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, OGG Vorbis, and Windows Media Audio. 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. Winamp supports playback of Windows Media Video and Nullsoft Streaming Video, as well as most of the video formats supported by Windows Media Player. 5.1 Surround sound is supported where formats and decoders allow.
Winamp supports many types of streaming media: Internet radio, Internet telelvision, XM Satellite Radio, AOL video, Singingfish content, podcasts, and RSS media feeds. It also has extendable support for portable media players, and users can access their media libraries anywhere via internet connections.
You can extend Winamp"s functionality through the use of plug-ins, which are available on the Winamp site.
What"s new in this version:
- New: Winamp Cloud Beta
- New: Option to run Winamp in Safe Mode (also via /SAFE=1 commandline switch)
- Improved: Added tooltips for truncated text in Media Library listviews
- Improved: Bookmark menu handling now follows Winamp"s Play/Enqueue setting
- Improved: Display album art source info in Artwork tab of File Info dialog
- Improved: Added "Explore item folder" to context menu in playlists
- Improved: Show rating from tags if file is not in Local Media Library
- Improved: Windows 8 filetype association compatibility (w.i.p.)
- Improved: [gen_ff] Multi-monitor support for Bento/Modern skin notifier
- Improved: [gen_ff] Windows 8 multi-monitor/taskbar mode compatibility
- Improved: [in_mp3] Shoutcast v2 in-stream artwork support (and other misc fixes)
- Improved: [in_mp3] Use MIME to determine decoder before assuming ext. is correct
- Improved: [in_mp4] Optimize MP4 Raw Reader by using chunks instead of samples
- Improved: [in_mp4] Write ratings to tags (using the "rate" atom)
- Improved: [ml_local/history] Friendlier error message if nde/database fails to load
- Improved: [ml_local] New "Date Added" column (smart views adjusted accordingly)
- Improved: [ml_playlists] Save playlists to custom m3udir, if specified in paths.ini
- Improved: [ml_wire] Save (and backup) database files on updates instead of on exit
- Improved: [pmp_ipod] Added BPM, TotalTracks, Disc# & TotalDiscs metadata support
- Improved: [pmp_wifi] SSDP support and other optimizations
- Fixed: Bento/Modern skin notifier sometimes no longer appearing (thanks pjn123)
- Fixed: Issues with re-embedding of vis plugins in Bento skin when exiting fullscreen
- Fixed: Issues with some Icecast servers providing invalid stream links (v2.x bug!)
- Fixed: Potential crashes when rapidly switching between dsp plugins
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Mapping of POPM ratings scale
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Bug where too-small passed-in buffer size resulted in loss of data
- Fixed: [in_wave] mldb info for .wav files being wiped after viewing Alt+3 dialog
- Fixed: [ml_disc] Blocking of context menu items in ml tree for History & Bookmarks
- Fixed: [ml_impex] UI lockups on import/export of large databases
- Fixed: [ml_wire] Subscriptions to podcast channels with the same name
- Fixed: [ombrowser] Alt Gr keys broken in Online Services text input fields
- Fixed: [pmp_p4s] Crash/hang on exit after transferring files to MTP/P4S devices
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Removed: [gen_orgler] The end of Winamp Charts & Music Usage Database
- Updated: [png] libpng v1.5.13
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.6
Winamp Cloud:
With Winamp Cloud, you can easily access all your music libraries wherever they are stored. Winamp Cloud will allow you to aggregate and manage your entire music library with our cloud service from the following sources: Winamp Media Player on PC, Mac (in development), Android and even add to your library directly from our new Cloud Player.
Download: Winamp 5.70 Build 3315 Beta | 17.4 MB (Freeware)
View: Winamp Home page | Release Notes | Winamp Cloud Beta