NeoAmp

Classic Winamp, rebuilt for modern Windows, Mac and Linux.

Every button, menu and shortcut you remember, plus what Winamp never had: media keys, sharp high-res screens, and a built-in browser to try on and install over 100,000 classic skins.

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NeoAmp is Winamp 2.x the way you remember it: the main window, the ten-band equalizer and the playlist editor, drawn pixel for pixel from classic .wsz skins, docked together and snapping to each other's edges. The buttons, sliders, menus and shortcuts work the way Winamp's did, and where Winamp's behaviour was never written down, Webamp's careful reconstruction is the reference.

Underneath, it's a new native player written in Rust, made to fit the desktop around it: its media keys, its "now playing" display, its sound devices.

Features

Winamp, as you remember it

• Any classic skin. Drop a .wsz onto the window to wear it, with the skin's own colours, playlist font, window shapes and mouse pointers. Or open Skins > Skin Museum... to search the Winamp Skin Museum's thousands and try them on before you keep one.
• Docking windows. Drag the equalizer and playlist away, snap them back, and roll any window up into a 14-pixel windowshade bar.
• The real equalizer. Ten bands and a preamp, Winamp's presets and your own, .eqf files, and presets that load per file.
• The visualizer. Spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope, with Winamp's styles and falloff, showing what's actually playing.
• The playlist editor. Sort, shuffle, crop, remove dead files, drag to reorder, M3U and PLS playlists, and J to jump to any track by typing.
• Winamp's keys. Z X C V B for the transport, and the rest of the shortcuts your fingers still remember.

Plays what you have

• MP3, AAC and Apple Lossless (M4A), FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WAV and AIFF.
• SHOUTcast and Icecast internet radio, with each station's song titles scrolling by.
• Gapless playback, so a live album or a DJ mix plays without breaks between tracks.

Modern conveniences

• Media keys and "now playing". Play, pause and skip from the keyboard's media keys whatever has the focus, and see the track in the system's media controls: MPRIS on Linux, the media overlay on Windows, Control Center on macOS.
• Sharp on any screen. The windows zoom from 1x to 3x to suit your monitor, the playlist text stays crisp, and skins can bring SVG artwork that stays sharp at any size, as NeoAmp's own skin does.
• Follows your headphones. Pick any output device. When it goes away, playback moves to the default and comes back when it returns, without losing its place.
• Opens from your file manager. Double-click music, playlists and skins, or choose NeoAmp under Open With, and they play in the NeoAmp that's already open. Explorer gets Winamp's Play and Enqueue in NeoAmp, the Mac its Dock icon.
• Remembers everything. Volume, equalizer, skin, window positions and the playlist are saved as you go.
• Looks the same everywhere. Fonts are built in, so a skin looks identical on Linux, Windows and macOS.
• Tells you of new versions. Once a day at startup it checks GitHub for a new release, unless you turn that off.

Download

Get NeoAmp from the latest release:

System	Download
Windows 10 and 11	an installer, or a zip to run without installing
macOS 11 or newer (Apple silicon)	a disk image
macOS 10.12.2 or newer (Intel)	a disk image
Linux (x86-64)	a Flatpak bundle, or the program in a .tar.gz

The Windows build isn't signed yet, so Windows asks before running it the first time. The user guide shows how to get past that.

Getting started

Start NeoAmp and drop music onto it: files, folders or playlists. Or:

• L opens files, Shift+L a folder, and Ctrl+L an internet radio station's address.
• Z X C V B are previous, play, pause, stop and next.
• J finds a track in the playlist as you type.
• Alt+S opens the Skins menu, or drop a .wsz skin onto any window.
• Ctrl+Shift+K opens MilkDrop, the visualizer Winamp came with.

On macOS, use ⌘ for Ctrl and ⌥ for Alt. SHORTCUTS.md lists every key, and the user guide covers everything NeoAmp does.

Building from source

With Rust 1.88 or newer, from the top of this repository:

cargo run --release

On Linux, install ALSA's development files first (libasound2-dev on Debian and Ubuntu); Windows and macOS need nothing extra. DEVELOPMENT.md covers the rest: how NeoAmp is put together, the checks to run before sending a change, and how the release packages are built.

Where it stands

The main window, equalizer and playlist editor already do nearly everything Winamp 2.x's did. The roadmap tracks what's still missing, and the user guide lists the current limitations.

Documentation

• User guide: installing, everything NeoAmp does, and how it differs between Linux, Windows and macOS.
• Keyboard shortcuts: every key, with its macOS spelling.
• Settings: what NeoAmp saves, and where.
• Development: building, how it works, and packaging.
• Roadmap: what's done and what's next.

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NeoAmp is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the makers of Winamp. Winamp is a trademark of its owner.