One of the really cool things on Linux is that we have a ton of really good audio players, music players. And one of the things that has really stuck with this through the decades is this fascination with the old Win-Out program. Win-Out was a music player that was available, of course, on Windows, like 25 years ago. I remember using Win-Out and Win-Out was very popular. It was so popular and so many millions, hundreds of millions probably computer users have used Win-Out. That it does, it has a soft spot and some people's heart like they really miss the old Win-Out UI with the multiple windows that you can connect. And you had some really fantastic cleaning options with Win-Out. Well, there are actually some Win-Out clones that are available on Linux, actually, more than just Linux with some of them are cross-platforms such as QMMP. So QMMP stands for the Q-based multimedia player, so it's a Q-TAP, QTAP, right? And of course, it's cross-platform, works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The UI is essentially a straight clone of Win-Out. It even accepts Win-Out theming, Win-Out skins. And if I want to install QMMP, I'm on an Arch-based system, but chances are QMMP is in the repository of whatever Linux distribution you happen to be running. So in my case, if I do a SUDU Pac-Man-Copital-S QMMP, it is in the repository, so I've already installed it, so I won't reinstall. And then once you've got it on your system, just launch QMMP. And this is what it looks like out of the box. Now, QMMP, just like all of these Win-Out clones that are out there, you can tell that it's from a different kind of era from computers. Because back in the day, when Win-Out was popular, standard resolutions on computer monitors was like, you know, 4 ADP, right? Now, everybody has at least 10 ADP monitors, if not bigger, so the fonts and everything really look very tiny. That looked okay back in the 1990s, but now obviously, you know, the fonts are a little small. What you could do if you click the little hamburger menu on the main window here, and you go to View and Double Size, you know, it will make the fonts twice as big, which does make it a little easier, especially for purposes of this video. I'll keep it double sized. But this thing is very much a straight Win-Out clone, and just like Win-Out, I've got the main window that I'm dragging around here, but these extra windows, the Equalizer window, the Playlist window, I want to, I can snap that. To the main QMP window, right? Same thing with this one, I can snap that one to the bottom of the Playlist, and now I can drag them all around. Or, you know, I could actually put them off to the side. I can arrange them however I want, and then just drag them by the main title bar. Now, if I grab one of the other windows, you know, then I'm actually moving things around again, so I can actually swap the Equalizer and the Playlist now. And then, yeah, we've got that working. And because it's Coupe based, if I click on the title bars, you know, I can actually, you know, minimize these. I can actually collapse them completely, and, you know, I accidentally played with the Balance. I didn't want to do that on the Equalizer, and now I've bookered up the windows, I've got to go back and rearrange them. As far as the controls of the music player, it's, you know, the same as the old Winapp, so we're not going to really talk about that. Really, what I want to do is to go back to the QMP website, and here at the top, if you click on plugins, you'll get to this plugin section for QMP. And there's some really cool plugins to allow you to extend the functionality of QMP. I'm not going to install or show any of these plugins, but at least one of them, I know people will be interested in. I'm not going to talk about it because what it does is searches a very popular video content platform, because this video content platform often has large music channels on it. And what it does is searches and plays music directly from that very large video platform, but what I'm interested in is skins. If I click on skins and I go to QMP dash skins, you know, I've got this directory of about, I don't know, a dozen different skins. They're compressed, right? So they're archived packages and you don't have to unarchive these when you download them, but what I did is I download all of these. And then if I go back to the empty workspace here, let me open my file manager, PC, man, FM, and in my home directory, of course, you have dot config and end dot config. At least this is the case when I install QMP on arch Linux, you should find end dot config a folder that was automatically created for you, QMP. And then you have this folder here called skins, which will be empty. And you can say, I just dropped all of those archived packages into that skins directory. And once I've done that, let me go back to the QMP player. What I could do go back to the little menu here and go into settings. And let me move this window. And now those are all of those archived packages, which are essentially skins, which are themes. And these are very, very similar to like old school, when amp themes, some of them. So this is ergo, which I believe was a default theme for QMMP some years back. Then you've got Jean amp blue, then you've got the standard GN amp, which is green. Then you've got the skin nine theme, which I actually like that. That's not bad. I can't move the window around while this one is open. And then we have a zenis. A zenis. And that's a sexy little skin. And then when out, which as you can guess, you have this very reminiscent of when out. And then the default theme. And then the oxygen theme, which I'm assuming was for the oxygen, KDE plasma theme. Then you have pars skin. Pars skin is from for the partists Linux distribution. There's a Linux distribution called partists. And yeah, this bear and the claw marks and everything that is a theming from branding essentially from the partists Linux distribution. That's interesting. Somebody made that. And there's another one also with partists in mind. Then you have a black theme, which is a black background with blue accents, then black modded, which is essentially just black and gray. Then you have a sodium skin, which yeah, that's not bad actually for really light skin. I kind of liked that. And then the sparrow theme, which heck, yeah, that might be the best one. That might be the one I keep. So yeah, pretty cool. Let me go back into view. Tick off double size. If this windows back to a more appropriate smaller size, although again, on modern resolution monitors. This is a bit tough. Right as far as on the eyes, the fonts a little small. But for those of us that like these kinds of things for nostalgia purposes, it really gives you that old school win out kind of feeling. 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