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The best Winamp clone for macOS is still Re:AMP https://re-amp.ru/
If you want the original Winamp experience with full support of M3U playlist then don't go further than Re:AMP
By ccakes 2025-11-156:43 Don’t mess with perfection
what do you mean ? the last release was 22 years ago. This is just trying to be the perfect copy of that.
By AndrewDavis 2025-11-158:55 You joke. I still use an old winamp 2.81 on my windows machine.
About 15 years ago I came across some plugin dll files that added flac support.
The only issue I ever run into is some non ascii characters in ID3 tags make that file unplayable. But winamp is perfectly capable of editing them.
It's even pretty good in the high dpi monitors because Ctrl-D enables "Double size" mode on the main window and equaliser. And the playlist window has customisable font sizes.
By superultra 2025-11-1422:284 reply 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?
If you look at [1] you can see some derivations from Milkdrop/Project M.
There were a lot of other, good visual plugins and software. VJ software, specifically, but also Libvisual just abstracts input and output, therefore allowing you to use all of these (supported) visualization plugins on any supported media player. It isn't much developed anymore these days, but this is the correct way forward.
Looking at the actors in Livisual [3] G-Force is decent but also a couple may be missing from earlier Libvisual releases. You may also like Lemuria [4]. Winamp's AVS is also FOSS [5].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop
[2] https://github.com/Libvisual/libvisual
[3] https://github.com/Libvisual/libvisual/tree/master/libvisual...
[4] https://github.com/dr-ni/lemuria-2.1.1
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Visualization_Studio
By grandchild 2025-11-1611:45 Also, I'm working on AVS still, from time to time: https://github.com/grandchild/vis_avs/tree/dev
By stuaxo 2025-11-158:29 ProjectM is on github too
By wj 2025-11-152:09 Agreed. I would love Plex (or PlexAmp and then cast) to have some built in visualizations. And I have no idea why some of those streaming EDM channels on YouTube aren't doing music visualizations rather than ten second loops of video.
By musictubes 2025-11-1423:292 reply There are some visualizers in the Mac App Store. I'm using Ferromagnetic right now and like it well enough. There are still visualizers in Apple Music left over from the iTunes days but they're kind of lame.
By VerifiedReports 2025-11-150:44 I stumbled onto one years ago by accident, maybe an Easter egg or something. I came back to my computer (Mac) after several hours of iTunes playback to see a hitherto unknown visualization running, with fairly primitive-looking graphics by today's standards. It was not any of the visualizations available in iTunes at the time.
I filed a bug on it with Apple and they got back to me asking how the hell I had invoked this, because they'd never seen it before. Never did get to the bottom of it.
By zacharycohn 2025-11-157:15 Intentional pun?
By neckro23 2025-11-153:41 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
By hnlmorg 2025-11-1513:53 Project M is still around. I use it to project visualisations at house parties.
By alterom 2025-11-159:33 >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.
You can still do that. Winamp runs just fine on Windows 10/11.
By mrbuttons454 2025-11-150:26 Geiss source is available now. Maybe it should be ported :) https://github.com/geissomatik/geiss
By insin 2025-11-155:27 I was pleasantly surprised to find Soulseek is still active
A winamp clone for os/x - interested in learning swift, and wanted a stable version of winamp for os/x - two itches scratched
By asimovDev 2025-11-1415:14 What was the most fun and least fun you had while learning Swift for this project?
I remember having trouble making a Swift UI for my C app because I forgot to disable sandboxing in Xcode project settings. Spent a frustrating two hours debugging
Nice. Maybe next step can be integration with one of the music services
