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 .
Winamp 5.54
* New: Chinese, Japanese & Korean installer translations and language packs
* New: [in_swf] Adobe Shockwave Flash (SWF, RTMP) playback support
* New: [gen_dropbox] Winamp DropBox alpha (use: Ctrl-Shift-D)
* New: [Online Services] AOL Radio featuring CBS Radio (requires in_flv)
* Improved: Background reading option for playlist metadata
* Improved: Classic songticker scrolling for Winamp Modern skin pledit winshade
* Improved: Vista elevation (fixes: installing skins, filetype reg, Pro reg)
* Improved: Zero padding option for playlist item numbers
* Improved: [in_flv] Better streaming support and other improvements
* Improved: [in_mp3] Added APEv2 tag options to configuration
* Improved: [in_mp3] Optional retention of existing APEv2 headers
* Improved: [ml_disc] Artwork support for Data CD Reader
* Improved: [ml_disc] Better detection of any copy operations in progress
* Improved: [ml_disc] Improved start times if ml_disc view is active
* Improved: [ml_local] Redesigned 'Show Info' panel
* Improved: [ml_nowplaying] Redesigned 'Now Playing' artist experience
* Improved: [ml_playlists] Right-click option to sort list of playlists alphabetically
* Improved: [pmp_usb] Connect/Disconnect/Blacklist config options
* Fixed: Alt+F4 closing Winamp instead of individual dialogs
* Fixed: Bento browser redirecting network drive url's to Winamp Search
* Fixed: Blank playlist when in docked toolbar mode and Winamp is minimized
* Fixed: Modern skin component windows appearing individually in Alt+Tab
* Fixed: Multi-flashing on startup when previously closed whilst minimized to systray
* Fixed: Pure Virtual Function Call runtime crash errors
* Fixed: Redraw issue when built-in classic vis is disabled
* Fixed: Various multi-monitor docking issues
* Fixed: Various other 5.53-specific keyboard accelerator issues
* Fixed: [Bento] Drag+Drop into Playlist from Open Files dialog
* Fixed: [burnlib] 'CD Drive locked by another Winamp process' on 2nd burn attempt
* Fixed: [burnlib] 'Burner releasing failed' error
* Fixed: [dsp_sps] Crash on close when config Help dialog is still open
* Fixed: [enc_flac] MD5 checksum generation
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Attached vis plugin crash on winshade to normal mode in Modern skin
* Fixed: [gen_hotkeys] Assigning Winkey with already used Ctrl combinations
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Enter/Shift+Enter broken for ML treeview items (5.53-specific)
* Fixed: [in_cdda] Composer/Conductor logic bug when saving CDDB data to database
* Fixed: [in_flac] Minor metadata writing bugs
* Fixed: [in_midi] Seeking with 'DM/MS Synth' device in Streamed playback mode
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on files with invalid/corrupt gapless data
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Create new ID3v1/v2 tags configuration setting
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Huge lag on files with large embedded cover art
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Metadata & Format Info display for streams in View File Info
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Potential unicode-related crash on open/close issue
* Fixed: [jpeg.w5s] Saving corrupt album art
* Fixed: [ml_autotag] Results dialog hidden under Winamp when AOT is enabled
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Small resource leak
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Autoscroll broken when dragging items in large playlists
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Enter/Shift+Enter broken for selected ML Playlist items
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Not respecting overlapping external windows on item drag+drop
* Fixed: [ml_playlists / ml_transcode] Sending playlists from ML tree to Transcoder
* Fixed: [ml_wire] 404/timeout with valid rss feeds on Vista
* Misc: Miscellaneous localization tweaks, fixes & updates
* Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Setup fixes (Agent not always starting, WLZ filetype not registering, etc)
* Misc: Various other 'Winamp Modern' & 'Bento' skin updates
* Misc: [enc_flac] Now encodes using libFLAC instead of Flake
* Updated: Bento skin v1.2
* Updated: freetype 2.3.7
* Updated: libpng 1.2.28
* Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.98
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Notes:
Hidden winamp.ini setting for adjusting overall volume even for files with RG applied
(will be added to ui in 'Prefs -> Playback -> ReplayGain' later)
replaygain_preamp=0 (in 0.001 dB units, i.e. 1000 = 1dB, adjust value to taste, e.g. 6000 for 6dB boost or -1000 for -1dB reduction)
Winamp Dropbox is an alpha plugin. Use Ctrl+Shift+D to open.
Its actual purpose is still a bit of a mystery, but all shall be revealed in good course...