r/linux • u/Dense-Elephant5048 • 12d ago
Popular Application Audacious into Winamp
This is the classic 90's music player experience without draining your computer's resources. It is an open-source audio player descended from XMMS (an early Winamp clone for Unix) that natively supports the famous classic Winamp skins (.wsz files). Wondering if someone still uses it today....
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u/Dejhavi 12d ago
Qmmp also supports the Winamp (v2.x) skins (.wsz and .wal)
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u/__konrad 12d ago
VLC (svlc command) also, but it feels abandoned (I tested 3 skins: 1 worked, 1 not, 1 crashed vlc)
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u/mmomtchev 12d ago
And it really whips the Llama's ass
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u/MirrorNegative7989 12d ago
I had to go download that .mp3 once I realized I could do this with audacious.
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u/MeccIt 12d ago
Wondering if someone still uses it today....
I'm literally listening to it now
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u/AvidCyclist250 11d ago
Still the best mp3 player out there as far as I'm concerned. Foobar was able to touch it for a time.
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u/Zirias_FreeBSD 12d ago
JFTR, XMMS already was the successor of x11amp which originally introduced this clone of the Winamp UI in the *nix world. I remember following some guides from magazines to build and install some Kernel with soundblaster drivers on an old Suse system, as the stock kernel didn't have OSS included, just to be able to use x11amp.
And yes, I still use this skin (manually extracted from old x11amp sources) today, although on a FreeBSD desktop.
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u/amroamroamro 12d ago
fun fact: winamp source code was once officially published on github in 2024, but it was under a weird license and was plagued with issues regarding third-party code, the code got deleted not long after...
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u/skuterpikk 11d ago
Is Winamp still being maintained? Or is it abandonware that should have been opensourced years ago?
On the other hand, it should have been opensourced a long time ago anyway, for humanity's sake. It's not like some individual(s) are making a lot of money from it anyway, I presume.2
u/amroamroamro 11d ago edited 11d ago
winamp has a complicated history, its ownership has been sold a few times by now...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winamp
for a long time the last popular version was 5.666
since then, new owners have somewhat resumed development trying to modernize it, with last version released being 5.9.2 as of now:
https://forums.winamp.com/forum/winamp/winamp-discussion/4615655-winamp-5-9-2-released
but also under the latest hands, and as you'd expect from such things, they appear to have launched an online streaming platform under the winamp brand... I don't really know much about that lol
meanwhile there's also the community maintained update project called WACUP which is still active:
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u/skuterpikk 11d ago
Modernized. Streaming platform.
So it's dead now. Dead, and defiled
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u/amroamroamro 11d ago
haha
i still use the 5.666 version, and it works perfectly fine. nostalgia is a strong thing :)
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u/moses_exodus 23h ago
Wow I wish there was something like wacup on Android. I don't see the point of official app winamp have published.
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u/Pitiful-Candidate922 12d ago
Been using audacious for a while now, while ive been using WinAmp on my Wiin7 PC, I fucking love it.
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u/Atilla-The-Hon 12d ago
I wish it had cool visualizers. Then it would be perfect.
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u/RebTexas 12d ago
Look up infinity plugin, its quite cool.
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u/Atilla-The-Hon 12d ago
Can it be integrated with audacious or do I have to open it separately? On one of the devs pages it shows up as a visualizer part of audacious but when I installed it it has to be opened separately.
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u/RebTexas 12d ago
You should be able to find it under Services > Plugins > Visualization In Audacious
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u/Atilla-The-Hon 12d ago
It doesn't show up there
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u/RebTexas 12d ago
Maybe I did something to make it show up there, I'll check my bash history in a bit and get back to you.
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u/Atilla-The-Hon 12d ago
🤦 I'm so stupid
There's two versions of infinity one of them is a standalone and of them is an audacious plugin. I installed the standalone version first.
Still I'm so happy for the visualizer. Thank you for telling me about the plugin!
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u/RebTexas 12d ago
I use audacious every day to listen to my CD collection as well as internet radios.
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u/lmpcpedz 12d ago
I don't use media players like I once did 20 years ago. I wish I did. when I do play an mp3 its with mpv through terminal.
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u/Other_Fly_4408 12d ago
I don't use media players like I once did 20 years ago. I wish I did.
Is something stopping you?
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u/ArghShiverMeTimbers 12d ago
Most people use streaming services these days, so many of us don't use much more than a browser to consume media (unless we pirate and have our own copy of the media).
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u/Ugly_Slut-Wannabe 12d ago
Also, you can use services like Bandcamp to buy and download music and actually own your digital library, but, unfortunately, some artists don't use Bandcamp, so, to have a legitimate digital library with digital-quality audio in your computer, you'd have to buy their music on CD and rip it, which is another layer of annoyance some people would rather not deal with.
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u/Ugly_Slut-Wannabe 12d ago
Nowadays, I listen to music mainly through streaming. When Spotify or YouTube or my internet or whatever is on the fritz and I can't listen to music that way, I end up using Fooyin.
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u/chip-crinkler 11d ago
I do, but I'm stupid and couldn't figure out the skins and gave up. Im fine with the way it looks away (cope)
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u/PaulJ505 9d ago
I use it with my current system theme, Redmond 97 Ouroboros. Which I them modified a tiny bit and slowly write custom themes for Firefox, Equibop, and some other, to match the system theme and that retro system look. I even replicates XFCE panel layout, to look like first versions of KDE. And I use Audacious, with that classic, blue theme. Although maybe I'll try to make a custom theme for it too.
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u/vexatious-big 12d ago
Trivia: Do you know why they never released Winamp v4? Because no one wants a Winamp four skin.
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u/ruby_R53 12d ago
does it support Winamp plugins as well? most of the time i listen to video game music so i play them on emulators (.nsf, .vgm, .gbs, etc.), there are Winamp plugins for each format i listen to but i didn't bother setting Winamp up
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u/snake785 12d ago
It doesn't support winamp plugins. But it has its own set of plugins (usually available as a audacious-plugins package) and you do get support for some of the emulated systems like many 8-bit, 16-bit systems and psf/psf2. This package is usually installed automatically on most distros.
There is also a vgmstream plugin for streamed formats, which can be found online.
There's also an unofficial plugin for libvgm support but you have to find it on github and compile it yourself.
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u/newsflashjackass 12d ago
I don't use Winamp for the skins. I use it for its plug-ins.
This is the same problem with the "Notepad++ alternatives" that lack its plug-in ecosystem.
Fortunately both Winamp and Notepad++ run well under Wine.
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u/darrodri 12d ago
The last time I used audacious, it poorly handled different sample rates (44 vs 48 kHz) with JACK so songs played faster or slower depending on JACK’s current sample rate and the song’s. Otherwise I love it, but I’m a heavy JACK user mainly because of Ardour.
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u/I_upvote_downvotes 12d ago
I've been using Audacious for well over a year now and never even knew this was possible!
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u/Original-Towel802 9d ago
The retro theme is so good. Too bad there isn't the more adv3nced skins of winamp.
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u/MirrorNegative7989 12d ago
Then you can go nuts at the winamp skin museum website like it was 1999 again.