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 programming mixes, and more recently, a ChatGPT-powered “Sonic Sage” […]

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

  • Chozo
    10•1 year ago

    Aside from having visualizers, how is this at all like Winamp?

    • @[email protected]English
      6•1 year ago

      Yeah, this doesn’t quite whip the llama’s ass. The only obvious resemblance / possible inspiration I see is the name? …which is kind of… eh…

      • aruraios
        3•1 year ago

        “Has visualizations”
        So did Windows Media Player, plus Plexamp’s just can’t compare to Milkdrop

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          Aah, MilkDrop, nothing comes even close. I still stay on the 32-bit version of foobar2000 to be able to run MilkDrop with it since the plug-in that makes it possible hasn’t been updated.

          And yeah, what an empty statement again, sure seems like drawing the comparison was 100% for clickbait’s sake.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•1 year ago

            Have you tried Butterchurn Visualizer? You need to allow it access to your microphone and play sound through your speakers, but it is one of the better desktop visualizers along with ProjectM on Android.

            • @[email protected]English
              1•1 year ago

              I have tried (and bought the android version of) ProjectM but I still prefer the MilkDrop presets although IIRC they should be compatible, I just never got around to moving them over. Butterchurn though, first time hearing about it; gonna give it a spin, thanks for the recommendation!