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If you want a more modern software with the Winamp feel, the Audacious player supports Winamp skins.
I'd totally rock a real physical winamp as a mp3 player.
Yeah this looks dope.
I still kick on the HTML5 port Webamp every now and then. It's a relic of a time when we tried to make apps look like their equivalent home electronics.
That.... Is a lot of skins...
Tagline of my future taxidermy shop.
The bar to create a new one was so low that anyone could do it. I think that contributed to people's affinity to it.
I will keep using it as long as it keeps whipping the llama’s ass.
Foobar2000 has been working on Linux compatibility, mostly using Wine. At least if you're after Milkdrop visualization compatibility.
Working on? I run it on my Linux box. I saved the last installer before it got sold off a million years ago. Love it still.
Same, actually. I don't remember much of the deal with it but it's one of many installers in the repository from the Before Times.
At some point, though I recall they were trying to have a formal release that wasn't just the windows version on wine.
Linux native? Can you upload the installer, or link to a site where I can find it? I miss foobar
I absolutely love Foobar2000, and one of the biggest reasons is the plugins that allow it to play lots of different chiptune formats. Also I love that its UI is practical and doesn't get in my way.
Came in here to make a llama ass whipping post but I can see I was beaten after .000001 seconds of the post being up :(
The planes are gone from the skies. The soldiers are no longer looking for you...
You don't need to live like this anymore.
I still use Winamp on my computer. Tho I wish I could hook it up to stream from my Spotify account so I had more music without using my entire ssd.
It supports the old skins, and the portable install is neat on a usb stick.
meh, closed-source Windows-only software, gross
Try Strawberry instead.
Moc all the way on Linux; teamed up with radion and castero you're good to go for anything.
Wacup's nice if you're wanting old winamp skins to work on the forced windows ecosystem of the workplace ;)
This may be a dumb question but is there some reason you can't just use Winamp these days?
For me it's just too tiny and there is no way to scale it without it becoming a blurry mess on Windows.
That and the lack of FLAC support.
I just use foobar2000 now when I'm on Windows
Interesting I remember using it for flac back in the day, but I did have to add some plugins for various codecs and whatnot so maybe I added it at the time. Was probably 2.95 version or older though.
Surprised there isn't a larger format skin that you could find, but then it be old now and lost to antiquity
I was until I switched to Linux last year. But I had issues getting Winamp to run properly via wine, and none of the native Linux successors I found handled Winamp skins the way I wanted them to, so sadly I was forced to find a different music player.
While it doesn't support skins, I don't think, Fooyin has a similar feel to Winamp that I was accustomed too, it was my main music player before switching to Linux.
Audacious only handles WinAmp 2.x skins. I believe the newer versions of WinAmp changed something, or at least added some skinnable windows.
I always preferred NAD as an mp3 player. I loved the see through hole in the default skin.

Plus the dev would get stoned out of his gourd on mushrooms and it helped him create a very efficient mp3 decoder. It always has a lower CPU usage than anything else out there, and imo sounded crisper.
What skin? There were so many thousands I swapped out every week or two just for fun.
Winamp + limewire = it was an awesome combination. I burned most of them to CD'd so I could take them to work with me.
Now everything I burned back then fits on the USB drive in my backpack.
My library outgrew it. Did nobody else start having memory issues when your storage started getting up there?
I assume you’re taking about downloading vs streaming rather than winamp? How many tracks do you have? If you have a desktop, you can just buy a cheap and slow but large HDD and put your music on it. It will always be fast enough to play it anyway. I feel like it will take you a while to go beyond 4TB.
We have Audacious running with WinAmp window style with a bunch of custom skins. It’s really nice
I'm using qmmp right now with a bunch of skins that want to be winamp skins.
OG winamp 5 from my cold dead hands, not this resurrected shambling corporate corpse
The last version fixed a scaling issue with win 10 +but I can not get the setting to stick every time I have to uncheck and recheck apply to the compatibility setting for DPI fix and setting it to system enhanced.
I use power amp fx and the scaling in the windows is horrible you can barely see them.
I was not aware of the llamas ass being whipped by Winamp when I made this post, but I am all here for it lmao
Moved over to foobar2000 some years ago. Can't beat Facets in terms of how you can bend the views of your library.


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