Winamp is a skinnable, multi-format media player and one of the popular music player used by millions in the world. Most Windows users may have used it once or known about it. Winamp can play various types of Audio files including MP3, WAV, AAC and more. It can also play various video formats such as MPG and MP4. Winamp is one of the screen reader accessible multimedia player and it is my favourit music player in Windows. Forward, Rewind, Next, Previous Play/pause and other playback options can be easily managed by keyboard.
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 also extend it’s functionality through the use of plug-ins, which are available on the Winamp site.
Option to run Winamp in Safe Mode (also via /SAFE=1 commandline switch)
XSPF playlist support (read only support, write support to follow)
Improved:
Added tooltips for truncated text in Media Library listviews
Added 'Explore item folder' to context menu in playlists
Bookmark menu handling now follows Winamp's Play/Enqueue setting
D3D vsync mode (should fix reported video tearing issues)
Display album art source info in Artwork tab of File Info dialog
Remember last position of dialogs
Show rating from tags if file is not in Local Media Library
Use new style dialog for folder browser
Windows 8 filetype association compatibility
[gen_ff] Multi-monitor support for Bento/Modern skin notifier
[gen_ff] Windows 8 multi-monitor/taskbar mode compatibility
[in_flac] FLAC streaming support
[in_mp3] Shoutcast v2 in-stream artwork support (and other misc fixes)
[in_mp3] Use MIME to determine decoder before assuming ext. is correct
[in_mp4] Native ALAC playback support
[in_mp4] Optimize MP4 Raw Reader by using chunks instead of samples
[in_mp4] Write ratings to tags (using the "rate" atom)
[ml_local/history] Friendlier error message if nde/database fails to load
[ml_local] New 'Date Added' column (smart views adjusted accordingly)
[ml_playlists] Now with Generate HTML Playlist support
[ml_playlists] Save playlists to custom m3udir, if specified in paths.ini
[ml_wire] Save (and backup) database files on updates instead of on exit
[pmp_ipod] Added BPM, TotalTracks, Disc# & TotalDiscs metadata support
[pmp_wifi] SSDP support and other optimizations
Fixed:
Failing to load on some Windows 8 (and earlier) installs (thanks Nanner)
Not playing the first song next when clearing then adding items to playlist
Bento/Modern skin notifier sometimes no longer appearing (thanks pjn123)
Deletion of 0-byte wdl*.tmp & wht*.tmp files
Issues with re-embedding of vis plug-ins in Bento skin when exiting fullscreen
Issues with some Icecast servers providing invalid stream links (v2.x bug!)
Potential crashes when rapidly switching between DSP plug-ins
[Bento Browser] Potential security vulnerabilities (thanks Julien Ahrens, inshell.net)
[gen_jumpex] Potential security vulnerabilities (thanks Julien Ahrens, inshell.net)
[in_mp3] Mapping of POPM ratings scale
[in_mp4] Bug where too-small passed-in buffer size resulted in loss of data
[in_mp4] Seeking files/podcasts which use a single video frame as artwork
[in_vorbis] Not reading Disc# (plus other general Vorbis Comments fixes)
[in_wave] mldb info for .wav files being wiped after viewing Alt+3 dialog
[ml_disc] Blocking of context menu items in ml tree for History & Bookmarks
[ml_disc] Creation of 0-byte trk*.tmp files & associated crash on some systems
[ml_impex] UI lockups on import/export of large databases
[ml_wire] Subscriptions to podcast channels with the same name
[ombrowser] Alt Gr keys broken in Online Services text input fields
[pmp_android] Albumart-related crash when transferring ogg files
[pmp_android/usb] Transfers fail if <Albumartist> contains illegal characters
[pmp_p4s] Crash/hang on exit after transferring files to MTP/P4S devices
Misc:
All default plug-ins now include file description & version info properties
More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
Removed:
[gen_orgler] The end of Winamp Charts & Music Usage Database
Updated:
[libFLAC] FLAC 1.3.0
[png] libpng v1.5.16
[gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.6
[zlib.dll] zlib 1.2.8
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 also extend it’s functionality through the use of plug-ins, which are available on the Winamp site.
Release Notes:
New:Option to run Winamp in Safe Mode (also via /SAFE=1 commandline switch)
XSPF playlist support (read only support, write support to follow)
Improved:
Added tooltips for truncated text in Media Library listviews
Added 'Explore item folder' to context menu in playlists
Bookmark menu handling now follows Winamp's Play/Enqueue setting
D3D vsync mode (should fix reported video tearing issues)
Display album art source info in Artwork tab of File Info dialog
Remember last position of dialogs
Show rating from tags if file is not in Local Media Library
Use new style dialog for folder browser
Windows 8 filetype association compatibility
[gen_ff] Multi-monitor support for Bento/Modern skin notifier
[gen_ff] Windows 8 multi-monitor/taskbar mode compatibility
[in_flac] FLAC streaming support
[in_mp3] Shoutcast v2 in-stream artwork support (and other misc fixes)
[in_mp3] Use MIME to determine decoder before assuming ext. is correct
[in_mp4] Native ALAC playback support
[in_mp4] Optimize MP4 Raw Reader by using chunks instead of samples
[in_mp4] Write ratings to tags (using the "rate" atom)
[ml_local/history] Friendlier error message if nde/database fails to load
[ml_local] New 'Date Added' column (smart views adjusted accordingly)
[ml_playlists] Now with Generate HTML Playlist support
[ml_playlists] Save playlists to custom m3udir, if specified in paths.ini
[ml_wire] Save (and backup) database files on updates instead of on exit
[pmp_ipod] Added BPM, TotalTracks, Disc# & TotalDiscs metadata support
[pmp_wifi] SSDP support and other optimizations
Fixed:
Failing to load on some Windows 8 (and earlier) installs (thanks Nanner)
Not playing the first song next when clearing then adding items to playlist
Bento/Modern skin notifier sometimes no longer appearing (thanks pjn123)
Deletion of 0-byte wdl*.tmp & wht*.tmp files
Issues with re-embedding of vis plug-ins in Bento skin when exiting fullscreen
Issues with some Icecast servers providing invalid stream links (v2.x bug!)
Potential crashes when rapidly switching between DSP plug-ins
[Bento Browser] Potential security vulnerabilities (thanks Julien Ahrens, inshell.net)
[gen_jumpex] Potential security vulnerabilities (thanks Julien Ahrens, inshell.net)
[in_mp3] Mapping of POPM ratings scale
[in_mp4] Bug where too-small passed-in buffer size resulted in loss of data
[in_mp4] Seeking files/podcasts which use a single video frame as artwork
[in_vorbis] Not reading Disc# (plus other general Vorbis Comments fixes)
[in_wave] mldb info for .wav files being wiped after viewing Alt+3 dialog
[ml_disc] Blocking of context menu items in ml tree for History & Bookmarks
[ml_disc] Creation of 0-byte trk*.tmp files & associated crash on some systems
[ml_impex] UI lockups on import/export of large databases
[ml_wire] Subscriptions to podcast channels with the same name
[ombrowser] Alt Gr keys broken in Online Services text input fields
[pmp_android] Albumart-related crash when transferring ogg files
[pmp_android/usb] Transfers fail if <Albumartist> contains illegal characters
[pmp_p4s] Crash/hang on exit after transferring files to MTP/P4S devices
Misc:
All default plug-ins now include file description & version info properties
More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
Removed:
[gen_orgler] The end of Winamp Charts & Music Usage Database
Updated:
[libFLAC] FLAC 1.3.0
[png] libpng v1.5.16
[gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.6
[zlib.dll] zlib 1.2.8
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