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For those on Linux or Windows, Audacious is a beautiful audio player heavily inspired by Winamp 2.x, both visually and mechanically. It supports Winamp Classic skins out of the box, and comes with quite a nice one as stock.

Screenshot: http://community.linuxmint.com/img/screenshots/audacious.png Homepage: http://audacious-media-player.org/

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I might be willing to switch if it can do a minimal interface[1] like Winamp does (depending on the skin). That's what keeps me on Winamp the most.

edit: Awesome, it does[2] (if you switch to the winamp classic skin). Just need to find how to minimize it to the tray so it doesn't show in the taskbar and get switching between tracks with the mouse scroll wheel working.

[1] http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/901/winampm.png

[2] http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/6972/audacious.png

If you go to preferences, and look at the plugins tab (I believe in the general plugins section) you'll see there's a plugin for a system tray icon. After enabling, you can hide to the system tray by clicking the system tray icon. Most useful plugin IMO.

Oh thanks. I was hoping it would just remove the app from the taskbar and keep the player still on the screen (like winamp). Not quite the same, but it can probably be tweaked in the source.

How can you recommend Audacious for Windows users? At this point it's nothing more than a half-working port. It can't seek files, render non-latin characters or even follow OS Cleartype settings (it renders text with no AA at all).

I've made my switch away from Winamp since they use Bento as their default UI. now I use AIMP, come with Media Library and Tag Editor :) http://www.aimp.ru/index.php

This is the best discovery I've made all week! Winamp was always my go-to application because it was so compact and less clunky compared to Ttunes. Now that I use linux, Its like i have winamp again. Thanks for sharing!

Personally, I've settled on DeaDBeeF in Linux, because almost nothing else can do gapless playback. Or, if you prefer console players, I recommend cmus.

I've had no problem with gapless playback on moc, cmus, and mpd. Or are you talking mainly about GUI players?

I haven't tried moc, but mpd never did gapless playback for me.

That's too bad. I would have noticed if it didn't support it because I specifically check for this feature with Pink Floyd albums.

Out of curiousity, what format did you use? I keep my files in FLAC format.

Of you can use xmms on Linux. It's not dead yet!

http://www.xmms.org/

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