Want to fill the screen and navigate album art, but then collapse to an always-on-top player or views that tuck out of the way? AIMP has you covered, just like Winamp did, in contrast to the sprawling tabular messes that have now become the ugly standard.Īnd just like Winamp, AIMP can make Apple owners jealous – it’s on Windows and Android, but not macOS. And then with plug-ins and skins…ĪIMP is clearly a spiritual successor to Winamp – customizable, skinnable, with extensive plug-in support, and the kind of compact views that made Winamp beloved. Looks conventional enough at first, though even the basic skin allows unparalleled freedom for where you want your player on-screen. Pre buyout, the software was still cool enough to boot up with an in-joke about genius schizophrenic Chicago street musician Wesley Willis – something no Apple or Spotify exec would ever do. That software would make co-creators Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev richer in the ’99 tech boom (AOL snapped it up), which also cleared the way for Justin to go on and make beloved DAW Reaper. Before iTunes, there was Winamp ( still officially at ) – the prototype MP3 player jukebox of 1997, back when the idea of playing your whole music collection digitally from your computer was still novel. So now we just need a player to match, whether you miss Winamp – or even if you miss vintage Soviet hi-fi machines. The app is free to try for 15 days, so you can thumb through everything it does before committing for $5.2020 is the year enthusiasts revived their love of downloaded music – thanks, Bandcamp. Poweramp is a robust app, with more features buried in the Settings. If you're putting on a party (even if it's a party of one), you can choose from several animated visualizations that appear over the interface or take over your screen as an ambient display.
It's easy to find the menu item you're looking for, whether you're fielding playlists, streams, or all songs. If you want to listen to music loudly from your phone, select the Speaker (Loud) setting in the equalizer to increase the gain and get loud results.
It offers Android Auto, Chromecast, and Google Assistant support to bridge the hole left by Play Music's departure.īass heads can adjust the bass and treble from a user-friendly equalizer interface, and there's Direct Volume Control (DVC) for extended dynamic range and deeper bass. Along with playing many local music file types, it lets you import HTTP streams from sites like Digitally Imported. Poweramp is as powerful as its name suggests.
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