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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: June 01, 2006
- Total Downloads: 12,208,819
- Downloads last week: 21,804
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1291 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 5.21 include headlining the numerous feature enhancements is the new portable media player plug-in, which lets you synchronize your local media with iPod, Creative, and Microsoft Plays For Sure devices. Take one step into the Media Library and you will find a number of enhancements--new menu item icons and a dynamic online services section which offers a new, engaging way to experience Winamp's free on-demand media. Version 5.21 also allows syncing to iPod and other mobile devices, adds aacPlus High Bitrate encoder, and enhanced Media Library.
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