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 5.3.3 build 1079 beta :
• IMPORTANT! If you upgrade on top of an already existing version then, unless you backup the media library database first, you cannot go back to 5.32 or earlier. This is because the media library database in 5.33 is now saved in a unicode compatible format.
- Improved: [gen_ml] unicode tree item title support
- Improved: [NDE] speed optimizations
- Improved: [ml_history] localized dates
- Improved: [ml_local] Unicode media library support
- Improved: [ml_playlists] now uses m3u8 to retain unicode file info
- Improved: [ml_playlists] playlists in send-to submenu
- Improved: [ml_pmp] playback-from-device of unicode filenames
- Improved: [ml_wire] moved discover page to main page
- Improved: [pmp_p4s] auto-detection of supported file formats
- Fixed: playlist directory loading fix (again)
- Fixed: recursive playlist loading
- Fixed: video lockup when switching video display settings
- Fixed: HTML playlist generation
- Fixed: temp file cleanup after burning
- Fixed: Alt+L from video window
- Fixed: fullscreen video display drawing glitch
- Fixed: recursive shortcut loading
- Fixed ASX Loader not reading local relative paths correctly
- Fixed: [gen_ml] & needs expanding to && for any menu entries showing filenames
- Fixed: [in_flac] not saving genres.txt in multiuser directory
- Fixed: [in_mp3] create id3v2 tag when writing album artist
- Fixed: [in_mp3] workaround for id3v2.4 tags with badly formatted frame sizes
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] writing blank metadata instead of erasing
- Fixed: [in_wave] sometimes not remembering custom extensions
- Fixed: [in_wm] stack overflow on hi-def multichannel audio with replaygain enabled
- Fixed: [in_wm] File Info editor album artist not saving
- Fixed: [ml_local] Modern skin pledit winshade 'Manage Playlist' button bug
- Fixed: [ml_local] ignoring files with ellipsis (...)
- Fixed: [ml_local] editing disc via 'edit selected items'
- Fixed: [ml_local] sorting fix
- Fixed: [ml_local] ratings menu
- Fixed: [ml_local] crash when sorting by replaygain
- Fixed: [ml_local] deadlock when retrieving title to guess metadata
- Fixed: [ml_local] no longer causes unicode files in playlist to display ?????
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] time column and 'status' in statusbar
- Fixed: [ml_pmp]
- Fixed: [ml_rg] multi-channel files being calculated incorrectly
- Fixed: [ml_transcode] bad/missing metadata on transcoded files
- Fixed: [ml_transcode] error on overly long filenames ("can't open destination file")
- Fixed: [ml_wire] podcasts that change titles not updating properly
- Updated: Coding Technologies aacPlus encoder 8.0.3
- Updated: [enc_flac] Flake SVN r114
- Updated: [gen_ff] Freetype 2.3.1
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] Jump To File Extra v0.97.11 (build 109)
Homepage - http://www.winamp.com
Download Winamp Standard Freeware (with all input, dsp, and vis plugins, but no media library)
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