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Actually, Winamp is not going Open Source (programming.dev)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)
  • Better interface than Windows Media player
  • 100s of cool and edgy skins
  • Nice looking graphic equalizer
  • Nice music visualizer
  • Easy to make playlists
  • Tiny looking player which gelled with the early-mid 2000s vibe

And most importantly, it really whips the Llama's ass. TBH, there aren't a lot of serious reasons. It was just slightly better than the default music player. I personally feel the skins played a significant part.

[–] cmhe 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't that much a fan of the skins and found the interface of winamp very small and fiddly.

The milkdrop plugin however was rather nice though.

[–] cley_faye 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ProjectM is a thing :)

[–] cmhe 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but we are talking 2000-2005 or so.