RetroAmp

RetroAmp

Bring the classic desktop music player to your CORSAIR XENEON EDGE. RetroAmp puts a pixel-perfect player, a working 10-band equalizer, a playlist and a big visualizer on your screen, plays internet radio and your own music, and wears thousands of classic Winamp 2 skins.

Features

Internet radio

All of SomaFM built in, with live now-playing

Search a worldwide directory of thousands of stations right from the widget settings

Or paste any MP3 or AAC stream URL

Your own music

Tap ADD on the playlist to browse the folders on your PC, right on the screen

Add single songs, a whole folder, or a folder with its subfolders

Keep up to 12 saved playlists; song titles come from your MP3 tags

Seek, pause, shuffle and repeat, and pick up where you left off

10-band equalizer

Preamp, ten bands and a live EQ curve

Built-in presets, from Rock to Late Night

Works on radio and your own music

Visualizer

Spectrum bars with falling peaks, or an oscilloscope, driven by the actual audio

A big visualizer window plus the classic mini display in the player

Classic skins

An original built-in RetroAmp skin

Load classic Winamp 2 skins (.wsz) from the Winamp Skin Museum: pick a curated one, search the museum, or paste a skin link

The Eject button cycles through the curated skins

PC Media

Show and control what Windows is playing (Spotify, browsers and other players)

Fits any slot

Player, Equalizer, Playlist and Visualizer windows rearrange to fill Extra Large, Large or vertical slots

Close any window with its X; bring it back with the EQ, PL or V buttons

Requirements

CORSAIR XENEON EDGE

iCUE 5.46 or newer on Windows

Internet connection for radio, station search and skins (your own music plays offline)

Getting started

Add RetroAmp to your XENEON EDGE; Extra Large shows all four windows side by side.

Press Play to start SomaFM's Groove Salad, or pick a station under Radio and Local Music → Station.

For your own music, tap ADD on the playlist, then FILE, and browse to your music. Set Music Folder in the settings to choose where browsing starts.

Try a skin under Skin, or browse them at skins.webamp.org and paste a link into Skin Link.

Good to know

The equalizer and visualizer work on radio and your own music. For PC Media, iCUE only shares the song name and controls, so the visualizer is animated and the EQ can't change PC audio.

Some radio stations don't allow equalizer access; they still play, with an animated visualizer.

RetroAmp only reads the folders you browse to. Playlists and settings stay on your PC; no account, no tracking.

Like every touch-enabled iCUE widget, RetroAmp receives the touches on it, so iCUE's swipe-to-change-page gesture doesn't pass through it.

Credits

Classic skin support builds on Webamp by Jordan Eldredge (webamp.org · github.com/captbaritone/webamp), used under the MIT License.

Skins come from the Winamp Skin Museum (skins.webamp.org) and remain the work of their creators.

Radio by SomaFM (somafm.com, listener-supported) and the community Radio Browser directory (radio-browser.info).

Made by Nerd Powered · nerdpowered.tech

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Winamp, Nullsoft, Llama Group, SomaFM or Radio Browser. Winamp is a trademark of its respective owner. CORSAIR, iCUE, XENEON EDGE and Elgato are trademarks of their respective owners.

RetroAmp 0.3.3: first release. A classic skinnable music player for the CORSAIR XENEON EDGE.

Included:

- Player, 10-band EQ, Playlist and Visualizer windows that fill any slot (Extra Large, Large, vertical)

- Internet radio: SomaFM built in, Radio Browser station search, custom stream URLs

- Local music: in-widget folder browser, up to 12 saved playlists, ID3 titles, seek/shuffle/repeat

- PC Media: now playing and controls via the Media plugin

- Spectrum and oscilloscope visualizer from real audio (Web Audio)

- Original built-in skin; classic .wsz skins from the Winamp Skin Museum (curated, search, link)

Technical:

- dashboard_lcd, interactive: true

- Plugin: Media; module: RetroAmpSearch.mjs (settings search)

- Network: somafm.com, api.somafm.com, ice*.somafm.com, *.api.radio-browser.info, api.webamp.org, r2.webampskins.org, plus stream URLs the user adds

- Local files: reads only folders and files the user browses to (file://); nothing is uploaded

- localStorage: settings, playlists, last skin (cached for offline start)

- Third-party: sprite map from Webamp (MIT), notice in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md

- Tested on XENEON EDGE, iCUE 5.51, Windows 11

Known limitations:

- PC Media has no audio access: EQ inactive, visualizer animated

- Streams without CORS play without EQ, with an animated visualizer

- iCUE page swipes don't pass through the widget (as with any interactive HTML widget)