So I showed how to use Winamp2 old skins in XMMS, but lets face it, new Winamp Modern skins are real deal and using old skins is really lame (tm). So just to scratch my intellectual itch (this whole blog is by-product of this) I downloaded LATEST Winamp BETA from forums.winamp.com (Full Version).
with WINE already installed at my Fedora 7 running laptop, I double clicked to get installer going.
following is the result.
* Clicking on Winamp Exe to start installer
* First options selected
* Second options selected, clicking next winamp's nullsoft installer downloaded and installed Windows audio format support (i guess for wma).
* Winamp 5 is running. :)
Check video of switching skins (Which I installed them by Copying in Winamp Skin's folder).
Conclusion:- If winamp team can talk to the wine team, they can easily sort out all the quirks like High cpu usage and window tabs all over place etc, the application can work but its messy. Lets hope for better collaboration between developers, if users make some noise, maybe they will hear it.
BTW, Its not like I do not know all OTHER mp3 players available for Linux, visit my previous winamp/xmms blog-post before you comment on that part.
I too would love to see WinAmp on Linux!
Despite what others say, there is NO linux player that even comes close. This is the one program that I find I just can't live without.
Every linux player out there only does some of what winamp can do. I actually like xmms [i prefer the simplicity] but, you can't have movie files and sound files together in 1 playlist cuz the gap killer don't work right when a movie file is played.
Kaffeine is sooooooo close. Only thing is no gap killer. Tried all the other ones too....none are there yet. See, I just gotta have some of the winamp plugins like Volume Logic & SRS WOW thing to fix up the sound. Absoulute must have these for FM broadcasting. Linux tries to come close with Jacks Jamin plugin........but it's a resource hog and not nearly as good as Volume Logic.
I'm having pretty good luck with Winamp 5.5 under Wine, except no video playback.
Just can't find a player that will do it all in linux yet, I too think the best solution is to get WinAmp running properly under Wine, it's so close!
i honestly wish there was a proper winamp release on osx as well - and not a bloated media manager with a license asking you to accepted other bloatware with it. just trying to find a player with the option to sort by folder structure is hard for osx.