Has Winamp been ported to Linux? - Page 3

amitabhishek · 12-05-2007, 03:09 AM

Which is the best software for playing DVDs & VCDs? I think Totem sucks!!!

alpha_hack · 02-06-2008, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by mushk45

winamp runs fine under wine!

I'm running Winamp 5.5 on wine and it's not running quite well. It plays music and stuff, but from time to time it just crushes

I'll be waiting Winamp for Unix ..

David the H. · 02-06-2008, 12:01 PM

@ddd3: One of the limitations of mp3 and some other lossy formats is that the encoding and/or decoding sometimes causes unavoidable audible gaps or clicks between tracks, which can be very annoying when one is supposed to segue smoothly into the next. This can be overcome in software though.

Audacious has gapless ability with its cross-fader plugin. In fact, it has a whole range of song-transition capabilities (unlike most plugins, you configure it from the audio driver tab). It's my opinion that just about everyone who's been using xmms should switch to it. The gtk2 interface is so much nicer than those old gtk1 file dialogs xmms uses.

The only thing I really see Winamp as being desirable for is the multitude of plugins available for it. Even though xmms and audacious have a pretty good selection, they just can't rival the sheer number and variety of good plugins Winamp users have developed. But if you don't need the plugins, then any of the native linux players are just fine for normal audio playback (and even video, with the mplayer plugin). If you want media library capability, go with amarok, if you just want a simple, but powerful, player, use audacious.

robharg · 11-18-2008, 09:35 PM

Steps I took:

1. Download n-lite (for windows) and create a cut-down copy of windows XP (got mine down to a 250 meg install iso) Better to use one slipstreamed with SP2

2. On ubuntu install virtualbox (now better than vmware in my opinion)

3. Boot up virtualbox (run it with "virtualbox &". Mount the cut-down-xp install iso created with nlite

4. Install XP (took all of four minutes on mine with the automated install option in n-lite)

5. Install the virtualbox tools (i had to faff a bit to find the iso but wasn't too bad)

6. Install winamp (I also installed the awesome MEXP plugin)

7. Make winamp start up automatically by putting in the start menu of the virtual XP machine.

8. Hit seamless mode in virtualbox. All the windows then integrate with the ubuntu ones...If any problems with compiz, set the winamp skin to modern (rather than the totally new one they just invented).

I'm just about to make a command line to start the whole thing from the ubuntu menu. Won't be hard I'm sure

Timed the whole thing (starting virtualbox, booting XP and loading winamp) - to... wait for it.... 14 seconds!!!

I'm using Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex which uses Pulseaudio - set virtualbox to use pulseaudio for its audio settings. I'm not having any problems with it.

You can of course skip all the n-lite stuff and use the bog standard heavily bloated XP in its original state for testing, but I seriously recommend cutting it down with n-lite - its runs very quickly and seamlessly, and only has an overhead of 55 megs on my machine (and i haven't tweaked it yet)

I've been really annoyed about not being able to run winamp and mexp in ubuntu for a few years now, and very happy i've found a decent solution.

Andrew4096 · 06-18-2009, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by //////

And I have Winamp that supports botnets too ;P

I catched that while I was running honeypot and when it was submitted to the Norman Sandbox for closer examination that windows binary turned out to be backdoored Winamp.exe that acted as a botnet client program.

Win killer indeed

You obviously didn't get that copy of Winamp from Winamp.com. That's what you get when you download applications from third-party sites.

Andrew4096 · 06-24-2009, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by neilcpp

Every windows & Linux user must agree that 'Winamp' for windows is a killer application. The thing I especially like about it is the ability of the program to act like a radio tuner for online internet radio streams.

My question is has this amazing program yet been ported to Linux? If so, where can I download a copy please?

Thanks

I agree that Winamp is a great program, and works much better on Windows than the Linux Winamp clones do on Linux, snide comments from others in this thread notwithstanding. Unless someone at Winamp.com has spun an under-the-table Linux version, it's not going to happen. See the June 2005 et seq. discussion thread at http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=249591.

Winamp founder Justin Frankel worked on a few rogue projects after AOL bought Winamp in 1999, but he was soon found out. Since he and most of the original coders left the company in disgust in early 2004 and AOL shut down Winamp's San Francisco offices, I understand the starched shirts at AOL have been keeping a tight reign on the coders there. That may be why we've seen nothing innovative -- mostly bug fixes -- from Winamp.com for the last four-and-a-half years. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Frankel.)