I feel like programmers didn't care as much back in the days of Winamp. Doing plugins, skins and stuff. But the sentiment have changed. The age of freeware, nagware (Winrar) and shareware is gone.
It is all spyware or FOSS nowadays ...
I would have liked a Winamp port to Linux for nostalgias sake. But, dunno why anyone would bother with it now when you'd need to be sneaky about it or don't share it openly.
I used to do plug-ins because it scratched an itch to code & provide things that'd be of use to others which when you've got a job to pay for that free time then it's less of an issue. Also the time of winamp & the plug-in / skin community of the time were somewhat reflective of how interested people were in tech vs how commoditised it's now become & generically boring imho. And I'm probably guilty of the change in behaviours with how I'm trying to fund wacup but 2 decades on is a long time & most of those early creatives have bills to pay.
Audacious supports classic Winamp skins so if you're only after the aesthetics just use that. Alternatively you may be able to run the original Winamp through Wine.
It is all spyware or FOSS nowadays ...
I would have liked a Winamp port to Linux for nostalgias sake. But, dunno why anyone would bother with it now when you'd need to be sneaky about it or don't share it openly.