Its time to take a stroll down your memory lane and brush up all those good memories about listening music in your favorite Winamp music player. If you’ve been missing those moments on the go, then its your day if you are on the Android platform(Android 2.1 OS and above). It not only brings that familiar Winamp look to your phone, it brings a big chunk of the desktop player along. It went up on the Android Market about three days back, and its beta.
You get a home screen playback widget and a lockscreen widget, so you can skip tracks without unlocking the phone. Last.fm scrobbling is in there too, if you have the Last.fm app installed. And you can enqueue a song or album and save the lot as a new Winamp playlist.
Best bit for us is the sync. Over USB or WiFi it talks to your desktop Winamp, and WiFi doesnt stop at syncing, it streams music from the phone to the desktop player too. That needs the Winamp 5.59 beta on your PC, which is up on the Winamp forums. Its beta, so theres rough edges. No Shoutcast streaming yet, and no genre browsing. Go grab it from the Market and stay tuned.
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