Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by computer on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @01:32PM (#6769959)

I always used Winamp on Windows, so when I switched to Linux I tried basically every single open-source alternative that worked with my workflow: Per-song ratings, a nested Genre/Artist/Album/Song library browser, global hotkeys, able to handle a collection of >100 GB and a useful playlist/queue system.

For anyone else looking for the same thing: the one that I ended up choosing was http://gmusicbrowser.org/. See http://gmusicbrowser.org/screenshots/ListsLibraryContext.png.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by byuu on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @01:54PM (#6770165)

I'll throw in my two cents for Audacious, see: http://audacious-dvb.sourceforge.net/screenshot.png

It probably lacks some of the advanced stuff you would want, but I use it as I still do with Winamp: setup keyboard hotkeys to execute audacious -[rft] (skip around in songs from any app), load a folder (or folders) of songs and play them. Throw on ProjectM and you have a poor man's substitute for Milkdrop. And there's Shoutcast support as well.

The UI runs in skinned mode (pictured above) or in a more traditional mode that doesn't look out of place on your desktop.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by sanyi on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @01:57PM (#6770193)

I did the same thing, ended up with cmus: http://cmus.sourceforge.net/

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by wooptoo on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @04:10PM (#6771198)

MPD is pretty popular too http://www.musicpd.org/ It has a client/server model and you can create your own music streaming service by controlling it remotely and streaming back over http. ncmpc/ncmpcpp is a client for mpd that resembles cmus quite a lot.

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by kinleyd on Thursday November 21, 2013 @12:20AM (#6773186)

mpd with ncmpc has brought my music very close to me - just a couple of keystrokes away.

Regarding Winamp, I've always loved it's tagline "Winamp kicks the llama's ass" (or was it butt?).

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by mrb on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @02:25PM (#6770437)

I use cmus too. For those who don't know it is a command line music player with a VIM-like command line interface ("/" to search, ":set x=x" to set various options).

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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by computer on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @02:06PM (#6770284)

Thanks for that suggestion. Looking at its documentation, it seems that it does not support rating songs. Is that correct?

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