I've been using Linux as my primary workstation OS since the late 90's but until now I've never really found a music player I liked. I have been using WinAmp under Wine just because it provided the functionality I wanted though a bit clunky, like it took eight minutes to load my collection. Recently developers have broken Wine to the point where the audio just wasn't good, lot of buffer underruns, skipping, but only wine.

So I went looking for a Linux player that was workable and I found Audacious. I've seen it in the past but not in classical GTK form where it is structured exactly the same as WinAmp. I didn't care for the skin, but guess what? Audacious can read and use WinAmp skins, so I just installed my old WinAmp skin and I'm mostly good!

There are a few annoying buglets. It chokes on some mp4 files even though it uses ffmpeg as an input plugin and ffmpeg groks the same file fine.

It also insists on placing the file extension of .ogg and .mp3 between title and artists but does not do this for other formats. Odd.

The sort by title doesn't work right either and that's a bit annoying but I can always find what I want by using J and searching. It also has some neat graphical extensions, one is attached.