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I decided to try Audacious I’ve tried it before in its default interface, but I don’t really like it.

For an app that doesn’t have a lot of features, its CPU usage is unreal. I thought I’ve found the Winamp counterpart for Linux, until I opened Xfce’s task manager to look at its CPU usage. With analyzer and Project M visualization. QMMP with default skin (left) and Black Metal Wood Winamp classic skin (right) It doesn’t have the Winamp interface out of the box, though – you’ll need to switch to ‘Skinned interface’ from the Plugins option. wsz/.zip), and even can show visualizations from Project M.

QMMP is pretty simple it supports classic skins (in. There are two that are still updated: QMMP and Audacious.

At this time I remember that there are some Winamp-like players for Linux that I can install from the repository. I’ve downloaded four versions of Winamp, including 5.666, but none of them works perfectly under Wine. It’s not a bad thing, but some variations would be nice – even a change of icons set and palette switch can make an app look fresh. With operating systems creating design guidelines, I think application UIs are getting neater, simpler, and easier to use, but also much more boring. But I can’t deny that Winamp’s simplicity and customization options makes it an interesting player. I know more recent versions of Winamp has such feature, but by then it has become bloated with features like video support, podcasts, CD ripper, internal browser and whatnot (also, AOL). Winamp (and other players inspired by it) is not on my favorite music players list, since I generally prefer players with a media library. I don’t remember what version of Winamp I was using at that time, but since it was 2002, I think it was Winamp 2.x. I remember playing songs and creating playlists, but the main reason I use it was to look at visualizations and changing skins over and over again. It came with a lot of Flash games, music files, and of course Winamp as the default music player. When I was little, my Dad bought an used computer from his office.