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EXPERIMENT 005

LLamp

A Winamp-style media player for Windows, with live varispeed pitch control.

LLamp feature image

LLamp is a Winamp-style music player for Windows, built for the love of it. The name is the llama from Winamp's old branding, plus "-amp". It plays your local music - MP3, WAV, FLAC and OGG - from a single window, and it's early days (v0.2.0), so expect rough edges and the odd late-night change.

The whole point is varispeed pitch. A tall pitch fader bends playback like a tape deck or turntable: speed up and everything rises, slow down and it drops, with pitch and tempo tied together (on purpose - this isn't separate pitch-shifting). The range flips between a fine +/-8% and a wider +/-16%, and a spring-loaded bend slider lets you nudge the speed for a moment and springs back when you let go.

Build a playlist by dropping in files or whole folders, then reorder by drag, shuffle (the original order is recoverable), sort and search. Switch on DJ mode for up to four decks side by side - each able to wear its own skin - that snap and dock together into one block and remember how you arranged them.

It's properly skinnable, with a custom rounded title bar and a handful of built-in looks (neon blue, gold, green CRT, dark amber, purple, cyan, slate). Round it out with segmented VU meters, a 10-band EQ, a scrolling dot-matrix display that shows the track name in your choice of real pixel fonts, and a UI scale setting for when the window's too big or too small.

Hand-built in the UK on C# and .NET. A for-love project rather than a product - made with code, caffeine, and a few too many late nights.

LLamp screenshot
Windows app Download v0.3.0