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Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It did an excellent job of managing the hordes of totally legitimate MP3’s we all had back in the day, and did so with an aplomb that nothing else seemed to manage. Really, its playlist and library management was top notch.

This is why I'm still on the eternal search for a replacement. Library management was really, really good in Winamp. I use Strawberry these days and it's absolutely great at playing stuff but the playlist management is just 'good enough'.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're running Windows you can still use old versions of Winamp.

On Linux, I dunno. I'll bet you it'll run in Wine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep, I still use 5.666 on Windows, but I use Windows very infrequently anymore. I switched to Linux as my primary OS earlier this year and only use Windows for games that don't work right in Linux. And thanks to Valve that's becoming pretty rare these days.

I haven't tried getting Winamp to work in Wine but there's probably a guide out there somewhere! Good suggestion, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

WineDB has it marked as silver.

Honestly, for a modern PC I can't imagine Winamp is all that taxing of a program to run. I think the biggest bugbear will be its fairly tight integration with the Windows shell for file management and enqueuing things from an Explorer window, and maybe the external device integrations which would rely heavily on the Windows API and possibly WDM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The video player in Winamp is also completely non-functional in Wine the last time I tried it, as it relies on DirectShow in Windows which has very iffy Wine support. That may also be why it's marked as silver.

It's too bad as I really liked using Winamp as a video player in Windows, despite it's quirks.