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.
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.
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.
I keep thinking about taking an old phone, replacing the battery (because they were easy to do) and turning it into an mp3 player. Only problem is I want a few buttons.
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.
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 forgot the days of codec hunting. I recall downloading the second season of Blueseed and the audio was all in Ogg Vorbis. Someone else was using the phone line so I was SOL until they were done.
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.
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.
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Couple's therapy could work.
I’ve wiped one
Baaaaaaaa
If you want a more modern software with the Winamp feel, the Audacious player supports Winamp skins.
Qmmp as well
Vlc also has some ports and lookalikes of winamp skins
How about Sonique skins?
Yaay team Sonique 👋
I'd totally rock a real physical winamp as a mp3 player.
Yeah this looks dope.
Hell yeah, just give it Bluetooth, a headphone jack, and USB-C, for data transfer and loading.
Just gave me an idea for a 3D-printed media player. Thx :)
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.
True…; hard to argue with that.
Nope. Chuck Testa.
Nope! Chuck Testa.
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.
This is the way.
I have spoken.
I hear tell that it really whips 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.
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.
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 :(
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.
I keep thinking about taking an old phone, replacing the battery (because they were easy to do) and turning it into an mp3 player. Only problem is I want a few buttons.
The planes are gone from the skies. The soldiers are no longer looking for you...
You don't need to live like this anymore.
https://getwacup.com/
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.
Theres also audacious, it runs on Linux and supports winamp skins.
It does? I’ve never seen that. Been using it forever and never thought to look at skin options
How do you use Winamp skins in Strawberry?
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 ;)
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 miss those days
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 forgot the days of codec hunting. I recall downloading the second season of Blueseed and the audio was all in Ogg Vorbis. Someone else was using the phone line so I was SOL until they were done.
1990s problems.
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.
Why, yes. I was a teenage mall ninja. How could you tell?
I'm on macOS, so instead I listen to MiniDiscs.
:: BLEAT ::
We have Audacious running with WinAmp window style with a bunch of custom skins. It’s really nice
kodi has milkdrop
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.
Moved over to foobar2000 some years ago. Can't beat Facets in terms of how you can bend the views of your library.
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
I'm using qmmp right now with a bunch of skins that want to be winamp skins.
Shit... got my playlist too.
Aimp, which looks pretty damn close