Audacious
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8recommend
0warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Oct 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“has a winamp mode which does”
“even with fond memories of foobar2000/winamp/audacious”
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“And it's compatible with winamp skins”
“XMMS lives on as Audacious”
“Yeah audacious is where it's at.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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All comments 11
“tweaking the right knobs in the configuration screens could get it to a Winamp-like UI”
“has a winamp mode which does”
“even with fond memories of foobar2000/winamp/audacious”
“And it's compatible with winamp skins”
“XMMS lives on as Audacious”
“Yeah audacious is where it's at.”
“Shoutouts to Audacious”
“by using Audacious or another app that uses Winamp skins”
“recently I've been using Audacious[2] mostly”
“there's Audacious[1], which is an excellent and cross-platform player, with support for Winamp skins”
“Probably Audacious.”