What a beautiful bit of techno art!

Trouble is it's only a player. If it could also record I would order several and re-open my recording studio.

Not so fast.

Before dismissing this Physical Winamp, perhaps we ought to investigate further...

Before KDX started using Zara as a station playlist, we used Winamp, and it was very versatile. For example it had a side-chain that ran plugins such as StereoTool and many other useful "DSP" items. StereoTool is still available in the DSP Plugin form. Will it run in this new Winamp machine? Stream links could be added to the Winamp playlist to bring in program streams from other program sources. Can it be done in this new iteration? How about the output. Can the metal Winamp box output to B.U.T.T. as a parh to Icecast streaming? If the new physical Winamp can do the same things as the software Winamp it may put a radio station in its own cabinet working in conjunction with the computer while freeing CPU power.

This might be a major part 15 device, equal in novelty to Artisan Radio's success in converting a SDR to an alternate way of distributing a radio station.

Since the brains of this piece of hardware is a computer, theoretically you should be able to do whatever Winamp allows you to do.

Reading the article in some detail reveals this is really a one-of, with custom, 3D printed parts and who-knows-what modifications to Winamp.  It's basically a Raspberry PI dedicated to running Winamp, with enhancements to drive the custom touchscreen interface.

Others have used a Raspberry PI to create transmitters, but they certainly aren't certified, and many appear to be dubious in legality.  The hardware Winamp is likely best utilized in front of a decent transmitter.

I do like the fact that the software was written in C++ using the QT IDE (Interactive Development Environment).  None of this Docker/Virtual Machine garbage.  If the project was ever made open source, it would be a lot easier to move it over to, say, Windows, and then you could do the same thing with one of those Windows-based micro Intel computers (if you wanted to).

My careful reading of the linked information about Linamp reveals no computer interface capability. It appears to be exclusively a player with audiofiles taken from a SmartCard, CD Disc Player, or Bluetooth. The DSP Sidechain does not exist.

And it mentions no price or ordering information.

@carl-blare It is a one-of.  The guy did it as a learning exercise.

You would hook it up to a transmitter, much as you would a computer generating programming.

You would need some sort of standardized way to add plug-ins.  They don't mention how music files are added to the Raspberry PI, but it could be a similar way.  Maybe Bluetooth or a USB interface.