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.
v2.6.0 · direct download, no account, no store — source on GitHub ↗
v2.6.0 · October 11, 2026
Hey Guys! It's Music Time!
2.6 is out. A lot of it came from one Mac user on Reddit, u/mojsterr, who went through 2.5 with a fine-tooth comb, wrote up everything that bugged them, and kept asking for good things.
See the song
The seek bar draws the track you're playing, so you can see the quiet bridge and the big chorus before you click. Hover for the time, scroll to nudge five seconds. Each track is drawn once and kept.
Paint it live
The colour editor floats over whatever you're looking at, the visualizer included, so you can tune a skin and watch it land. Pressed buttons got their own text colour, and a contrast readout tells you when text gets hard to read.
Apple Lossless, properly
ALAC files in .m4a play everywhere now, crossfade and A-B loops included, and they're labelled ALAC instead of AAC. Library search also stopped caring about accents, so bjork finds Björk.
Also: a column chooser for every track table, Move to Recycle Bin from the right-click menu, a sidebar you can fold and rearrange, wheel volume that stops at 100%, and a window that shows up as soon as it's ready instead of sitting behind a 5.6 second splash. Eviland follows the music more closely and has three new scenes. The rest is in the release notes ↗.
Hardware soul
Decks built like hardware.
Eight deck skins built like real hi-fi objects, including a cassette deck that writes the album you're playing on its label, a turntable with a weighted tonearm, a 45 RPM jukebox, a Discman, a CRT, and Winamp 2 itself. The Eviland visualizer turns your music into full-screen scenes driven by onset detection, and can pop out into its own projector window. Resonance goes further still: the whole UI breathes with the track, throttling itself on weaker hardware so it never costs you a frame you need.
Audiophile honesty
An honest signal path.
Local albums play gaplessly: NewAmp decodes the queue itself and trims each file's encoder delay and padding, so the next track starts on the next sample. On Windows there's also a native WASAPI-exclusive bit-perfect output path, a first-party route around Chromium's audio stack. Format, bitrate, and sample rate are shown plainly, and nothing gets resampled without saying so, right down to the amber 44.1K→48K RESAMPLED badge in the screenshot.
Local-first scale
Built for the library you actually have.
57,207 tracks and 5,867 albums in the library these screenshots came from. Virtualized grids keep a library that size from feeling like a web app pretending to be fast. Unplug a drive and your plays, ratings, and playlists wait for it to come back; edit a tag and a rescan won't undo it. 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.
Get NewAmp 2.6.0
Served from this site, with no account and no store. Free and open source. The macOS builds (Apple Silicon and Intel) are on the GitHub release ↗.
These builds are unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may ask if you're sure. Verify the SHA256 above against your download (certutil -hashfile "NewAmp Setup 2.6.0.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.