Plexamp, the music player originally incubated by the Labs division of media company Plex, is now free, the company announced today. The project was first launched in 2017 as Plex’s own spin on the classic Winamp media player app, offering visualizations to accompany your tunes, tools for programming mixes, and more recently, a ChatGPT-powered “Sonic Sage” feature that builds unique playlists from users’ music libraries. However, after its expansion from desktop to mobile, Plexamp was only available to subscribers.
Now, Plex says the Plexamp app will become free, allowing users to play tracks from their own library or the TIDAL music streaming service with high-quality audio and support for lossless audio. The app also includes gapless playback, loudness leveling, and smooth transitions between tracks, among other things.
In addition to Library Radio, a feature used to rediscover your music, users can create playlists with Plexamp to match their current mood: like “brooding, cathartic, confident, intense, playful, poignant, swaggering, and wistful,” the company says.
Another feature, Decade Radio, lets users play tracks from a given decade, while Time Travel Radio l …
