strawberry VS audacious

Assuming you mean the pre-2.0 Amarok, you might be interested in Strawberry: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

It's a a fork of a fork of the old Amarok, supporting more features and modern support while retaining the original UI.

Strawberrry (https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/) is the fork, but I don't think it will do everything you want as far as plugins go. I would also like something that is Clementine but not 7 years out of date.

That doesn't always work on a Mac, so you might want to grab it's forked project, Strawberry (this is what I use on my Mac) -> https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org

If you use Clementine, I highly recommend Strawberry, it's a fork of Clementine which is updated more often, has a lot of bugfixes and QoL that I enjoy.

Strawberry for listening to audio files.

Winamp! Yes, it's a stupid option that wastes battery life, but I'm quite happy running my trusty old Winamp through Parallels. Been using it forever, and see no reason to switch. I've tried a bunch of MacOS native apps, but have never really been happy with them in the past. Strawberry shows promise though. I've had my eye on that one. I might give it another try: https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

I use navidrome[1], its a music streaming server you can selfhost and then use a player that supports the subsonic api for playback. I use the strawberry music player on my desktop and substreamer[2] on android. Navidrome can also scrobble your music to last.fm if you tell it to.

[0] https://www.navidrome.org/

[1] https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry

[2] https://substreamerapp.com/

I use https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

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.