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I don't know if anything out there is just like Winamp 5, I've heard that the Nullsoft team is working on a Linux port of Winamp 5 though, which would be awesome.

can I use wine to play winamp 5 ? I know I can just try it out myself .. but I am still merging wine in my gentoo box :)

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:huh: maybe I am blind to something here but I can play almost anything with the win32 codec packs and:

Xine + Totem

MPlayer

XMMS

why on earth would you wine winamp 5?

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The Linux port of Winamp 3 sucked so much that they stopped doing it. I don't think we'll see a Linux port of Winamp 5.

Honestly though, Winamp 3 sucked so much (aside from the skins) that most people went back (or never switched to begin with) to 2 or downloaded the alphas and betas of 5.

I've run 5 and it is definitely a big speed improvement over 3, though it is still not as fast as 2, though I expect that is partly due to the freeform skinning engine.

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If you truely want to run a Winamp5 for the skins - yes - it works with wine. While running it on my laptop (PII-400/192MB/nm256av) it got a little jittery (I just did it to see if I could) and used @30% CPU; on a better suited machine, it should not run with problems.

One problem I did see is that when you minimalise the EQ and Playlist windows, they are 2 rows tall instead of the 1 row they should be - so it's fugly. I don't have a clue on WA3 skins, as it was bombing out and I wasn't all that concerned (I use XMMS anyway - so it didn't much matter to me).

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The Linux port of Winamp 3 sucked so much that they stopped doing it. I don't think we'll see a Linux port of Winamp 5.

The windows port of Winamp 3 sucked so much that they stopped doing it, too. :D

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