Spotiamp Is Spotify’s Tribute To Winamp

Spotiamp Is Spotifys Tribute To WinampWinamp’s user interface, at least the classic one, might seem a little antiquated and definitely not within the boundaries of more modern user interfaces these days, but it does hold a lot of nostalgia to music lovers who have enjoyed using Winamp as their default music client from back in the day. Well the good news is that if you’re looking to relive some of that nostalgia, you might be interested to learn that Spotify has recently released a client for Windows called Spotiamp, which as you can see in the image above, is a tribute to the classic media player Winamp, allowing users to enjoy their songs from Spotify in an all-too-familiar user interface.

Winamp, for those unfamiliar, was a music client from back in day about 15 years ago. It’s relatively lightweightedness made it a great alternative to more clunky media players available for the PC back then. However it was back in November that AOL, the company that bought over Winamp, announced that they would be bringing an end to the software and service after a good 15 years, leading fans to create a petition to at the very least keep it open-sourced. We had heard rumors that the death of the app might be greatly exaggerated and that Microsoft could be interested in acquiring it. Either way if you’d like to check out Spotiamp, the app is free for download although you would have to have a Spotify Premium account in order to use it.

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    LG Announces New Audio And Visual Products For CES 2014

    LG Announces New Audio And Visual Products For CES 2014If you’re looking forward to furnishing your home with the latest in audio and video equipment, you might want to take a look at what LG has recently announced. The South Korean company has recently announced a series of new audio and visual products that they are planning on demonstrating at CES 2014, but in the meantime here is what you can expect. LG’s latest products include the SoundPlate (LAB540W), the Wireless Audio System (NP8740), and Sound Bar (NB5540). (more…)

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    Designer Mods a Pioneer a DJ Deck to Look Like the Millennium Falcon

    Designer Jesse Dean has made a career out of modding out DJ equipment like turntables in all kinds of nerdy ways. His latest, though, might be the most profound geek mod he’s ever done.

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    Winamp Not Shutting Down After All (Rumor)

    Winamp Not Shutting Down After All (Rumor)Sometime last month, we brought you word that Winamp will be shutting down after being in the business for 15 years. Apparently, “shutting down” here meant that it will no longer be supported, and neither will it be made available for download by AOL, its owner. Apart from that, today is supposed to be its last day of availability, but a fresh new rumor has started to go around, touting that Winamp could be hanging around at least for a little bit more.

    According to TechCrunch, an unnamed source (how convenient) has mentioned that AOL is currently talking to a potential buyer of Winamp as well as its Shoutcast streaming audio service. The very same source claims that they are more than “confident” of striking up a deal, and since talks are close to being agreed upon, they hold the hope that neither Winamp nor Shoutcast will be able to shut down today as originally intended. AOL has remained mum on the situation and has not responded with anything official concerning such rumors. What are some of your best memories of Winamp? Frankly, I thought that it would be one of those apps that would last virtually forever, like WinRAR or WinZIP, how about you?

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    A Headphone Splitter That Lets Each Listener Control Their Own Volume

    A Headphone Splitter That Lets Each Listener Control Their Own Volume

    Sharing a single set of earbuds is bad, but being at the mercy of another person controlling the volume when using a headphone splitter isn’t great either. The folks at Wicked Audio have just solved that problem, thanks to this simple splitter that gives each listener their own volume dial.

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    Logic Pro X update rolls up alongside new Mac Pro

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    7 Groundbreaking Drum Machines That Changed Music As We Know It

    7 Groundbreaking Drum Machines That Changed Music As We Know It

    When the first drum machines hit the market in the 1950s, they must have felt like the future. Imagine that—a robotic drummer that does exactly what you tell him to, and doesn’t get loaded after the show. Of course, the human drummer never quite went out of style, but drum machines changed music forever.

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    Touchless Music Game Spotted

    Touchless Music Game Spotted The Kinect has been proven to be one of the mainstays at NYU’s ITP Winter Show, where many projects happened to be built with the Kinect as the main center of focus. Max Ma’s Touchless that was constructed with plenty of help from Tony Lim, came with a Kinect at first, but in the final iteration, it used an OEM equivalent in order to reap the results that the creators envisioned. Basically, Touchless will feature a bunch of cameras that will work in tandem with sensors so that they will be able to track the different segments of your face, keeping track of muscle twitches as well as eyebrow raises before “translating” them into raw data.

    Such data would be able to be harnessed in a wide range of applications, including the ability to unlock your door with the right combination of winks and blinks, but the main focus of Max’s creation would be to deliver music without any kind of finger or hand interaction, hence the name of the project, Touchless. This sensor can tracks anywhere from 16 to 64 points, with the latter happening under more ideal conditions, allowing you to stick your tongue out, I suppose, and create the next great sonata.

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