What specifically do you like about Winamp? I miss the whacky skins and even more so the Milkdrop 2 visualization system. There are some hacky ways to get it to work for Foobar or AIMP. I haven’t checked what’s the case for Linux media players though.

Sure they don’t. Just be aware that if you’re using public trackers you can appear here, as some of the peers track the IPs that appear in the swarms:
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/

Can you confirm that you have ‘Show Notifications for New Posts’ enabled in your user settings?

Non-paywall link:
https://archive.ph/qO8Hi

I’m using GrapheneOS for added security and sandboxing, but I feel that this is a bandaid solution.