WebAmp plays music straight from a folder on your own device. Your files never leave it — nothing is uploaded, and there are no accounts.

Add your music

• Computer (Chrome / Edge): tap Open folder and choose your music folder. WebAmp walks every subfolder and adds all songs. The folder is remembered — the ↻ rescan button pulls in new songs later, and it also checks automatically on launch.
• Android (Chrome / Edge): same as computer. Big folders take a moment — a live “Scanning… N songs found” count shows it’s working. After a fresh launch Android may ask once to re-allow the folder the first time you play a song; installing WebAmp to your home screen makes that grant stick better.
• iPhone / iPad: tap Add songs, open a folder in the Files app, select the tracks, and tap Open. Repeat per album — they add up and are saved. (Safari has no true folder picker, so selection is per-folder.)
• iOS tip — grab many albums at once: in the Files picker tap Search and type mp3 (or an artist/album name). Results span every subfolder, so you can select tracks from several albums in one pass instead of walking the folder tree. Marking your music folder as a Favorite in the Files app also puts it one tap away in the picker’s sidebar — useful because iOS sometimes disables the picker’s back arrow after a selection.
• Drag & drop: on a computer you can also drop music files onto the window.

Play

• The big green button is play / pause; ⏮ / ⏭ jump to previous / next.
• 🔀 Shuffle and 🔁 Repeat (repeat loops whatever view you’re in). Only one can be on at a time — turning on one switches the other off.
• Drag the seek bar to scrub; tap the time to switch to time-remaining.
• Tap the big art tile to cycle spectrum → oscilloscope → album art.

Find & organize

• The search box filters by song, artist, or album.
• In Library, tap an album heading to focus just that album; ‹ Library goes back.
• Drag tracks to reorder them.
• More room: drag the small handle at the top of the list upward (or tap it) to expand the song list to nearly full screen; swipe it down, tap it again, or pick a song to restore. Handy on short or dual-screen displays.
• Playlists: highlight a song and tap + Playlist to add it (or create a new list). Use the dropdown to switch between Library and your playlists.
• Presets: the row of five buttons under the transport works like car-radio presets — tap one to jump straight to its playlist and start playing. To assign a button, press and hold it for 3 seconds (a bar fills as you hold), then pick a playlist; choose Clear preset to empty it. Each playlist can sit on only one button, so a playlist already assigned won’t appear in the other buttons’ lists. If you have no playlists yet, holding tells you to make one first. Assignments are remembered on this device.

Sound

The sliders button (next to repeat) opens Volume, Balance, and a 10-band Equalizer with presets. EQ and the live spectrum run on computer and Android; on iPhone/iPad audio plays straight through so it keeps going in the background.

Saved & private

• Your library and playlists are saved on this device and reload automatically — ★ saved confirms it.
• Clear library (in the sliders panel) removes songs from WebAmp only; your real files are untouched.
• Anything that deletes — removing a song from a playlist, deleting a playlist, or clearing the library — asks you to confirm first.

Install as an app

Add WebAmp to your home screen for full-screen use, offline launch, and lock-screen controls. On iPhone/iPad: Share ▸ Add to Home Screen, then open it from the icon — that’s also what enables background audio.