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: Option to run Winamp in Safe Mode (also via /SAFE=1 commandline switch)
- New: XSPF playlist support (read only support, write support to follow)
- Improved: Added tooltips for truncated text in Media Library listviews
- Improved: Added 'Explore item folder' to context menu in playlists
- Improved: Bookmark menu handling now follows Winamp's Play/Enqueue setting
- Improved: D3D vsync mode (should fix reported video tearing issues)
- Improved: Display album art source info in Artwork tab of File Info dialog
- Improved: Remember last position of dialogs
- Improved: Show rating from tags if file is not in Local Media Library
- Improved: Use new style dialog for folder browser
- Improved: Windows 8 filetype association compatibility
- Improved: [gen_ff] Multi-monitor support for Bento/Modern skin notifier
- Improved: [gen_ff] Windows 8 multi-monitor/taskbar mode compatibility
- Improved: [in_flac] FLAC streaming support
- 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] Native ALAC playback support [full release notes]
Download: Winamp 5.64 Build 3415 Full | 12.2 MB (US English version, Freeware)
Download: Winamp 5.64 Build 3415 Full | 16.7 MB (Multi-national installer, Freeware)
Download: Winamp 5.64 Build 3415 Lite | 4.0 MB (basic 2.x-style mp3/cd player, Freeware)
Download: Winamp 5.64 Build 3415 Pro | 16.5 MB (Shareware)
View: Winamp Home page | Winamp 5.7 Beta
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