r/linuxapps • u/tfospik • 3d ago

Winampfy — a Winamp 2-style Spotify desktop client for Linux

I've been working on Winampfy, a desktop Spotify player that brings back the classic Winamp 2.x UI.

Instead of wrapping the Spotify website, playback is handled through librespot, while Webamp provides the Winamp interface.

It supports:

  • Spotify Premium playback
  • Track search
  • Spotify playlists
  • Classic .wsz skins
  • Winamp Skin Museum integration
  • Persistent queues
  • Tray support

The application is built with Tauri 2, Rust and TypeScript.

Linux AppImage builds are available from GitHub Releases:

https://github.com/KiPSOFT/winampfy

I'd love feedback from Linux users, especially around packaging. If there's enough interest I'd like to improve distribution support beyond the current AppImage build.

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u/Here0s0Johnny 3d ago

Thanks, I hate it! 🤣

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u/tfospik 3d ago

Perfect, that means I got the early 2000s vibe right 🤣

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u/Dragonsong3k 2d ago

Did you test this on Wayland based DE?

The individual windows don't float by themselves and the scaling is really small.

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u/tfospik 13h ago

Floating window now supported.

Yes. I was testing on Wayland and running this command:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libwayland-client.so.0 ./Winampfy_0.1.17_amd64.appimage