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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: September 28, 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 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 include support for classic Winamp 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 6x 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.
Version 5.3 includes Winamp Dashboard beta, Winamp Remote beta, Unicode filename and title support, enhanced sync capabilities for your portable.
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User reviews of Winamp 5.3
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 1293 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Winamp 5.3
Pros: Many skins, plug-ins, visualizations, and can play almost all media formats!
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Version: Winamp 5.3
Pros: The fact that it is free and a great product. It accomplished the great sound I was looking for & made it appear as if I have larger speakers
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Version: Winamp 5.3
Pros: you can get cool skins and get plugins, easy to use! everything else about winamp 5!!!!
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Winamp 5.3
Pros: This is easy to use and very customizable. Installation is easy and it doesn't take up alot of memory. Doesn't install anything without your consent (e.g., spyware).
Cons: It makes itself the default media player each time you use it. There should be a way to prevent Winamp from doing this without your consent.
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6 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: Winamp 5.3
"My first and last media player."
Pros: This is by far my favorite media player. For many reasons. Being 100% free is one of them. You also get FREE Tv shows and even FREE radio. Hundreds of channels. It's funny how I found this program too. Back when I had no antispyware protection(a few years ago) I got a pop-up and this program came up so I downloaded it. Turns out it ended up becoming one of the most popular media players. I have been using winamp since version 1 and it has kept on improving since then. The best part about Winamp is the massive amounts of plugins it has. It has thousands of plugins. If you want the best media player here it is.
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