Retro Wave Media Player

The soundtrack of retro computing.

Game soundtracks, chiptunes, tracker tunes and demoscene classics from the 8- and 16-bit computers and consoles — and every amateur musician who made them. Hundreds of thousands of tunes, played with authentic emulation, organised like a modern streaming app — on your Mac, your Windows or Linux PC, your Android phone and your iPhone or iPad.

Download for macOS Download for Windows Download for Linux Get it on Google Play Get it on the App Store

Free & ad-free · Version 1.0 on macOS, Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone & iPad

Why rewamp

Old-school sound. New-school player.

From game soundtracks to bedroom-coder chiptunes and demoscene tunes — all the music of the 8/16-bit era, with the comfort of a modern app.

Authentic audio

41 playback engines covering 1,200+ formats — SID, POKEY, AY/YM, OPL, FM, SPC700, Paula, QSound, MOD/XM/IT and hundreds more. Real chip emulation, true to the original hardware.

A vast library

Hundreds of thousands of tunes — and far more playable tracks inside them — from Modland, HVSC, ASMA, VGMRips, SNESmusic, joshw, zxart, demozoo and the other great community collections. Indexed, deduplicated and searchable.

Modern experience

Playlists with folders, favorites, queue, radio mode, gapless playback with optional crossfade, offline downloads and cross-device sync — the polished flow of a modern streaming app, built for retro audio.

Visualizers

Milkdrop (projectM) with several packs of presets, live tracker pattern view, piano-roll notes, a falling-notes piano — one keyboard or one per voice — per-voice oscilloscopes, spectrum and CRT glow. Fullscreen, on every platform.

Rich context

Games, systems, composers, groups, demoparties with podium rankings, release years, artwork — and the demo videos where each scene tune was heard, playable inline.

Chip-level control

Mute or solo every chip voice, change the playback speed, tweak per-engine filters and stereo, loop & fade settings, downloadable SoundFonts or your own Roland MT-32 ROMs for MIDI — and import your own files, folders and archives (ZIP, 7z, RAR, LHA) into a Local library that survives updates.

On your phone

See it running

Screens from the iPhone app — the Android, macOS, Windows and Linux builds share the same player.

rewamp on iPhone — live tracker pattern view, scrolling in time with the music — Live tracker pattern view, scrolling in time with the music

rewamp on iPhone — piano-roll notes — one colour per voice — Piano-roll notes — one colour per voice

rewamp on iPhone — spectrum and CRT glow over the cover art — Spectrum and CRT glow over the cover art

rewamp on iPhone — a Milkdrop preset running fullscreen on the player — Milkdrop presets, fullscreen on phone or tablet

rewamp on iPhone — swap visualizer without leaving the player — Swap visualizer without leaving the player

rewamp on iPhone — search across tunes, artists, groups and albums — Search across tunes, artists, groups and albums

rewamp on iPhone — the demo the tune was written for, playable inline — The demo the tune was written for, playable inline

rewamp on iPhone — production screenshots and artwork alongside the track — Production screenshots and artwork alongside the track

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Preserved music

Standing on the shoulders of archivists

rewamp indexes the great community music collections — with respect and full credit to the people who keep them alive.

Modland · trackers & chips HVSC · C64 SID ASMA · Atari POKEY SNESmusic · SPC VGMRips · arcade & console joshw · console rips, NES to X360 zxart · ZX Spectrum SMS Power · Sega 8-bit sc68 · Atari ST UnExotica · Amiga games AMP · Amiga musicians scene.org · demoscene demozoo · scene metadata GameBase64 · C64 artwork

Cover art from GameBase64 (with permission) · song lengths from the UADE songdb (CC BY-NC-SA)

Get rewamp

rewamp 1.0 is out

Version 1.0 is out of beta: a direct download on macOS, Windows and Linux, on Google Play for Android and on the App Store for iPhone and iPad — free and ad-free. Feedback welcome.

New in 1.0

A “Podiums” browser: demoscene competition winners by party, year or kind of compo, with a hall of fame
Opening a slow track no longer freezes the app — a thin ring around play/pause shows it is still loading
Arcade Ensoniq ES5505/ES5506 music (Taito F3…), FM-Kingtracker .fmk, StoneTracker, SUNtronic and more Soundtracker 2.6 modules on Amiga, and zxart’s .mt3 on ZX Spectrum
A clearer info panel: format, engine, channels and loop points first
The piano visualizer spreads busy songs over more keyboards
On macOS, every supported format shows up in “Open With”
Fixed: crashes on some .mtc files and on Apple IIGS VGM files, and with crossfade on, a track shorter than the fade can be heard again