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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: January 06, 2005
- Total Downloads: 12,208,819
- Downloads last week: 21,804
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1293 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Nullsoft has a lot of ground to make up after the Winamp 3.0 debacle, a dwindling user base, and stiff competition from Apple iTunes. Winamp 5.3 was a huge step in the right direction, with support for AAC encoding, CD burning, and a robust file-management system. Finally.
Winamp 5.3.1 makes some small but effective changes to its predecessor. In addition to playlist syncing for portables and a More Info feature that shows information about the currently playing track, we get a more stable, less-crash-prone environment for MP3s and podcasts and CD-text-reading support. We also love the Internet TV feature, which provides some great music videos and live concert footage, although the Singing Fish search is rife with mislabeled files. Ostensible rock-concert footage turns out to be, on more than one occasion, unlabeled pornography.
Another eye-catcher is the excellent collection of visualizations. The massive catalog of Winamp 2.x and 3.x skins works with this new version. The free version is feature-rich, but if you want MP3 encoding and full-speed CD burning, you have to shell out $14.95 for the Pro version. Winamp is one of our all-time favorite players, though, and version 5 renews its promise.
Publisher's description
From Nullsoft :New features in Winamp 5 include support for classic Winamp 1.x/2.x/2.9x skins and Winamp 3 (Modern) skins; a fancy new Modern skin; the same classic skin for people who want the Winamp 2 feel; a vastly more powerful media library; CD-ripping support (AAC@2x in the Free version, MP3 at unlimited speeds in the Pro version); CD-burning support (limited to 2x in the free version); advanced title-formatting logic for file types that support it; huge AVS updates; support for playback of AAC and VP6 in NSV files/streams; global hot-key support; a new Signal Processing Studio DSP plug-in; options for disabling plug-in exception-handling for developers; a new Winamp icon; and the addition of XP manifest.xml to winamp.exe. The developer made the agent icon use the configured Winamp system tray icon, made the program faster, made Winamp's internal submenu management more reliable, added skin-font-override preferences, and added a spacebar that shows the current playlist item in the playlist editor.
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User reviews of Winamp Full 5.08
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 1293 votes
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Winamp Full 5.08
"Big improvement from v2 and v3 highly recommended upgrade"
Pros: Excellent
Cons: Nothing
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Winamp Full 5.08
Pros: Somethings in life come to stay. Despite the fast transformation of our history(even that of Internet wich is changing every minute) somethings became part of our lives and go with us untill the end. Winamp is one of these things. I've been trying many media players(Windows, Media Monkey, Quick(something!) etc, but I always get to the basic! Winamp is the BASIC for me. It's not only work efectively nice! It's beautiful and charming!! So many bottons to deal with!!! I spend hours and hours trying to find out how to make those bottons work!! There is no a Portuguese version, but I forgive the people in Nullsoft, so I can spend some time more trying to understand what those English terms mean in Portuguese too!! Thank God I have a good dictionary at hand!! Download it. It's forever
Cons: I would like to see a Portuguese Version. GREETINGS FROM BRASILIA EVERYBODY
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Winamp Full 5.08
Pros: winamp good program but not the best. realmedia files not working with winamp like RAM and RM types. Winamp take huge of resorcess 26mb from memory when you play song !!! ???? So i like jetaudio its better than winamp.
Cons: real media RAM and RM not working with winamp.
its take huge resorcess from the memory fix the problem.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Winamp Full 5.08
Pros: It's core function: sound quality stomps over any other program like iTunes, WMP, and etc. Moreover, it has the largest collections of skins universally. It is small, stable, and packed with extra features.
Cons: It is hard to manage the GUI of the player, since it is all made of different sizes and parts... Also, the GUI might seem a bit complex and obscure to new users... Other than that, it's great!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Winamp Full 5.08
Pros: This program is very fast and it is easy to use while the songs will queue up fast without getting slower.
Cons: Nothing!!
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