Plex has launched its idea for a music player: Plexamp
Plex, a cloud media server, introduced its solution for desktop music playback today. Inspired by Winamp (throwback!), the company's Plexamp app features a single window. You can get it for free through Plex Labs, the company’s experimental division for employee “passion projects.” Plexamp runs on macOS or Windows and should support "any music format you could dream of throwing at it." Perhaps most exciting, though, is that it features playback visualizer, just like old media players.
Plexamp also includes some other nifty features, like normalizing playback from songs on various albums, a lack of a playback gap, and "smart transitions," or seamless transitions between songs. Of course, because Plex's whole thing is its server...