As a long time Winamp lover, I wanted to create a 2026 modern spiritual successor to it, packed with audio nerd features. This is my free open source app, Lucent, and its now in beta!

Hey Winamp community! My name is Josh and I'm an (almost) 20 year AAA video game sound design developer and music producer. If you've played a Borderlands game, you've probably heard my work! Winamp was a big gateway tool for me back in the day that helped ignite my interest in audio, but alas, it hasn't been supported in the way it deserves over the years. I've been badly wanting an all around music and media player that does EVERYTHING I WANT! That's where Lucent comes in ([https://lucentaudio.net/](https://lucentaudio.net/)).

Lucent is completely open source and has everything you loved about Winamp but with:

* Full Windows 11 and Mac support. * Streaming platform control (Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal) * Playback of any high quality audio file you can think of. * Full media library features: playlists, folders (import itunes and old winamp libraries) * Bandcamp/Beatport integration (import your libraries). * Modern 4k visuals that really utilize modern graphics cards (but with detail settings) as well as many of the classic Milkdrop/Winamp visuals. * A robust 2 track audio editor (use your own VSTs) and file converter. * Video player (can play almost anything VLC can) * A simple video editor/trimmer * Studio grade spectrum analyzer with LUFS metering * 32 band EQ * High quality web radio integration * Multiple skins/themes * A simple DAW you can use to record anything, notably DJ sets. * A whole lot more that you can discover.

If this sounds like something you'd be into, I'm really looking for people who want to beta test this and help it get extra polished to its 1.0 state. I'm looking for feedback, thoughts, feature requests. Lucent is an app for the people, especially Winamp lovers and I hope you love it as much as I do!