Winamp Alternative for Linux?

[Rad25]

I love Winamp for Windows. Any good Alternative for Linux? For videos i use only VLC in Linux.

 

EDIT:

 

Winamp works fine with Wine.

[Ramrod126]

I didn't know anyone still used Winamp but check out Audacious.

[Thomas53]

If all you want is to play music Audacious is your best bet. Or you can just play your music thru VLC.

[WereCat]

I just use Amberol but Audacious is fine as well

[Eigenvektor]

There are quite a few to choose from:

https://itsfoss.com/best-music-players-linux/

 

Haven't used Mint in a while, but it likely has a functional music player installed out of the box already?

[maplepants]

2 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

There are quite a few to choose from:

https://itsfoss.com/best-music-players-linux/

 

Haven't used Mint in a while, but it likely has a functional music player installed out of the box already?

This is a good list because it gives you the best options, but also by including stuff like VLC and DeaDBeef Player it shows implicitly that the landscape is pretty barren. Also itsfoss is a good blog so any time you spend bumming around on that site is worth while.

[NoLeafClover]

+1 for Audacious. It's simple, effective, QT-based, and if you're feeling nostalgic, it has the option for the "Classic winamp interface" from the 90s/early 2000s built-in.

[Needfuldoer]

On 4/23/2025 at 4:52 AM, NoLeafClover said:

+1 for Audacious. It's simple, effective, QT-based, and if you're feeling nostalgic, it has the option for the "Classic winamp interface" from the 90s/early 2000s built-in.

That makes sense since it's a fork of a fork of XMMS, which was always a clone of WinAMP.

[NoLeafClover]

5 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

That makes sense since it's a fork of a fork of XMMS, which was always a clone of WinAMP.

Yep. It even has the original XMMS skin by default when choosing the Classic Winamp interface. Except the days of XMMS are long gone now.

 

Edit: I think there were attempts at making XMMS2 at some point in the past but not sure how far that project made it, or if it's still alive.

[needshmeed]

I always used VLC (and still mostly do) even though I occasionally fire up Audacious & it hasn't disappointed me. Old habits die hard?

[Thomas53]

Why do I still us VLC and Audacious? Simple, they work and that's all that's important.

 

No they're not shiny and flashy that former Windows users are so fond of, relative simplicity is all that you really need. My music and videos are already organized and I don't need to waste the drive space so that some of the newer programs require and I don't need to install another application when most distributions include them in their base installation.

 

I use Audacious for my music files and VLC for videos, movies, podcasts, and capture videos from both my camera and my phone. It also has a number of other abilities that I don't have a need for.

[UNIXNETWORK]

In old days I was using XMMS:

Looks like is still alive:

https://pkgs.org/download/xmms2

[YellowJersey]

Mint uses Rhythm Box (also available on the Ubuntu/Mint software manager) and flathub. I use RB and I quite like it. You can also get equaliser plugins.

[Herr.Hoefkens]

from the creator of the original Winamp:

(and a million times better imho):

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/foobar2000

(https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/foobar2000)

 

its actually windows, but it runs in wine perfectly (even the vst plugins eg work as in windows, and if you want asio its can work with wineasio aswell) since the developpers also test their code in wine...