{"slug": "audacious", "name": "Audacious", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 8, "commenters": 10, "warners": 0, "score": 7.343, "rising": -2.62, "first": "2025-11-03", "latest": "2026-10-11", "why": "there's Audacious[1], which is an excellent and cross-platform player, with support for Winamp skins", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 9, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [2, 1, 2, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "there's Audacious[1], which is an excellent and cross-platform player, with support for Winamp skins", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "audacious-media-player.org", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://audacious-media-player.org", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Audacious"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 771086976, "item_id": 48192936, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192936", "by": "1317", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "has a winamp mode which does", "excerpt": "https://audacious-media-player.org/ has a winamp mode which does", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"}, {"id": 770984339, "item_id": 48186521, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186521", "by": "gmt4", "date": "2026-05-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "even with fond memories of foobar2000/winamp/audacious", "excerpt": "I share the sentiment, even with fond memories of foobar2000/winamp/audacious, I've gone the route of just resorting to a \"simpler\" setup, just a collection of shell scripts to manage mpv to play my files from my disk/shares/http This is how it looks on macOS, and Linux: https://gmt4.github.io/mpvc/assets/mpvc-fzf-mac.jpg https://gmt4.github.io/mpvc/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"}, {"id": 760429920, "item_id": 47526870, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526870", "by": "antisol", "date": "2026-03-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "And it's compatible with winamp skins", "excerpt": "And it's compatible with winamp skins, so you can download the winamp base skin ( https://skins.webamp.org/skin/5e4f10275dcb1fb211d4a8b4f1bda236/base-2.91.wsz/ ) and have it look exactly like winamp.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp"}, {"id": 760000256, "item_id": 47500016, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500016", "by": "tosti", "date": "2026-03-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "XMMS lives on as Audacious", "excerpt": "XMMS lives on as Audacious: https://audacious-media-player.org/ You can still configure it to look like XMMS.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp"}, {"id": 748662016, "item_id": 46791376, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791376", "by": "antisol", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Yeah audacious is where it's at.", "excerpt": "Yeah audacious is where it's at. I've never understood why anybody would want to use an audio player that doesn't look like winamp. I even use (a lightly modified version of) the original winamp 2 skin: https://skins.webamp.org/skin/5e4f10275dcb1fb211d4a8b4f1bda236/base-2.91.wsz/ Honorable mention to qmmp, too.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The state of Linux music players in 2026"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["audio player", "music player", "winamp-style player on pi zero", "local music playback"], "compared": [{"slug": "winamp", "name": "Winamp", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184214", "title": "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494821", "title": "A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776564", "title": "The state of Linux music players in 2026", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46406311", "title": "Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041540", "title": "IRCv3", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926224", "title": "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 2}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 2}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 800791168, "item_id": 50049448, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049448", "by": "bsammon", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "tweaking the right knobs in the configuration screens could get it to a Winamp-like UI", "excerpt": "There was x11amp, which got renamed to XMMS, which was later forked into Beep Media Player, which was later forked into Audacious. IIRC, the last time I used Audacious, the default interface was a loosely-inspired-by-itunes kinda UI, but tweaking the right knobs in the configuration screens could get it to a Winamp-like UI (or at least XMMS-like) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacious_(software) confirms a lot of my", "context": "", "use_case": "audio player", "switched_from": "", "story": "IRCv3"}, {"id": 771086976, "item_id": 48192936, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192936", "by": "1317", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "has a winamp mode which does", "excerpt": "https://audacious-media-player.org/ has a winamp mode which does", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"}, {"id": 770984339, "item_id": 48186521, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186521", "by": "gmt4", "date": "2026-05-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "even with fond memories of foobar2000/winamp/audacious", "excerpt": "I share the sentiment, even with fond memories of foobar2000/winamp/audacious, I've gone the route of just resorting to a \"simpler\" setup, just a collection of shell scripts to manage mpv to play my files from my disk/shares/http This is how it looks on macOS, and Linux: https://gmt4.github.io/mpvc/assets/mpvc-fzf-mac.jpg https://gmt4.github.io/mpvc/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"}, {"id": 760429920, "item_id": 47526870, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526870", "by": "antisol", "date": "2026-03-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "And it's compatible with winamp skins", "excerpt": "And it's compatible with winamp skins, so you can download the winamp base skin ( https://skins.webamp.org/skin/5e4f10275dcb1fb211d4a8b4f1bda236/base-2.91.wsz/ ) and have it look exactly like winamp.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp"}, {"id": 760000256, "item_id": 47500016, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500016", "by": "tosti", "date": "2026-03-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "XMMS lives on as Audacious", "excerpt": "XMMS lives on as Audacious: https://audacious-media-player.org/ You can still configure it to look like XMMS.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp"}, {"id": 748662016, "item_id": 46791376, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791376", "by": "antisol", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Yeah audacious is where it's at.", "excerpt": "Yeah audacious is where it's at. I've never understood why anybody would want to use an audio player that doesn't look like winamp. I even use (a lightly modified version of) the original winamp 2 skin: https://skins.webamp.org/skin/5e4f10275dcb1fb211d4a8b4f1bda236/base-2.91.wsz/ Honorable mention to qmmp, too.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The state of Linux music players in 2026"}, {"id": 748431952, "item_id": 46776997, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776997", "by": "boje", "date": "2026-01-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Shoutouts to Audacious", "excerpt": "Shoutouts to Audacious https://audacious-media-player.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "Music player", "switched_from": "", "story": "The state of Linux music players in 2026"}, {"id": 743619665, "item_id": 46476229, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476229", "by": "jzellis", "date": "2026-01-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "by using Audacious or another app that uses Winamp skins", "excerpt": "I switched to Qobuz a couple of weeks ago and I think I'm gonna cancel my Spotify subscription soon. It's got a better catalogue for the slightly obscure stuff I like and they pay artists much better. Aside from that, I've got my entire music collection backed up on multiple drives (mostly by accident) and I bought an iPod Classic last year, upgraded the battery and storage, and I've got it all on there too, and it'l", "context": "", "use_case": "Winamp-style player on Pi Zero", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?"}, {"id": 742508064, "item_id": 46406754, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46406754", "by": "mindcrime", "date": "2025-12-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "recently I've been using Audacious[2] mostly", "excerpt": "I never stopped listening to mp3's, at least not altogether. I do spend quite a bit of time listening to music these days using Youtube / YT music, but I do still listen to my local collection at times. And I buy mp3 albums from Amazon every once in a while. For listening I've mostly used xmms over the years, but recently I've been using Audacious[2] mostly. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMMS [2]: https://audaci", "context": "", "use_case": "Local music playback", "switched_from": "XMMS", "story": "Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?"}, {"id": 734847056, "item_id": 45927941, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927941", "by": "rollcat", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "there's Audacious[1], which is an excellent and cross-platform player, with support for Winamp skins", "excerpt": "OS/Xamp perhaps. Joking aside, there's Audacious[1], which is an excellent and cross-platform player, with support for Winamp skins. Also check out WebAmp[2] and the skin museum[3]. [1] <https://audacious-media-player.org> [2] <https://webamp.org> [3] <https://skins.webamp.org>", "context": "", "use_case": "audio player", "switched_from": "", "story": "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"}, {"id": 732903329, "item_id": 45806458, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806458", "by": "Lammy", "date": "2025-11-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Probably Audacious.", "excerpt": "> modern equivalent of the classic WinAmp that runs on Windows WACUP \u2014 originally Win Amp Community Update Project, although they have distanced themselves from any mention of the original for legal reasons. It's literally Winamp, and it rules: https://getwacup.com/ Get the 32-bit version for now if you want to use the \u201cModern\u201d (Winamp 3 & 5) skinning engine that has not yet been ported to the 64-bit ver. Worth it be", "context": "", "use_case": "Music player", "switched_from": "", "story": "Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On"}]}