On: Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

[FedRegister]

Except it is mostly abandoned. It requires GTK1 and hasn't been updated since 2007.

[cnlwsu → FedRegister]

Which might be an indication of the type of community involvement an open source version of winamp would see. Although I would love to see it try.

[Touche → FedRegister]

Aren't there several Winamp OS clones? I remember there being a few years ago but maybe everyone has moved on.

[aryastark → Touche]

At least on Linux. The original was x11amp, which becamse XMMS. But there are much better options, especially if you want to go text mode. MOC (http://moc.daper.net/), or even mplayer if you just want simple playback. And of course, the original mpg123. Let's just say, open source music players are a solved problem.