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: IPv6 support
- Improved: Made installer delete in_mp3pro :/
- Improved: IPC_CONVERTFILE now uses api_decodefile (for ripping & transcoding)
- Improved: Embedded IE pages now run in a separate thread
- Improved: General speed and performance optimizations
- Improved: [in_wave] Added ATF support for %bitrate%
- Improved: [ml_local] Composer / Album view (in Edit View, Filters tab)
- Fixed: ???? in the taskbar & system tray with Unicode titles (note that many third party plugins will cause this to revert back to ????)
- Fixed: Installation of Sonic Engine on systems with other Sonic/Roxio products
- Fixed: Tab orders in Preferences
- Fixed: Various media library accessibility/focus issues
- Fixed: [enc_lame] Better output samplerate selection for transcoding
- Fixed: [enc_wav] WAVs missing first 11 samples
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Keyboard focus issue
- Fixed: [in_cdda] Long artist/albumartist CD Info bug
- Fixed: [in_cdda] Crash on Winamp exit after playing Audio CD
- Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash-on-close bug
- Fixed: [in_dshow] potential crash on corrupt/malformed media files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Memory leak when retrieving info for .aac files
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] Album tag removed when using ml 'edit selected items'
- Fixed: [in_wm] Crash when trying to burn WMA files
- Fixed: [ml_local] Composer tag not saving with 'Edit Info'
- Fixed: [ml_local] Total size not showing up in local media views
- Fixed: [ml_local] Possible duplicate entries on upgrades after rescanning folders
- Fixed: [ml_local] (No Album Artist) & (No Publisher) sometimes displays no results
- Fixed: [ml_local] Sorting Album pane by Year
- Fixed: [ml_local] isempty/isnotempty for querying empty/populated fields
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Possible crash when deleting a group of songs containing non-sequential duplicates
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] "haven't" typo in prefs :-D
- Fixed: [pmp_p4s] Launching Winamp on device insertion not working
- Fixed: [pmp_p4s] No longer creates .alb files on devices that don't support it
- Updated: in_vorbis to libvorbis 1.1.2 and libogg 1.1.3
- Updated: in_flac 2.0 (based on FLAC 1.1.4)
- Updated: MusicIP Mix (formerly Predixis MusicMagic) v1.1
- Updated: Sonic Ripping/Burning Engine v3.6.36.500