Winamp Alpha for Linux

nerdguy0 writes "It appears that Winamp isn't just for Windows anymore. Nullsoft has a Linux alpha of Winamp3 out on their site. Hopefully it doesn't overshadow all of the hard work the XMMS people have done." Does winamp have better playlist controls then xmms? I've taken to using freeamp just because it has decent playlist controls. I say decent, not good. I want something with a tivo type of intelligence, but everything that claims to do something like this, well, doesn't.

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As soon as it reaches beta

[Anonymous Coward]

that will be the end. Just like every linux app it will be in constant beta state.

WINE?

[xcjohn]

This thing is hideously power hungry. Running winamp under WINE offers far better performance... how'd they manage to skrew this up so horribly? there's been a beta mac version for a while now that hasn't really seemed to be in development lately (it crashes when you try to access the menu).

Problems with XMMS? So fix em!

[Sanity]

If you have suggestions for how XMMS could be improved - why don't you just fix them yourself?

However note that if you had issues with Winamp (such as the fact that it seems to crash once every 30 seconds on my machine) you need to rely on Nullsoft to address any problems you are having. Or what if Nullsoft decided to place spyware in their software? What could you do? Not much because you may not even know it is there. And what if Nullsoft decided to stop development of Winamp, or (more likely) decided that Linux development wasn't worth their time. What could you do about it? Absolutely nothing.

You may see these as irrational "religious" reasons to favor Open Source, however to me they seem very rational indeed.