Winamp is coming to Android and iPhone later this year

What simply took place? Winamp, the famous music participant that conjures up a experience of nostalgia among hundreds of thousands of PC customers, is getting ready for its release on Android and iOS. The mobile apps were in beta checking out for some time, with the goal of creating them publicly available on both structures earlier than the quit of the year.

The information comes from Llama Group, the enterprise at the back of the Winamp Player that has type-of reinvented itself as a streaming platform for songs, podcasts, radio stations, and audiobooks. According to the click launch, Winamp Player has extra than 17,000 artists on the 'Creators' platform that lets in fans to guide artists by subscribing to their content. The enterprise targets to get to one hundred,000 creators on the platform by using the quit of subsequent yr.

The press launch, however, does no longer reveal an genuine release date for the mobile apps, nor does it say some thing approximately what features to anticipate. That approach we do not know whether it's going to allow playback of local audio documents in step with media gamers like VLC. The app's Play Store listing shows that the current app will only test the 'Music' and 'Download' folders for neighborhood audio, which means it won't be the entire-fledged track participant that a few may also have was hoping for.

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Interestingly, the corporation additionally announced that Winamp will introduce NFT capability quickly. The selection appears to come multiple years too late though, as the NFT craze has long died down, and most systems are moving away from that to more trendy buzzwords like AI and machine mastering. On the fine aspect, Winamp can also be to be had in Spanish and French later this year, doubtlessly supporting the platform reach a wider target audience.

While many more youthful users won't actually have heard of Winamp, GenX oldsters and older millennials keep in mind it as one of the need to-have apps for their Windows PCs again in the overdue '90s and early 2000s alongside the likes of Netscape, Winzip, Alcohol one hundred twenty, PowerDVD, and Yahoo Messenger. While it has on the grounds that misplaced its relevance, the enterprise is trying to make an ardent effort to carry it back to its former glory, even though it's anyone's guess as to whether it'll succeed in doing so.