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Winamp is a free music player for Windows developed by Nullsoft. A commercial "Pro" version is also available.

The main advantages of Winamp is its ease of use. In addition, it is skinnable, and extensible using plugins. As of version 5.2, it fully supports multi-user (i.e. each user of your computer may have their own skin, playlist, and other settings).

You can download Winamp at http://www.winamp.com/ . While you are there, you might also check their skin library and plugin library. And also check the very useful community (forums) where new plugins are announced and publicly tested, and very minor updates (i.e. 0.001 version increment) are posted.

Functions

Free

Crippled CD burning (~8x)
Crippled CD ripping (~8x)
AAC encoding (no MP3 encoding)
Media library

Pro

The Pro version, which can be bought online, comes with some additional features compared to the free version.

Burn CDs at full speed
Rip CDs at full speed
AAC and MP3 encoding

Supported formats

Playback

Directly supported formats (i.e. provided with installer) include: MP1, MP2, MP3, WAV, AAC, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, MIDI, and Module

Plugins also exist for many other formats, such as TTA, FLAC and Musepack. Go to Winamp's plugin library to download.

Supported languages

English

Supported platforms

Windows

Some recommended plugins

Playlist Separator - provides a customizable separator line to delimit albums in a long playlist.
MojoMaster - sexy dancer visualization.

External links

Winamp: Homepage

Winamp: Download

More information

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 '''Winamp''' is a free music player for Windows developed by Nullsoft. A commercial "Pro" version is also available.
-The main advantages of Winamp is its ease of use. In addition, it is skinnable, and extensible using plugins. As of version 5.1, it has rudimentary multi-user support (i.e. each user of your computer may have their own skin, playlist, and other settings), which may mature in version 5.2 (to be released).
+The main advantages of Winamp is its ease of use. In addition, it is skinnable, and extensible using plugins. As of version 5.2, it fully supports multi-user (i.e. each user of your computer may have their own skin, playlist, and other settings).
 You can download Winamp at http://www.winamp.com/ . While you are there, you might also check their [http://www.winamp.com/skins/ skin library] and [http://www.winamp.com/plugins/ plugin library]. And also check the very useful [http://forums.winamp.com/ community (forums)] where new plugins are announced and publicly tested, and very minor updates (i.e. 0.001 version increment) are posted.