WINAMP, WINamp, winamp... it really...

Still works. Winamp is still my main music player (with classic skin, of course). I run it through Wine on Fedora 28. Some things cause crashes, but the only things I really care about are MilkDrop, the media library, and playlists and they all work fine. I've never been able to find something that comes close to MilkDrop.

Here are my installation instructions (after installing Wine) although I haven't tried them fresh in a few years (Fedora and Wine upgrades haven't screwed anything up):

  $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
  $ chmod +x winetricks
  $ ./winetricks -q directmusic directplay directx9 gdiplus ie8 mfc42 wmp10 windowmanagerdecorated=n
  $ ./winetricks winamp
  Launch Winamp
  To get rid of some weird font issues: Right click Winamp > Options > Preferences... > General Preferences > Playlist > select Use font: MS Sans Serif
  To fix bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12060: Winamp > Options > Preferences... > Plug-ins > Visualization > MilkDrop v2.25c > Configure > WINDOWED settings > Uncheck Integrate with winamp skin

You can get MilkDrop 2 on Kodi, which turned out to be a just fine replacement for winamp once you strip all the other nonsense away.

I used to do this, too, but it eats up a lot of CPU for just a music player. For Linux music, I've moved onto cmus.

Be careful what you wish for :)

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/winamp-returns-in-2019-to-...

That sounds awesome, if it does seamless search from subscription services and plays mp3 as well! The article doesn't quite make it clear what the functionality will be.

Wow, that's great. I'm looking forward to it!

Webamp - "A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript"

- Load any classic Winamp skin just by dragging it onto the main window. - If a skin specifies some transparent regions in its region.txt, they are respected.

Features - https://twitter.com/captbaritone/status/961274714013319168 Source - https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

But does Webamp “Really whip the llama’s ass”?

Indeed it does. Track one when you open a new tab. https://webamp.org/

Old-school Winamp is still around and works just as well as 15 years ago.

Indeed, the lack of the UI shittification creep that we saw in iTunes, Skype, MS Office etc has made it look even better, faster, sleeker in comparison!

You can still download the old Winamp and use it on a modern Windows installation. Works just fine, though it doesn't know what media buttons are.

I've been using foobar2000 (win) or audacious (linux) as a replacement for winamp for close to a decade.

do you know something like foobar2000 but for mac?

Well there's Foobar for Mac in beta [1] but I really like Vox player [2].

[1] https://www.foobar2000.org/mac [2] https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player

Not quite as configurable as Foobar, but on Mac I always recommend Swinsian: https://swinsian.com/

the thing i loved with winamp was at one peak where it was fast and simple.

You wanted to queue songs? middle click the heck out of your playlist. want to stop on end of queue? that was an option

you want to add to queue on spotify it's like 2 cumbersome clicks, you can't just go gattling-gun i want "this this this to play next"

jump to song was fantastic - with a global hotkey.

audacious with the winamp skin gets close to all this, but just misses somehow.

If there are specific ways you can pick out to improve Audacious, open some issues: https://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/projects/audaciou...

Hotkeys and mouse bindings should be fairly easy to update.

I got close to contributing once (but ended up somehow clobbering my installed copy of audacious (edit: this is likely through my own incompetence - not saying the dev env sucks or anything)) - i think i should try again cos i do use it as my non-spotify player.

I don't know if it works anymore, or were to get it, but Spotiamp was a Winamp clone for Spotify.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/22/5235456/spotify-debuts-s...

Ive been using AIMP as a replacement but the universal hotkeys don't seem as universal when you are in certain fullscreen applications.