Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI, ASF, MPEG, NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.
• The Full version plays MP3s, AAC, WMA, and more; Compatible with Winamp 2 Plug-ins; Full Support for classic and modern skins; Plays Videos; has a Powerful Media Library; Browse Internet Radio & TV Stations; Integrated Internet Music Videos & Songs; Bundled Visualizations; and Burn & Rip CDs.
• The LITE version plays MP3s, AAC, WMA, and more. It is compatible with Winamp 2 Plug-ins and has full support for classic skins.
Winamp 5.3 Highlights:
* New portable device features - transcoding, new sync options, USB thumbdrive player support, video sync, direct-from-device playback
* Faster ripping
* Improved AAC and aacPlus encoding
* Unicode metadata, filename, and title support
* iTunes-compatible gapless playback (MP3/M4A) and encoding (M4A)
* Optional 24bit playback
* ReplayGain support
Winamp Player Features:
- Plays Music and Video Files (aacPlus, MP3, AAC, WMA and more!)
- Compatible with Winamp 2 Plug-ins
- Full Support for Classic and Modern Skins
- Plays Videos (NSV, WMV, and more!)
- Powerful Media Library
- Browse SHOUTcast Radio & TV Stations
- Browse Winamp Music Videos & Songs
- Integrated AOL Video Content (News, Sports, Movies & more)
- AOL Radio Featuring XM
- SHOUTcast Wire (podcast directory)
- Predixis MusicMagic (dynamic playlisting)
- Bundled Visualizations
- Burn CDs (Limited to 2x - 48x in Pro!)
- Rips CDs (Limited to 8x aacPlus, AAC, WMA
- Unlimited aacPlus, AAC, WMA and MP3 in Pro!)
- 50 free mp3s from Emusic
- Includes Winner of the Internet
- Surround Music Project!
- Includes an MP3 of 'Mercy Me' by Alkaline Trio
- Rip/Encode music into aacPlus, AAC, WMA, or MP3!
- Burn CDs up to 48x!
Changes in Winamp 5.32 :
* 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
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