Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. 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 5.9 RC3 Build 9999 changelog:
- Improved: Windows 11 compatibility
- Improved: Playback of https:// streams
- Improved: Updated and tidier generate html playlist code
- Improved: [in_flac] Hi-res playback support (24bit/192kHz, etc.)
- Improved: [in_mkv] vp8 support
- Improved: [in_mod] Playback of .itz, .mdz, .s3z & .xmz compressed modules
- Improved: [ml_rg] Added message throttle and other optimizations
- Improved: [ml_wire] New working Podcast Directory
- Improved: [out_ds] Display device information correctly in Unicode format
- Fixed: [in_midi/in_mkv/nu/pfc] memory leaks
- Fixed: [in_mp3] id3 empty genre displayed as Blues or Psychobilly
- Fixed: [jnetlib/ml_online/ml_wire] JSAPI2 JavaScript API
- Fixed: [ml_rg] Calculate ReplayGain for Ogg Vorbis files
- Fixed: [out_wasapi] Volume resets to zero on track change
- Fixed: [out_wave] Crash when playing module/tracker formats
- Misc: lame_enc & libsndfile now static links instead of dynamic dll
- Misc: libmpg123, libflac & zlib now static links instead of dynamic dll
- Misc: Major compiler refactoring work
- Misc: Many more general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: Minimum required OS is now Windows 7 SP1
- Misc: New online Help section and articles
- Misc: SDK now compatible with VS2017 and newer
- Misc: Versioning syntax changed to v5.x.x
- Misc: Winamp\Microsoft.VC142.CRT runtimes now installed on Win7/8
- Removed: Bento Browser tab - So long, and thanks for all the fish!
- Removed: [read_file.dll] in_midi now using zlib & minizip for compressed midi
- Updated: [alac/in_mp4] ALAC 2017-11-03-c38887c5
- Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.100.1
- Updated: [freetype.wac] freetype 2.12.1
- Updated: [gif] giflib 5.1.4
- Updated: [in_cdda] libdiscid 0.6.2
- Updated: [in_flac/enc_flac] libFLAC 1.3.4
- Updated: [in_mod] libopenmpt 0.6.4
- Updated: [in_mp3] libmpg123 1.29.3
- Updated: [in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.5 & libvorbis 1.3.7
- Updated: [in_wave] libsndfile 1.1.0
- Updated: [OpenSSL] OpenSSL 3.0.3
- Updated: [png] libpng 1.6.37
- Updated: [vp8] WebM libvpx 1.11.0
- Updated: [zlib] zlib 1.2.12
Download: Winamp 5.9 RC4 Build 9999 | 10.2 MB (Freeware)
Links: Winamp Website | Release Announcement