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It's dead already, then. WinAmp's heritage was providing a free audio player. I was looking forward to a refreshed build to test out, but I won't pay for it.
There are a dozen better, free, maintained, and actively developed players out there. This is less than too little, and far too late. Those of us who used winamp back when it was still activly developed will continue to have nostalgia for it, but I bet it will be DOA to most of the target audience.
I've only kept up on news for it because I was hoping it would be reborn true to itself. I have zero interest in it as a subscription model.
it appears to be just an added optional feature, a winamp-branded deezer subscription and client, with the traditional local play and customization and what-not still part of the 'free' program (presumably.. details are scarce).
but.. i left winamp years ago. i won't go back. i have playlists sorted and can just use vlc these days. idc about customizing or visualizations and that shit. i just want a player to sit in the background and do its thing. there's dozens of acceptable programs without a subscription sales pitch built in.
Source https://www.engadget.com/2259236/winamp-coming-back-2027-deezer-partnership-streaming-music/
It sounds like the local playback is the "optional" feature. That's still gonna be a no, at least for me. Fpr Hifi, I'll stick with FooBar2k, or something that is a proper hi-res FLAC player first and has bolt-ons/plugins second. The same article also links to another, they actually already released a new build of classic winamp a few years ago.
https://www.engadget.com/winamp-mp3-player-software-returns-191027227.html
Yeah, I loved winamp back in the day, but it's been a quarter of a century and now it's primary purpose (the ability to play mp3's) is no longer it's primary purpose. If I'm looking for another music player, it's primary purpose needs to be playing music files, not trying to convince me to sign up for another shitty service.
Okay, so yes, but do you have an example for linux? For I have checked out loads and not a single one can both do "next song" (only fast forward, facepalm), and random play the playlist/folder (with one doing it by scrambling the playlist itself smh).
I have a fruit named one thats does it but is a pita for everything else.