Running Winamp on Linux

So you want to run Winamp on Linux huh? Yeah, me too ’cause version 5 is pretty sweet. I’m going to save you a lot of time though by telling you not to even try. Really, don’t try. Instead, just run XMMS. It’s basically Winamp 2.x that was written to work natively on Linux. It functions like Winamp, it looks like Winamp, it even uses Winamp skins! I recommend you stick with it for all of your mp3 playing.

As for video, well I don’t even use Winamp on XP for video much considering how much slower it loads than Windows Media Player, and I’d recommend using one of the default video players for whatever version of Linux you’re running. If you choose to use the Gnome desktop environment you should use Totem and if you run KDE you should use Kaffeine. Both of these are based on Xine which (if you get a regular, full version) includes support for as many kinds of video as windows was ever able to play.
Seriously, if you can jam with XMMS and watch movies on Totem and Kaffeine give props to Winamp but don’t try to take it with you into the Linux world.