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Winamp was pretty cool. When I switched to Linux, many years ago, I wanted to have winamp too. I think I used bmp for a while until it died; before that xmms bu
by shevy-java 7mo ago
Winamp was pretty cool. When I switched to Linux, many years
ago, I wanted to have winamp too. I think I used bmp for a while
until it died; before that xmms but that one also sort of died.
Meanwhile some other GUI showed up, I forgot the name. I kind of
gave up on winamp, mostly because my use cases shifted. I went
to mplayer, then mpv, and now I am too used to using mpv for
literally anything related to audio and video (which in turn uses
ffmpeg of course). I kind of built a commandline helper variant
that just plays anything I have local - audio, video. I could
probably go and find a nice UI again, and that may have advantages
such as simply scrolling through the list or setting ad-hoc favourites,
but I don't quite need it anymore; I am faster with the keyboard
too, so my use cases changed. To play all audio from Hans Zimmer,
for instance, I may type "rsong Zimm" or something like that. (I
also alias a lot so I may just type "zimmer" instead, but most of
the time if I use it I just have it default to random selection as
I don't care what is played normally.)
- tosti 7mo agoXMMS lives on as Audacious: https://audacious-media-player.org/ https://audacious-media-player.org/ You can still configure it to look like XMMS.
- chkhd 7mo agoXMMS1 source code is also still around https://github.com/csepulveda/xmms1 https://github.com/csepulveda/xmms1 ..and XMMS2 apparently had a few recent releases https://github.com/xmms2/xmms2-devel https://github.com/xmms2/xmms2-devel
- antisol 6mo agoAnd it's compatible with winamp skins, so you can download the winamp base skin ( https://skins.webamp.org/skin/5e4f10275dcb1fb211d4a8b4f1bda236/base-2.91.wsz/ https://skins.webamp.org/skin/5e4f10275dcb1fb211d4a8b4f1bda2... ) and have it look exactly like winamp.
- Shorel 7mo agoThere are countless good audio players now. I am using Amberol, it looks just amazing in a modern desktop and plays my FLAC collection. About using the command line... I just type open musicfile.flac and it works. Opening another file adds it to the reproduction queue.