What works

• Classic Skin works mostly fine. Menus respond immediately to mouse-clicks. File-browsing, adding media, and volume were tested and work. This is the skin I recommend, though it's hard to read because it originated when screen resolutions were mighty low. If you use it a lot, you may want to switch to Modern Skin
  

• Modern Skin works very good. However, when you have an audio in the Playlist, you must right-click it and select "Play" because the Play button in the main window will not work. I tested volume, forward/back, and repeat, which work fine.

• Options/Preferences work, except skins do not get applied until you restart the application.
  

What does not

• When you switch skins, they are not applied until you restart the program.

• Winamp caused my desktop to freeze completely (so that I could not close Winamp or log out of the desktop). I thought the "Bento" skin was the problem. But then it also froze on the "Classic" skin after a while. However (even before desktop freeze), events in the "Bento" skin were extremely delayed.

The file-association monitoring component of Winamp (I forgot the name of it, and I since uninstalled Winamp) sits in the Taskbar and is the (main) cause of the desktop freeze. KDE Window Manager popped up an alert that "Compositing was too slow," (and it has been stopped and you can enable it again, yada, yada). I recommend disabling this in "Options > "Preferences" immediately upon starting Winamp.

Even before disabling the monitor, I immediately noticed instant mouse-click/event responsiveness when *not* using the "Bento" skin. The desktop still eventually froze.

I was finally able to regain partial control of my desktop with Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and changed to "Classic" skin. There I was able to to disable that monitor. Then I changed to "Modern" skin and had no major problems, either.

• Play button in main window does not work in the "Modern" skin. (Right-click the file in Playlist and select "Play" instead.)
  

• Winamp's website "Search" feature does not work.

• "Bento" skin's response to events such as mouse-click and mouse-over is horrible. Applies to menus, buttons, tooltips, and every other event.
  

What was not tested

• Did not create/edit custom playlists.

• Did not re-test the "Bento" skin after I disabled the file-association monitor.
  

Additional Comments

Things like being limited to which way you can start a file playing are no big deal, as long as you can find them and play them, and that was fine. Ogg files seemed like a bunch of fuzz, but that is probably a media library issue in Wine. Bento's event responsiveness was horrible, which is too bad because the skin is nice-looking.

However, it's a big deal when part of the program totally freezes your desktop. I thought I would have to hard-power off my laptop. Ctrl+Alt+Del eventually got me out, though the response to that key press was *quite* delayed!

Hence, with a major problem (which is solved if you are able to shut off the component before your desktop freezes), I can only rate it "Bronze."