While I wouldn't mind it if it's worth the time, I recently played around with Audacious with skins and found a skin that made it look exactly like winamp. I can't move jt around in KDE Plasma 5 in Wayland, but it does work well in Enlightenment 0.26 on X11.
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I've used so many other FOSS solutions to replace winamp at this point, and they're all functionally the same. I remember liking the interface of Clementine at some point, but honestly I don't think I have any loyalty to any specific music software anymore.
I wonder what the aim is. Trying to get relevant again? I haven't used Winamp in many many years. I'm a Spotify / YouTube kind of guy now. I drank the koolaid. It's a little late and things like VLC have a pretty solid offering now, without all gotchas that this will have (such as you apparently can't call it Winamp and will have to sign away a sacrificial child to actually get the code)
VLC is a video player. While it of course can play audio files, it is not intended for managing a library of them like winamp. I do agree that they've missed the boat though. I still buy CD's and actually have a digital library of music that I own. As such, I never stopped using winamp. But I don't know a single other person in real life that doesn't just use a streaming service for their music.
It really whips the llama's ass.
-RIP Wesley Willis
It really did.
Been using Foobar2000 since '03 (and now on mobile too). No need to change back.
The main reason I like Winamp: Advance Visualization Studio. And skins. Bring back skins in applications. I don't care if 99% are ugly and unusable. We don't need jerks like Gnome team deciding what everything should look like.
Oh man, my whole desktop experience used to be themed. I would spend hours finding the perfect skins.
Bring back skins in applications.
I love the Cristal Disk Mark / Info applications for this. Some cool Japanese guy, going by hiyohiyo, develops them as free software. And he is not afraid to make editions decorated with presumably his favourite Anime girls
I hope they get all the skins working, and it becomes popular on Linux.
The sad thing about this is that 90% of the skins available for WinAmp since then are gone. You can't find them to download them anymore.
There is Winamp skin museum - https://skins.webamp.org/
Oh, my trusty old Wolfplayer is on there too. Brings me back…
I went to the mall today and it felt like the early 2000s again
Look I know it is barely on topic but that shit was so wild I had to
What happend
Lol sorry, I meant the fashion! Everything on sale and what people were wearing. ... I don't leave my house a lot lol
IG shopping malls haven't changed very much in 20 years
Where?
Now we just need open source directx and direct draw so all the visualizations work and we’re in business.
Mesa + DXVK/WineD3D/VKD3D/Gallium-Nine.
"Hey Internet, come do development on our product for free so we can monetize it. TIA"
They just want more people being pushed to their NFT marketplace while getting free development. It's astounding they are getting so much good press.
It annoys me, too, because there's various open-source projects already, like QMMP and Audacious.
Are you complaining that they're going open source?
Most of the complaining I see is that they're not going open source, they're going "source available"
I thought the source was already leaked a while ago
Source-available ≠ open source
I wish foobar2000 was open source too. Maybe this will encourage the creator to do so.
Agree, also I never encountered other software so flexible in user interface. Every feature can be placed with panels everywhere to your own liking. The whole app interface is like a canvas. Took me a while to get the hang of it but after that ...
Wished other apps were this flexible.
I miss Wesley Willis.
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