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MacAmp 2000

Winamp, reborn for the Mac. A native music player for Apple Silicon Macs in the spirit of Winamp.

Download for Mac

Version 1.6.0 · 8.0 MB · macOS 13 or later · Apple Silicon · License

New in 1.6.0: animated skins
  • Free, no ads
  • No account
  • No tracking
  • Notarized by Apple
MacAmp 2000 in its Modern look: player, 10-band equalizer and playlist docked together beside the album art window

Built native

Everything you loved, built native.

Written in Swift with AppKit, AVAudioEngine, Metal and SQLite, and no third-party dependencies.

  • Skins galore

    Modern, Classic, six animated built-in skins, or thousands of original Winamp 2.x .wsz skins.

  • The classic layout

    Player, 10-band EQ and playlist windows that dock and snap together, at 1x, 2x or 3x size.

  • Audiophile playback

    Gapless playback, ReplayGain, sample-rate matching for hi-res DACs, headphone crossfeed and crossfade.

  • A real library

    Watched folders, instant search, play counts, ratings and smart playlists that update live.

  • Tag editor

    Edit MP3, FLAC and M4A tags in place, with regex find & replace across your library.

  • Art & lyrics

    Embedded or folder album art with optional online lookup, plus a synced lyrics window: click a line to seek.

  • Metal visualizer

    18 MilkDrop-style presets, including Fire Dragon, Rainbow Vinyl, Neon Grid, Electric Storm and Matrix Rain.

  • Everywhere on your Mac

    Desktop widget, menu bar mini-player, media keys, Control Center Now Playing, and ListenBrainz scrobbling.

Plays

  • MP3
  • AAC / M4A
  • FLAC
  • ALAC
  • WAV
  • AIFF
  • CAF

New in 1.6.0

Skins that move with your music.

Six animated skins are built in under the View menu, and several react to the beat. Each is drawn at double resolution so it's sharp on Retina, and comes with classic 1x sheets that also work in other Winamp players.

  • Steampunk

    The brass gear turns, and its amber lens flares on the beat.

  • Pixel

    Stars twinkle, and the cassette throws pixel rings on the beat.

  • Halloween

    Bats cross the moon, and the jack-o’-lantern pulses with the music.

  • Christmas

    Lights chase under the title bar and flash to the beat, on evergreen holly velvet with gold keys.

  • Dragons

    The dragon’s eye blinks now and then, while embers rise through the scene.

  • Rambling Buddha

    Prayer flags wave, and the mascot bounces to the music.

  • Retina for everyone

    Skins can ship @2x sheets (main@2x.png and so on), so any skin author can make Retina skins.

  • Animate your own

    Add an anim.txt to animate a skin with frame strips, in loop, pingpong, random or beat-pulse modes. Other Winamp players ignore it, so the skin still works everywhere.

  • Every window matches

    The album art, lyrics and desktop widget windows follow the current skin's frame and colors. Animations hold still when Reduce Motion is on.

Pick your era

Modern glass, or pure 2000.

Switch between the Modern look, the Classic retro look and the built-in skins at any time, or load one of thousands of original Winamp 2.x skins from skins.webamp.org.

The Modern look in charcoal glass with a coral-to-amber accent
Modern
The Classic look with green LCD text and silver buttons
Classic
The Metal visualizer running the Neon Grid preset: a glowing sun over a pink and cyan wireframe grid

Metal visualizer

18 MilkDrop-style presets.

Fire Dragon, Rainbow Vinyl, Neon Grid, Electric Storm, Matrix Rain and more, rendered with Metal.

Art & lyrics

Sing along. Click to seek.

Synced lyrics highlight the current line; click any line to jump there. Album art comes from the file, the folder, or an optional free online lookup.

The synced lyrics window with the current line highlighted, next to the album art window

Install

Drag, drop, play.

  1. Download MacAmp2000-1.6.0.dmg.
  2. Open it and drag MacAmp 2000 to Applications.
  3. Launch it. It's signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so there are no Gatekeeper warnings.

Download 8.0 MB

Verify your download

SHA-256 checksum:

81d17593592567e0a0d78a1b87ca69b030061d1862f6725eac5bdcf0815a40a4

In Terminal:

shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/MacAmp2000-1.6.0.dmg
spctl -a -vv /Applications/MacAmp2000.app

The second command should report Notarized Developer ID.

Private by default

Your music stays yours.

No analytics, no tracking, no account. Your library, playlists and settings live on your Mac. Album-art and lyrics lookups are optional and can be switched off. Read the details.

Questions

Does it run on Intel Macs?

No. MacAmp 2000 requires an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 13 or later.

Which audio formats does it play?

MP3, AAC/M4A, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF and CAF. Ogg Vorbis, Opus, APE, WavPack and DSD aren't supported, because macOS can't decode them.

How do I use a Winamp skin?

Six skins are built in: pick one from the View menu. To use your own, choose View › Load Winamp Skin… (⌘K), or drop a .wsz file on any MacAmp window. Thousands of classic skins are available at skins.webamp.org.

A window went missing. How do I get it back?

Choose View › Gather Windows. This brings back windows left on a display that's no longer connected.

Is it really free?

Yes. No price, no in-app purchases, no ads and no account.

Can I share it with a friend?

Please share the link to this page rather than the app or installer. MacAmp 2000 is free to use, but it may not be redistributed. See the license below.

License

Free to use: MacAmp 2000 may be used free of charge, for any purpose, on any number of Macs. It may not be redistributed — no sharing copies of the app or its installer, reselling, rehosting or bundling it, modified or not. Share the link to the website instead. Provided as is, without warranty of any kind.

Winamp is a trademark of its owner; MacAmp 2000 is an independent project that can load skins made for it.