3 years after we got the news that WinAmp was coming back, the guys behind the resurrection of the iconic music player of the 2000s have finally made the app live on both Android and iOS.
Before all of the titos and titas get excited about the new WinAmp app, it does not have all the customizable skins that made WinAmp famous. Instead, it stood true to its promise as a platform for indie artists.
The core layout of the UI reminds us a lot of Apple Music and Spotify–with the difference being the ability to add your music to the app. The app at its current iteration is very bare, with all the included playlists (or Hotmix in WinAmp’s terms) consisting of mostly French artists.
As for the music player, it feels very generic compared to the WinAmp millennials know: aside from playback controls and an equalizer function, there’s not much you can do to customize it. There’s even no option for lyrics–but then most of the available songs on the app don’t have any vocals.
The only part of the app that’s interesting is the Trending tab, where WinAmp highlights some of the indie artists that are part of the platform. There are barely a dozen artists highlighted on the app, so WinAmp needs to do extra effort to promote its platform.
With what feels like another generic music player to eat up your storage space, the developers of the new WinAmp promise that “updates will arrive very quickly between now and the end of the year, bringing new designs, new features, and more connectivity, entering a cycle of constant evolution in 2024 and 2025.”
We hope that they stay true to their promise because millennials like yours truly feel underwhelmed with what the new WinAmp has to offer.
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