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Winamp
What's next! Winamp builds the tools that allow artists to manage their music and their revenue. And develops the player that offers the perfect experience.
www.winamp.com
Winamp, the iconic music player, is today launching a new player that comes with a range of functionalities aimed at unlocking the relationship between artists and fans, while empowering creators to become their own merchants.
Winamp, famed for its customisable skins and irreverent attitude, continues to be massively popular with a community of 83 million users around the world. But the new player ecosystem represents an important evolution of the player to focus its empowering attitude on the needs of music artists in the 2020s.
For the first time Winamp is available as a mobile-responsive web player (player.winamp.com), and – set to be released in Q3 – mobile apps (iOS and Android), based on the legacy desktop version. A new super-aggregator forms part of the player that welcomes any audio services, building on Winamp’s DNA of openness and empowerment of listeners. It can now offer the best of everything for fans, be it podcasts, radio stations, and – coming soon – the ability to play local files and connect to streaming services.
The platform features the Fanzone, which creators can access to become better merchants and to sell their products, creating tiered subscription plans. Winamp fuels the love dedicated fans have for their favourite artists through exclusive content, experiences and memberships, while empowering artists to bypass industry gatekeepers and create on their own terms. The Fanzone enables fans to directly support their favourite artists, while being rewarded with access to exclusive content. The sky is the limit for the kind of content that can be included in the Fanzone – they can be images, video, audio, or special gifts.
So basically........Soundcloud
They never went nowhere, fakkit
