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: [ml_playlists] Now with Generate HTML Playlist support (via Misc button, same as in Pledit)
(also tweaked the html & css to look more consistent across different browsers)
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Not reading Disc# (plus other general Vorbis Comments fixes)
* Fixed: [pmp_android] Albumart-related crash when transferring ogg files
* Fixed: Deletion of 0-byte wdl*.tmp & wht*.tmp files
- Fixed broken SHOUTcast TV stream urls (serverside & clientside fixes)
- Keep 'Safe Mode' confirmation dialog on top
- Fixed issue with message/text when uninstalling ml_pmp & ml_rg
- [ml_playlists] Disable buttons in Playlists root view if there's no selection
- [ml_playlists] Fixed drag updates not triggering a save of the current playlist
- [ml_playlists] Fixed not resetting the changed flag on loading a playlist view
- [gen_ml] Fixed root node being selected if library window wasn't open on starting
- [ml_impex] Fixed unsubclassing the wrong window
- [ml_local/ml_pmp] Fixed column resize & first column tooltip issues
- [in_mp3] Display utf8 stream titles in the stream info dialog, if possible
- [in_mp3] Fixed custom popm email field not being written to tags correctly
- [in vorbis] Fixed locking of current/last read ogg file
- [pmp_cloud] Show an unavailable message if a pull hasn't happened when clicking the cloud icon
- Added an "Exclusions" tab in Prefs > Cloud Sources to show incompatible files/formats
(can now also remove items via select > delete / also supports multi-select)
- Cloud now supports wma/wmv/asf (audio/x-ms-wma, video/x-ms-wmv & video/x-ms-asf)
Though note that playback might not necessarily be working yet.... (w.i.p.)
- Note: the above two changes required a local cloud db nuke bump & rescan
(Please wait for "first pull" to complete before using Cloud features)
- Prefs > Cloud Sources > Logging tab: Fixed scrolling to last item
(click on line to stop auto-scroll, spacebar to resume)
- Optimized cloud device view loading times (should be considerably faster)
- Fixed cloud source tooltip showing on the transfer view
- Added a "cloud account unauthorized" message for status window
- Restart client if it enters an auth failed error state
- Fixed issues with loading Local Media views whilst a large cloud mediahash calculation is running
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Column widths not being re-read correctly
- Installer now disables 3rd-party gen_lyrics_ie.dll (appears in quite a few crash reports)
- Potential memory leak fixes
- Various crash/bug fixes from gen_crasher error reports & forum/feedback reports etc.
- Various other misc tweaks & fixes