Winamp
Website : http://www.winamp.com/
Blog : http://blog.winamp.com/
| Initial release | April 21, 1997 |
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| Stable release | 5.61 Build 3133 |
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Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietaryfreeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features. Winamp was developed by American programmer Justin Frankel and Russian programmer Dmitry Boldyrev while both were students at theUniversity of Utah in 1997, and its popularity grew quickly, along with the developing trend of MP3 file-sharing.
Features
- Crippled CD burning (~8×)
- Crippled CD ripping (~8×)
- AAC, MP4, FLAC, WAV, WMA encoding
- Trans coding of the different audio formats
- Replay Gain support
- Replay Gain scanner to apply Album Gain or Track Gain to the tags
- Media library
- Full Unicode support
Playback formats
Winamp supports music playback using MP3, MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV and WMA. Winamp was one of the first common music players on Windows to support playback of Ogg Vorbis by default. It supports gapless playback for MP3 and AAC, and Replay Gain for volume leveling across tracks. CD support includes playing and import music from audio CDs, optionally with CD-Text, and burning music to CDs. The standard version limits maximum burn speed and datarate; the "Pro" version removes these limitations.
Winamp supports playback of Windows Media Video and Nullsoft Streaming Video. For MPEG Video, AVI and other unsupported video types, Winamp uses Microsoft's DirectShow API for playback, allowing playback of most of the video formats supported by Windows Media Player. 5.1 Surround sound is supported where formats and decoders allow.
Source : Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase
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