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emreb
WinAmp, it really whips the llama's ass :) What was your favorite skin on Winamp?
bovermyer
Nothing specific. Usually it was sci-fi interface stuff with high contrast buttons so the skin didn't obscure the function.
themdonuts
No skin. My internet was too slow and paid per minute to browse for skins :(
agumonkey
- vanilla - ported v3 skin - some deluxe hifi brand (pioneer, Denon forgot)

Strange times where skeumorphism reigned supreme.

MisterTea
Speaking of skeuomorphism, before MP3 was a thing and Winamp I played many a MIDI and wav file in addition to actual CD's on Audiostation: https://www.audiostation.org/
agumonkey
Reminds me of SoundBlaster music player too :)
__void
one customized by me from a gray plain (I think it was a macosx like)

i lost a lot of hours instead of studying for that skin, somewhere in the Ark-HDs I should still have it (I hope)

theandrewbailey
I remember playing with skins for a while, but since I mostly used Winamp without looking at it, I stopped caring about skins and appreciated the stock 2.x look. Who knew that a modular, black/gray aesthetic reminiscent of high end audio equipment would be timeless?

I've tried to use other players (Foobar, VLC) with Winamp skins, but they never looked or functioned right, so I kept coming back to the original.

bovermyer
Also notable:

* https://www.clementine-player.org/

* https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

zekica
I'm using clementine from the first version. I kept using Amarok 1.4 after KDE reimagined it in 2.0, and Clementine keeps all the good stuff from the old Amarok.
bluedays
This aesthetic bugs me. I don't know why so many open source apps look like this. I think they are extremely unattractive looking apps.
apocalyptic0n3
In some cases, they're very skinnable and the ugly theme is just the default. Both Winamp and Foobar2000 were extremely popular in the desktop customization community when it was at its height around 2004-2006ish for that reason.

It's also because most of these projects don't have dedicated designers working on them. So you end up with the "designed by developers" aesthetic and let's be honest: we developers generally suck at designing UIs.

omega3
Does anyone know how the media library scanning was implemented in Winamp, I remember it was orders of magnitude faster than any (even modern) music players for very large music collections.
[dead] jorgeudajer
What a throwback. It was either Winamp and Kazam (and for very specific music tastes, the Coldplayer).
kaetemi
Still using Winamp here. It works, it looks good, and it doesn't take half my screen space.
wink
The first "useful" tool I ever wrote in the 90s (in VB 5 if I am not mistaken) was a M3U to HTML converter for MP3 playlists. Winamp added the feature a bit later.
poisonborz
A successor that wasn't mentioned yet but is much more similar in goals is AIMP.
pupppet
These iddy-biddy pixel-perfect UIs are a lost art. Most of the UI's these days look like something from a Fisher-Price toy.