2y ago

Plex's Winamp-inspired music player Plexamp is now free | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com Plex's Winamp-inspired music player Plexamp is now free | TechCrunch

Plexamp, the music player originally incubated by the Labs division of media company Plex, is now free, the company announced today. The project was first launched in 2017 as Plex’s own spin on the classic Winamp media player app, offering visualizations to accompany your tunes, tools for programmin...

Well this is cool. Now time for me to a media server again.

You're viewing a single thread.

71 comments

Wow, just in time as the new owners of Winamp release their app.
- Wait winamp is releasing their own app?
  
  It's not the same team that made it back in the day but the team who has the copyright is working on one.
  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/winamp-is-back-on-android-with-a-whole-new-take-on-this-classic-music-app/ar-AA1dzE4C
  
  Honestly, I'm not holding high hopes for this thing at all. Feels like it's just some rando company puppeteering Winamp's corpse around for the brand recognition and nothing else.
  
  Yeah, that's about my feeling too. It's why I keep specifying its the team that has winamp now. Not like the forks are any better. Wacup is a bloated mess.
  
  That's neat.
  
  Android. Where is WINamp?
  
  There is a new version for windows too. 5.8 or something was the last released one iirc.
  
  Blast from the past... I forgot when I stopped using it but used to be my go to for all that yarrr mp3s
  But yes apparently its happening.

71 comments