Winamp - The ultimate media player

Winamp is the ultimate media player with features that are exactly what you want. Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of Time Warner. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware/shareware.

The developer’s Web site: www.winamp.com

Besides MP3, Winamp supports a wide variety of contemporary and specialized music file formats, including MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV and Windows Media Audio. Winamp was one of the first common music players on Windows to support playback of Ogg Vorbis by default. It supports gapless playback for MP3 and AAC, and Replay Gain for volume leveling across tracks. In addition, Winamp can play and import music from audio CDs, optionally with CD-Text, and can also burn music to CDs.

– iPod Support: Play and manage music on your iPod

– Album Art: Retrieve and view Album Art

– Auto-Tag: Automatically update your song information

– Remote Media: Access your media remotely

– Thousands of skins and plug-ins to make Winamp even better

– Free videos, radio stations, MP3 downloads and more

The newly Winamp 5.54 also features:

– Redesigned Now Playing Artist experience

– Discover Artist Songs, Videos, Radio and Photos

– New AOL Radio powered by CBS Radio

– Expanded Flash video support

– Dynamic Song Recommendations

– Sync with your iPod

– Language packs now available in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

You love Winamp and have an iPod? and don’t think they will work together? Think again. Winamp 5.5 includes iPod? syncing support with album art view. To synch Winamp and your iPod? (or other portable media player) launch the Media Library and check out the ‘Portables’ tab. You should see your iPod? or other device (provided you’ve plugged it into your computer!)

If you want MP3 encoding and full-speed CD burning, you have to shell out $19.95 for the Pro version. Winamp Pro enables you to burn your favorite music compilations at your computer’s full potential. Once registered, Winamp Pro will allow you to burn your Audio CDs at speeds up to 48x, 9 times the speed of Winamp 5! (Actual speeds may differ, depending on your computer’s specifications.)

With Winamp Pro, you can rip all your favorite music CDs into the industry leading MP3 format. When all your songs are encoded in MP3, it provides you the freedom to play them in all MP3 capable hardware and software media players. Your ripping doesn’t end with the MP3 format, you’ll also have the ability to rip into aacPlus, AAC, MP3, and WMA! Another bonus to Winamp Pro is the ability to rip HE-AAC at >128k bitrate!

Winamp Pro enables you to convert all of your favorite music CDs into digital files at your computer’s maximum potential. Once registered, Winamp Pro can rip your CDs at speeds up to 48x, 9 times the speed of Winamp 5!