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Winamp is available for Linux ?

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The Linuxator

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I don't know if this is news or not, but this is the first time I hear about it according to this link Winamp the Linux version is available for Linux Link

The installation requires me to have the Fedora Core 4 disc # 3 which I do but at home, right now I don't have it and wasn't able to check it out.

The webpage says : "Added: 10 October 2001 "

How come I never heared of it before ?

For me I use Beep it offers me all of what Winamp did in Windows, but still for those that prefer winamp it's good to see Winamp being available for them too.
 
I think I heard about it a while back. With the copious amounts of better mp3 players, I haven't bothered to look at it.
 
Man I wish I had the FC 4 Disc 3 with me now so that I can test it and see how stable this release is.
TBH there a lot of sweet Linux media players out there, but Winamp has a very big fan base / developers base, you got to think about the number of Winamp mods available for it and the quality of those, things like skins, plugins and what not.

Also those who are considering making the move to Linux will find it easier if the popular player they are used to is going to be there for them to use in this era of digital media.

It will be very intersting once I comeback home and check it out and test it's stability and such.
 
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Man I wish I had the FC 4 Disc 3 with me now so that I can test it and see how stable this release is.
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Why does it require the forth disc? Just a package dependency issue?

TBH there a lot of sweet Linux media players out there, but Winamp has a very big fan base / developers base, you got to think about the number of Winamp mods available for it and the quality of those, things like skins, plugins and what not.
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No I don't. They should use something better.

Also those who are considering making the move to Linux will find it easier if the popular player they are used to is going to be there for them to use in this era of digital media.
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XMMS looks just like winamp.
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Man I wish I had the FC 4 Disc 3 with me now so that I can test it and see how stable this release is.
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Why does it require the forth disc? Just a package dependency issue?

TBH there a lot of sweet Linux media players out there, but Winamp has a very big fan base / developers base, you got to think about the number of Winamp mods available for it and the quality of those, things like skins, plugins and what not.
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No I don't. They should use something better.

Also those who are considering making the move to Linux will find it easier if the popular player they are used to is going to be there for them to use in this era of digital media.
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XMMS looks just like winamp.
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The only two apps so far that have required me to do this were Adobe Reader and Winamp for Linux, I think that they did that inorder to decrease the size of the download in a way you use your installation media for the rest of the packages.

TBH I liked XMMS but it wasn't stable enough for me, and I had to kill it's process over and over and do a restart for it to work again only to do the same thing over and over.
Finally I tried it's GTK2 port whihc is BMP (Beep Media Player) and no problems anymore, I guess a little Gnome issue there.
But anyway the Winamp for Linux is a good move no matter how you look at it, we can't dispute Winamp's capability of doing what it's supposed to do, it's been around since ever and a lot of people would prefer it to whatever else is out there.
 
Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
amaroK is sweet.
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amarok is meh! I didn't like it one bit.
BMP is minimalistic and light , it works nicer in Gnome than the KDE based Amarok.
But then again that is just my personal taste when it comes to media players.
 
TBH I liked XMMS but it wasn't stable enough for me, and I had to kill it's process over and over and do a restart for it to work again only to do the same thing over and over.
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I haven't used XMMS for quite some time, but I can't remember ever having any problems with it.

But anyway the Winamp for Linux is a good move no matter how you look at it, we can't dispute Winamp's capability of doing what it's supposed to do, it's been around since ever and a lot of people would prefer it to whatever else is out there.
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But it's crap because it's closed source, it includes a handful of libs in the RPM and uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH to load them instead of just depending on the appropriate packages and the POS wouldn't run here at all and it didn't even give me an error to tell me why. Linux doesn't need bad software with good names, the people who would ignore BMP, Quod Libet, amaroK, etc just because of the WinAMP name deserve what they get.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
TBH I liked XMMS but it wasn't stable enough for me, and I had to kill it's process over and over and do a restart for it to work again only to do the same thing over and over.
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I haven't used XMMS for quite some time, but I can't remember ever having any problems with it.

But anyway the Winamp for Linux is a good move no matter how you look at it, we can't dispute Winamp's capability of doing what it's supposed to do, it's been around since ever and a lot of people would prefer it to whatever else is out there.
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But it's crap because it's closed source, it includes a handful of libs in the RPM and uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH to load them instead of just depending on the appropriate packages and the POS wouldn't run here at all and it didn't even give me an error to tell me why. Linux doesn't need bad software with good names, the people who would ignore BMP, Quod Libet, amaroK, etc just because of the WinAMP name deserve what they get.
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As long as it's alternatives are available I really don't care what they get as long as who ever wants something gets it, and if it turns up to be really a POS on contrary to it's Windows version then we will have to considre it as a POS app and move on.

I won't be able to pass a judgement on it untill I go back home install it on my Linux test machine and see what results I get back.
 
Well the page says it was added in 2001, it's labled as Alpha and it doesn't look like it's been updated at all in the past 5 years. I wouldn't exactly call that good software.
 
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
The only two apps so far that have required me to do this were Adobe Reader and Winamp for Linux, I think that they did that inorder to decrease the size of the download in a way you use your installation media for the rest of the packages.
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So, dependencies, yeah. If they documented it properly, you should be able to find out which dependencies it needs. You might already have them installed, or could download them through yum.

TBH I liked XMMS but it wasn't stable enough for me, and I had to kill it's process over and over and do a restart for it to work again only to do the same thing over and over.
Finally I tried it's GTK2 port whihc is BMP (Beep Media Player) and no problems anymore, I guess a little Gnome issue there.
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mpd > *, IMO.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Well the page says it was added in 2001, it's labled as Alpha and it doesn't look like it's been updated at all in the past 5 years. I wouldn't exactly call that good software.[/q]

I never did, but all I am intrested in is those who want to switch to Linux will see that they can have a relatively the same software selection.
Either it's good or bad will depend on the Winamp development team, if it takes off then maybe they will considre improving it , and updating it much more frequently then what they have done to the alpha one.

I already have what I need in BMP , but out of curiosity I want to see how this Linux port will do that's all.
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Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Well the page says it was added in 2001, it's labled as Alpha and it doesn't look like it's been updated at all in the past 5 years. I wouldn't exactly call that good software.[/q]

I never did, but all I am intrested in is those who want to switch to Linux will see that they can have a relatively the same software selection.
Either it's good or bad will depend on the Winamp development team, if it takes off then maybe they will considre improving it , and updating it much more frequently then what they have done to the alpha one.

I already have what I need in BMP , but out of curiosity I want to see how this Linux port will do that's all.
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I'm a Linux n00b and the last thing I want to see is a Windows version of anything tbh. That's exactly why I switched. I don't want anything like Windows.

I understand what you're saying though as my opinion might be in the minority and in all honesty, you guys all know so much more than I that I shouldn't even comment when you guys all do but I thought maybe a Linux n00b's opinion might be ok in this case. 🙂
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Originally posted by: Fish11
I'm a Linux n00b and the last thing I want to see is a Windows version of anything tbh. That's exactly why I switched. I don't want anything like Windows.

I understand what you're saying though as my opinion might be in the minority and in all honesty, you guys all know so much more than I that I shouldn't even comment when you guys all do but I thought maybe a Linux n00b's opinion might be ok in this case. 🙂
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It's a discussion thread, throw in as many opinions as you have on the matter. 🙂
 
That would be like in the days of WinAMP 3. No one would really maintain it for linux so they stopped making it for linux.

I didn't like XMMS cause I couldn't resize the main player. It was way too small in 1280x1024. I really like amaroK, but I wish I could dock a small playlist under the player and have it like XMMS or WinAMP. I think I might've read somewhere that it can be done, but I can't remember. I would prefer an option to have a less bulky playlist.
 
OK guys went back home installed the winamp rpm.
I have to say that I am very dissapointed with what I got.

Here are a couple of intresting a screenshots Winamp pic 1 Winamp pic 2

Both Winamps are running on my Fedora Core 4 system.
I am sure you are wondering what the hell is the second one ?
Well the crappy Winamp is the Linux version and the sleek looking full of features Winamp is the windows version running perfectly with all the bells and whisltes through WINE.

The Linux version is no where near the windows version, I can't believe how crappy it runs and feels, as if they made crappy on purpose. It's lacking a lot of options that the windows version has, the prefrences are almost non existant. The UI is disgusting and primitive, I don't even have an option to change skins, and the interface is sluggish and poor.

My advice, screw it if you are using BMP, XMMS or Amarok I garuantee you are going to be more satesfied than using the Linux version of Winamp, I don't know . Either it's still too early to Judge it, or no real effort is being made there.

For those of you that MUST have winamp, install WINE and run Winamp through WINE you will get it up and running no difference from how it runs on windows.

I will tell you a little secret that S2 theme is sweet (except for that ugly win logo) someone ought hack that theme for BMP 😀
 
Winamp 5 works OK through WINE for me. I can listen to radio too. The problem is, no matter what song you click, only the first one you selected in that program session is the one that plays. But that's only on my FUBAR'd wine.
 
Hey xtknight since you are using Winamp through WINE , does it keep asking you everytime you start Winamp about the Mozilla Active X control, it tells me it wants to install the mozilla active X control I press accept but it can't find the mozilla layout library.

I installed Mozilla firefox in wine I said perhaps any files needed could be found in there, but still no go.

I have cut and pasted the popup messages for anyone intrested to take a look.screenshots
 
OH man I am happy, I have realized that BMP actually supports .wsz skin format which is the format that the nice and sleek S2 is made in for Winamp, all I did was make sure that the win logo is a gonner and then dropped the S2 skin into my /home/linuxator/.bmp/Skins folder and BMP picked the S2 skin just like that , here is a pic of BMP running the S2 skin and I am digging it 😀
 
WHY would you use wine to install apps, when they are already available (or even better counterparts are).

Firefox on WINE? That's just asking for pain.
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
WHY would you use wine to install apps, when they are already available (or even better counterparts are).

Firefox on WINE? That's just asking for pain.
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I think you missed what I was doing, I don't use WINE usually for apps that I use daily. It just happened that when I tried Winamp for Linux it was pure crap, and I wanted to make a side by side comparison between the Linux version and the Windows version.

For me BMP is the best music player out there, and especially with the capability to use Winamps skins , I don't think I am changing my app anytime soon 😀. But the reason why I tested Winamp is becasue it was the first time that I realize that Winamp is available for Linux so I decided to see if they came out with anything decent, but obviously not.

But WINE can come handy if you want to have things like IE for websites that don't support anything else (you know some govt sites that I go to don't support IE).
 
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