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It came as a surprise to me but I found out literally today that VLC is skinnable: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.html

If you don't want/can't run Winamp, VLC might almost be what you want.

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Foobar2000 is a nice and customizable/skinnable audio player also.

i've been using fb2k for more than a decade now, but i gave up trying to do anything to fancy with it because its addon support was such a clusterfsck, mostly because i found over time that a lot of addons became defunct as their developer vanished, or the links broke or etc, and trying to get support on hydrogen audio was like sticking your hands into a bees nest.

to be fair it's been a long time since i looked into skinning it and things may be better now. it's still an excellent clean audio player, i just keep it close to stock with a few addons so i send audio to a chromecast.

there sure were some wild and beautiful fb2k skins and themes back in the day.

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