Winamp clone in Swift for macOS • Hacker News Board

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by kayodelycaon » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 2:17 AM UTC

This is awesome and I wish I could use it. Like a lot of people, I don’t have a music folder, just Apple Music.

I have a few things scattered across my Dropbox account I could collect. (Unless it could somehow use downloaded songs from Apple Music.)

Streaming music services are a blessing and a curse. I could never afford or collect the vast number of albums in my library. So lack of ownership isn’t a problem for me. The only downside is I have to use their app, which they have zero incentive to improve. :(

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by zie » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 3:20 AM UTC

sysworld wrote: post #137

It's a shame this too doesn't play/pause with space bar.. like Spotify, drives me nuts.

It's MIT licensed, so you can add it. they might even take a patch. I agree it's pretty lame when the space bar doesn't play/pause media in players though.

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by neckro23 » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 3:41 AM UTC

cyberpunk wrote: post #127

superultra wrote: post #125

Man, seeing the visualizations here reminded me of how great it was to load up some music in Winamp (downloaded via soulseek), turn on the geiss visualizer, and get stoned.

milkdrop and project m, those were the days. Why aren’t these really a thing anymore? Does anyone know any non-shit way to get nice visuals from apple music or spotify or whatever these days?

Milkdrop and Project M are both available as vis plugins for Foobar2k, on Windows at least: https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_vis_milk2

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by bcraven » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 4:13 AM UTC

VerifiedReports wrote: post #135

I was not a fan of WinAmp in its heyday because I thought all the "skins" sucked. Wow, have times changed. I look at this screenshot now: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mgreenwood1001/winamp/refs... and think about how usable this looks. Buttons are demarcated clearly. The scrub bar is big enough to grab. Everything is legible. UI sucks now. Meanwhile... seeing the lyrics in that shot makes me wonder if WinAmp sup…

I often see these 'clones' of winamp and for some reason they all use skins that look like shit.

As someone who still uses winamp (via Wacup) I can swear by the 'Bento' skin that is not a garish nightmare.

https://www.deviantart.com/unpopularpizza/art/Winamp-Big-Ben...

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 5:11 AM UTC

undeveloper wrote: post #132

lproven wrote: post #128

Been running Foobar 2000 for macOS for a year, but this is pretty in a retro way, I guess. https://www.foobar2000.org/mac <- the least bollocks-infested media player on macOS since about, oh, September 2000.

vlc..?

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Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by microflash » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 5:14 AM UTC

BruceEel wrote: post #19

Nice! Speaking of Winamp - are you using any alternative music player for iOS that you would recommend?

I’ve been using Jewelcase for a while. https://apps.apple.com/in/app/jewelcase/id6642683626

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by nurettin » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 5:16 AM UTC

armitron wrote: post #48

tomislavpet wrote: post #30

Also worth checking out: https://re-amp.ru

No source "freeware", would you trust a binary from a random Russian developer to not contain/deliver a trojan?

No source freeware from Russia was the norm back in the 90s.

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by insin » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 5:27 AM UTC

superultra wrote: post #125

Man, seeing the visualizations here reminded me of how great it was to load up some music in Winamp (downloaded via soulseek), turn on the geiss visualizer, and get stoned.

I was pleasantly surprised to find Soulseek is still active

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by VerifiedReports » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 5:43 AM UTC

bcraven wrote: post #144

VerifiedReports wrote: post #135

I was not a fan of WinAmp in its heyday because I thought all the "skins" sucked. Wow, have times changed. I look at this screenshot now: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mgreenwood1001/winamp/refs... and think about how usable this looks. Buttons are demarcated clearly. The scrub bar is big enough to grab. Everything is legible. UI sucks now. Meanwhile... seeing the lyrics in that shot makes me wonder if WinAmp sup…

I often see these 'clones' of winamp and for some reason they all use skins that look like shit. As someone who still uses winamp (via Wacup) I can swear by the 'Bento' skin that is not a garish nightmare. https://www.deviantart.com/unpopularpizza/art/Winamp-Big-Ben...

The skin I saw most often back in the day had some dumb non-rectangular shape with a "texture" on it and the controls scattered all over the place. Right in line with the "skinning" fad of the early 2000s, which defeated the intuitiveness of GUIs and decades of their evolution.

Then came the even-dumber "transparent-UI" fad.

Fortunately both those died. Oh but wait: Here comes Apple, exhuming one of them in 2025! But Apple has always hated customization, so they probably won't be resurrecting "skins" too.

Re: Winamp clone in Swift for macOS

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Post by BruceEel » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 6:35 AM UTC

microflash wrote: post #146

BruceEel wrote: post #19

Nice! Speaking of Winamp - are you using any alternative music player for iOS that you would recommend?

I’ve been using Jewelcase for a while. https://apps.apple.com/in/app/jewelcase/id6642683626

Excellent, I like offline players best.