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 .
- Improved: GDI+ video rendering for Windows Vista
- Improved: [gen_ff] Better handling of invalid XML during skin load
- Improved: [ml_local] Unicode drag+drop and Send-To support
- Improved: [pmp_ipod] Better gapless playback handling of ipod nano
- Improved/Fixed: [enc_wav] Implemented acm options / minor bug fixes-
- Fixed: CD Burning on Windows Vista
- Fixed: [jnetlib] Memory leak (manifested itself when eg. pmp devices are connected)-
- Fixed: [in_cdda] CD-Text adds to end of cddb fields instead of clearing first
- Fixed: [in_flac] Distortion with some files without rg info when using +dB preamp-
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Node alignment bug :-)
- Fixed: [ml_local] (no album) shows no results-
- Fixed: [ml_local] Smart View query character limit (256->1024)-
- Fixed: [ml_local] Reindexer tweaks/improvements-
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] drag+drop playlists to main & pledit windows-
- Fixed: [ml_transcode] Now prevents same source and destination filename
- Fixed: [ml_wire] Crash when encountering certain non-xml feeds
- Misc: 2007 copyright updates; more fields for tagz; faster DNS lookups for streams (a single cached JNL_AsyncDNS object is now used for all connections); various other misc tweaks