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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 13, 2007
- Total Downloads: 12,316,510
- Downloads last week: 18,337
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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 still has some ground to make up after the poorly received Winamp 3, a dwindling user base, and stiff competition from Apple iTunes. Winamp 5.3 is a huge step in the right direction, with support for AAC encoding, CD burning, and a robust file-management system.
The 5.3x have made small but interesting changes, such as FLAC encoding and decoding, CD text reading, support for Windows Mobile devices, and additional filters for the album and artist panes.
We like the Internet TV feature, which provides music videos and live concert footage, although Singing Fish search is less than reliable. Another eye-catcher is the excellent collection of visualizations. The massive catalog of Winamp 2.x and 3.x skins still work with this latest version. The free version is feature-rich, but if you want MP3 encoding and full-speed CD burning, you have to shell out $24.95 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 :Winamp is a multimedia player made by Nullsoft. It is skinnable, multi-format freeware. It also now plays streamed video content, both live and recorded, authored worldwide. Winamp 5 includes 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 5.33 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of Winamp 5.33
- Average user rating: 3.9 stars out of 1291 votes
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44 out of 64 people found this review helpful
Version: Winamp 5.33
Pros: good interface, will play more diff types of file than windows player. has good library functions.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Winamp 5.33
Pros: Powerful library, manages my mp3's better than any other software. Has great ipod support (much better than iTunes which would put duplicate artists all over my ipod and not read half my mp3 tags correctly) no such problems with winamp. Skins are great. Doesn't use too much resources. The interface is a hit or miss, some love it some hate it.
Cons: Free version has crippled cd burning/ripping
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Version: Winamp 5.33
Pros: I like the way aol radio is integrated in this program,I listen almost solely to radio,I dont download,burn,or copy any music so this program player is perfect for me.I have not had any installation or run type issues with it nor any glitches of any kind.Has a lot of color options for the normal user,skin from winamp original is plenty for me.I have only one plug in installed for audio and that has worked flawlessly,All in all its a keeper.
Cons: non existant so far.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Winamp 5.33
"Most Usefull Media Library I Know"
Pros: Nearly complete application for managing and playing sound files. I looked at lots of other progs, but Winamp is the one which satisfy me most. There are almost no wishes left. You can sort your music in the library as you like, assemble playlists in any way you may want to, ID3-tags are shown and can be manipulated in every way you can imagine. The only funktion I miss is to merge two or more files to one, e. g. for audiobooks, which are often split in a lot of small files, and I'd prefer to have one big. (It's because of my MP3-player always sort the files in a wrong order; that's not very nice ... :-> )
Cons: Winamp takes a huge amount of system resources and therefore slow down my other running apps. This makes one star less (only because there are no half stars).
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4 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: Winamp 5.33
"Still the best all round media player..."
Pros: Winamp just goes on quietly getting better. Very stable, small memory footprint, especially if you resist the temptation to install some of the fancy bits you'll never actually use! Good-looking, flexible, intuitive interface, plug-ins for just about any format out there, peerless streaming radio with built-in ShoutCast tuner, and still, I think, the best library and playlist integration around.
Cons: Very poor ripping and burning in the free edition - but since there are several really excellent free standalone rip and burn apps listed here, it's not a big problem.
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