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XMMS (for those using Windows: Winamp) is still the best music player out there. Not XMMS2 or the slow Audacious though, and the newer Winamp versions or skins
by Aardwolf 14y ago
XMMS (for those using Windows: Winamp) is still the best music player out there.
Not XMMS2 or the slow Audacious though, and the newer Winamp versions or skins also aren't that great anymore.
- arketyp 14y agoI've never seen a GUI age so well as the Winamp classic skin. Even old Apple OSes can look hideous today, but with Winamp I still find myself switching back to the classic mode.
- rplnt 14y agoOr you can use the Winamp Lite[1] which I think is almost identical to Winamp 2.x. 1. http://www.winamp.com/media-player/all http://www.winamp.com/media-player/all (on the bottom)
- rplnt 14y agoYou seriously can't compare XMMS to Winamp. When I was using Linux as my main desktop OS I tried a few players, looking for Winamp alternative. Didn't find any and went with one of those full-blown media-library nightmares (I used Amarok but I guess banshee or rhytmbox would be about the same). But back to XMMS (or few other winamp clones): Only thing they had in common was the UI. Function-wise it was nowhere near. Anything you could thik of in Winamp just wasn't there. I had similar problems to find any totalcmd replacement.. and again, there isn't anything close (I ended up with Krusader I think, but it wasn't anywhere near).
- Aardwolf 14y agoHmm, I guess you needed some really specific parts of Winamp then... Because for me all features I use, both have in common: play mp3's and other file types, have a playlist that effortlessly contains all your thousands of songs, the "j" shortcut to quickly jump to one, display the name and length. The only thing xmms hasn't is shift+v to fade out.
- farico 14y agoI prefer AIMP instead of Winamp, it's so much better.