Winamp for the shelf: Fan recreates the popular music player as hardware
The Winamp media playback software as physical hardware: for some people, this would certainly be a dream come true. A software engineer and Winamp fan from Mexico has now realised this.
Here you can see the interface on sale:
In order to listen to music, Linamp must be connected to speakers. The device is equipped with a 3.5 millimetre jack plug for this purpose. These are the functions of Linamp:
Mini stereo system: made for a physical Winamp
The realisation: touchscreen and Raspberry board
The centrepiece of the device is a "Raspberry Pi 4" board with an integrated processor, four gigabytes of RAM, dual-band WLAN, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3. A 32-gigabyte SD card is used to store the songs. Rodmg used a 3D printer to produce various auxiliary parts that fix the cables and connections on the back of his device in place.
Rodmg describes that programming the software for the media player was more complicated than planning and realising the hardware. You can read the details in his project description. Rodmg makes the software available free of charge on Github.
Although the hobbyist does not say anything about the naming of Linamp, it is reasonable to assume that it is a combination of Linux and Winamp. The software runs on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. <p
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