Winamp

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Winamp
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Modern Winamp skin
Developer(s) Team Nullsoft
Release information
Initial release {{{released}}}
Stable release 5.35
Preview release None
Compatibility
Operating system Windows
Additional information
Use Media Player
License freeware
Website www.winamp.com

Winamp is a free music player for Windows developed by Nullsoft. A commercial "Pro" version is also available.

The main advantages of Winamp is its ease of use. In addition, it is skinnable, and extensible using plugins. As of version 5.2, it fully supports multi-user (i.e. each user of your computer may have their own skin, playlist, and other settings).

You can download Winamp at http://www.winamp.com/ . While you are there, you might also check their skin library and plugin library. And also check the very useful community (forums) where new plugins are announced and publicly tested, and very minor updates (i.e. 0.001 version increment) are posted.

Features

Free

  • Crippled CD burning (~8x)
  • Crippled CD ripping (~8x)
  • AAC, MP4, FLAC (Flake encoder), WAV, WMA encoding
  • Transcoding of the different audio formats
  • ReplayGain support
  • Media library
  • Full Unicode support
  • ReplayGain scanner to apply Album Gain or Track Gain to the tags

Pro

The Pro version, which can be bought online, comes with some additional features compared to the free version.

  • Burn CDs at full speed
  • Rip CDs at full speed
  • additional MP3 encoding

Supported formats

Playback

Directly supported formats (i.e. provided with installer) include: MP1, MP2, MP3, WAV, AAC, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, MIDI, FLAC, and Module

Plugins also exist for many other formats, such as TTA, WavPack, Musepack, TAK. Go to Winamp's plugin library to download.

Supported languages

  • English

Supported platforms

  • Windows

Recommended plugins

  • Playlist Separator - provides a customizable separator line to delimit albums in a long playlist.
  • MojoMaster - sexy dancer visualization.

External links