Winamp is an customizable media player considered the grand-daddy of MP3 players. The program plays most common formats, and includes an equalizer, replay gain, and hotkeys. Includes strong support for thousands of different skins and plug-ins.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. Creates one folder and file to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\. For full registry changes, read this. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | AIMP, foobar2000, XMPlay |
What's new? |
See: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=373755 |
Official 5.8 Beta Build 3660 available
v5.666 Build 3516
The Ars Technica article posted by smaragdus above is great reading. Thanks. I was once an eager user of the free Winamp, so I have signed the petition...
v5.66
In fact I meant this link:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/after-15-years-of-llama-whipping-aol-shuts-down-winamp-for-good/
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AOL has announced that Winamp will be discontinued:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Winamp-to-Be-Discontinued-on-December-20-2013-402176.shtml
There are petitions for open-sourcing Winamp:
PETITION - SIGN NOW to ask for Winamp to go open source
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=373763
AOL: Keep Winamp alive or let it go open source
https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/aol-keep-winamp-alive-or-let-it-go-open-source
It seems 5.66 will be the last Winamp version.
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@freakazoid: currently the count includes 23 megabytes of locale files. Winamp Lite is "just" 10 megabytes in size if you download the English-only version.
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33MB is not "lite" ;)
V5.62
Winamp is no longer the reigning king it once was. It maybe be prettier but Foobar2000 is much better and with that said Winamp is much better than iTunes, and Windows Media Player!
So to summarize Foobar2000 > Winamp > WMP > iTunes
Alternatives (all have portable versions)
1) Foobar2000
2) Songbird
3) Mediamonkey
Light audio players
1) XMPlay
2) 1by1
V5.61
Same problem with V5.6.0 Build 3080 as ntquartex and Wolfghost reported earlier - just the js files were extracted using Uniextract. Apparently uniextract doesn't fire off 7zip when working with this file.
Good news: 7zip portable by itself does the job just fine!
no flac play with winamp lite is a major buzz kill.
For Winamp fans and folks I personally recommend - http://www.mywinamp.com
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