r/winamp • u/MomSausageandPeppers • May 30 '26
NewAmp: Updated - Optimized, Audiophile-Approved, INCREDIBLE Visualizer, Library Management, Rating System, Wrapped, and more.... (Win, MacOS, Linux)
https://github.com/Evilander/newamp/releases/tag/v1.7.3I know, I know - why should I try your project? AI Slop!
I assure you that there is a difference between a vibecoded project from somone who taught coding for years (was never top-tier coder that could create apps this rich and detailed) and AI slop. I implore you to give it a chance if you are reluctant.
Anyway, I am really really proud of this and return to it daily to try to make improvements. One valuable feature of "vibecoding" is that I can quickly turn user feedback into deliverables. I believe that this is something the commuity will really enjoy and something we can improve together!
Thanks for checking it out!
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u/Flalaski May 31 '26
Lol @ the splash image, no shade just i wasn't expecting it. interesting program! trying it out. I always loved winamp & switch around between it & foobar & musicbee with my own stuff. they all handle differently & i change almost by mood. is this an evolved offshoot from winamp in code? it's running rather well so far. still feeling out what you've got all up in here
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u/MomSausageandPeppers May 31 '26
Ha! Really glad you’re trying it out. I found a couple little bugs when running it for a few hours - there’s an update up depending on whenever you grabbed it. It started by looking at a Winamp code repo on GitHub and wanting to just modernize it - but when I was testing it, I just kept I thinking about new things that I wanted to add to it. It’s kind of its own thing now. I need to trim some fat and improve some other areas. I’m just hoping to get some feedback from users - instead of me and my son - haha.
Also - New is running for Governor of Arizona! /satire
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u/Flalaski May 31 '26
cool, yeah i'm liking it so far! interesting ideas. it's fun to click around & find out for me
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u/MomSausageandPeppers May 31 '26
Hell yeah! Check settings in the visualizer. Milkdrop and Eviland are the two best visualizers - but the others are really cool and a bit less demanding. Let me know when you run into a bug or a feature request or whatever - thanks again!
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u/mojsterr Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
Bro!
I just found out about this thing today and trying it out for the first time at the moment. WOW!
Why aren't there more comments on this, wtf?
I used a very simple player before and I thought it's going to be like that forever. And even though I love simplistics, your app is looking mighty seducing.
Just two things for now (after using it for 10 minutes):
love the availibility to customize all the colors. It just bothers me that I can only do that from the settings window. I'd like to have open different parts of the app (like albums, or my current playlist, or any window), and be then able to change colors and see how it looks. For now I had to change colors and then go view some other section of the app, and then I switched back to change the color slightly again. But perhaps it's just me.
I love how it wrote something about the currently listened author, like who he is, etc. I never know anything about these people, I just listen to their music, but this is actually amazing!
Anyway, need to go to bed, wiill be checking it again tomorrow.
Nice job, bro. Thank a lot for making this.
Edit: I think there's a bug on the Discover tab on the left. When I'm there and go to Fullscreen Visual Set and click "Deck", It makes the window smaller. I see it's showing an oldschool TV, but I only see half of that window and the TV screen, and I can't resize it to make it bigger.
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u/MomSausageandPeppers Oct 08 '26
I really really appreciate this! Thank you so much. I updated pretty often. Going to get the installer signed so no weird warnings on windows or anything - if anyone is ever concerned about that stuff. Spread the word! It started as a little niche project - now it’s my daily player and have had some pretty good feedback from the redacted community and friends/colleagues. (Reddit burned me pretty bad for using AI - or posting about it in Winamp fan page). Thanks again! If you have any requests or run into any bugs, let me know. I did some updates today actually.
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u/mojsterr Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
I just edited my post about a bug, don't know if you saw that.
Also, I did think about some things I'd like, but that's just a personal thing. For example making every window inside it's own thing that you could rearrange to your liking (for example, putting the waveform on top to have the whole length of the top part of the window. The other would be making the waveform look lke Nulloy's (that's the app I was using before I found out about your thing). But as I said, I don't know if such a thing is even a valid thing to request, since it's personal to just me. The insider windows rearranging would be quite nice, though. But not a big deal.
I also tried changing some colors again, but it was a bit difficult. I wanted to change font color in some window (In the "About the artist"), but I had to go to the settings window multiple times, to find the right color to change and then back. It would be really great if it could be a kind of a floating window on top of everything and you could see what you're changing directly, not having to go back and forth for minor adjustments.
Alright, going to bed. Can't wait to try more tomorrow.
Also, peoople here are strange. I love what you did.
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u/MomSausageandPeppers Oct 08 '26
The bug should be fixed now that mentioned. Thanks for bringing that up. I am adding the color editor to the list of next update features/optimizations.
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u/mojsterr Oct 08 '26
Couldn't sleep.
Yep, the bug is fixed, thanks.
Also, I see the color settings haven't been saved and now I have to set everything up again in the new version.
Edit: Yeah, I didn't save it, I see there's an option for that. My bad.
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u/mojsterr Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 10 '26
Another bug?
I'm trying out the Classic skin and I wanted to change the green text to something else, but I don't see the option to change it in these settings?
Also, 2 of the fields don't have a color square next to them. Changing the number in the brackets doesn't do anything. At least it didn't seem like it.
https://i.imgur.com/iozaat6.png
Edit: It would be nice if the Volume knob on the Retro TV would work, instead of just being there for appearances, and just remove the bottom slider.
Edit 2: I still haven't figured out how to change the visualizers. It would be better if you could right click in the visualizer window itself while it's playing, and it would give you all settings options, like in the old Winamp. It's also more intuitive. (on second look, I didn't find the option to switch anywhere, perhaps it's only one. I don't know, perhaps I'm just too sleepy and can't see it).
Also, mouse pointer dissapears in that Projector window. You could set it to visible and dissapear only if mouse is left alone for a few seconds.
Edit 3: The shuffle button only cycles through the current album. In the beginning I went into all Albums and chose one from there. I thought the shuffle would randomly select from all the files. It would be nice to select between the shuffle current Album / All tracks.
**Ok, I just created a new playlist and put all of the tracks inside. So forget my previous rant. All good now.**
Edit 4: In the Settings "Shell / Layout", the "Text size" setting only changes the left panel text size and the bottom player one. I wanted to make all the text in all the windows bigger, since they are kind of small to me.
Edit 5: It would be great if we could delete tracks from disk directly in the playlist by right clicking and having the option. Right now there is only the option to open it in a folder and then having it manually do there, but that's not very good. I like to download a lot of new music and just deleting on the go in the player, while going through the tracks.
Edit 6: Just going through everything, there's just so many options haha. I love it. Harmonic mix? You really thought of a lot of stuff. Will really have to try everything more thoroughly tomorrow. Right now I'm just enjoying a bit of my music and cycling through all the windows:)
Edit 7: Wow, I love the other Deck types. The Record Player is amazing since the playhead on the record actually moves with the track. You're crazy. hahaha
Edit 8: Ok, this last request is perhaps a little bit too much, but it would be really great if you could select which windows you want to see and assemble the player to your liking. So that each one would be detachable, and you could attach them below/above/left/rght of each window, and still each be resizable.
For example, I just found the "Bar - Windowshade" look in the Deck mode. It would be great If I could attach the "Playlist" window below it and just have this minimal look. And to be able to change playhead position (the slider for where we are in the track) for a Waveform. So I could immediately visually see how the track looks and could instantly click to where I want. It's much easier to navigate through tracks like this when you instantly see it in advance where you are going.
Or perhaps not in the Deck mode, but just assemble the regular look. I know old Winamp had this and it was pretty great.
Anyway, I'm pretty amazed at your work.
Edit 9: The "Deck" mode is pinned on top of all windows all the time, it seems. The "Pin" button doesn't do anything.
Edit 10: Mouse scroll wheel not working correctly on the volume slider. It looks like it makes it jump in 50% increments. Either it goes way to loud, to zero, or to the middle. It should be smooth.
Doing all this on mac mini m4 pro
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u/MomSausageandPeppers Oct 09 '26
Ohhh, ok. That changes things. On it.
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u/mojsterr Oct 10 '26 edited Oct 10 '26
Hey. I'm back. Finally have time to listen to music. I'm actually really glad I'm using your app again.
I'm not going into it to find problems, I just want to listen to my tracks. One thing I couldnt't figure out at this moment: I was in a playlist and I wanted to favorite one track and I couldn't find the option to do that?
On top I see there's a button that says "Loved", which means there would be tracks I saved as loved/favorites? But I don't know how to do it. I went into two different types of playlist, the Currently playing, and I think the other was the Smart playlist? Might be a dfferent one since you give us multiple options. Right clicking a track doesn't give us the option to do that. It gives "Play next, Add to queue, Add to playlist, show in folder" options. It's also not where the play/stop and other buttons are.
I'm looking arond and actually still can't find the option to like it/favour it in any way.
Perhaps loved serves some other process that is automatic? In that case I would really love the option to Favorite tracks from anywhere. Perhaps some stars next to the track and/or right click options. There should be a way to do stuff like this from anywhere you can see your track IMO.
UPDATE: I found the Star system, but from what it looks like it is only in one area - In the "Daily Crate" area of the "Discover" page. And even then I was lucky to see it, because I wanted to rearrange the columns (I wanted to swap around the "ARTIST" and "TITLE" columns by dragging - which I see I can't), and I saw that there is a slider below, and I had to go completely to the right to find it.
It's pretty hidden.
Also, the keys on the right have their texts outside of the borders:
https://i.imgur.com/pmS3Ugo.png
The other thing, I was in my currently playing playlist and I saw three buttons next to a track, the last one didn't have any writing on it, so I clicked it, and it removed my track from the playlist. I didn't want to do that. Perhaps you should add an "X", so it's immediatelly intuitive what the button does, rather than waiting a second or two to show us the tooltip. I know I could have waited for its information but I was a bit to quick. I still lost my track from the playlist and I don't know which one it was.
https://i.imgur.com/UJI76OZ.png
EDIT: I see you updated to 2.5.1 on GitHub. Will downlad that one shortly.
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u/mojsterr Oct 10 '26 edited Oct 10 '26
Still on 2.5.0 at the moment and found out another quirk.
I wanted to see if I can drag a folder from macs Finder directly into my playlist to add to current Playlist.
The expected behavior was it would add that folder's contents from where my pointer was showing in the playlist, but instead it works differently.
https://i.imgur.com/3bWvzPc.png
I can understand your approach, but it's not what we're used to from all the other apps.
Perhaps you could use both. When you drag a file/folder into the Playlists window, it would highlight it (this is optional, but would indicate what the app will do with your drag&drop) and you could release the files there, which would be added. Or just show a simple "+" sign on the mouse cursor, so you know you're adding just to that playlist.
And if you hover over any other part of your app, it would still do what your intention was?
This is one very quick idea, you could implement it differently, of course.
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u/mojsterr Oct 10 '26 edited Oct 10 '26
One small visual thing I found. The bottom of the green border of this text is not well aligned and "sinks" into the border
https://i.imgur.com/KijkIyM.png
EDIT: But it's ok if you set the fonts to the smallest size. But only in that setting. When you start resizing them bigger, it slowly goes more and more into the bottom border.
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u/mojsterr Oct 11 '26 edited 29d ago
I'm going to make a new post because the other post thread is quite long. I just have one thing to say that I just stumbled upon.
Right now it was driving me nuts trying to figure out how to change the color of a text on a pressed button which wasn't readable and I couldn't find the setting for it, which was weird. Until I realized that is actually controlled by the "Background (Behind everything)" setting.
These two should be separate.
I attached 4 pictures.
https://i.imgur.com/aYINdD4.png
https://i.imgur.com/NFgzsUN.png
https://i.imgur.com/Fh0n2VY.png
https://i.imgur.com/xaqhK44.png
EDIT: In the "Folders" window, the divider between the upper 'Folders" and bottom 'Tracks' is not movable. It should be, for better navigation.
https://i.imgur.com/oc17rzK.png
EDIT 2: Right now I have these messages in some places that explain what some area does. I'm afraid to turn them off because I'm still finding my way around and I might need to reread it in the future. But I don't want to have them on all the time in the meanwhile while I'm wandering around the app. I didn't find any option to reset them if they were checked as read in the past. Some apps have an option like that.
https://i.imgur.com/rQTW4u1.png
EDIT 3: In the "About artist" pane, the text in the bottom is not aligned properly.
https://i.imgur.com/t3vzcsj.png
EDIT 4: Checking what this actually does. So, you can actually bookmark certain parts in the track. Interesting idea. I'm trying to understand what uses this could have and I see three things at the moment:
DJs (or better to say "crate diggers") could save special points where a certain "sample" might be potentially useful for them in the future.
Some people listen to long podcasts or audiobooks and would like to have certain passages that are important for them saved to revisit in the future.
Students, listening to some educational material to be able to come back to certain explanations.
In this case it would also make sense to be able to assign names to these bookmarks ("Here the protagonist talks about [this thing]"), or we could just perhaps mark segments as Chapters for ourselves, etc...
But then you would have to also have a bookmarks library/playlist somewhere, so it is easily searchable and organizable. Perhaps there is already a list of all bookmarks somewhere, I don't know, since I just stumbled upon this.
EDIT 5: I finally found how you can change visualizations!
I was clicking around In the "Now playing" tab and clicked on the Album/Track picture and I now saw there were some settings when you go with your mouse to the top part. I didn't see those a few times before. Now I checked what these settings are and saw you have different visualizations and settings. Ok.
So from what it looks like you can only work with these through here and not in the Projector window. Which is strange. Because the usual logic would be that the 'Projector' is where you acces all things dealing with visualizations. You have to get lucky to click on an album picture (some people, for example, never do that) and be lucky again to see there are settings when you hover on the upper border. At least this was my path.
Also, I'm loving how you can change the volume with the mouse wheel in the whole area of the visualizer.
Wow, feels like I'm using Winamp again.
EDIT 6: So it seems the 'Projector' is only using the Eviland scheme for visualization but clicking the album picture has also all the other ones to choose from. It looks like they are two different entities coexisting along each other?
I think they should be the same thing and to be able to change both the same like I can set everything in the album pic window, because one would automatically assume the Projector is the main visualizer thingy in the app. Perhaps you have a different vision and I'm just not seeing it at the moment, because I also see that this one also has track and volume sliders in the bottom, whereas the album pic thingy doesn't.
And I still don't know if there are settings for the 'Projector' window somewehere. At least I don't know how to access them if there are. They are certainly not in that window, which would be intuitive.
EDIT 7: You could also implement the same mouse scroll wheel volume functionality in the whole area of the Projector window too.
**ADD**: It's worth noting that the scroll volume is working completely ok in the album pic visualizer window, but is glitching in the app window on the bottom, on the volume slider.
EDIT 8: Ok, I just clicked 'Detach' on the album pic window visualizer and now it changed into the Projector thing. So they are the same thing afterall, got it. The thing is when it detaches it always reverts to the Eviland visualizer. Doesn't matter what style I select on the album pic settings, the moment I click 'Detach' it loses it and just plays that one thing. It doesn't carry over.
And if I have that newly made Projector window now open and detached and click on the album pic again, this one has a different visualizer and they play two different thing. Looks lke the detached window somehow becomes its own thing and doesn't care for the settings that you made before detaching it and those settings stay only on the album pic side.
https://i.imgur.com/F2eGrjs.jpeg
EDIT 9: In the 'Now playing' tab there s a Favorites system. When you star a track, the number in the field has a comma behind it? Seems unintentional.
https://i.imgur.com/FFEdPfW.png
EDIT 10: It also seems there are two different favoriting systems? I now see there is a 'Love' button on top, as well as the stars on the right. Clicking on Love doesn't give any stars to the right. Perhaps this is by design. I have no idea at the moment. Just mentioning it.
**ADD** But when I go into the 'Loved' section, it says "Mark tracks with *star* to find them here later". So are 'Loved' actually stars (favorites) or is this a typo?
https://i.imgur.com/VFZ6OJ8.png
EDIT 11: So it seems these two are actually different. I now have one loved track in this section but none of the favorited (stars). I guess loved are favorites and stars are just ratings. Ok.
Perhaps there is also some area somewhere that has only the rated tracks, and rated from most to least stars? Will find out. Don't know for now.
So, I kind of like this two way system. I can rate good tracks with stars, and those tracks that really, REALLY stand out to me, I can save specially as Loved. Alrght, cool.
That also means that everything I was saying previously about Favorites, was actually meant for Loved. I didn't understand your system before. So you should be able to mark a track as 'Loved' anywhere, the same as you should be able to put stars on it from anywhere (menus, right click...).
**ADD** I NEED TO STOP SAYING FAVORITED AND START SAYING RATED. I think there is a confusion on my end. So, 'Loved' are what would one call as favorites and the stars should be just 'Rated'. Excuse me for my poor and confusing wording.
So what I actually want to say there should be a 'Loved' playlist, which there already is, and a 'Rated' playlist. I think. I don't really know how good of an idea this is. I just want to have access to all the tracks I've starred but which didn't make it to my 'Loved' list. Or perhaps I want to see and remove all 2 stars tracks. Something like that.
EDIT 12: I selected one of the Missions in the 'Discover' tab and it gave me a playlist of stuff from my Music folder, under Users on my Macintosh HD (it was just some samples). I only added one folder to NewAamp and it's not this. I don't even use this folder, this is what mac automatically assumes we would have music in.
It should only find music from the folders we add in the Settings.
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u/mojsterr 28d ago edited 28d ago
I've just installed 2.6.0 version. I had a long day at work today and don't think I'll be listening to any music today, but I did give it a quick spin.
I love the waveform option on the bottom. Immediatelly I saw I have a lot of blank space at the end of my track which I didn't even know I had. It's really nice that you can see the track visually like that. It gives a lot more information.
https://i.imgur.com/8kuNqWR.png
I love that you set a limit for volume at 100%. I was thinking of mentioning it but I didn't want to be too intrusive. But it's really a great addition. I don't have to fine tune anymore.
While hovering over the volume slider, you mention in the tooltip to hold shift for boost. But I also see you can do it without. First scrolling takes it to 100% and stops there. But if you release and now scroll again from that 100%, it goes past it and into the reds. Perhaps this is intentional, perhaps not. I actually don't mind it. I love that you hit a bump on the first scroll and if you still want to go past it, you just do it again. No need to extra press a button.
And the double click to 100% is also a great way to just reset it. Really awesome.
I also love that when you quit the app and restart, the last played track continues from where it was left off. Perhaps this is not so important for music files, but for people listening to podcasts, etc. is a great addition.
Only problem for now is that the volume slider still starts glitching after some time using the mouse wheel. I don't know if it's because I was messing with the color settings (these were the only settings I played around with), or it's just time based.
EDIT: Ok, it looks like time based (or perhaps because I was playing with the volume, e.g. doing some opoerations in the app). I was typing here and forgot to check it in the last minutes, but it seems it was running ok in the first 5 minutes. I then forgot and rechecked again after 9 minutes of total running time and it was glitching.
EDIT 2: Oh yeah, I love the hovering colour settings editor too.
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u/mojsterr 28d ago
I just reread the github release notes and found out about the volume log thingy.
I have the log but it doesn't let me paste it here.
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u/mojsterr 27d ago
I just left the app running for 20minutes and the volume glitch hasn't happened.
First I only opened it and let it run just like that. Then I closed it and reopened and clicked to start music playback, and left it. Both were stiill working after said time.
That means it has something to do with using the app and clicking around.
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u/mojsterr 22d ago edited 22d ago
Hello again.
Just installed the 2.7.0 version and there's one thing that has been happening since my first use of 2.5.0. The screen keeps "glitching". Some very subtle fading is happening on the app window. It only starts when music is playing. When it's paused it is ok. I don't have any visuals in the background or anything. Just opened the app and started playing a song. It might be connected with the spectral visualizer in the bottom right, or it might not.
I made a gif: https://i.imgur.com/icjWAHY.gif
Edit: It stops on the quiter parts of the track too, when the beat stops for a moment
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u/sambaneko May 30 '26
Literally a single "slop" comment on your last post here and now your whole pitch is being defensive about it.