Nullsoft - (Freeware)
The number of formats supported and its versatile and customizable interface made Winamp one of the most popular audio player.
Winamp is a popular software specially designed to play audio files. It is always capable of reading a plurality of audio and video formats. The program can extract and compress the CDs to AAC or WAV.
Winamp has a burning function too, so that user will be able to burn his playlists and create his own compilations.
The appearance of the interface is fully customizable with classic skins or with modern versions. Winamp also allows to discover radio and TV channels broadcast over the Internet through its built-in tuner.
The pioneer mp3 players continues to be of great interest for several reasons. It manages a large number of audio and video formats where most competitors are limited to. Winamp is also much easier to customize, thanks to hundreds of skins, visualizations or various and varied plugins.
The software acquires an Orb based on module to access its library remotely via a secure web page, and includes a browser in line with Songbird, allowing easy access to audio content such as web pages and audioblogs.
Winamp supports a wide range of players , starting with iPods to Creative or Archos players through the UMS readers.
The software offers the possibility to retrieve information about a song or an album cover on the Internet. This feature requires an Internet connection and makes it easy to manage.
Access to online radio is also on the program. Not less than 30,000 radio stations are accessible if the Internet connection allows it. Radios are categorized by genre, this way it is easier to find the one desired to listen .
- New: [ml_local] new filters for three pane view (album artist, genre, publisher)
- New: [ml_local] option to rescan metadata for selected files
- New: [ml_transcode] Transcoding tool. Convert your files from one format to another.
- New: [pmp_activesync] Support for Windows Mobile devices
- Improved: send-to in songticker right-click menu
- Improved: [ml_local] album artist, disc, replaygain, composer, full path columns
- Improved: [ml_local] localized dates
- Improved: [ml_local] folder browsing dialog
- Improved: [ml_rg] lower thread priority to prevent system slowdowns
- Fixed: classic skin playlist time drawing glitch
- Fixed: slow load-time with playlist of network share files
- Fixed: CD burning with Windows 98/ME
- Fixed: flickering with non-overlay video display
- Fixed: [gen_ml] treeview icons on Windows 98/ME
- Fixed: [gen_ml] modern skin docked toolbar mode not remembered
- Fixed: [gen_ml] listview flicker reduction
- Fixed: [in_flac] crash when viewing info (alt+3) on non-existent files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect length reported with Easy CDDA Extractor encodes
- Fixed: [in_mp4] unable to play truncated M4A files
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] crash with very short files
- Fixed: [jnetlib] HTTP timeouts on streams with character 255 in HTTP headers
- Fixed: [ml_disc] CD View sometimes causing flickering of all open windows
- Fixed: [ml_history] crash when disabling & re-enabling view
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] corrupt display when scrolling
- Fixed: [ml_wire] crash when parsing podcasts with badly formed dates