audacious VS audacity

I usually just use mpv since it's the simplest and most flexible. You might be looking for something like Audacious though, which is great too

Audacious is a more popular media player app that supports Winamp skins and a media library.

This may interest you,and it is Qt,plus can be used with MPD. https://audacious-media-player.org/

the new version of audacious has a vu meter and its also available to windows https://audacious-media-player.org/

Audacious audio player.

Find a GUI player you like (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications#Graphical_13 for a non-exhaustive list; ISTR Audacious being mentioned as a Winamp clone) and add it to your autostart items (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Autostarting#On_desktop_environment_startup).

Yes, Winamp works well on Linux through wine, I have been using it for a long time myself. Although recently I have also been using audacious, which runs more smoothly and is better integrated with Linux (as it is a native application) and it also has support for Winamp skins, so it's a fairly good drop-in replacement (as long as you're not relying on some esoteric plugins or file formats).

im not the parent commenter but i highly recommend audacious for linux and windows. plays every audio format you have, doesn’t enforce a specific music library folder structure, and supports winamp skins(!) https://audacious-media-player.org/

Effectively succeeded by Audacious:

https://audacious-media-player.org/

... which is under active development/maintenance.

They're looking into a new name as well, https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity/issues/5

Here's a forked version with telemetry code removed (not mine, and I haven't read the diffs to verify, but it's all visible). But this is the beauty of open source, stuffs available you aren't required to follow new owners if they pull stuff like this: https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity/

Audacity will be fine and will continue to be at the top but I think we will see some new popular Forks/Competitors out there, such as this one8, that may or may not rise to the challenge of maintaining a complex application and be able to keep it up to date, work on bugs and issues and also continue to upgrade its feature set an UI. Its something I plan on paying attention to for the foreseeable future and hope this serves as a reminder, Much like OpenJDK, OpenOffice and XFree86 before them, to any other open source projects or Corporate Companies that buy up the Open Source Community Projects that they need to stay true to the community and the Open Source ethos.

It looks like everyone is using this fork: https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity

for more context please see this exact comment: https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity/issues/48#iss...

TLDR: he’s taking a day off the internet after him and his closed ones getting thousands personal threats over phone, e-mail, etc. for not choosing “Sneedacity” name for the fork

It's a shame the fork doesn't use better commit messages than they do.

For example, "Fixes" is the entire commit message for https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity/commit/d9f30b...

Commit messages like these do not inspire a lot of confidence. It would be a lot better (and easier to compare the original and the fork) if the commit message was something like "[Remove-Tracking] Remove SentryHelper.h and sentry ADD_EXCEPTION_CONTEXT usage"