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The New Winamp — Limitless music, radio stations and podcasts
🚀 Discover the ultimate music experience: https://bit.ly/PlayerTW
➡️ Mobile & desktop responsive web player
➡️ Fresh design & a fluid user experience
➡️ Podcasts & radio stations
➡️ A space to connect with & support your favorite artists: Fanzone
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Chris Messina
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This certainly isn't the Winamp I remember...!
Can you resurrect a punk rock brand in the modern streaming music era? Will enough people remember what the brand meant before and come back? If not — will a new generation encounter the brand as a fresh new take on the music experience?
So far the experience lacks much... but maybe as a two-sided marketplace for less well known acts, it might find its footing yet?
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I hate to be negative but this FTUX needs some work if I'm honest. I'm prompted to login, for what?
@rrhoover Exactly, I have no idea what this is, apart from using Winamp many, many years ago, so am curious, just seems to be a web interface for something, no information, click around and have to sign up to get the 'full experience', what full experience?
@rrhoover @smarky @eonpilot I'm super confused by the product positioning and value prop here. Just like a team tried to resurrect the Limewire brand as a new NFT-oriented music streamer, it seems like they're betting on nostalgia for the brand to attract talent rather than product.
While I appreciate the inclusion of the llama soundicons, nothing about this experience captures what made the OG Winamp great (especially all the sweet custom themes!).
@rrhoover @smarky @chrismessina Having previously worked at Tidal, my understanding is that it's mostly about having access to the music rights, that's ~90% of the value in the company. Less about the product offering. Could be that Winamp is a play to bundle/partner with other platforms and this incarnation of it is just the beginning.
This looks awesome, maybe adding g-sign in will reduce friction for those on the fence to try it out.
