RetroPlayer: A Hiss, a Skip, and a Click Away

We review all kinds of useful apps here every day, but sometimes it’s good to kick back and take a look at something silly. I just stumbled upon RetroPlayer, which is a pointless albeit fun little app that lets you hear your clean and ultra-refined MP3s as if they were playing on an old record player. Unlike a record player, though, you have full control over exactly how much distortion, skipping, and analog hiss you get on playback. It’s also got a neat interface that actually lets you control the playback using the various levers and knobs of the record player, and the record actually spins as the song plays.

RetroPlayer doesn’t serve any real purpose other than to have a little fun, but it’s a cool concept and it works well. For us young folk, I think it can really help to give us an appreciation for the way we listen to music today, and people who actually remember using records will get a kick out of it as well. RetroPlayer is free, so go grab it right here.