#Winamp linux portable
#Winamp linux code
#Winamp linux free

That's what you wanted, right? Good reasons to use winamp. It slows it down and the computer as well.

I always switched from Windows Media Player to Winamp because WMP is bogged down with visual prettiness.

I like a player to look one way, a comfortable, clean interface. Personally, I'm not a big fan of skins and crap. Quote: Originally posted by DrO and what is the purpose of doing it? just for the skins? people have never given a valid reason as i see it as to why the player should be ported to any of the other operating systems since there's already a load of native players which have the look of winamp or is it just to have a nullsoft name on the product (which pretty much has meant nothing since those who originally formed nullsoft all left in 2003/2004)Īnd as a point, OSS isn't always the best way for a lot of things - the situation with winamp itself and it's two main visualisation plugins proves that - people demanded them be OSS'd and then there's been effectively no work done (bar some on milkdrop (MD1) which then was messed up with the implementation of MD2 which isn't OSS to my knowledge). it's the same for people wanting x86-64 builds of winamp, although that would be easier to do you still loose the legacy input plugin, etc which people expect from the extensibilty of the player. The best compromise would be to work with people involved with wine to make it more compatible with winamp rather than just porting winamp over (which was done for Winamp3 and look where that went).Įither way, winamp as it currently stands will not be ported to linux (which is basically a re-code no matter what due to the mass differences) and what is the purpose of doing it? just for the skins? since none of the plugins will work and that then cripples the player.

#Winamp linux code

You also have to bear in mind that coding for linux requires learning new ways compared to that of windows which if there's effectively one person working on the project then a) you end up with an even slower development process and b) makes it just a lot more of a hassle to do so and c) who's going to fund it? (since there's a lot of licensed proprietry code which prevents it from being OSS'd) I hope this clears a few things up so another linux/winamp thread won't be made.

#Winamp linux portable

There are a few wasabi based apps around on the net but they arn't media players.Īlternative open source media players actually work, and are usually very portable between operating systems.(although some of them have a case of the uglys)

#Winamp linux free

The only alternative for a portable winamp would be to perform more work and put more resources into the old wasabi(winamp3) project in which aol is likely to fund only if hell freezes over.įeel free to utilise the old wasabi player codebase for your own portable winamp(it has been open sourced with the proprietary parts removed google it) it needs and some components for a gui and components for just about every other function which made it what it was. This would break all compatibility with current plugins and the developers would probably break the skinning system to remove some of its bugs and limitations so no skins either.(that just wouldn't be winamp would it) Winamp is beyond reasonable portability and would have to be rewritten from scratch. There probably will not ever be a winamp2/5 for nix because of winamp high usage of the win32 api. If you wanted winamp for linux, you shouldn't have complained about winamp3 and aol should not have shoved it out the door, it was not ready for general usage.