My all-time favorite MP3 player is, hands down, Winamp. I found winamp at a giant all-night Action Quake 2 lan party in the middle of 1999. Prior to that night, the only MP3 players I had heard of were hardware based units that were thousands of dollars, so when the dude next to me opened winamp, I was dumbfounded. "What the hell is that?!" I asked, and he responded by tossing me a floppy with WinAmp on it (and also said, "check this out" and opened a small program called napster).
But as the world moved on, WinAmp got left behind. Not because it wasn't still awesome, but because mainly AOL bought it, and then subsequently fucked it all up with WinAmp 5. In the Linux world, WinAmp was cloned into xmms, which was my default media player for years, but it's stuck on the i386 architecture and is a pain in the ass to get working on modern linux.
I've been on a quest to build a modern linux PC with all my favorite things from 1999, like an OSX aqua skin, and thus getting some form of WinAmp up and running was a main objective for me. It's 2020, and WinAmp should still live. Yesterday, I spent some time and got XMMS built by changing a lot of the source code by hand, but more than half of the features didn't work:
That's when Sappharad pointed me out to Audacious and my entire world has been flipped upside down. Audacious is actually a fork of a fork of xmms, the spirit of WinAmp directly lives in this media player. The best part is that it directly supports Winamp skins and even milkdrop. And thus...
Only thing Audacious doesn't come with is this file: Demo.mp3
Audacious is available for Linux,OSX, and Windows: https://audacious-media-player.org/
2020 is already off to a good start!
But as the world moved on, WinAmp got left behind. Not because it wasn't still awesome, but because mainly AOL bought it, and then subsequently fucked it all up with WinAmp 5. In the Linux world, WinAmp was cloned into xmms, which was my default media player for years, but it's stuck on the i386 architecture and is a pain in the ass to get working on modern linux.
I've been on a quest to build a modern linux PC with all my favorite things from 1999, like an OSX aqua skin, and thus getting some form of WinAmp up and running was a main objective for me. It's 2020, and WinAmp should still live. Yesterday, I spent some time and got XMMS built by changing a lot of the source code by hand, but more than half of the features didn't work:
That's when Sappharad pointed me out to Audacious and my entire world has been flipped upside down. Audacious is actually a fork of a fork of xmms, the spirit of WinAmp directly lives in this media player. The best part is that it directly supports Winamp skins and even milkdrop. And thus...
Only thing Audacious doesn't come with is this file: Demo.mp3
Audacious is available for Linux,
2020 is already off to a good start!