Curious about the progress the WACUP project is making

[travibe]

I'm a user of the original Winamp from back in the 2000s era and I still use the original installers that I have backed up on my PC's. I can't bring myself to switch to any other media players. I'm just curious as to the progress that this project is making - is it time that I switch over to WACUP or should I just stick with what works and keep using the OG original Winamp? Just looking to hear some people's opinions. Thank you

[MarkRH]

Well, for my use the 32bit version works fine (only the 32bit version supports modern skins).  When I upgraded my PC from Windows 7 to Windows 10 back in 2019, I never reinstalled Winamp and just installed WACUP on it.  There are features I use in WACUP that are built into it that Winamp required particular plugins that are no longer around (the HTTP Post stuff).

Anyway, the best advice I have is probably to just try it.  The 32bit version is the one I would try first and make sure if you do install it, to place it into its own program directory like "C:\Program Files (x86)\WACUP" and NOT on top of your Winamp installation so that it remains untouched.   That way you can play with it and not muck up Winamp.

[dro]

It can also be installed as a portable install to make it simpler to try it out without touching anything else that's present on the system.

[Glamrlama]

I run both WinAmp 5.666 and the latest WACUP on my main library system under Win 11.  I run just WACUP as my player on 5 other Win 10/11 systems.

I still use WinAmp for maintaining my library meta data and artwork management. I've used it for so long and I am very familiar with the interface I saw no reason to move away from it.

WACUP I use as a pure player.  It runs smoother than WinAmp and handles my large libraries much better especially over network connections. WACUP I find is less buggy than Winamp and getting better on a regular basis. I usually update immediately as updates become available. (I have 5 redundant setups if something goes awry.)

[MarcoDiGenova]

I was using Winamp in my clubs since the 90's... Never found another music program with floating windows which can open a video windows on a specific screen when a video file is in the playlist ans close the windows when the video ends (My playlist have MP3 AND MP4...) so stay with it even when it was no more supported.

A friend told me to try Wacup a few mouth ago and it's just the winamp spirit in 2026 ! You can easily try it in portable mode. The only problem (easy to hack) is that there is no smart views in the Wacup media library (But you just have to take a dll from Winamp and copy it in Wacup and you have smart views so not a real problem). Great software !

[dro]

There are "smart views" in wacup's local library plug-in as that's what they were coded to replicate so I don't know why you're saying there aren't...

[MarcoDiGenova]

There are "smart views" in wacup's local library plug-in as that's what they were coded to replicate so I don't know why you're saying there aren't...

My fault !!!! I made a mistake at my first test, i understand now, I start the software and try the skin and putting windows on my various screen and I try smart view which was grey... I look on the net, find someone who explained that you had to take a dll from winamp. But I did all this BEFORE adding some media into the local libraty (So of course the Add View it was "grey"... !)

So, i'm going to test with a brand new install, it's possible that my video windows which do not close problem come from the winamp ;dll I imported...  I let you know asap. Thanks.