Yo siempre he sido parcial por Audacious con el skin estilo WinAmp. Soy viejito y todavía tengo mis prejuicios, jeje.

Por cierto, me he topado ya con varios de aquí que usan Linux, Ubuntu en especial. Al menos como 10 personas. ¿No sería conveniente hacer un subreddit sobre Linux/Ubuntu/FOSS en español? Aunque supongo que sería innecesario, ya que por lo general las personas relacionadas con el open source saben inglés y ya existen muchos subreddits sobre el tema. Pero al final de cuentas se podría decir lo mismo de /r/mexico, ¿no?

Audacious is very close to WinAMP, and - aside from the Linux-only Music on Console - my go-to player. It also provides that WinAMP-typical look in case it's important to you.

Als ich vor einigen Jahren gänzlich von Windows zu Linux gewechselt bin habe ich foobar2000 durch Audacious ersetzt und war damit lange sehr zufrieden.

Danach habe ich lange MPC in Kombination mit MPD eingesetzt.

Heute bin ich langweilig und faul geworden und verwende Spotify, deren Linux Client ist mittlerweile auch sehr brauchbar.

Als Quelle für neue Musik bin ich gerne auf Bandcamp unterwegs, wenn es die Zeit mal erlaubt.

> I just play all of my jazz albums on shuffle on my iPod.

I carry a 1.5 TB drive with me with about 4,000 flac-encoded jazz albums and box sets. Normally I'm a one album at a time kinda guy, but sometimes I'll load up everything into a gigantic playlist and let it shuffle. It takes a while for Audacious to read the tags off all those files. :-)

Audacious is an open source music player that was inspired by Winamp: http://audacious-media-player.org/

I'm not sure if it has all the features you asked for, but I imagine it would if it's trying to replicate Winamp. Either way, it's worth a shot.

Here's what it looks like in old school Winamp style. It does have multiple themes, though.

It's Audacious. It used to be a fork of XMMS, but is a totally different project now. You have to enable the Winamp frontend, and yes it'll take Winamp skins. I just happen to like the default skin. ;-) I see that someone else suggested XMMS, but there hasn't been a release of the GUI version in 7 years.

Installing in general

Where it is at all possible, use your package manager to install software. Do not manually download and install anything unless you really, really need to.

Manually downloading and installing a .tar.gz, .run, .sh, etc. is horrible; and gives you all the problems you get from downloading and installing things in Window, and then some. Dependencies will not be managed for you, it is up to you to keep the software up to date, and it may be difficult to uninstall.

Manually downloading and installing a .deb is a little bit better, as the package manager is at least able to automatically remove the package and may be able to take care of dependencies for you.

However, it is always best to install straight from the package manager (apt-get install packagename, aptitude install packagename, or search for it in Software Manager). Your operating system will then be able to automatically take care of dependencies, make sure it does not conflict with existing software on your system, and make sure that the package stays up to date which is a major advantage in security terms.

XMMS in particular

I don't use Mint, but it is likely that they have dropped support for XMMS by now. The XMMS project has been dead for about eight years now, as the developers have moved on to XMMS2 (a mostly unrelated project similar in concept to mpd).

However, there have been several projects descended from XMMS, the most popular of which today is Audacious. It has been modernised in several ways (it no longer requires the ancient GTK+ 1.x library), but still supports XMMS/Winamp Classic skins.

You can search for "audacious" in Software Manager, or just do apt-get install audacious as root.

No help for the first half of your question, but as for foobar-like players, I like Audacious. There is a hotkey plugin for Audacious that looks fairly robust, but I have never used it and can't offer any opinions on it.

There is also VLC, of course.

I like Audacious and VLC for their simplicity but if you want more advanced features (lyrics, automatic download, ...), Clementine might be a better choice.

Audacious is a great light weight player. Scroll to bottom for the Windows .Zip file.. It's everything but video, for that I use k-lite Codec Pack or VLC.

TIL about Decibel. I've been using Audacious with the native GTK (non-skinned) interface... the closest I've found to foobar2k on Linux. Actually, sometimes I just run foobar2k under Wine since it's so good.

try audacious for linux: http://audacious-media-player.org/

1by1 for windows has something akin to this : http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html

or you can use winamp for windows: http://www.winamp.com/help/Player_Features

I hate winamp because its bloated...