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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by travelorg on Thursday November 21, 2013 @02:04PM (#6776628)
Isn't XMMS still around? That looks a hell of a lot like winamp. http://www.xmms.org/
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Re:Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 by nandhp on Thursday November 21, 2013 @03:31PM (#6777264)
XMMS is obsolete; in particular, it uses GTK+1.2 which is no longer available in most Linux distributions. It was removed from Debian in 2008: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/07/msg00026.html

I don't know what the status of XMMS2 is, but it's a client-server model like MPD.

The GTK2 fork of XMMS, Beep Media Player, is reported by Wikipedia to be discontinued; the BMPx fork of BMP has also been removed Debian. Audacious is another Linux music player with Winamp skin support, it is actively maintained.

Perhaps somebody should do a Winamp2-compatible MPD client for nostalgia purposes.

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