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Today – 20 years ago – Winamp was released
Winamp 1 was published on April 21, 1997. Happy Birthday :-)
- rfz 9y agoI still have yet to find a music player that covers all my bases like Winamp did for so many years. Anyone have recommendations for Linux? Short of running Foobar via WINE, every player I've tried seems to be missing one feature or another.
- Spoom 9y agoAudacious gets very close.
- neilsimp1 9y agoAgreed. I've tried several on Ubuntu and they all fall short.
- rfz 9y agoTry Lollipop. It's the best I've found, next to QuodLibet as someone else mentioned in this thread. The only places it falls short are not being able to edit tags directly, and having to click 'update music library' every time you add something to your monitored folder(s).
- fosco 9y agomy needs are minimal but VLC has covered my needs.
- detaro 9y agoQuodlibet seems fairly close to "cross-plattform foobar2000" (depending on what exactly is important to you of course) https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet
- rfz 9y agoGood call! I actually landed on this one the other day after looking more into my options. I hadn't realized before that tag editing is available from within the app.
- Something1234 9y agoMaybe Banshee. It meets all of my needs. It's a little heavier than I would like, but it seems to work flawlessly for me.
- Cyclenerd 9y agoHave you tried XMMS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMMS
- rfz 9y agoI have- it's definitely a good mimic of Winamp, but it hasn't been updated since 2004 which makes me a little hesitant.
- RUG3Y 9y agoWinamp was AWESOME!
- stevekemp 9y agoYou really should have written: > "It really whips the llama's ass!" (I feel like I should apologise for such a low-effort comment, but .. That phrase is the first thing that comes to mind when I remember WinAmp, and if you're going to make a one-line "praise" comment about Winamp it's the only one you should need!)
- partisan 9y agoIt's a Pavlovian response, really. If I see the word WinAmp, that is what I hear in my head.
- RUG3Y 9y agoI should have put more effort into it too. What I remember about Win Amp in the (90's?) was how customizable it was and how many features it had. It was really flashy and advanced for that time period. It's been years since I've used it, I don't use Windows much anymore.
- kleer001 9y agoPersonally I really miss the visualization scripting tool it had built in. Now that was really fun.
- africajam 9y agoWhy is this showing in "ask HN"? Perhaps I should ask HN...
- dpeck 9y agoIt really whipped the llama's ass