Freeware Descriptions:

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, CD, WMA, Audiosoft, Mjuice, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances called skins and audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins. Download and enjoy it free of charge, free of guilt.

Here is complete features (taken from authors site):
Features:

  • Basic controls: play, pause, stop, forward song, previous song, select new song
  • Built-in spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope
  • Track info: author, title, bitrate, sample rate, time, etc.
  • Additional controls: position slider, balance, volume, equalizer, playlist, shuffle and repeat
  • Can run in unobtrusive windowshade mode.
  • All windows dock seamlessly.
  • Drag and drop playlist editing
  • Create and save new playlists or load a previous playlist.
  • Edit song information via ID3 tag editor.
  • Sort by title and filename or randomize.
  • Playlist displays current song duration and complete playlist duration for easy dubbing.
  • Playlist can run without the main window, and includes mini-controls, time display, and visualization.
  • Ten band graphic equalizer and built-in pre-amplifier
  • Create and save new pre-amplifier and equalizer settings or load previous setttings.
  • Create and save song-specific pre-amplifier and equalizer settings.
  • Get up to the minute in information on Winamp.
  • Browse Winamp´s Plugin and Skin collection to customize your copy of Winamp.
  • Support for .wsz files in your skin directory as well as .zip files
  • Bookmark playlists and SHOUTcast streams

The Lite version Plays MP3s, AAC, WMA, and more; Compatible with Winamp Plug-ins; and has Full Support for Classic Skins.

New Features:

  • A Completely Redesigned Interface, including Album Art
  • Multiple device support, including iPods
  • Access and Share Your Music and Videos with Winamp Remote
  • Play and Playlist the Best Music on the Web with Media Monitor
  • Get Artist & Concert News, Videos & more with Smart Search
  • Enjoy Dynamic Song Recommendations
  • Experience MP3 Surround Sound Support
  • Access to Thousands of Internet Radio Stations, Videos and More!
  • 50 FREE MP3 Music Downloads compliments of eMusic’s 2-week Trial
  • Auto-Tagger provides automatic updates to file information
  • Control Winamp From Your Browser with the Winamp Toolbar

The free full version of Winamp is also available on FreewareFiles.com. The full version includes a host of additional features.

What’s New in version 5.55 Beta:

  • New: Turkish, Portuguese & Romanian installer translations and language packs
  • New: WBM system for lazy-loading of *.w5s files
  • New: [Bento skin] Playlist tab (optional)
  • New: [ml_impex] iTunes-compatible Media Library database import/export plugin
  • Improved: [gen_ff] Faster & no flicker when loading/switching skins
  • Improved: [gen_jumpex] New ‘Add to Library’ shell menu item & other tweaks
  • Improved: [gen_ml] Optional alternating row colors for list views
  • Improved: [gen_ml] Optional skinned menus
  • Improved: [in_mod] Experimental ExtendedRead support (transcoding, burning, etc)
  • Improved: [in_mod] Now uses global Playback config for thread priority
  • Improved: [in_mp3] APEv2 tag editing/creating tweaks
  • Improved: [ml_local] Media Library searches now ignore diacritics
  • Improved: [ml_local] New ‘Category’ and ‘Lossless’ database fields
  • Improved: [ml_online] New toolbar and various other tweaks & optimizations
  • Improved: [ml_online] Support for 3rd-party Services
  • Improved: [vis_milk2] Pixel Shader 2.0 & 3.0 support tweaks
  • Improved: [vis_nsfs] Unicode title display for currently playing track
  • Fixed: Accessibility fixup for Format Info string in Alt+3 dialog
  • Fixed: New version check can’t be disabled when anon statistics is enabled
  • Fixed: Rare crash when closing vis window
  • Fixed: Small memory leaks in in_wm, gen_dropbox, ml_local, ml_pmp and tagz.w5s
  • Fixed: Various issues when starting/stopping/switching vis plugins
  • Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Shell Options, B Hotkey, Send To menus & other misc bugs
  • Fixed: [gen_ml] Library button resize glitch
  • Fixed: [in_cdda] Potential cddb Disc null pointer crash
  • Fixed: [in_mp4] Empty genre metadata field (eg. when transcoding from flac to m4a)
  • Fixed: [in_mp4] Long hangs on slow network drives
  • Fixed: [ml_disc] Potential crash on exit
  • Fixed: [ml_local] Broken ‘Create Playlist’ button functionality in local media
  • Fixed: [ml_local] Remove missing files broken with some older/corrupt databases
  • Fixed: [out_ds] Logarithmic volume control dB display glitch
  • Fixed: [ml_pmp] Crash when deleting playlists/files from a P4S portable device
  • Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Deletion of non-existent files from database
  • Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Reading of Play Count statistics
  • Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
  • Misc: New “Send Feedback” item in the Help menu
  • Misc: Note that changes made to the ml database are not backwards compatible!
  • Misc: Removed some older Milkdrop presets and added some newer ones
  • Misc: Separated vlb.w5s and nsvdec_vp3.dll decoders from in_mp3 and in_nsv
  • Misc: Separated timer from gen_ff into timer.w5s
  • Updated: Gracenote CDDB/MusicID v2.6.0.6
  • Updated: Sonic Burning Engine v4.10.32.502
  • Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.2
  • Updated: [in_mp3] Fraunhofer Decoder v4.3
  • Updated: [lame_enc] LAME 3.98.2
  • Updated: [vis_avs] AVS v2.82

Winamp Lite 5.55 Beta Screenshot

File Size / OS:

  • 2.47 MB / Windows 9x - ME - 2000 - NT - XP - 2003 - Vista

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