Free & open source · Windows · macOS · Linux
Your local library lives.
NewAmp is a local-first music player that turns the music you own into a private, reactive, shareable desktop universe. No streaming. No cloud. No telemetry.
v2.1.0 “Featherweight” · direct download, no account, no store — source on GitHub ↗
Hardware soul
Hardware soul, not chrome.
Deck skins built like real hi-fi objects — the RP-1200 turntable with a weighted tonearm and pitch fader, the Bandstand 45 RPM jukebox with a coin slot — not flat rectangles pretending to be one. The Eviland visualizer engine turns your music into full-screen scenes driven by spectral-flux onset detection, and can pop out into its own detached projector window. Resonance goes further still: the whole UI — chrome, glow, transport — breathes with the track, throttling itself on weaker hardware so it never costs you a frame you actually need.
Audiophile honesty
Audiophile honesty, not audiophile vibes.
NewAmp ships a native WASAPI-exclusive bit-perfect output path on Windows — a first-party route around Chromium's audio stack, not a marketing claim. The signal path stays honest by default: format, bitrate, and sample rate are shown plainly, DSP is structurally disabled the moment it would touch the bits, and nothing gets resampled without saying so out loud — right down to the amber 44.1K→48K RESAMPLED badge in the screenshot.
Local-first scale
Built for the library you actually have.
59,573 real tracks, 5,780 albums, scanned incrementally in seconds. Virtualized grids and instant album-open mean a library that size never feels like a web app pretending to be fast. No account, no cloud sync, no telemetry — the whole thing runs on your machine, for your files.
More NewAmp
A local-first player has to look and feel like one. A few more scenes.
v2.1.0 “Featherweight” · July 16, 2026
The 2.x era: machined, then made weightless.
2.0 “Reference Grade” rebuilt the whole app on a real design system — one token layer, truth in every readout, hardware chrome that finally feels machined. 2.1 “Featherweight” is the performance release: a 71-agent adversarial audit hunted down every reason a long session “gets heavy,” and fixed all of it.
Auto-Pilot
Every visualizer surface measures its own frame cost, live, and flies by its instruments — full detail on a gaming rig, still smooth on a decade-old laptop.
31 Eviland scenes
Two new ones: Phosphor Scope, a dual-trace vintage oscilloscope resynthesized from the spectrum, and VU Cathedral — twelve warm analog needles, red zones and all.
Marathon-session proof
Virtualized queues, batched stat flushes, watchdogged ffmpeg children, a zero-allocation scene director — six-hour sessions end as light as they started.
Get NewAmp 2.1.0
Served straight from this site — no account, no store, no release-page scavenger hunt. Free and open source, always.
Honesty section, as always: these builds are unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may ask if you're sure. You can be — verify the SHA256 above against your download (certutil -hashfile "NewAmp Setup 2.1.0.exe" SHA256), or build it yourself from the source on GitHub.
Your Music folder isn't dead storage.
Free, open source, and built for the library you already have. Try it with the weirdest folder you own.