Because actually WHAT FOR should i have Winamp on Ubuntu. Good thing also the uninstall routine worked flawless. However, i just tried to install Winamp on Kubuntu Feisty using Wine. A well drafted program should be easy to port to other platforms. I wonder how much effort it would cost anyway. You sound as if you are afraid of Linux!?! Plus, nobody has quite figured out how to turn thread views into actual money to hire developers. Development times is strained as it is, don't want it wasted on some joke. Just because someone views a thread doesn't want they want Winamp on Linux? I sure don't. So famous that it is now being ported to Win. Managements of Softwarecompanies claim that there were not enough customers requesting a Linux version, at the same time they are trying to calm down the masses requesting them.įor the meantime i also would like to refer every Linux user to Amarok. I think it is good to ignore those stickies and keep asking for Linux Versions of popular programs like Winamp. Unfortunatetly it was discontinued thereafter due to "lack of interest". Winamp 3 was released (as Alphaversion) on Octo(still available here: ) There are already sticky threads saying 'Winamp for Linux/Mac/Your favourite O/S = never gonna happen', no body ever reads those (hence why this and many other threads even exists), why would they read this one? Here a screenshot with winamp on the left and audacious on the right side. Since I am used to the Winamp ML, I use the gnome default player "Rhythmbox" as my Media Library and DragN'Drop the songs into the Audacious playlist. It is basically winamp 2.8 with some basic queuing support and a rather bad "avs" clone. So all people switching to linux should have a look at that first: Įspecially at the feature list. But - maybe you guess - the developers started BMPx, which is in development, but isn't intended to mimic winamp anymore.īut some developers (the 3rd generation) took over and the current fork is called "Audacious". Basically it is XMMS with some enhancements. But its designers stopped developing it in 2004 and started developing XMMS 2 which is a client/server backend, not a winamp clone.īut some developers forked the project and started developing the Beep Media Player.
The old "classic" winamp clone was XMMS for years. That leaves me with the same winamp functionality that some winamp clones/look-alikes offer:
and worst: dragging winamp windows and even file manager windows caused winamp to stutter.
But since wine is a wrapper which wraps calls to the windows api straight to corresponding functions of the linux api and since winamp makes heavy usage of the windows api, winamp works worse than other windows programs on wine. deb installer for wine from the wine homepage and got winamp acutally running on ubuntu. A little Linux report: First I tried to run Winamp itself under wine.
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