only MediaMonkey was on Linux
Nice. It’s still my favorite music player.
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
Meanwhile https://github.com/XMMS2 has been open source from the start.
And it’s also a dead app. No thank you.
Audacious also has a mode that looks like winamp. I think it even supports winamp skins.
I loved audacious and it was my xmms replacement. I don’t really use local media players these days as everything is on my plex server.
Very cool but even 15 years ago or so when I moved to Linux, I was already over Winamp and using Foobar… Loved it
Finally! Couple weeks back I downloaded it again for the first time in probably 10 years and it really made me wonder why they basically fucked it up and abandoned it