I'd ruled out using that as fork/basis as it needs too much doing to remove dependencies & other things I'm not happy with it from testing.
I am however probably going to be doing an mpg123 based solution since a current version of it is already bundled with WACUP for some of the plug-ins.
The other talk had been an ffmpeg based solution though that's a pain to custom compile from what I've tried though I need to come back to it to get my vgmstream build offering full feature support (the ffmpeg DLLs are chunky by default & duplicate too much with what I already provide so I'd like to do a custom build that can share my libraries without duplication). Or a toggle to switch between either as I cannot use what winamp did as they'd licensed the official Fraunhofer MP3 decoder & afaict that's not been released generically.
-dro