File Details |
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| File Size | 12.1 MB |
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| License | Freeware |
| Operating System | Windows (All) |
| Date Added | May 3, 2023 |
| Total Downloads | 2,322,416 |
| Publisher | Nullsoft |
| Homepage | Winamp 5 |
Publisher's Description
Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc.) and video types (AVI, ASF, MPEG, NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.
The Full version Plays MP3s, AAC, WMA, and more; Compatible with Winamp 2 Plug-ins; Full Support for Classic and Modern Skins; Plays Videos; has a Powerful Media Library; Browse Internet Radio & TV Stations; Integrated Internet Music Videos & Songs; Bundled Visualizations; and Burn & Rip CDs.
Latest Reviews
SirBannana reviewed vv5.92 Build 10042 on Jun 19, 2023
But I love it anyway ;)
dadiabeachhouse reviewed vv5.92 Build 10037 RC1 on Apr 20, 2023
yes
peptidesfast reviewed vv5.9 Build 9999 on Oct 1, 2022
great player for load easily.
Sven123456789 reviewed v5.8 Build 3660 Beta on Mar 3, 2020
Was surprised a somewhat newer version came out in 2018. Thought they were kaput back like 2010. In either case this version works just as good at the previous. Its still the defacto music player I use at home or at parties. Just hook my laptop to my old receiver and its jam time. Not sure where the bad reviews are coming from. I've installed this on multiple pc's and laptops with not a glitch of any kind. Probably the only software from my youth that I still use..
Slug_Coordinator reviewed v5.8 Build 3660 Beta on Feb 28, 2019
I still love Winamp but this latest Beta has a ton of issues. Hope they improve it and also think its about time that we see newer updated Codecs, Plugins and DSP Shoutcast....
Sven123456789 reviewed v5.6.6.6.3516 on Jul 13, 2016
Tried allot of players since this went kaput. But Winamp is still the best.
balanceinmotion reviewed v5.6.6.6.3516 on Sep 24, 2014
5 stars
mikebratley reviewed v5.6.6.6.3516 on Mar 11, 2014
4 stars
chrispaul reviewed v5.6.6.6.3516 on Feb 17, 2014
cool!
barrytbutler reviewed v5.6.6.6.3516 on Jan 29, 2014
winamp still kicks butt.
SirBannana reviewed vv5.92 Build 10042 on Jun 19, 2023
Pros: It was the best music player back then :)
Cons: Practically useless in today's streaming times :(
Bottom Line: But I love it anyway ;)
dadiabeachhouse reviewed vv5.92 Build 10037 RC1 on Apr 20, 2023
Pros: great player for load easily.
Cons:
Bottom Line: yes
peptidesfast reviewed vv5.9 Build 9999 on Oct 1, 2022
Pros: Load easily.
Cons: Simple Theme view
Bottom Line: great player for load easily.
Sven123456789 reviewed v5.8 Build 3660 Beta on Mar 3, 2020
Pros: Still the best music player..
Cons: None
Bottom Line: Was surprised a somewhat newer version came out in 2018. Thought they were kaput back like 2010. In either case this version works just as good at the previous. Its still the defacto music player I use at home or at parties. Just hook my laptop to my old receiver and its jam time. Not sure where the bad reviews are coming from. I've installed this on multiple pc's and laptops with not a glitch of any kind. Probably the only software from my youth that I still use..
Slug_Coordinator reviewed v5.8 Build 3660 Beta on Feb 28, 2019
Pros: Winamp 5 Full 5.8 Build 3660
There is only 1 the Ability to search your play list which is hand when
Streaming with Shoutcast for Request/
Cons: When trying to use Shoutcase 2.3.5 the Ability to stream in AAC is gone with this Build of Winamp.
The Playlist Editor wont Stay Locked in place. Every Time when its opened
the Playlist Editor moves random position. Same when minimized and maximized.
The Audio Clips bad and the Compression Limiter even when off sounds like its dropping Audio Dynamics.
Bad Latency When Streaming with Shoutcast 2.3.5 DSP
Some of the Plugins that worked Flawless in 5.66 Builds crashes the Winamp 5 Full 5.8 Build 3660/
When Upgrading to Winamp 5 Full 5.8 Build 3660 it dumps a lot of the previous configurations plugins etc.
Bottom Line: I still love Winamp but this latest Beta has a ton of issues. Hope they improve it and also think its about time that we see newer updated Codecs, Plugins and DSP Shoutcast....
Sven123456789 reviewed v5.6.6.6.3516 on Jul 13, 2016
Tried allot of players since this went kaput. But Winamp is still the best.
balanceinmotion reviewed v5.6.6.6.3516 on Sep 24, 2014
5 stars
mikebratley reviewed v5.6.6.6.3516 on Mar 11, 2014
4 stars
chrispaul reviewed v5.6.6.6.3516 on Feb 17, 2014
cool!
barrytbutler reviewed v5.6.6.6.3516 on Jan 29, 2014
winamp still kicks butt.
FatBastard reviewed v5.6.6.6.3516 on Dec 13, 2013
Why so many builds of version 5.666 ?
Midnight Rambler reviewed v5.6.6.6.3516 on Dec 13, 2013
Going to miss Winamp updates. Can recall only one that malfunctioned that had to be uninstalled. Have used it since Win95 days. Also used the ASIO Winamp plugin with good results.
Sven123456789 reviewed v5.6.6.3512 on Dec 7, 2013
If this is it for Winamp, well at least it goes out on top. Still a great software. As for the reviewer anti spam, you are a spammer. Posting your spamming website while giving every software review 1 star is just plain low.
FatBastard reviewed v5.6.6.3512 on Nov 28, 2013
Why are there so many builds of version 5.666 ???
Ryusennin reviewed v5.66.3507 on Nov 24, 2013
You can beat a dead horse, but you can't kill the llama.
Kylde reviewed v5.66.3507 on Nov 22, 2013
Seems Microsoft may be interested in buying it http://techcrunch.com/20...crunch+%28TechCrunch%29
egg83 reviewed v5.66.3507 on Nov 21, 2013
Yes, this is the end of an era. Used this software for long time. I remember the older versions that were simpler and not as bloated as versions when AOL took over. They had the chance to be huge, but guess it was not meant to be. Still, hats off to Winamp, it really whips the llama's @$$..
Sven123456789 reviewed v5.66.3507 on Nov 21, 2013
Sad to read that this is the end of the line for Winamp. I think of my early browsing days, I think of Netscape, real player and winamp. I'll still use this till some other program comes along that I like better. Still, its a reminder that time marches on in Tech world..
psycros reviewed v5.66.3507 on Nov 21, 2013
Enjoy this update, folks - right now its looking like it may be the last one we ever see. AOL's death touch finally ran its course, claiming our beloved Winamp as its latest victim, but you CAN take action to try and save it. There's at least one petition on Change.org to have Winamp put up for sale (or adoption), or in lieu of that, made open source. Please sign any such petitions you come across. Change.org has always been a second-rate site and is due to shut down soon, so keep an eye out for other fan-driven efforts to save Winamp! if you love the most robust media library, the smartest smart lists, the biggest selection of plugins, the best Shoutcast support and possibly the most flexible UI ever put on a media player then make yourself heard!
olavinto reviewed v5.64 Build 3418 on Jun 25, 2013
Winamp has been my favorite music player since the 2.x versions. For music, podcasts, ripping and mobile device synchronization it's just what I need. I always keep getting back to it after trying many others. Sure everyone won't like the interface and personally I don't like the new Bento skins but instead use the older "Winamp Modern" modern skin.
Winamp also has pretty good video playback support but it's features can't match others out there like Mediaplayer Classic, VLC or the KMPlayer which is my personal favorite for videos along with XBMC. Winamp also needs better video library functions with support for movies and tv shows, subtitles comparable to KMPlayers, posters, logos, clearts, etc. Then I could consider using it for videos as well. Sure it would be nice to have support for HD audio output through HDMI, blu-ray playback and so on but I have PowerDVD Ultra for that and even XBMC with AnyDVD. Also Winamp needs external codecs for some video formats, and for these and more: K-Lite (Mega) Codec Pack.
For music there is no better alternative, for videos there are. And I have tried quite many of them. Personally I just love Winamp, it's basic features and it's visual look are great. It could be updated more often though.
This version has the same updates as the latest 5.7 beta except the new Winamp Cloud support. For the latest 5.7 beta go to:
http://www.winamp.com/labs/pc
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=356750
FatBastard reviewed v5.64 Build 3415 on Jun 20, 2013
What about version 5.7 ???
LakotaElf reviewed v5.63 Build 3235 on Feb 11, 2013
This is a nice music player, but be aware, many are having problems playing shoutcast in the player, it is not compaltible with windows 8 x32 or x64 bit completely and it seems not much is being done about it. For some reason and I cannot figure it out and it seems neither can they, shoutcase will not play in wondows 8 at all...who knows why....
Sven123456789 reviewed v5.63 Build 3235 on Sep 28, 2012
I must admit, I've come around to this more recently. Tried all the top music players. And I would rate this the best. For what I want to do- Created multiple music playlist with ease, this was the best. Most programs don't allow you to import songs easily from a folder, say I Tunes. You can create folders from the main window and import songs from files or folders very easily. Sound wise, whose kidding, they all sound pretty much the same. And I also like the interface on Winamp. I can now upload and create new playlist, than attach my laptop right to my old stereo and it rocks. Can't do better than that..
rallen52 reviewed v5.63 Build 3235 on Jun 29, 2012
i ve tried this several times,and was not overly impressed,but,i saw somewhere,you could run your tv card/stick with a plugin,through it to watch/record ota tv,anyone done this?not a bad player but others are better.
HeilNizar reviewed v5.63 Build 3235 on Jun 29, 2012
Bloated ad-ware.
So many better, cleaner and lighter free alternatives out there
XMPlay, AIMP etc..
Music4Ever reviewed v5.63 Build 3235 on Jun 29, 2012
Poor sound quality, bloated, & intrusive. If you can't work out how to organize your music without this I suppose it's a must have - But not for me. As it's main objective in life is to actually play music & it doesn't do that well for me it's useless. Was OK 10 years ago but not now.
The lite version is anything but lite & the standard doesn't play music well either.
DKDude reviewed v5.63 Build 3234 on Jun 23, 2012
Even the paid version is with ad's, if you choose to buy the PRO version, you would think ad's was removed, but nope.
That's why I rate 3 stars, ad's in a paid program is not ok.
johnk119 reviewed v5.63 Build 3234 on Jun 23, 2012
Seems as if it's been restored to its former glory days.
Sven123456789 reviewed v5.623 on Jun 12, 2012
I keep trying to move on from Winamp, but it still the only one that does most of what I need, mainly, the ability to create a playlist and directly import music files from any folder I choose. Not from the main music list. Plus the sound quality is good. And has various, easy to figure out, options. Unlike some music players. If you have a good size music collection, this is the software to use.
Mirage_Etoile reviewed v5.623 on Dec 31, 2011
Getting ride of all the hog addons the best audio player is riding high waves yet !!!
extremely well reviewed v5.623 on Dec 10, 2011
Doing BN's job...
Winamp 5.623
* Fixed: mp3 decoding errors at end of file (should fix reported CD burning errors)
* Fixed: [aacdec] Detection of parametric stereo for AAC files made with older encoders
* Fixed: [enc_fhgaac] MP4 encoder not always closing on errors or aborted transfers
* Fixed: [in_avi] Crashing with certain malformed AVI files
* Fixed: [in_flac & in_mp4] Memory leaks
* Fixed: [in_mod] Bounds check for comments parsing
* Fixed: [pmp] Multithreaded race condition (now supports thread-safe transfers)
* Fixed: [pmp_android] Embedded album art being deleted on transfers
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Updated: [enc_fhgaac] Fraunhofer AAC Encoder v3.2.4
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.5
Winamp 5.622
* Improved: [in_mp3] Support TXXX/Band as an alternative id3v2 frame for Album Artist
* Fixed: [bmp/in_avi] Integer overflow issues in TSCC, RGB & YUV decoders
* Fixed: [enc_fhgaac] High bitrate upsampling bug
* Fixed: [in_midi] Underrun in CMF files when music offset is greater than the filesize
* Fixed: [in_mod] Made sure AMF is limited to maximum of 32 channels
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on hitting Alt+3 for currently playing file with an APEv2 tag
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Reading of id3v2.4-only TDRC (Year) frame
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Don't delete TCMP & PRIV id3v2 frames when updating tags
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Gapless playback
* Fixed: [in_nsv] Potential integer overflow issue
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: [ml_local] Added an explanatory error page if database gets corrupted
* Updated: [enc_fhgaac] Fraunhofer AAC Encoder v3.2.3
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.4
* Updated: [lame_enc] LAME 3.99
Winamp 5.621
* Improved: [in_nsv] New API to allow video decoder to signal codec width & height
* Fixed: [enc_fhgaac] Default ADTS bitrate; Writing of gapless data
* Fixed: [enc_fhgaac] HE-AAC compatibility with iTunes
* Fixed: [in_midi] Various integer overflow issues (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
* Fixed: [libsndfile] PAF integer heap-overflow bug (thanks: Hossein Lotfi/Secunia)
* Fixed: [ml_local] Illegal instruction crash on non-SSE machines
* Fixed: [ml_rg] Some files incorrectly returning 0 gain values
* Fixed: [nsvdec_vp3, nsvdec_vp5, vp6] Rescaling buffer overflow vulnerabilities
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
Winamp 5.62
* New: Fraunhofer AAC Codec with VBR encoding support
* New: [theora.w5s] Theora decoder for MKV
* Improved: [ml_local] New extra large albumart and option to hide album title
* Improved: [in_mp3/jnetlib/ml_wire] http status code 303 & 307 redirection support
* Fixed: [in_midi] Add buffer overflow check for malformed Controller Change messages
* Fixed: [in_midi] SysEx message processing integer underflow vulnerability
* Fixed: [in_mod] Crash on .IT files with 0 channels (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Crash on truncated files
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Distortion on MP4 files with malformed stts data
* Fixed: [jnetlib] Memory leak when connecting to https streams
* Fixed: [ml_impex] Importing playcount data
* Fixed: [ml_local] Advanced Query Builder
* Fixed: [nsvdec_vp5] Integer underrun (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
* Fixed: [pmp_wifi] Playlist syncing
* Fixed: [vis_milk2] Some presets not reacting to music (Milkdrop v2.24)
* Fixed: [vp6] Crash on rescaling with irregular video sizes (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
* Fixed: [vp6] Integer underrun in Deblocking filter when picture size is 0,0
* Misc: Default "Restore file associations at Winamp start" setting to "off" on Vista+
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Redesigned SHOUTcast Radio online service view (new school & classic options)
* Misc: Replaced CT aacPlusDecoder.w5s with new FhG aacdec.w5s
* Misc: Replaced CT enc_aacplus.dll with new FhG enc_fhgaac.dll
* Misc: Toolbar now compatible with Firefox 5
Input Overload reviewed v5.623 on Dec 9, 2011
I use AIMP for audio and as I use an external DAC thereby bypassing the PC sound-chip & with a dedicated quality amp & speakers it's easy to spot Winamp’s weaknesses in the audio department.
I now use GOM as my media player & as I have a dedicated ripper, burner & labeller I have no need to use Winamp & it has been removed - It's unlikely to be missed.
alur reviewed v5.623 on Dec 9, 2011
5.6.23 finally fixed the android cover art problem :)
jenusi reviewed v5.622 on Nov 25, 2011
favorite player!
Poseidyon reviewed v5.621 on Jul 13, 2011
Except the junk that comes with it once installed runs smooth .
Input Overload reviewed v5.62 Build 3161 on Jul 2, 2011
OK when installed.
But watch out there are two attempted third party installs, the second one is very clever. Take your time installing. 4 stars for deceitful installing., naughty.
Somnambulator reviewed v5.61 on Mar 21, 2011
havent installed yet but here's patch notes:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=328446
Input Overload reviewed v5.61 on Mar 19, 2011
I've used Winamp for donkeys years without any problems. I now use XM Play for audio & Winamp for video, but there is nothing wrong with Winamp's audio. Good program, free too.
Watch out for 'Uniblue's Registry Cleaner' attempting to install this almost fakeware garbage.
LakotaElf reviewed v5.61 on Mar 19, 2011
I have used winamp for years and tried many others. Simply put, winamp is the best for all your audio needs. I have no complaints about it at all, it is a great piece of software that does many things.
Lsavagejt reviewed v5.61 on Mar 19, 2011
Think llama, now think tunes. Works flawlessly on 7.
FatBastard reviewed v5.61 on Mar 18, 2011
I love Winamp. Why is there no mac-version ?
moog reviewed v5.601 on Dec 8, 2010
still the best audio player
FatBastard reviewed v5.601 on Dec 8, 2010
Winamp is not perfect but I still haven't found a better player for audio.
Raimondas reviewed v5.601 on Dec 7, 2010
Compared to Nero (10) MediaHub, Winamp is crap. Even Windows media player is beter :/
Back to MediaHub lol ....
ekek reviewed v5.6 on Dec 3, 2010
Winamp still rocks,it is a great audio player....
UPieper reviewed v5.6 on Dec 2, 2010
Great player...Most things you don't need can be deselected during install....i've tried other players but I always come back to Winamp!
ZenoLabs reviewed v5.6 on Dec 1, 2010
Bloated. Use AIMP2 instead.
progh reviewed v5.59 Build 3033 Beta on Oct 25, 2010
Winamp Rocks!
JackRegan reviewed v5.59 Build 3033 Beta on Oct 21, 2010
Why should i use Foobar2000? Winamp works great and does everything i want.
johnk119 reviewed v5.59 Build 3033 Beta on Oct 20, 2010
You all have sure memories, do you not? This is an AOL product... remember how pissed you all were when they took over?
Aegis69 reviewed v5.59 Build 3033 Beta on Oct 20, 2010
Winamp, still?
Serious guys, open source this thing or kill it.
Virtual_ManPL reviewed v5.58 on Jul 3, 2010
Too bloatware...
They simply choose wrong direction... video player ?
but still 3/5 for many plugins and of course for many awesome skins...
better use AIMP or foobar2000
Lsavagejt reviewed v5.58 on Jun 30, 2010
Tried 'em all. Winamp is [a] good. Have to be careful only to install the components YOU want. So first YOU have to know what YOU want. Works best in classic skin mode on older machines. Otherwise it really does "whip the llama's ass." Man I love that. It's so perverted.
UPieper reviewed v5.58 on Jun 30, 2010
Excellent player! I especially like the media library, it can handle a very, very big mp3 collection.
purplehaze32 reviewed v5.58 on Jun 29, 2010
Winamp not switching to an iTunes-style layout is THE reason I still use it.
FatBastard reviewed v5.58 on Jun 29, 2010
Winamp is still my favourite musicplayer. It has gotten a bit bloated lately I'm sorry to say but the lite version is not so bad.
xanax reviewed v5.58 on Jun 29, 2010
Winamp is still the best. Fanboys should be banned. Rating 1 because you prefer a lighter alternative (with less features), or because it doesn't look like iTunes (sigh)... Very sad.
Winamp is a stable, rock-solid player. They do add features from time to time. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Girls looking for a cute pinky UI out-of-the-box need not apply.
roj reviewed v5.58 on Jun 29, 2010
1) This app is dead. No development is ongoing. That's not "mature" - that's "dead".
2) It's not free. Anything that charges for "enhanced functionality" isn't free. It's crippleware.
3) One stop solutions are never worth the download bytes. They're bloated, invariably buggy because of the complexity involved and never do any part of their feature set truly well, primarily because they're trying to do all things for all people.
4) Even in that regard Winamp fails because to this day there is no stable and viable WASAPI and ASIO support. WASAPI has been around for over four years and two operating systems now. Of course, since there is no further development and the app is dead, none will be forthcoming.
Subtract one point for each of the above facts.
That leaves a rating of ONE.
'nuff said.
As an additional comment about fanboiz, nothing is more indicative of the fanboi mentality than the standard hackneyed line "Winamp is the BEST, maaaannnn". Utterly juvenile and bereft of value.
Personally I moved to Foorbar2000 for audio and Media Player Classic HomeCinema for video. Both are small, light, fast, full-featured, support remote controls thus lending themselves well to media center applications, support audiophile output (WASAPI and ASIO) in the case of Foobar2000 and are FAR less glitchy. It should be noted that I have a gargantuan media collection that is easily measured in multiples of terabytes, so I ain't no neophyte.
Let Winamp fade away and let's move on - it died years ago.
Aegis69 reviewed v5.58 on Jun 29, 2010
yaaa this project is dead, winamp is almost the only player that has not moved to a iTunes type layout, if you wanna to continue using a jukebox player, AIMP is a much better way to go. And if you wanna join us in this decade, try aTunes. Yes, aTunes.
LakotaElf reviewed v5.58 on Jun 29, 2010
Winamp is the best, it works. There is not one piece of software out there that does not have a bug in it, or will not work on someones computer, it is the way it is. Winamp is the best, and I do not find it bloated at all. If you have enough memory and hard drive space, you will have no problem. Everyone asks for more more more and when they get it because they requested this or that plugin, then they complain how bloated it is. You want one of the best, (notice I said one of the best, there are others just as good) then give Winamp a honest try. Too many put crap reviews on here because they have no clue what they are talking about, or they are strictly devoted to another software and want to slam someone else.
ekek reviewed v5.572 on Apr 9, 2010
winamp still rocks,it has noticiable improvement in audio quality compared to older version.stability is excelent even in windows 7 x64.The only drawback is all of DSP plugin is not working in win7 x64.It has no essue for me Iam not using DSP.
Input Overload reviewed v5.572 on Jan 14, 2010
I use Winamp for viewing Vids etc & AIMP for audio coupled to a DAC & Amp, bypassing the PC’s sound chip totally using USB out. From my point of view I have no issues with Winamp, i think it's a great app. And it needs to be remembered it is free. It's a great program that I've used for many years without any issues whatsoever. I don't understand the moaners that have reviewed it.
As an occupation I am a UPS engineer so I don't live in a cave. And in my main room I have over £3000 worth of top end British Hi-Fi kit, so I don't have cloth ears either.
johnk119 reviewed v5.572 on Jan 13, 2010
We all know what happened when AOL bought NULL Soft... Anyway... Foobar is a great opensource player
evolution76 reviewed v5.572 on Jan 13, 2010
WINAMP RULES!!!! Have been using it since v2.......and will use it for a long time....Hey it just works!!!
nugro reviewed v5.572 on Jan 13, 2010
Okay.... I may somehow ignore (?) the bloat, the adware and the bug but no tabbed playlist is just fail, once you're accustomed to it you can never look back again.
AIMP if you don't care about all that ASIO, WASAPI, Dsound or whatever, have no audiophile equipment, normal ears and want it to "just work"
Foobar if you know what is ASIO, WASAPI, Dsound and the difference with or without it, have uber priced audiophile headset, surpassed most human ears, and enough time and patience to somehow make it work as you want it in every detail.
Both are superb and have different goals imo, just forget about this crap.
oomingmak reviewed v5.572 on Jan 13, 2010
I still quite like Winamp, but I don't know why they are so intent on screwing with the Media Library and Online services.
Yet again they have implemented changes that are huge regressions in terms of usability and user friendliness (in favour of more adverts and other crap).
I'm staying on v5.541 for now. I might get back on the update treadmill if I can find a way to reverse all these nasty changes in newer versions.
DoHickey reviewed v5.571 Build 2810 on Dec 22, 2009
Saved flash video will not work all the time every time with this version of Winamp. Thinking at first that my files were damaged, I used an older version of Winamp as a test. The files were fine & worked every time I tried to play them. This version is not for me. Thanks Winamp, but no thanks.
roj reviewed v5.571 Build 2810 on Dec 21, 2009
I used to use this back in the day and for that day it was the best. It led the pack and products like Sonique and QMP had to work hard to catch up - but catch up they did. Then it lost its edge and started down the long road to mediocrity, a road delineated by the day AOL purchased it. Today it's well past the point of mediocrity and is simply passe, a footnote to digital music history.
No ASIO, No WASAPI, Bloat, Charging for features that should be free, no active development due to defection of creative devs and obvious evidence of long-standing bugs remaining unfixed, etc., etc., etc.
Said it before, will say it again:
Better alternatives to be had if you value quality audio playback.
Better alternatives to be had if you value quality video playback.
They're also free.
This is a dead duck.
As to HA, I despise religion in all its forms - especially pontificating self-appointed and self-important high priests. Methinks some of those folks (many of those folks?) sniffed a wee bit too much of their namesake.
Lighted match, anyone?
TWO stars.
PraetorianGuard reviewed v5.57 on Dec 18, 2009
At long last, fullscreen video is working correctly on WinVista & Win7 and is smoother & more responsive when pausing or skipping.
The mouse scrolling in the playlist and media library has also been fixed. Winamp is back to full functionality. Brilliant!
Lsavagejt reviewed v5.57 on Dec 18, 2009
I like it too!
CyberDoc999 reviewed v5.57 on Dec 17, 2009
Winamp is the best !!!
with plug-in's it does what no other player can do!
it also has options that make it more stable
Virtual_ManPL reviewed v5.57 on Dec 17, 2009
@ roj - then if you not audiophile, please stop looking like one (ASIO, ASIO, ASIO...)
1. KMixer exist only in XP...
Vista/7 didnt have this...
1-2 years and XP will be forgotten due to not updated security patch like TCP/IP etc...
2. ASIO resampling all s*** to 44.1/48kHz in 16bit
when you have DVD/Blu-Ray (24bits/96 or 192 kHz) films, you simply lower your quality with downsampling... its stupid...
3. The KMixer doesn’t convert 44.1k to 48k across the board. It or the hardware can convert sampling rates based on what is supported. It only resamples if it has to mix more than one audio stream. A single audio stream will be let through unaffected. If it re-samples it will re-sample to the highest sample rate of the audio streams, and not automatically to 48Khz. If you only play only one audio stream and have a soundcard which can output at the sampling rate of the stream, then the audio will pass through the PC bit-perfect. This has been reported by Microsoft and has been tested and confirmed elsewhere. Kernel Streaming and ASIO will improve latency, but they will not affect audio quality. It can be easily confirmed by passing through DTS to a received, which, if the audio was resampled, would fail
4. Go to HA or other audio forum and they will say the same that quality is not affected
I will put to blame bugged drivers or not updated system, if you see any differences with 1 stream on defalut settings not any enabled plugins, DSP effects etc...
And who need to learn... ;)
Your opinion are based on myths like I can only see...
5. If you really want HQ music stop using PC for listening it, lol...
by AMP, do a yourself made speakers (plywood + woofers&tweeters) etc...
roj reviewed v5.57 on Dec 17, 2009
Virtual_ManPL:
Rubbish.
There is a VERY audible difference in quality when using ASIO or WASAPI to bypass KMixer (both methods on XP, the letter method on Vista / Win7 only), especially if you have half decent speakers - even PC-based ones. The sound is less muddy, crisper and cleaner. Even if you have onboard audio, the difference is audible. Now, if you have a set of Logitech or Creative Labs junk boxes (the Logitech Z-Cinemas being the notable exception) then the difference will be less audible.
It's not about latency. It's about bypassing Kmixer and its resampling. While Vista doesn't have Kmixer, it still resamples - hence the necessity for WASAPI and Exclusive Mode. I don't bother with / need ABX to hear the difference - it's quite audible to all but the deaf even without a frilly blindfold. Given that you use Winamp, it's quite understandable that you've never experienced the difference.
Try it sometime - it's likely to be quite a revelation for you.
Also, you should know that ASIO and WASAPI do not downsample audio to 16/44. That's the CD audio standard and anything from a CD is already at that sampling rate Thus Not Requiring Any Resampling, Up Or Down (kind of obvious, that last). They also work only with audio products, not video. If you can name ONE video playback program with ASIO or WASAPI functionality, I'd advise you to take a second look. You're hallucinating.
In short, know what you're talking about before opening your mouth. We've had this conversation before and you are obviously yet to learn anything.
If you tout a product as a quality audio player / media center, that means that people are going to use it that way. External audio DACs and digital out have long since afforded that in the PC world and the whole "don't use a PC for audio" BS is at best symptomatic of someone who hasn't gotten past the 90s era of computing. To get that quality, you need to bypass Kmixer - hence the need for one of the two methods tabled above. I mean, if all you want is a no-frills bargain basement player then don't run this - run AIMP. It's about as mediocre as this one is minus the bugs (and still no quality audio output).
ASIO and WASAPI - Not Just For Low Latency.
I'm no audiophile - I'm far too intelligent for that. The majority of people I know who label themselves as such as poor superstitious souls that actually believe that molecularly aligned audio cables make a difference. That being said, and given your obvious knowledge level on the subject, I do believe that you'd be a prime target for a sharp audio salesperson. ignorance breeds opportunity, after all.
I'll also thank you to stop trying to tell me to settle for mediocrity. I know some folks are willing to do that - I'm not. I'll continue to point out the drawbacks of less featured players as long as other players continue to offer options that bespeak their commitment to quality sound. If your player of choice doesn't / can't do that, then acknowledge the inferiority in that category gracefully instead of attempting (rather poorly) to be an apologist for it. Anyone with more than two braincells to rub together can see through that.
As stated earlier, this player is behind the times. XMPlay, Foobar, QMP all have both methods supported, are remarkably more bug free and are lighter on resources. They also don't charge for "advanced features". Winamp is also noticeably lacking in quality devs and has been for some time.
She's dead, Jim.
THREE stars.
kholdstare reviewed v5.57 on Dec 17, 2009
been using winamp since winamp 16 and it still is my main mp3 player after all these years. the reason is it i find the UI is still the best i seen and compact unlike the full screen media players. the only gripe would be i cannot create mp3 cd's with it but i use another program for that but i still give 5 stars because i still use winamp to create my playlists and everything else for music and just use the other program to make themp3 cd's
Virtual_ManPL reviewed v5.57 Build 2765 Beta on Dec 14, 2009
@ roj - implying ASIO (downsampling everything to 44.1kHz in 16bit) matters in audio playing...
its only needed in professional studios to give the lowest possible delay in recording...
and who will tell difference between 1-3ms and 5-10ms...
do ABX test to not fool yourself...
"native WASAPI or ASIO support - absolute prerequisites for a quality audio player"
lol wut ?
gold cables too... nice audiophile we got out there...
hmm, but audiophile wont be listening to music in PC, but NVM... ;)
LakotaElf reviewed v5.57 Build 2765 Beta on Dec 10, 2009
To roj and aegis, while you certainly have a right to your point of view, I hardly think winamp is dead as many still use it including myself. I llike winamp and always have, but I also have several others on my computer that I like just as well. I do agree that I wish it had not been taken over by AOL but still it is hardly dead. It works well and I have been quite pleased with it for the most part.
No matter what any software maker does, someone is not going to be pleased and make a issue of it. Not all people can be pleased all the time and some on this forum cannot be pleased any time. I say, that if another can do better, then help them out, do not just use the forum to make fun of them. Use it to be constructive in your complaining and then perhaps they can fix it.
I have used Winamp for years and during that time have been mostly pleased with some disappointments inbetween, but that is life. Nothing is perfect and never will be in computer software, simple as that.
dreamz reviewed v5.57 Build 2765 Beta on Dec 10, 2009
still support for WASAPI or ASIO, but still the best player.
roj reviewed v5.57 Build 2765 Beta on Dec 9, 2009
Enormous "Me Too" release.
This player is essentially dead. All the innovative devs have left, it has devolved into a do-everything pile of bloat and bugs persist that have lingered for generations of the player. Of course The Faithful will rail at this but look around you, peeps - other players are leaner, meaner, faster, less buggy and most importantly Still Under Active Development. Heck, even with all the "me too" crap, there still isn't decent, full featured native WASAPI or ASIO support - absolute prerequisites for a quality audio player. And the owners have the unmitigated chutzpah to CHARGE for a "full featured" version of it - now THAT'S gall!
This thing died two years ago - it's just an old hooker with a new paint job. Let it go quietly into the night.
TWO stars.
Aegis69 reviewed v5.57 Build 2765 Beta on Dec 9, 2009
AIMP sounds a lot better right out of the box. No plugins required.
Winamp should be open sourced so the developers can move on to better things.
UPieper reviewed v5.56 Build 2512 on Oct 1, 2009
@Richardky:
Try enhancer for Winamp. You won't believ your ears!
http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/81361
luluz reviewed v5.56 Build 2512 on Sep 23, 2009
Always loved it, and still I love this app above any other player!
RADicalSatDude reviewed v5.56 Build 2512 on Jul 8, 2009
Pros: Best features include the 12 band EQ, thousands of plugins, my fav is the one for IR remotes. I use the one for Creative Audigy 2 ZS and the entire remote works, so I end up getting a free media center PC.
Cons: No folders for Bookmarks and Meda RSS feeds.
Default browser rendering engine is locked to IE, I rather have flexablity use whatever engine e.g.: Opera etc.
Summary: Winamp is the Firefox (Although I'm a full time Opera browser user since '99) of media players, in functionality for audio and video.
As mentioned, the plugins, I've also seen plugins for HID devices and Windows media center remotes as well.
And whoever says its bloated, need to check their facts, e.g.: iTunes is 75.07MB and Winamp is only 9.80MB (Fuly loaded), Lite is only 6.46MB.
Lately Nullsoft has done a noteworthy job of integrating hundreds of free AOL & CBS radio stations, plus there's the old SHOUTcast as well. And its also a media aggregator, so I can stream all my RSS subscribed podcasts (Go TwiT!) through Winamp as well.
Go Winamp Devs!
http://wakoopa.com/software/winamp
Lsavagejt reviewed v5.56 Build 2512 on Jul 2, 2009
Llama....? Ass....? Oh, yes. I'm in the right place.
Richardky reviewed v5.56 Build 2512 on Jul 2, 2009
i been a fan of winamp for years but its lacking in sound quality which keeps me from using it as often .
roj reviewed v5.56 Build 2512 on Jul 2, 2009
Not that I'm any big fan of this player but how about WASAPI support From The Developers? Winamp is notorious for piss-poor audio plug-ons so the onus falls on the devs...
I also don't understand why this thing isn't completely free now Like Every Other Player (sorry, I forgot it's owned by A-O-Hell, alias The AntiChrist) and definitely don't get why anyone would pay for it in the face of that fact.
THREE stars.
ekek reviewed v5.552 Build 2460 on May 18, 2009
I like this latest version of winamp. It is stable even in windows 7 RC. It runs perfect with HQSoftproc & otachan asio plugin including Enhancer v0.17 dsp.This is the greatest audio player for windows 7 for me.It handles flac format very will.Sound quality is outstanding,playing songs is very easy specially with the introduction of right click menu shortcut.
Lsavagejt reviewed v5.552 Build 2460 on Apr 23, 2009
I like this. Always have. Too many software vendors try to push a toolbar off on their end users though. That's too bad. Anyway, I still gives this a 5. Winamp really does kick the llama's ass!
chezzuk40 reviewed v5.552 on Apr 23, 2009
still no full screen playback of video in this build with Vista x64,been like this for years now how long must we wait??
enmaai507 reviewed v5.551 on Mar 30, 2009
bloated but still the best, never crashed here, i don't have complains, just be carrefull in installation process and uncheck what you don't need...
ZenoLabs reviewed v5.551 on Mar 15, 2009
Used it for years and years: was very good, now bloated with tons of features you'll never need. AIMP2 it's really better now.
extremely well reviewed v5.551 on Mar 13, 2009
Superb player. I've got two minor issues: 1. you cannot easily physically delete files (no keyboard shortcut possible). Travelling thru REM->Remove..->"Physically remove" gets tiring very fast. 2. no undo.
plumlipstick reviewed v5.551 on Mar 12, 2009
I've used Winamp for years and like it. This release has issues though. The installer crashed three times as I worked with it. I was able to get the program installed in the end by removing some components from a custom install. I've been using Winamp since yesterday, and it seems stable now. Still, a crashing installer is enough to discourage all but the most determined users.
kholdstare reviewed v5.551 on Mar 10, 2009
been using it sense 97 and still the only MP3 player i use to play my music and make playlists. all the people out there that hammer it for being too bloated are just clueless to notice you can remove features during the install so you can just have good ol classic winamp. im sure there are still some of the so called sheep out ther using winamp 2.99 because of this fact
Aegis69 reviewed v5.551 on Mar 10, 2009
AIMP beat it on all counts.
cyberia reviewed v5.551 on Mar 10, 2009
It's good, but not special. There are smaller apps that sound better, and it doens't update the titles in G-Force visualizer, but iTunes does, so until it does more or weighs less, i'll stick with other programs.
roj reviewed v5.551 on Mar 10, 2009
No ASIO / WASAPI support.
The above warrants an automatic THREE stars.
dracodos reviewed v5.55 on Mar 1, 2009
Still the best player around, and still beats WMP in regards to music playing and management. With the portable media player support (with PMP or ML_IPOD) it gave me a good reason to ditch iTunes for managing my iPod. As long as you stay away from installing tons of plugins (i stick with ML_IPOD & OverClocked + the plugins it comes with), no reason to use any other software for playing and managing your music collection, and iPod!
Bonobi reviewed v5.55 on Feb 27, 2009
Still the best and most used player it seems. It's easy to setup and you can have CD cover art on the played track; really excellent.
dreamz reviewed v5.55 on Feb 27, 2009
Winamp is my number one choice as an audio player (I don’t care about the video capabilities). It’s fast, stable and can behave just like you want it to. But why doesn’t it support ASIO and WASAPI? It’s an audio player and I want the pure digital sound signal transferred lossless from my computer to my amplifier. So please, Nullsoft; is it that difficult to make Winamp support ASIO/WASAPI?
/dreamz
lucianct reviewed v5.55 on Feb 27, 2009
it's pretty outdated, but i still like it... it is not my primary audio player as i switched to songbird, which is developed by former winamp developers, but i like it because it's more stable then songbird and works well with foxytunes.
LakotaElf reviewed v5.55 on Feb 27, 2009
Excellent, does everything that anyone would want this to do without problems. I have been using this software for many years and it is top notch. Simple as that. If anyone does not think so, then they have no idea what they are talking about.
Qlib reviewed v5.55 Build 2353 Beta on Jan 28, 2009
yes Morningdove,
I love KMPlayer..for movies and feel sorry for the fools that still use the old archaic outdated and horrible VLC..but I still prefer Winamp for audio...
Ain Soph Aur reviewed v5.55 Build 2353 Beta on Jan 28, 2009
AIMP is my favorite. its smaler, faster, not so bloated and looks better :)
Morningdove reviewed v5.55 Build 2353 Beta on Jan 28, 2009
Have any of you "long time" WinAmp fans tried The KM Player?
roj reviewed v5.55 Build 2345 Beta on Jan 26, 2009
When is this thing going to emerge from the dark ages and implement decent ASIO (you know - ASIO support that lets you use the voume control for all audio playback) and WASAPI support?
THREE stars for a player that's behind the times.
Aegis69 reviewed v5.55 Build 2345 Beta on Jan 23, 2009
Dumped it about a year ago, AIMP is the way to go. Sounds a lot better for some reason, and has a lot of features built in that you have to get plugins for in Winamp.
Still gets a 3 though for nostalgia.
plasticpig72 reviewed v5.541 on Jan 1, 2009
Nothing comes close - it does pretty much everything I want it to do. That said it sometimes has issues when you have a lot of mp3 files in your watch folders.
nms04 reviewed v5.541 on Dec 21, 2008
still the best player out there!
stisev reviewed v5.541 on Nov 4, 2008
Winamp w/ portable settings + Albumlist 2.07 beta + Enhancer 017 + Milkdrop = BEST MUSIC PLAYER IN EXISTENCE!
italyx reviewed v5.541 on Oct 18, 2008
Once my favorite (music) player, tons of options but didn't like very much when they chose to play video files as well.
boaz reviewed v5.541 on Sep 15, 2008
What more can I say.... I've been using Winamp for several years, and it has never failed me yet.
dzjepp reviewed v5.541 on Sep 12, 2008
Love it. Works great, has tons of options, handles thousands of audio files extremely fast.
shahjapan reviewed v5.541 on Aug 24, 2008
Its cool 8-)
Its amazing, sexy......... :-)
I can add MP3's to my iPod without iTunes, and even I can add MP3's to any iPod without Authorizing it with iTunes....cheers....
Eric20 reviewed v5.541 on Aug 5, 2008
My audio player of choice.
The pro version of this is the best audio player Ive ever used.
I'll never use anything else!
poisonu reviewed v5.541 on Aug 4, 2008
It rocks!!
roj reviewed v5.541 on Aug 4, 2008
darthbeads :
I don't suffer stupidity gladly. The misdirection of dev resources to deal with spurious nonsense when the main reason for there to be a player at all remains unaddressed may be acceptable to those who will put up with mediocrity, but not to me. If you're going to brand yourself as a media player and started life as an audio player, then for heaven's sake, Do It Well. There are those of us who want a media player for a HTPC / Multimedia Center and that means whatever we choose has to have superlative audio. DirectSound, Waveout and LEAST of all OpenAL Do Not Qualify.
When the competition does it better, sooner and more efficiently, it's time to take a lesson.
The Winamp community has a long history of being utterly incapable of doing same - which of course is why the sound remains second rate for the reasons already iterated.
I mean Come On: we're talking about PLUGINS here. Is it so damned hard to create two plugins, one for ASIO and one for WASAPI, that actually work, especially since others have done it already?
And for the record, I'm no audophile - those superstitious morons ("molecularly aligned audio cable"???) Have No Life and couldn't get one installed. :) :) ;) I'm just damned picky about what I listen to (can'tcha tell - no Creative Labs garbage here).
THREE stars for more form than substance in the department for it was designed.
moog reviewed v5.541 on Aug 4, 2008
number 1 audio player for me
darthbeads reviewed v5.541 on Aug 4, 2008
roj, I think it might be time to spend some more afternoons out of your mom's basement....
jeez...lighten up!
All kidding aside, Winamp started (many, many years ago -- does anyone else on here remember that they skipped v.4 entirely when they decided to abort the blunder that was v.3 with the old-and-classic v.2 and thus, in a feat of pure kindergarten arithmatic, came up with v.5?) it was the first of it's kind. To the best of my recollection, Winamp can (largely) be given the distinction of (once) being at the forefront of the then nascent digital media "movement" (for lack of a better term).
For that alone, I think it deserves a bit of respect. Of course, that respect is a two-way street -- the respect of the users, and the respect of the devs.
Haven't really seen either of those in some time.
At the end of the day, however, I think you (roj) are missing the point (as much as I do respect your point) -- Winamp is not an audio player for the 'audiohpile.' It is aimed squarely at the average-joe user (particularly the kind of user who won't bother to uncheck the various ad/spyware doohickies that are packaged into the 'full' version). And, to be fair, in that regard, I think Winamp does quite well.
roj reviewed v5.54 on Jul 23, 2008
You know, you'd think I'd learn my lesson about this player.
I installed this thing thinking I'd make use of the Media Library (for the first time) and thinking I'd get good quality audio form it.
But wait.
No quality ASIO plugin.
No WASAPI plugin.
Just some half baked ASIO plugin that kills volume control support and another crap ASIO plugin that makes my Xonar DX pop and click like a Creative Labs piece of garbage.
Vista has been out for almost a year and a half so the lack of a WASAPI plugin is inexcusable.
Nope, no quality audio output plugins.
Just utterly irrelevant and useless OpenAL junk that caters to the less than 5% of the market still stupid enough to be running Creative Labs garbage, supports a "standard" that is wholly owned by Creative Labs and certainly not "open" and has absolutely *NOTHING* to do with sound quality (obviously: it's Creative Labs fodder).
Foobar and XMPlay BOTH have WASAPI and ASIO.
And both implementations work flawlessly.
Pretty pathetic, especially since this player and its community is constantly trumpeting that it's the be-all and end-all of audio players.
THREE stars for missing the audio quality boat.
Not a good thing for an AUDIO player.
Going back to Foobar (requires a reformat since Winamp does NOT properly clean up after itself).
Zee333 reviewed v5.54 on Jul 17, 2008
Still the best application for playing music, just as good as it was all them years ago, if not better
Qlib reviewed v5.54 on Jul 10, 2008
I just like winamp, 2.x was great.. 3.x was a total and utter absolute disaster in so many ways theres not room on betanews for that rant.. but since 5.x winamp has been back where it should be.. OK .. so I dont like it for video but thats why the koreean came up with KMPlayer (.com) .. a VLC basher to an extreme!!.. I tried AMIP a few times too, it is jut a winamp wannabe and as they keep expanding and adding features.. that is inevitable.. ppl who complain that winamp is slow will just have to find another player to move on to after AIMP.... I just have a vanilla Q6600 cpu with 4gb RAM and my winamp is fast and instant..
(yes.. I love dots..)
thartist reviewed v5.54 on Jul 10, 2008
I've replaced this for AIMP 2.50 (now in RC status), which is a "less bloated version of winamp" that does it all, it's tidier and works much faster.
Honestly, Winamp's development is fairly stuck. It feels dirty and messy in menus, features and the general feeling that it wants to embrace it all as it can. Dev's just keep up to date mostly with minor stuff or throw in irrelevant features, add minor things and fix eternal bugs that they seem to never stop adding into the code. So many years of development seem to be prejudicial.
I needed something new, started from scatch, re-thought. For what i need which is a complete music player with conversion and all, AIMP is the fresh thing that more than succeeds at being better done.
Metshrine reviewed v5.54 on Jul 10, 2008
This is by far the best media player I have used. VLC comes close and surpasses winamp in one area I consider important. That is the internal inclusion of codecs which negates the need for OS installed codecs. Other than that, winamp surpasses every media player I've ever used.
mattnotley2004 reviewed v5.531 Build 1938 on Jun 26, 2008
I've been using Winamp since 1997. It's still the best player out there!
I did start using iTunes for a couple of years, since I bought myself an iPod... but now that Winamp supports iPod syncing - I'm using it again :)
Thank god AOL haven't destroyed it... and hopefully it will stay that way.
Gobd reviewed v5.531 Build 1938 on Jun 24, 2008
Over 10 years and still the best! Its gone from a basic media player to a fully featured replacement for iTunes. They haven't left the barebones users behind though, during installation you can choose to install nothing but the basics. My install with visualization, MP3 player support, media library, is only 22mb on disk and uses less than 4mb of memory while playing music. To those that say Winamp is bloated I think you need to take a closer look. Just because it's reached version 5, full of features, and owned by AOL doesn't mean its worse than back in the day.
dracodos reviewed v5.531 Build 1938 on Apr 8, 2008
Considering it's age Winamp is still a great media player. Probably the only thing AOL didn't butcher.
The downloads have doubled since the 2.9x days but it still runs pretty swiftly on my AMD 1.3ghz laptop with 736MB of RAM, with the Bento skin off. Slightly slower startup with it on. Considering that WMP and iTunes are way larger in download size, this is still a nice lean familiar player.
It also plays some videos that WMP tends to whine it can't play.
Let's not forget the plethora of plugins (yes and there are many that are just plain worthless!) to customize it ANY way you want
Add ml_ipod (or the built-in plugin) and it makes it a great all around program to play media and manage your library or digital music player.
Paul Skinner reviewed v5.531 Build 1938 on Apr 2, 2008
For me this is nearly perfect. It's gotten very good with video and I rarely find myself needing to use VLC any more.
And it still uses a tiny amount of RAM in classic mode.
Metshrine reviewed v5.531 Build 1938 on Apr 2, 2008
If this used its own built-in codecs (VLC, Foobar) and had dvd playback, this would be the ultimate. It is still a 5/5
Tenoq reviewed v5.53 Build 1924 on Mar 29, 2008
5.33 was a good version... then you broke MusicMatch, arguably one of Winamp's coolest functions. No more updating for me. :p
Earwicker reviewed v5.53 Build 1924 on Mar 28, 2008
Hmm. I found it wanting compared to Foobar. It will appeal to general users who just play MP3s and like a space-age interface I suppose. I would direct everyone else to Foobar which surpasses it in just about every respect.
Winkler reviewed v5.53 Build 1924 on Mar 27, 2008
Winamp or 1by1
crowbar82 reviewed v5.53 Build 1924 on Mar 27, 2008
KRome
Agree!
KRome reviewed v5.53 Build 1924 on Mar 27, 2008
Foobar.
dre360 reviewed v5.53 Build 1898 Beta on Mar 18, 2008
Winamp is the best audio player , I would advise any one to use the software any day .
Metshrine reviewed v5.53 Build 1898 Beta on Mar 18, 2008
Best player available
improvelence reviewed v5.53 Build 1898 Beta on Mar 18, 2008
A step in the right direction, but it may (ironically) be too late for this pioneer to return to everyone's hard drive.
I agree with the guy below, songbird is the future. But iTunes is the present.
Sephiroth, the reason Nero is so bloated is because it has a TON of useful programs bundled along with it. If you dont need them just use Nero express. Anyone who bashes Nero has never utilized it for more than burning a cd from their little song folder. FF7 sucks.
the artist reviewed v5.53 Build 1898 Beta on Mar 18, 2008
Exactly the same as "kholdstare": ret***s rate this down and call it bloat! It can do everything you would want with audio media and it's always a few MBs on ram only! its not bloated at all, just don't use what you don't need!
"2.95" fellas: download Winamp 5.5x Lite or better Standard and deselect what you wouldn't use! It has lots more great features and support for new things you're missing!!!
PD: how the heck on earth can you campare it with Nero for bloat!!! things we have to hear...
This program can never be less than a 3 even if you hated it...be fair
kholdstare reviewed v5.53 Build 1898 Beta on Mar 18, 2008
Still the best media player out there. I can't beleve after all these years people still have to tell the lemmings that when they install winamp they can opt out of installing things they don't want so they can cut down on there so called bloat. those who are still using winamp 2.98 have no idea what there missing out on
guitarplayer9999 reviewed v5.52 on Mar 17, 2008
I used to use this program until they were bought by AOL. Now it is a piece of garbage. I now use Songbird which is the future of music players.
http://www.songbirdnest.com/
Sephiroth... reviewed v5.52 on Mar 14, 2008
Totally bloated crap. This is follow the step of Nero in add only trash and garbage to a good little aplications. XMPlay and Aimp2 are by far better that this s***. Army of loser XD
TGB72 reviewed v5.52 on Jan 26, 2008
Before try this new version I had installed v5.35 and worked fine. Yesterday I installed v5.52 and crash all the time. Now I'm back to v5.35 and probably I'll be moving completely to foobar in short time (I'll miss the vis thought).
LuceferAB reviewed v5.52 on Jan 18, 2008
Can winamp play DTS (5.1) files and dvd-audio on 5.1 and 7.1 speaker systems? I don't now how to make it.
I found an external plugin in_dts.dll, but it play dts files only in stereo. Winamp also can't change balance from side and rear speakers....
stereo sound is a deep past...
the artist reviewed v5.52 on Jan 17, 2008
Morons are complaining for 9MB of memory usage?!!! 2% CPU?!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD IF I COULD KILL THEM FOR BEING SUCH ret***s!!!
Feature very-rich, non bloated, customizable. what else! my music player of preference!
Qlib reviewed v5.52 on Jan 17, 2008
still a great program.. .. this even fixed one of the bugs i was having with WB6 and alphablending.. dunno who fixed it but its gone now..
the thing that really grinds me hard about Winamp is that its AOL owned.. be it a******s On Line or Americans On Line or Army Of Loosers isnt really relevant.. its a good program and nobody in their right mind would ever use the features u have to pay for.. theres FAR better programs for that so.. it remains free.... and sure its not 200kb anymore and has lots of features many ppl dont use but this isnt 1990 and if u have a machine from then then its truly time for upgrading.. some complaining cos a program uses 20mb of ram when most machines have 2000mb to use or more..
ajua reviewed v5.52 on Jan 17, 2008
The new versions which features the Bento skin are great. I used to play all my music with Winamp but there is one major glitch that i don't like at all: The inability to use the media library interface to include a Playing now item on the left side so one cna get rid of the playlist view which interferes when you have it maximize and you want to browse your collection. It is just wrong.
Besides that, is a great music player but for more implemented features and better handling of the interface, burning options and overall features i recommend J. River Media Center in case you are willing to pay for the Pro version of Winamp.
Nighted reviewed v5.52 on Jan 17, 2008
Still the best.
I've used Winamp for 10 years now. I've tried others but always stick with Winamp.
What the hell does FastStone have to do with Winamp? lol
photonboy reviewed v5.51 on Dec 22, 2007
Mixed feelings..
I think Winamp has been much improved (remember how it hardly played any video without stuttering).
However, unless done properly mixing music, video and more ends up feeling cluttered. I would much prefer a simple Main interface so I could jump to a SEPARATE music, video interface.
That's just me and maybe I'm in the minority. All I can say is that it's worth a try. Personally, I use: Screamer Radio, WxMusik, KMPlayer and Zoomplayer, FastStone Image Viewer, and I open my programs with Roxip XStart.
Winamp is holding in there despite the vast number of similar programs so it must be doing something right. I'd say the future of media playback is deviating from the PC so we'll be looking at either a portable media device or an HDTV interface so we'll want simple, well-organized interfaces with large text and icons.
poisonu reviewed v5.51 on Dec 20, 2007
By far the Best....
..particularly if u want to listen to radio on the net....
I usually search for net radio stations at SHOUTcast | Free internet radio! located at:
http://www.shoutcast.com/index.phtml
DakotaSunRunner reviewed v5.51 on Dec 20, 2007
I have tried just about all of them and I always return to winamp. Guess I like this one best. I do not worry about memory at all as I have 3 gig of it in this computer. This software has always worked excellently for me and I have no complaint about it at all.
philosopher_dog reviewed v5.51 on Dec 20, 2007
Well, I think Winamp is a pretty player, and much better choice than, say, iTunes, or WMP. But I think it's a bit heavy on the resources. I've taken to internet radio streaming and man Winamp is a pig on the CPU. Check it out. Screamer Radio is about 2%, and the same with Foobar, though it starts to use up more CPU power if you stick all those components on it. These days I'm giving Foobar a serious whirl. I'm won over finally. It's just so much less of a hog, and once you get it setup, which is admittedly a bit of a pain in the butt, it's sweeter than Winamp. But you could do worse than Winamp.
Skyfrog reviewed v5.51 on Dec 20, 2007
Wow, up to nearly 9MB now. I remember when WinAmp was just 300kb. Looks like they are following proudly in Nero's footsteps.
JarHead100 reviewed v5.51 Build 1741 Beta on Dec 10, 2007
I only gave it a rating of 3 because the only thing I was really interested in was the fix for autoplay. I have the registered Pro version installed on a Vista Home Premium PC and this beta still does not fix the ability to set the Preferences within WimAmp to auto launch an audio CD...it does however now show WinAmp as an available program when trying to set Audio Autoplay through the Default Program options in Windows Vista; however, the setting is ignored. Maybe this beta may be a little too rough if the autoplay fixes under Vista are what you want to evaluate.....I'm holding out hope for this fix to an otherwise great application.....
stisev reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Nov 28, 2007
The best combination I've found (and i've tried hundreds) is:
1) Winamp 5.5 Final
2) Albumlist 2.06 Final
3) Organize your folders "artist/album name" and select so in Albumlist
4) use "equalize" skin and modify "gen.bmp". there's a small green pixel in the top middle. change it to white in photoshop or whatever program you use.
5) Download & Install "enhancer" and choose "general improvements" or whatever you want.
6) Enable global hotkeys.
Boom. The best media player ever.
bigsexy022870 reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Nov 11, 2007
After useing this version for a few week i just have to say, nothing is better. I've always used winamp, and yes tried many others. But this new version is everything i wanted it to be. Really a great update. It's so polished and well done. Many of the issues i had are now fixed. Except the scrolling feature in the playlist. I see no reason why it can't scroll thru hundreds if not thousands of songs with ease. If you go slow it does. Anyway, a great product.
hugh750 reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Nov 3, 2007
Winamp 5.5 has good sound quality plus i love it's new bento skin, the olny reason i gave winamp 5.5 a 3 is because when you play a custom made (one you made yourself it's gracenote cd database keeps asking you if you want to submit info about the cd.
muka3d reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Oct 20, 2007
Winamp is in a class of its own. And, with this version, it's now even MORE accessible to everyone, including the poor people that have been trapped with iTunes.
Switch now, you'll never look back.
Nikkie reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Oct 11, 2007
Winamp finally did something right after version 3-5.Everything seemed bloated and ran slower but now i am finally happy again.I am really taken back by this version and very happy.I put this on a few peoples pc's and they love it..The ipod/device feature is their favorite cause now they dont have to use itunes and its crap etc.
This is really good stuff..
monzi reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Oct 11, 2007
Wow i really love the new interface. I've been using winamp as my audiplayer for years. Tried I-tunes, mediamonkey and others and they just plain suck in my opinion.
Winamp is back once again now even better!
weirdbeard reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Oct 11, 2007
I really want to know why the "Add Folder" dialogue is still not resizeable! other than that - great player!
ModderXManiac reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Oct 10, 2007
I love the new interface, and I simply fell in love with this player again recently.
It's better than iTunes in every way, and has iPod support. It's not bloated, it's customizable, and can just plain do more.
Hellcat_M reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Oct 10, 2007
Windows Millennium is 9x so its not supported. What baffles me is people still running computers with 9x.
Darkman00 reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Oct 10, 2007
9x is not supported?
Is Windows ME supported still though?
Artem S. Tashkinov reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Oct 10, 2007
Note: Windows 9x are no longer supported. Anyway it's a nice and fast music kitchen.
oudoulj reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Oct 10, 2007
Is there a way to detach the playlist while using the Bento skin ?
I hate not being able to do so :(
sparkf1 reviewed v5.50 Build 1640 (10th Anniversary Edition) on Oct 10, 2007
I don't like winamp5, but the version 5.5 is great! Nice skin and nice sound, anyway, they are really improvement, goodjob!
coba reviewed v5.50 Build 1600 Beta Preview 3 on Oct 9, 2007
I love winamp with new skin Bento and sound good with SRS Audio Sandbox plug-in, thank author. (before with J. River) now Winamp.
Zoroaster reviewed v5.50 Build 1600 Beta Preview 3 on Oct 3, 2007
The face is lovely, but the voice is perfectly lousy. Even worse than RealMedia... compared to BASS technology (XMPlay, AIMP), the difference would make a baby cry. I'm off from WinAmp, I'm afraid.
bradingram reviewed v5.5 Build 1568 Beta Preview 2 on Sep 21, 2007
Just for the record - installed build 1550 and had no issues with it at all, have just performed the upgrade to build 1568, and had it was continually freezing, and having to use taskmanager to abort the process. The freezing happened on EVERY occasion of running b1568, not just occasionaly, the issue seemed to be around the playlist loading it/scrolling/sorting-shuffling : i do have in-excess of 22,000 tracks - so it may be ok on smaller collections, but i have gone back to b:1550 - and am having no problems now
N.B - love the interface and changes so will try again when the next build is released
Elanessé reviewed v5.5 Build 1568 Beta Preview 2 on Sep 21, 2007
Changelog from Preview 1 to Preview 2:
-New: Auto-Tagger in File Info dialog (powered by Gracenote)
-New: Bento skin: Optional Album Art pane beneath enlarged Playlist (enable via: main menu > options > playlist)*
-New: [ml_autotag] Mass Auto-Tagger (powered by Gracenote)
-Improved: Various AlbumArt enhancements (eg. smarter refresh on update)*
-Improved: [in_cdda] %cdengine% ATF string now differentiates between Sonic, ASPI & SPTI modes
-Improved: [in_mp4] Smoother data sent to vis & other minor tweaks
-Improved: [ml_plg] Implemented extra options for Playlist Generator config (No. of results, include seed track, etc)*
-Improved: [ml_pmp] Added tooltips to new toolbar buttons (to match ml_local)*
-Improved: [pmp_ipod] Fixed for new ipods :-)
-Improved: [pmp_ipod] ipod model selection options
-Improved: [ml_wire] Updated podcast directory
-Fixed: Classic Spectrum Analyzer messing up when encountering/calculating silence blocks*
-Fixed: Drag+drop from Local Media views to pledit not respecting complex ATF syntax*
-Fixed: Esc key not working in Credits & Winamp tabs of About Box
-Fixed: File Editor bugs (genre defaulting to blues, track# discrepancies, handling of out of range values, etc)*
-Fixed: Crash when encountering CMYK colorspace jpeg's for albumart*
-Fixed: Songticker lag and other issues (Winamp Modern winshade: shadow on first & last chars & dbl-click not opening File Info)*
-Fixed: Songticker in Classic skin showing playlist entry number -1 (eg. if track 50 is playing, songticker displayed 49.)*
-Fixed: Thumbscroll button not auto-moving when using enhanced-mode mousewheel to scroll through albumart pane*
-Fixed: Scaling Bento skin to less than 100% crashes Winamp*
-Fixed: Timer/Songticker overlap in Bento skin*
-Fixed: Various other Winamp Bento skin bugs/issues*
-Fixed: [in_cdda] Stuttering CD playback with spti, crash with aspi (when no Sonic Engine installed)*
-Fixed: [in_midi] No longer tries to open files when being queried for "type"*
-Fixed: [in_mp3] Wrongly calculating length of mp3's with no lame headers (was multiplying by 1024 instead of 1000)*
-Fixed: [gen_ff] Not remembering size of Classic ML window when switching between Modern & Classic skins
-Fixed: [gen_ff] 10% opacity not applying with skins that add too many items to the right-click menu (eg. Bento)*
-Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Enter key not working when JTFE dialog is skinned*
-Fixed: [gen_ml] Using shift + cursor for albumart icon view*
-Fixed: [gen_ml] Rating auto-unhovering on small sizes*
-Fixed: [in_mp3] Orig. Artist field not updating in ID3v2 tag*
-Fixed: [in_mp4] Glitch when modifying metadata on playing track
-Fixed: [gen_ff/in_mp3] Rare NULL-pointer crashes based on info from crash reporter*
-Fixed: [gen_ml/ml_history] Blank entry in Prefs tree when History disabled*
-Fixed: [ml_history] 'playplays' and truncated text at bottom of History view*
-Fixed: [ml_disc] 'Unalbe' typo :-D*
-Fixed: [ml_local] Rescan Folders at startup/every x minutes*
-Fixed: [ml_pmp] ipod & usb play/enqueue actions sending an ansi converted title instead of unicode
-Fixed: [ml_pmp] Misc AlbumArt bugfixes*
-Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Various ipod crash & database writing fixes*
-Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Not creating .ithmb files
-Fixed: [ml_pmp] Transfer caption building when Artist metadata is empty
-Fixed: [ml_wire] 'Delete x downloads' prompt not filling out the number correctly (%d)*
-Misc: Fully removed all unicows.lib pointers, which finally kills all Win9x support for good
-Misc: Added a hidden winamp.ini option to show/hide playlist position in taskbar icon/tooltip: [Winamp] section: dotasknum=1/0 (will be added to prefs ui eventually)
-Misc: Moved Bento to top of Skins list (after Classic & Modern)*
(Note, Skins in Submenu plugin from Essentials Pack will need to be updated)
-Updated: Winamp Bento #096*
-Updated: Winamp Bento color themes (updated 'classic' & 'modern', added 'brighter' themes)*
-Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v0.99.1e b426 'dev' (was v0.99.1c b420 'dev' in last beta)
-Updated [in_flac] libflac 1.2.1 (was 1.2.0 in last beta)
keir reviewed v5.5 Build 1568 Beta Preview 2 on Sep 21, 2007
as far as I can tell there is a 5.5 changelog but nothing for this BUILD. This particular build seems to be the same as the one posted here yesterday, but with Preview 2 added to the name, and I have no idea what's changed since Preview 1. But it's very nice - I think the guy who said he "I liked it before, what's changed?" and gave it a 1 was silly - if he liked it and didn't know what changed how did it warrant a 1? I wasn't keen on Winamp before, didn't like the interface much and just used it for the odd stream. I still use foobar2000 for the music on my computer, not because I think it's perfect but by default - it's the least bad player for what I personally want from one. But the Bento skin is a huge improvement for me, and makes Winamp a pleasure to use - what I want for streams is to be able to click on a stream in my browser, whatever the format, and have it open in my player of choice, and I spent some time setting it up to be able to do just that, more or less. What I'd like would be: for the same information visible for my streams in 'History' to be there if I copied it to a playlist, and for the title to be editable (this is a common limitation of media players, that they just take the title of a stream from the live stream and don't keep one themselves).
DevilFX reviewed v5.5 Build 1568 Beta Preview 2 on Sep 21, 2007
Great program, had pro since 5.2, use it for everything except video, but still GREAT.
e144539 reviewed v5.5 Build 1568 Beta Preview 2 on Sep 20, 2007
OT
Just today
The Canadian dollar rose as high as $1.0008, before retreating to 99.87 U.S. cents at 4:16 p.m. in New York. It has soared 62 percent from a record low of 61.76 U.S. cents in 2002
The Canadian currency last closed above $1 on Nov. 25, 1976
Didn't they just start offering 'pro' a couple of years ago? The loony wasn't that weak back then was it?
back OT... Winamp rocks!
coch reviewed v5.5 Build 1568 Beta Preview 2 on Sep 20, 2007
@hvacr: I am a Canadian living in the US. Send me $23 and i'll send it to you ;)
Winamp is still the only media player I use for audio (ZoomPlayer for video), and I have tried most of them, and keep trying the new products when they come out. So far I never saw anything that seemed to be better and that would make me switch. I just love Winamp's versatility, and I do not think it is overly bloated. Granted there are "lighter" alternatives out there, but I love to be able to use all those plugins, be able to listen to online music, rip CD's when I need to, and global hotkeys and jomp to file are just great features. I'M not too much drawn into skins, but I do keep a few of them, and I like the overall look and ease of use Winamp offers.
Version 5.5 has a ton of changes and improvements, it is not just the new skin, see the change log there are probably almost 100 changes.
the artist reviewed v5.5 Build 1568 Beta Preview 2 on Sep 20, 2007
serendipityguy: know that you've posted the most stupid of reviews. there's no changelog for a first in ages in winamp, but find it at their website if it's not here. what's new under the hood? all the time evolving and correcting, idiot! get to know before such a show of ignorance.
The same for people who stick to 2.9 saying that 5 is bloated.
Finally, ABSOLUTELY NO PROGRAM CAN BE RATED FOR MEMORY USAGE BEFORE IT'S FEATURES!!!!!!! it's the most ignorant trend i've seen in years. By the way, Winamp has very little memory usage, even if foobar uses less, so what...
Sabz reviewed v5.5 Build 1568 Beta Preview 2 on Sep 20, 2007
http://forums.winamp.com...9f1&threadid=277645
Read ChangeLog there
serendipityguy reviewed v5.5 Build 1568 Beta Preview 2 on Sep 20, 2007
Other than a new Skin , what is under the hood?
can we see a change Log?
I like it before | what is so great about it now?
the artist> lets not turn this into a flame thread, K? dont be insulting or rude!!
what I asked for was not stupid, but honest comments.
you talk pretty for a person hiding behind a monitor!
Fr@nKy reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 18, 2007
Well I'm still using the best AUDIO PLAYER around... foobar2000 but after dumping Winamp for about a year I feel Winamp is becoming the fully featured MEDIA PLAYER that Windows Media Player 11 and iTunes failed to be (IMHO) ... I'll keep it for awhile to see what happens ;) But for a BETA it deserves a FIVE (5)
hvacr reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 15, 2007
Winamp rips off the Canadian customer. They charge 19.95 American, and 26.95 Canadian. Whats up with that, and it's not because of the conversion as our dollar is high right now.
mrow reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 14, 2007
Armit: I'd agree with you if all players were like this. However, there are many other fully featured players out there that don't use nearly the amount of memory.
On that note though, I still love Winamp. I've been using it since 1998.
PhrostByte reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 14, 2007
Winamp has always been cool, even if it is slightly bloated.
to naoan or whatever: Try foobar2000. I use foobar for my music collection and Winamp for streaming audio.
Mirrebex reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 14, 2007
Winamp bento is really great..
brotherS reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 14, 2007
Really great player, I love to be able to control it only by keyboard and the additional plugins are awesome!
Amrit reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 14, 2007
Great player, and I love the new Bento Skin. I'm also getting fed up with all the wining about the memory usage of software. This is 2007, I repeat: 2007, and for just 60 euro's you can buy 2 GB of memory. And if your computer is old, don't use the latest software, or get a new one.
netean reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 14, 2007
must just be me, I installed it, it used 8mb of ram on startup, increased to 12mb when I'd scanned my music. Not awful, but not great either.
The interface too, I just couldn't get on with.. all three default skins were (to me) somehow, lacking... can't quite explain why.
I'm still looking for the perfect media player/manager, small, easy to use and low on resources.
I'll keep looking
GrantTLC reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 14, 2007
One of the best players out there. I've been using it since the 2.x days but am beginning to find it's complexity to be a problem - The UI, which hasn't changed significantly since those days - is becoming hard to navigate to find every single fiddly little feature now crammed into it. Don't get me wrong, it's still a great player but when I'm on Linux, Amarok's powerful simplicity is like a breath of fresh air. And a Windows version is apparently on the way...
Ryusennin reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 13, 2007
5.x have the same memory footprint as 2.x and use the same configuration layout. Check your system before moaning. If you consider the welcome addition of Unicode support as bloatware, then maybe you should just stop using computers.
seanpatrick reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 13, 2007
I use 2.9.1. I've tried the later versions, and to keep it short: It's bloatware. You can still acquire this version on oldversion.com, and if you're interested in Winamp before it became the butchered software it is today, check it out, like other gentlemen have said, prior to it's 3.x days.
skurv reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 13, 2007
Wow! Love the new interface!
keir reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 13, 2007
still Foobar for me, but with the new Bento interface Winamp is rising in my affections. Very promising.
muka3d reviewed v5.50 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1 on Sep 13, 2007
The new design implemented in this version (Bento interface) should now appeal to all those complaining about Winamps (perfect) interface...
Otherwise, perfection just jumped up again...
bigsexy022870 reviewed v5.36 Build 1504 Beta on Aug 27, 2007
It's all i use for mp3's. and for a few reasons. It's quick and easy on resources. I like the ease of use on playlist creation and managment. But it does have it's issues. I think the design is outdated and is very much in need for a update. Times change and winamp needs to. But i still like it.
improvelence reviewed v5.36 Build 1500 Beta on Aug 24, 2007
Winamp is kind of like Yahoo Messenger, an essential tool in it's day but dead in the water these days. I used to worship this program, but Itunes has pretty much upped the bar. Winamp would be great if it was still tiny but these days if you want to play a single song you can just use MPC/VLC or even that "Foobar" thing that all the fanboys rave about.
R.I.P. Winamp, I still remember the good times.
noccy80 reviewed v5.36 Build 1500 Beta on Aug 24, 2007
WinAmp is a decent player, but until it supports .CUE files natively, I rely on Foobar2K to play back my music
nms04 reviewed v5.36 Build 1500 Beta on Aug 23, 2007
finaly getting better (and better)
Fred Garvin reviewed v5.36 Build 1500 Beta on Aug 22, 2007
Finally! Long file name playlist items are no longer corrupt in Vista! Thanks, Nullsoft.
tuneslover reviewed v5.35 on Jun 12, 2007
Fastest & Error free. Easy to Use. I love it! :D
bigmama reviewed v5.35 on May 15, 2007
vlc and media player classic is better
simko reviewed v5.35 on May 15, 2007
Does what it says playing music period..
Dont use it for videos so cant comment on that part,
use wmp classic for that.
_jaz_ reviewed v5.35 on May 15, 2007
To Stisev:
I think you completely forgot there's a "Basic" download of winamp, with just classic skinning, mp2/mp3/aac/mp4 and not much more. So if you are going to rate it "just" because you get the wrong link, then it's you who has to change.
(That, aside of the fact that the installer does give the option of what to install and what not).
About bugs, these come and go in every software ever coded, and using an older version doesn't put you safer than using a newer one. If you're happy with 2.9x versions, that's ok, and not strange at all. Yet, i don't think your bashing of the current versions is that much reasonable.
stisev reviewed v5.34 Build 1278 on May 8, 2007
I have been a Winamp lover since version 0.20 (first version). I've stuck Nullsoft through thick and thin, and have subsequently tested every version to the best of my abilities.
No longer.
Winamp, and more importantly, Nullsoft have lost their ways, and I'm not just talking about the AOL crap that's bundled with this software.
Winamp's status as bloatware spiraled completely out of control. There's so much crap in these newer versions that are simply. not. necessary.
I'm reverting to winamp 2.81 or 2.95 (no ad version) simply because I'm sick of all of the new bugs, useless features, incompatibilities with plugins.
I hope you users will follow in my footsteps.
BOYCOTT WINAMP -- at least the newer versions. Send a clear message to the developers that we're fed up with this crap.
Winamp is the best player out there, but has lost its way. It's we show it the road back home.
ninjeratu reviewed v5.34a Security Patch on May 4, 2007
If you'd bothered to follow the link to the forum you could've read the following:
"Includes a patched version of in_mp4.dll (v1.22)
which fixes the MP4 file parsing buffer overflow vulnerability issue."
godzila reviewed v5.34a Security Patch on May 4, 2007
why secority patch where its bug
TalGreywolf reviewed v5.34 Build 1278 on Apr 30, 2007
While WinAmp is still an excellent program for what it does best (playing music) there is a serious problem with the program if you attempt to install under Windows Vista 64-bit. Because of the driver/kernel changes, the CD burn utility (which is borrowed from Roxio) will not work, and will cause issues with the system after installation. And while there is a work-around (involving removal of the registry keys for that application) it's still enough of an annoyance to keep the app from getting five stars.
horsecharles reviewed v5.34 Build 1278 on Apr 30, 2007
Working great on Vista. Kudos for playing mms streams, whereas WMP11 doesn't anymore.
horsecharles reviewed v5.34 on Apr 30, 2007
Winamp 5.34.1278 Full just out.
dzjepp reviewed v5.34 on Apr 23, 2007
Love this. I use VLC for video and Winamp for audio. Don't need anything else.
stisev reviewed v5.34 Build 1239 Beta on Apr 20, 2007
The best audio player, but the developers deserve a senseless asskicking for such a bug-ridden version.
1) Grabs video format when even not specific
2) NO LONGER WORKS WITH ALBUMLIST 1.43! Grrr!
Radu Coc reviewed v5.34 Build 1239 Beta on Apr 8, 2007
Along the time, I tryed a lof of players, but every time Im going back to Winamp. Simply the best audio player. Simply to use and eficient. Have all the features you can expect from an audio player and much more.
Canuckistani reviewed v5.34 Build 1239 Beta on Apr 6, 2007
I haven't used WinAmp in ages so I decided to give this BETA a try. Very, very nice. It still maintains its clean and easy to use interface and it's ready to go right out of the box with minimal configuration. Good job. I won't be adding it to my multimedia toolkit but I will recommend it to people who want a player that "just works".
viperiii reviewed v5.34 Build 1239 Beta on Apr 6, 2007
It is now support for Windows VISTA without displaying the error message of missing XP.dll system file. It is running fine under Windows VISTA x64 environment, but still my only comment on the sound louderness can be improve. But it is almost negligible, because i think it is deal to my sound card driver problem.
Been using Winamp for more than 5 years i think. Still love it, but it is still have a lot of space for improvement. Long way to go, WINAMP!
Paul Skinner reviewed v5.34 Build 1239 Beta on Apr 6, 2007
"It fills 6,7mb for a download that in theory 2 years ago looked the same, didn't really have any major differences, but that one was only a 4,2mb download."
You are thick.
24bit playback.
Compatibility with your iPod so you don't have to use *uber* bloatware iTunes (more like 20MB - now *that's* bloatware). This includes playlists, audio and video, thus almost certainly where all that extra weight came from.
AAC+ encoding.
WMV+DRM support
Gapless MP3 playback
CD TEXT reading
FLAC compatibility
Support for Windows Mobile Devices
It doesn't look any different because the last time they tried to change the look of it (Winamp 2 to Winamp 3) there was uproar and everyone wanted the Classic skin back.
That not enough for you?
And now for my rating of this version:
Works very well for me and is perfectly stable.
And| reviewed v5.34 Build 1239 Beta on Apr 6, 2007
Neutral.
I cant believe that WinAmp has become bloatware. It fills 6,7mb for a download that in theory 2 years ago looked the same, didnt really have any major differences, but that one was only a 4,2mb download.
What has become of it? AOL. Im getting linux, and installing Amorok. Im so sick of AOL. Thanks for ruining the greatest audio player ever.
stisev reviewed v5.34 Build 1195 Beta on Mar 27, 2007
WARNING: THE NEWEST WINAMP BETA (Winamp 5 Full 5.34 Build 1195 Beta) broke Albumlist 1.43!!
Curses!
Vimes reviewed v5.34 Build 1178 Beta on Mar 17, 2007
I continue to be impressed by this play and whilst it is not my default for movie viewing I do like the way that it can catalogue my mp3's.
twtphw reviewed v5.34 Build 1178 Beta on Mar 16, 2007
Changelog between Builds 1155 and 1178
* Main thread is now a multithreaded COM apartment (please test EVERYTHING)
* Fixed: Crash when rescanning ml folders containing videos on a network drive
* Fixed: FLAC files showing full path in playlist when ATF is disabled
* Fixed: in_flac trying to play non-existent .flac entries instead of skipping over them
* Fixed: Crash with .flac and .wav files when using CuePlayer plugin
* Fixed: Crash on exit with docked playlist toolbar (ml_local/ml_playlists bug)
* Fixed: ml_transcode crash when deleting last-used enc_* file
* Fixed: Potential crash reading bad .mpeg files (rare)
* Fixed: Potential crash reading bad .mp3 files (rare)
keir reviewed v5.34 Build 1178 Beta on Mar 16, 2007
not my player of choice but better than most - that changelog looks a lot like the 1155 changelog to me...
winamp reviewed v5.34 Build 1155 Beta on Mar 16, 2007
best player out there.
high1 reviewed v5.34 Build 1155 Beta on Mar 14, 2007
http://download.nullsoft...p534_1155_beta_full.exe
http://download.nullsoft...mp534_1155_beta_pro.exe
http://download.nullsoft...mp534_1155_beta_std.exe
http://download.nullsoft...p534_1155_beta_lite.exe
Japaner reviewed v5.33 on Feb 22, 2007
New version loads much faster than previous versions, what was the main reason why I turned to musikCube. In fact, the music starts playing even before the UI is fully loaded. I also welcome Unicode support in files names. It still has a lot of useless stuff, but I'll give it 5 for the improvements.
gnosh reviewed v5.33 on Feb 18, 2007
Been using Winamp for years, although I have been experimenting with foobar2000 recently.
The developers should be commended for adding Unicode support. However, the Unicode support for song names (an MP3's title) in Winamp's taskbar button is still not working. Non-Western characters still appear as ????? for the last few versions. I thought this would be too obvious to miss.
roj reviewed v5.33 on Feb 17, 2007
I have to reverse my position on this player. For a very long time I royally dissed it and it was well-deserved. The audio quality was substandard, the bloat and slowness unwarranted. However, times have changed. The interface, while slower than the competition is not unreasonably so. The Media Library is intuitive and easy to use. Most importantly, the audio quality has arrived with 24-bit support, dithering, seamless / gapless playback, a quality equalizer (finally!) and a high precision decoder. It's easily on par with Foobar and XMPlay which IMNSHO are the Gold Standards for audio quality in the genre. Even the memory rtequirements are on par with the abovementioned programs.
Now, all is not sweetness and light. The program has several criminal bugs – I say criminal because this thing is OLD and these bugs should have been long-since squashed. The include poor error checking so that an errant plugin or skin can crash the player, and a display module (nscrt.dll) that can cause a crash simply by invoking CDDB for a newly inserted CD with the playlist open (I managed that six times in two minutes – things went swimmingly if I simply closed the playlist). Skin performance could also be significantly improved.
This program is also LOADED with Adware, something I intensely resent. I view adware as malware and anything that prompts me to buy music while I'm building a custom playlist or otherwise impinges upon my experience should be expunged. I guess that's the malign influence of the AOL ownership – after all, nothing good has EVER come out of that company.
All that being said, the UI and configurability of the interface and audio options make this the best bang out there for a media player. Just be sure to consult the Winamp install guide (Google it) and avoid installing any plugins shipped with the plaer that stink of adware (I can think of one promoinent plugin for the Media Library that fits that description).
FOUR stars for a program that soldiers on credibly despite its defiencies.
Vimes reviewed v5.33 on Feb 14, 2007
Superb...!!!!!
I continue to be impressed with Winamp's development.
The plugins, skins etc make this one mighty useful player.
The skin that I use...
MMD3
http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=122902
HelgeFossmo reviewed v5.33 on Feb 13, 2007
Paul Skinner: how the heck do you measure used ram? Winamp 5.33 with classic skin,playing just 1 song minimised sits at 17.4 MB ram here. LOL
Paul Skinner reviewed v5.33 on Feb 13, 2007
3.4MB of RAM used in classic skin (while playing a song and minimised).
That's outstanding.
iTunes is completely outstripped by it.
And it *still* plays every type of file you could want to throw at it (excluding Real Media, which nothing can/wants to play).
@HelgeFossmo: Hah, Task Manager. (Just checked again, same result).
I'm guessing I turned some resource hoggy crap off in my settings.
aszure reviewed v5.33 on Feb 13, 2007
Ball Sacks...are you the biggest idiot in the world?
Winamp isnt intended as being a HTPC application. Try mediaportal for that. Yeah winamp takes a decent amt of memory, but for god sakes...if this is choking your system, upgrade your memory.
nicobarengo reviewed v5.33 on Feb 13, 2007
Yeah, we are in 2007 and people still b****ing about that winamp uses 16 Mb of memory. How much RAM do you have in your PC?, 1GB?, 2GB?.
Gubment cheez reviewed v5.33 Build 1079 on Feb 12, 2007
I haven't used iTunes, I haven't used MonkeyGrabber, or whatever that program is. I tried Foobar 2000, I've used Microsoft WiMP, but I will always come back to Winamp.
It has a huge plugin base, and, if you don't see what you like, you can write your own plugin, provided you have the knowledge to do so. If you don't, you can probably find someone who can.
It has a huge visualisation base, for both AVS, and "standalone" visualisation plugins.
Can iTunes play MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC, OGG, WAV, CDA, MOD, IT, XM, and Lossless WMA? I don't know, but I would doubt it.
Does Foobar 2k allow you to write your own audio visualisations, via a integrated visualisation editor?
And really. What kind of dinosaur computer are you running that can't handle a 10-15 MB program. I hope you're not viewing this in a web browser, because that alone takes about 20 MB. Oh wait, iTunes uses 80 MB.
I'll bet half of that is the DRM code that is required to be there because of the MP/RIAA.
Oops. Sorry to rag on your precious digital restrictions management program.
oompoop reviewed v5.33 Build 1079 on Feb 12, 2007
WINAMP, AUDIOGRABBER and GX::TRANSCODER, all free and together an excellent bundle.
Problems showing audio-files in Winamp I yesterday solved totally by installing FFDSHOW.
the artist reviewed v5.33 Build 1079 on Feb 9, 2007
FOR WHINERS SAYING THAT WINAMP 5 IS HEAVIER THAN 2 USE THE "OLD WINAMP SKINS" AND SHUT UP!!! That cristicism is lame for today's pcs. WTF DO YOU CARE IF IT USES 10 MBS IN THE MODERN SKIN MODE?!
THIS PROGGIE HAS UNSURPASSABLE USABILITY.
Ball Sacks reviewed v5.33 Build 1079 on Feb 9, 2007
Winamp is crap! MediaMonkey is much better...
Make sure you get a magnifying glass to use Winamp.
Pros: This program does have some major advantages, there are thousands of skins out there and other customizations, beating even windows media player in that respect, and compared to Itunes it is great in that fact. This player is highly recommended if your PC has low end specs as it takes around 16mb of ram, unlike the new Itunes which takes around 80.
Cons: Unfortunately unless you really like skining your player, or have a low end PC, I would really not recommend this player. First of all, it is awkward, I have a pc that sits in the living room and is attached to an analogue TV, first of all the controls on this player are small and don't are hard to use on a TV. Also we have large parties where everyone can chose what music they want, everyone, including unexperianced computer users can use Itunes and windows media player, this program is however a problem. Also the sound quality is poor, Itunes enhances the sound alot, probably why it takes so much ram, this program however you notice the quality unless listend to on the poorest speaker system.
jcollake reviewed v5.33 Build 1079 on Feb 9, 2007
Actually Winamp 5 is pretty heavy in virtual memory use, much heavier than Winamp 2. If you had bothered to look, maybe you'd see that. Spreading positive propoganda is as bad as negative.
dzjepp reviewed v5.33 Build 1079 on Feb 6, 2007
I bet you never even used Winamp 5 and are just spreading FUD like it's the popular thing to do these days by all the kids on the block. Winamp 5 bloated and slow? Nothing could be further from the truth. If you where so inclined to actually use it, you would see that it uses about the same amount of resources as the old "great" 2 versions used to.
adrian47uk reviewed v5.33 Build 1079 on Feb 6, 2007
Winamp went to pot at Version 3 and above and become bloated and unreliable. I went to Qcd and never looked back. A much better meadia player, but tsyaing that, QCD is starting to get too big.
winamp was a great player in it 2.0 days, but not now.
Diam0nd reviewed v5.33 Build 1079 on Feb 6, 2007
Great player! Even though I think foobar2000 is better, this one is definaltey a solid #2.
5 stars!
Andy Dean reviewed v5.33 Build 1079 on Feb 6, 2007
I'll give it 5 overall but not for this version. I get skipping and have reverted to 5.32 which works fine for me.
Paradise-FH- reviewed v5.33 Build 1079 on Feb 6, 2007
"I don't need an application that looks like a miniature toy stereo amplifier.
And I'd rather not have to use a magnifying glass to use it.
Give me iTunes or Windows Media Player any day.
I've never understood why anyone would prefer WinAMP."
the reason we prefer it is that it is the best mix of form and function for us.
it doesn't swing to the left in terms of gui simplicity like foobar does and it doesn't swing to the right where it's dominating a large portion of the screen like itunes and wmp do.
stevetures reviewed v5.33 Build 1079 on Feb 6, 2007
Winamp 5.33 Beta, Build 1079
What's New (whole list)
* Improved: [gen_ml] unicode tree item title support
* Improved: [NDE] speed optimizations
* Improved: [ml_history] localized dates
* Improved: [ml_local] Unicode media library support
* Improved: [ml_playlists] now uses m3u8 to retain unicode file info
* Improved: [ml_playlists] playlists in send-to submenu
* Improved: [ml_pmp] playback-from-device of unicode filenames
* Improved: [ml_wire] moved discover page to main page
* Improved: [pmp_p4s] auto-detection of supported file formats
* Fixed: playlist directory loading fix (again)
* Fixed: recursive playlist loading
* Fixed: video lockup when switching video display settings
* Fixed: HTML playlist generation
* Fixed: temp file cleanup after burning
* Fixed: Alt+L from video window
* Fixed: fullscreen video display drawing glitch
* Fixed: recursive shortcut loading
* Fixed ASX Loader not reading local relative paths correctly
* Fixed: [gen_ml] & needs expanding to && for any menu entries showing filenames
* Fixed: [in_flac] not saving genres.txt in multiuser directory
* Fixed: [in_mp3] create id3v2 tag when writing album artist
* Fixed: [in_mp3] workaround for id3v2.4 tags with badly formatted frame sizes
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] writing blank metadata instead of erasing
* Fixed: [in_wave] sometimes not remembering custom extensions
* Fixed: [in_wm] stack overflow on hi-def multichannel audio with replaygain enabled
* Fixed: [in_wm] File Info editor album artist not saving
* Fixed: [ml_local] Modern skin pledit winshade 'Manage Playlist' button bug
* Fixed: [ml_local] ignoring files with ellipsis (...)
* Fixed: [ml_local] editing disc via 'edit selected items'
* Fixed: [ml_local] sorting fix
* Fixed: [ml_local] ratings menu
* Fixed: [ml_local] crash when sorting by replaygain
* Fixed: [ml_local] deadlock when retrieving title to guess metadata
* Fixed: [ml_local] no longer causes unicode files in playlist to display ?????
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] time column and 'status' in statusbar
* Fixed: [ml_pmp]
* Fixed: [ml_rg] multi-channel files being calculated incorrectly
* Fixed: [ml_transcode] bad/missing metadata on transcoded files
* Fixed: [ml_transcode] error on overly long filenames ("can't open destination file")
* Fixed: [ml_wire] podcasts that change titles not updating properly
* Updated: Coding Technologies aacPlus encoder 8.0.3
* Updated: [enc_flac] Flake SVN r114
* Updated: [gen_ff] Freetype 2.3.1
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] Jump To File Extra v0.97.11 (build 109)
oompoop reviewed v5.32 on Jan 15, 2007
... with the Netscape-skin and the Lame- or Radium-Encoder (boosts Fraunhofer up to 320 kbps)it is perfect for me.
I just started a vinyl-action, but then, thanks the Lord, discovered Bittorrent ;-)
And| reviewed v5.32 on Dec 16, 2006
I get some errors with the new 5.32. It freezes upon start of the program, rolling a few versions back. For shame.
angrykeyboarder reviewed v5.32 on Dec 11, 2006
I don't need an application that looks like a miniature toy stereo amplifier.
And I'd rather not have to use a magnifying glass to use it.
Give me iTunes or Windows Media Player any day.
I've never understood why anyone would prefer WinAMP.
RADicalSatDude reviewed v5.32 on Nov 22, 2006
I use Winamp daily for all of my audio and most of my video needs.
Just two points for improvements:
A VLC type multicodec support would seal its superiority.
I just wish they'd add official remote control support for Creative Audigy and X-Fi remotes. I use a third party plugin at the moment.
Prospero424 reviewed v5.32 on Nov 22, 2006
It is a touch slow starting up when compared to the 2.x series, but I really don't ever notice any excessive resource usage when it's running. I'm not saying it doesn't use any more resources than the 2.x series did, I'm just saying I never NOTICE it when it's running in the background, and that's the point, after all, as far as I'm concerned.
I've tried all the rest, but I keep coming back to Winamp because of its playlist functionality (it's the small things that count), uncompromising (if not QUITE the best) sound quality - especially when using an output plugin like MAD or going pure digital with ASIO - and visualization options second to none, which is important to me.
Also, its video playback features (which I don't use very often; I prefer Zoom Player for video) are more than adequate when combined with the proper DirectShow decoders/filters like ffdshow, making it the closest thing to a fully-capable universal media player the Windows world has.
And I just plain like the interface design compared to all of the other players out there. There, I said it.
Still the best.
zik reviewed v5.32 on Nov 21, 2006
i miss the 2.7x versions
compared to them, winamp 5 is a resource hog
but thousands of light-years ahead windows media player
Sabz reviewed v5.32 on Nov 21, 2006
the Best Media Player i have ever used,, but the guy who says its bloated needs his head read, he should use Good Ole Windows Media Player 11,
Dreimanis reviewed v5.32 on Nov 21, 2006
time to ditch windows 9x
BoNeLeSS reviewed v5.32 on Nov 21, 2006
¿Bloated? Then get the "lite" version and shut up.
BNut83 reviewed v5.32 on Nov 21, 2006
WinAmp is a great all-purpose player.. Don't get all fanboy on me and go RA RA RA just because foobar doesn't take up as much memory, or hard drive space. This is supposed to be 2006, almost 2007, where computers should have enough processing power, RAM, and storage space to handle Winamp.
BTW, I will disagree w/ the previous poster and say JetAudio has superior sound quality. Winamp w/ DFX comes in second.
Mandeep reviewed v5.32 on Nov 21, 2006
Hey GCoder, apparently sound quality doesn't matter to you but to others it does. The best apps for audio are WinAMP and foobar2000. But seeing that foobar takes a nerd to make it a good all-round app. I'll just stick with WinAMP which requires no configuration and still uses little memory. For those of you complaining that WinAMP takes too much memory then maybe you should upgrade away from 64mb ram.
berserkchaos reviewed v5.32 on Nov 21, 2006
honestly Winamp 5 is bloated, but still the best audio player I haver ever used.
GCoder reviewed v5.32 on Nov 21, 2006
It has become a little bloated over the years but it is still a good all around program. I used Winamp all the way up to when iTunes 7 came out.
I must say WOW to iTunes 7. It is the best Music & Media program to date! Winamp is good but ITUNES 7 is so much better...
akh154 reviewed v5.31 on Nov 5, 2006
I liked the old Winamps. classic and just an mp3 player simple with e for but it was in older days.
Find resources and a capable developing team work on it hard for more than one year, test it and then release it instead of all those daily builds and keep a simple mp3 player free. Simple, Classic, No Spyware!
serendipityguy reviewed v5.31 on Oct 26, 2006
HaY @Lurifax | MaCrap is probably using his mothers computer, while doing her homework this year ;-)
McCrap reviewed v5.31 on Oct 25, 2006
Winamp Sucks..Windows Media Player 11 kicks ass
Szekely reviewed v5.31 on Oct 25, 2006
Easily the best media player with a IU. Nothing beats foobar for use though.
styckx reviewed v5.31 on Oct 25, 2006
I'm very annoyed with this version, I have 46 gigs of pure albums, and I regularly load the entire directory of them into winamp, randomize the play list, then play them randomly, it's a nice mix and was never trouble doing so, until now. Winamp crashes now every single time I try to load my entire mp3 collection.. Way to go...
Buggle reviewed v5.31 on Oct 25, 2006
@Lurifax
hahaha this must be the best joke in a long time. WMP is the king of bloatness! Second, when I start it, I can't even figure out how to play a simple song, it just keeps on nagging about scanning my harddrive and what-else, it is a nightmare to work with.
Winamp has the most intuitive interface I have ever come across. It's been around for ages and it will stay where it is for a long time to come. Very good product.
Lurifax reviewed v5.31 on Oct 25, 2006
Pretty poor player. Is getting worse and worse. WMP is a lot better. Can't recommend Winamp to anyone. Use WMP!
BUSIAK reviewed v5.31 on Oct 25, 2006
I agree with HurricaneGame. Foobar and Winamp are the best players in the world! But I alsow prefer foobar like crowbar82.
1uk3 reviewed v5.31 on Oct 25, 2006
My personal favourite player for audio. Some great new features. Nice to see lots of development going on with Winamp. :)
HurricaneGame reviewed v5.31 on Oct 25, 2006
Winamp/Foobar, best players out there today.
crowbar82 reviewed v5.31 on Oct 25, 2006
I prefer Foobar but Winamp is not bad.
marrie reviewed v5.3 on Oct 19, 2006
i notice that since 5.2 or so winamp can't play certain types of wave files. ther is silence and the title bar says stopped. If the developers look at this and can fix it I'd be very happy. All in all though winamp is a great program except for that little bug.
coolticker reviewed v5.3 on Oct 2, 2006
I use Winamp since 1.0 version, still good except non solved bug like auto-order by file name don't work when you drag&drop from explorer to playlist.
But 5.3 has a big problem...it uses 10% CPU on my PIII-1Ghz instead of 4% until previous version so I went back to 5.24 because it uses more battery.
mikeyx11 reviewed v5.3 on Sep 27, 2006
I changed to WinAmp from WMP after I tried the v11 BETA. WinAmp kicks ass. WMP and iTunes are far too slow with big music collections, where as WinAmp is still running great.
It looks excellent, is easy to use, and is fast. It took some getting used to and customizing it myself to how I wanted it but i'll never go back.
SamppaX reviewed v5.3 on Sep 27, 2006
I would rate both foobar2000 and winamp... 5/5. I use currently foobar2000 but i sometimes try winamp if it has improved like this version. Usually i go for foobar2000 (all things i need currently) =)
Why? Really depends what you need.
If you need just playback options like i do then foobar. ( I usually play and listen music same time, so less as possible system usage for me ) ;)
But if you want more features and stuff go for winamp it has all you actually need and something less useful.
It's all based " What you need ".. Love and hate thing for most. But i love both ^^
BoNeLeSS reviewed v5.3 on Sep 27, 2006
Winamp is making me forget foobar2000
Logistix reviewed v5.25 Build 868 Beta on Sep 19, 2006
I have been a big fan of winamp for many years, but lately I have been trying to pull away from it. I feel it got way too bloated after AOHell bought it. I also get random issues when staring it from my quicklauch bar, that says "No disk available" Abort, Retry, Continue. It is quite annoying, and I have seen it continue for many builds.
themanhimself reviewed v5.25 Build 868 Beta on Sep 2, 2006
Just gets better and better:)
stevetures reviewed v5.25 Build 857 Beta on Aug 28, 2006
Ooo transcoding for incompatible files! Nice!
Probably the most interesting new feature on this beta. Sure nobody wants to recompress audio for the loss in quality, but at least it enables people to use music. Nice feature.
I'm not to familiar with ReplayGain, but here's a link to explain more. Not a bad idea, espc. if you're a DJ and want to ease your job a little.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_Gain
Vimes reviewed v5.25 Build 843 Beta on Aug 26, 2006
One of THE best players available - give it a try :)
the artist reviewed v5.25 Build 843 Beta on Aug 24, 2006
@moserw:
SYSTEM HOG??! 5-15 MB of memory usage is a SYSTEM HOG??! hell, you must have been smoking something really toxic!
this is one of the best music players, aside with Foobar of course!
BobTheVeg reviewed v5.25 Build 843 Beta on Aug 23, 2006
Always been my default mp3 player but it randomly crash when a song ends on my computer now.
berserkchaos reviewed v5.25 Build 843 Beta on Aug 23, 2006
As soon as they fix the Drag 'n Drop behavior in the playlist they will get a 5 again.
moserw reviewed v5.25 Build 843 Beta on Aug 23, 2006
Very good, audio quality is way better than the others and plugins too are great. Its a system hog though, but in these days of P4 and 2.4 Ghz and RAM of 512 MB or 1 GB that should not be much of an issue. AOL XM Radio streaming too is great.
http://www.nela.in
tolaat01 reviewed v5.25 Build 843 Beta on Aug 23, 2006
amano_ - thank u very much for the infi.
tested plugins with winamp and i guess i will use both winamp and foobar.
stevetures reviewed v5.25 Build 843 Beta on Aug 22, 2006
None of the betas (including this one, 843) have killed my typical winamp usability. Nice to see active development on my favorite app.
On a slightly related note, I set up the follwing plugin this morning:
http://winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=143259
Allows you to stream audio from one machine to another, i.e. one desktop to the desktop connected to the badass stereo. Test and working on my 100mb ethernet (no idea how well it works on 802.11 but I imagine that even 802.11b has enough bandwidth). Installs as a server on the receiver, so there's little fuss. Works as advertised, though there's a slight latency, maybe 400-600ms if I had to guess. yay.
Bagobie reviewed v5.25 Build 834 Beta on Aug 19, 2006
Check out Quintessential Media Player (QMP)or just use Windows Media Player 11... I really don't care for WinAmp, and as far as I'm concerned it continues to get worse and worse every version...
stevetures reviewed v5.25 Build 834 Beta on Aug 18, 2006
Changelog from 825 to 834
* Fixed: [in_mp4] detection of HE AAC in file info box (Alt+3)
* Fixed: [enc_aacplus] more compatible HE AAC MP4 file creation
* New: "Close Winamp" option after installation (after clicking 'Send')
amano_ reviewed v5.25 Build 825 Beta on Aug 16, 2006
tolaat01, these are all things that can be done with winamp. You just need the proper plugins.
For archives (zip, rar, 7z)--> in_zip: http://forums.winamp.com...light=&pagenumber=7
For cue sheets: --> CUE Player: http://www.winamp.com/pl...s/details.php?id=143011
tolaat01 reviewed v5.25 Build 825 Beta on Aug 16, 2006
very good application.
2nd only to foobar2000.
the quality of both is very good but foobar has several advantages:
1)can run mp3,s from archive when dragging the archive to foobar.
2)you can drag a cue file to foobar and he adds and plays the tracks.
stevetures reviewed v5.25 Build 825 Beta on Aug 15, 2006
changelog between build 812 and build 825
Fixed: playlist extension registry writing
Fixed: remote playlists nested within a playlist
Fixed: dialog fixes (font change had knocked some things out of whack)
Fixed: xp themed dialogs
Fixed: rogue winamp agent registry Run key
Fixed: [dsp_sps] 24 bit fix
Fixed: [in_dshow] seek to key frame
Fixed: [in_mp3] do Viz after DSP
Fixed: [in_mp3] made genre dropdown bigger again (only effects pre-XP os's)
Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Crash when clicking 'switch to vis/video' button
Fixed: [gen_ml] tree icon fixup (working around an OS bug that was causing CreateDIBSection to sometimes crash (divide-by-zero in ICM32) using V4 bitmap header struct)
Fixed: [ml_local] fix for setting the watch folders extension list
Fixed: [ml_local] fixed crash when trying to create a new view before mldb has loaded
Improved: expanded 24bit warning
Updated: [gen_jumpex] jtfe 0.97.7h (build 57)
KriTenKs reviewed v5.25 Build 812 Beta on Aug 11, 2006
changelog between build 801 and build 812
warning when selecting 24bit output
fixed: [ml_disc] Play tracks after CD Ripping fix
fixed: [ml_local] bg scan crash when media library DB isn't loaded
fixed: [ml_history] Ctrl+H shortcut
fixed: registry keys created even on unregistered file types
fixed: systray tooltip not showing
fixed: crash on uninstallation
fixed: [in_wm] freeze when stopping streams that have rebuffered
fixed: freeze when exiting Winamp while minimized
fixed: burning with 24bit enabled
fixed: [in_dshow] AVI >2GB fix
fixed: [playlist] PLS loading fix
Desides reviewed v5.25 Build 801 Beta on Aug 9, 2006
Full unicode support has been long requested, and it's finally here. Kudos to Nullsoft for finally listening. Still the best overall Windows-based music program around.
Vimes reviewed v5.25 Build 801 Beta on Aug 8, 2006
It has been a v-e-r-y long time since I last used Winamp and I'm amazed at how good it has become. I installed it a couple of weeks ago and love the skins, playlist, media organiser and plugins. One of the plugins supports the ability to show the lyrics for many songs.
I do tend to use Media Player Classic to watch video but more and more use is now being given to using winamp.
It has a well supported user forum as well.
Jonasson reviewed v5.25 Build 801 Beta on Aug 8, 2006
Avast! Anti-Virus reports a file called reporter.exe during the installation. It's said to be a keylogger. Be careful!
DJ-Egg reviewed v5.25 Build 787 Beta on Jul 28, 2006
TomekLutel: you have to checkmark 'Allow 24bit' in 'Prefs > Playback' first (it's not checked by default, for sound cards/chips which don't support it).
More info here:
http://forums.winamp.com...ead.php?threadid=251985
Metshrine reviewed v5.25 Build 787 Beta on Jul 28, 2006
Crappy video drivers? Do you even know what you are talking about? Winamp doesnt use DRIVERS to control video, it uses the video codecs you have installed, so if something is messing up, you have a problem with your codec install. Winamp uses the SAME codecs that the rest of the media players use. So if winamp is having problems with jerky video, then you configured the directshow filter in winamp wrong. All winamp does is use existing directshow filters (what FFDSHOW and XviD are) and allow the codecs to process them. I have no issue with xvid or ffdshow on winamp.
photonboy reviewed v5.25 Build 787 Beta on Jul 28, 2006
If Winamp would support ffdshow and other codecs it would be drastically improved. As it is, most of my video is jerky (on every system I've seen regardless of specs) due to their crappy video drivers for divx/xvid.
It's nice that they are still trying to improve it. I wouldn't mind going back to Winamp but just sort out those codecs!!
TomekLutel reviewed v5.25 Build 787 Beta on Jul 27, 2006
is it only my suggestion, or does 24 bit playback really improves quality of mp3's? My DirectSound output however still shows 16bit... I have Audigy2zs soundcard...
1uk3 reviewed v5.25 Build 787 Beta on Jul 26, 2006
Fantastic audio player! Now it sounds even better with 24Bit audio support!
crosscut reviewed v5.24 on Jul 23, 2006
And its user's like zankur who make me appreciate when someone posts an educated review as opposed to a post that insults users for using something else or disagreeing with their view. Plus, the sheer fact that they cant make a post without using their profanity or insulting other players shows the true color of their character.
Winamp is a nice player, used to be my default for many many long years, but since I need an all-in-one player (WHICH IS WHAT WINAMP IS TRYING TO BE, regardless of what the skeptics say) I have since moved to Zoom Player which supports everything winamp does (minus visualizations, which I dont require since they are simply eye candy) and more (dvd playback). So, if you want a simple player for audio (video playback in winamp is horrible, lockups when fast forwarding various files, loss of sync with aud and vid, etc), go for winamp, it cant be beat. But if you want an all-in-one, try a suite like zoom player or QMP.
Sephirstein reviewed v5.24 on Jun 23, 2006
I agree with Zankur: I can run this app on my friend's PII-400.
She doesn't have the net so I installed it for her to replace her s***-ass WMP9.
Zankur reviewed v5.24 on Jun 22, 2006
Its so hillarious to see previous few reviews about thosed third-rated programs...what?????...xmplay...ohhhh!!!
I think people are still living with pc's using win-95 and 32mb ram...which is why they need light suc**** players...
Winamp is light on pc,has all the necessary features,good sound quality,great skins and plug-ins...
IF you want those useless piece of s*** than you may,but this the player recommended!!
the artist reviewed v5.24 on Jun 22, 2006
to benZin: try the following: install this new version WITHOUT video functions and as minimal as you want, use the classic skin mode, download a skin of your preference if you like. or just try Winamp Lite, which may be your cup of tea.
i just can't live with the idea that i have a 3 or more year old soft. new versions are subtly improved in tons of ways man. even if this one isn't making huge improvements from ver to ver, i think it is growing each time.
benZin reviewed v5.24 on Jun 22, 2006
I still prefer Winamp 2.9. Here you can dl old versions : http://www.oldapps.com/winamp.htm
But I run with foobar2000 now :)
tremens reviewed v5.24 on Jun 22, 2006
still excellent
to Photonboy: Winamp uses directshow filters, so it will use ffdshow or whatever filter you have in place
photonboy reviewed v5.24 on Jun 22, 2006
Many of my video files such as divx/xvid have a recurring pause/slowdown glitch every second or two. I have noticed this for a couple years and it is still not resolved. Why don't they just use the tried and true ffdshow plugins?
This player was so great once and still has potential, but they seem to be letting a lot of complaints slide.
bigsexy022870 reviewed v5.24 on Jun 22, 2006
I love winamp but i hate the added aol junk. It seems instead of releasing a new version with actual changes they just fix one tiny thing and add a ton of aol stuff.
pyridox reviewed v5.23 on Jun 8, 2006
Best MP3 player I've used.
Sweet! They finally fixed these annoying bugs!
the artist reviewed v5.23 on Jun 7, 2006
can't skip it: doctorsmith, great joke!
winamp is the best around. period.
genu reviewed v5.23 Build 666 Beta on Jun 7, 2006
666? its the AntiChrist...i think ill skip this release
jcollake reviewed v5.23 Build 666 Beta on Jun 6, 2006
They released on 06/06/06 build 666. Is this nullsoft trying to say something about AOL?
GS5 reviewed v5.23 Build 666 Beta on Jun 6, 2006
The only MP3 player I've ever used. I still can't find any other program to even compete with Winamp. I'm surprised that AOL hasn't completely destroyed Winamp like they did with other software like ICQ.
Winamp Rocks!!!
doctorsmith reviewed v5.23 Build 666 Beta on Jun 6, 2006
Build 666 - I don't know if it's just me but I'm sure Sympathy For The Devil sounds better on this new build
mjmarshall reviewed v5.23 Build 666 Beta on Jun 6, 2006
666 - The Number of the LLAMA! :)
Pembo reviewed v5.23 Build 666 Beta on Jun 6, 2006
I'll joint the list to comment about build 666.
...Hey, Just that's pure mature Cheddar, covered in Edam Sauce plus sprinklings of Double Gloucester & Mozzarella.
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pyridox reviewed v5.23 Build 666 Beta on Jun 6, 2006
Been using this program for years. I am so used to it, and it has always worked well. I know there are other programs out there, but I'm so comfortable with Winamp. It was one of the first descent mp3 players out there, back when the only thing else we had was MS media player.
Thank you Justin Frankel!
purplehaze32 reviewed v5.23 Build 666 Beta on Jun 6, 2006
Build 666 - cheesy, but funny.
Still my favorite music player for PCs.
1uk3 reviewed v5.23 Build 666 Beta on Jun 6, 2006
Build 666! Lol! Excellent!
Aside from the build 666 tag though, Winamp 5 is my fav music player by far.
dzjepp reviewed v5.23 Build 666 Beta on Jun 6, 2006
hehehe build 666 >:E
ITS EVIL I TELLZ YA!
stevetures reviewed v5.23 Build 666 Beta on Jun 6, 2006
come on. You guys don't remember Winamp v1.666?
Someone out there at Nullsoft does.
bid reviewed v5.23 Build 666 Beta on Jun 6, 2006
Chessy. Really cheesy.
jon8rfc reviewed v5.22 on May 29, 2006
I've been a user for many years and still love the program. Awesome.
tommie reviewed v5.22 on May 26, 2006
Still no HTTPS support...
berserkchaos reviewed v5.22 on May 26, 2006
If you KNOW how to use Winamp then you'll have a very powerful multimedia tool.
ye110mann reviewed v5.22 on May 26, 2006
I left WinAMP for good 1.5 years ago. Foobar and MPC with ffdshow does everything WinAMP does and more but better and in a smaller package.
Mick Leong reviewed v5.22 on May 26, 2006
I can't understand why the software always pops up the blank window for showing mpg avi files when i am only playing mp3 music. Softwareisn't intelligent enough. Also it has got a mind of its own - it will play the mp3 list randomly - even though i sorted it. Ths playlist shows the list in a certain order but it refuses to play in that sequence. I remember the early versions v2++ and it worksfine. It is really bloated. Please fix annoying items before adding new features.
sQin reviewed v5.22 on May 26, 2006
why is it bloated? usually i uncheck components i don't need during installiation
Canuckistani reviewed v5.22 on May 25, 2006
There is no reason not to have a full tool set. A single multimedia program is not going to "do it". K-Lite Codec Pack with Media Player Classic, Foobar2000, VLC, Windows Media Player and WinAmp means you are locked, loaded and ready for multimedia bear. I don't pick a team and go "that's my religion". Nope, I want it all and I want it right now.
Blackhole8746 reviewed v5.21 on May 15, 2006
Windows Media player is much superior, especially in supporting Dolby ProLogic II plugins to make virtual surround out of ordinart stereo MP3 files. Audio quality in WMP is loads better and so on...
There's a huge difference
gnosh reviewed v5.21 on May 9, 2006
I am using the Lite version. Every time I start the program my newly-installed firewall will report that Winamp is trying to connect to xerodes.gigaweb.cz. Any idea what this is about? Has anybody else experienced this?
ccombe reviewed v5.21 on Mar 14, 2006
Great to see Winamp updated co quickly.
I find this build to be less stable then 5.2, perhaps its an issue with the modern skins I am using.
Hopefully stability issues will be fixed in 5.22?
Zankur reviewed v5.21 on Mar 13, 2006
Sorry! girls and boys,winamp simply rocks!
Apart from the shoutcast thing,i can't find any buggyness....any slowdown or mess-up!
The media player is as good as any jukebox available with all necessary features minus the crap which comes with itunes,musicmatch and mediacentre.....
It has all that you will need!
Darkk reviewed v5.21 on Mar 12, 2006
They've really made a mistake in changing the Shoutcast search window. I absolutely hate the new format. Not only can't you sort the listing any longer, but the alternating color text lines are horrendous to look at. The older monochromatic and sortable display was so much better.
I won't be upgrading any more of my machines to 5.2x until the Shoutcase search issue is fixed.
If Nullsoft decides not to do something about the Shoutcast searching, I'll be looking for another player. I've been using WinAmp for years, but maybe it's time to look elsewhere now.
citrus reviewed v5.21 on Mar 10, 2006
they really REALLY need to put the shoutcast search back into the program.. my company uses winamp for the internet radio and we have floor supervisors that pick music the streams to the call floor all day and they are not upgrading to 5.2. other then that i love winamp..
BoNeLeSS reviewed v5.21 on Mar 10, 2006
A correct media player. Lots of useful features and best streaming support... Don't need em? get lite version
1uk3 reviewed v5.21 on Mar 10, 2006
There are a few bugs as mentioned by others but Winamp is still my personal fav player.
I use a gorgoues skin called clearOne with it and it looks fantastic.
LetsSurf reviewed v5.21 on Mar 10, 2006
Winamp is just getting worse, I've use winamp since the very beginning of v1. Now it's just horrid. So buggy. As all the guys below have said they are just removing so many good features.
It's time to look for another music player. It's gonna be difficult after using Winamp for so long.
Any suggestions?
bsf reviewed v5.2 on Mar 8, 2006
I'm curious. how much RAM does winamp cost on you guys' systems ?
It takes up 4Mb on my computer minimized, and 6Mb when in modern skin mode. I just wonder how much does it take on you guys' computers. I use foobar sometimes because it's really light I agree, but when loading songs with Chinese, Japanese, and English file names, sometimes it freezes up the whole computer and it's a bit annoying sometimes. Winamp's at least play the songs right, although sometimes the display encoding is a bit screwed up.
cPingN reviewed v5.2 on Mar 1, 2006
Yeah they blew it this time. Online stuff has gone to hell - now I have to go back to shoutcast.com to find streams because the hacked, embedded version doesn't give enough info. What was wrong with the old version???! So much AOL s*** going into this thing now. I've been a long time user and supporter but I fear it will not last much longer. Slowly the good points of winamp are disappearing. Put the old shoutcast listing back!! Fix BUGS, like locking up when it can't find a file on a remote system..
plumlipstick reviewed v5.2 on Feb 27, 2006
I have happily used Winamp for years. This version is too buggy to even be considered a full release. There are several bugs that just crash the program with no chance to save anything. The worst part for me though is that it trashes my ini file if I tell it not to ask me about sending user data to their site until the next install. On exiting Winamp, deleting the ini file is the only way I can run the software again. Allowing it to actually send data to its site results in an immediate crash or no result at all, leaving me just sitting at the dialog box. The only remedy is to let it prompt me each time I run the program, and that's a hassle I don't want to live with for long. I'm going back to an earlier version and hope they can do a better job next time. As for now, be smart and leave this one alone!
Keith. reviewed v5.2 on Feb 26, 2006
The options for internet radio and tv have gone and their forums won't let you post, it took three goes before it would install, once the installer was corrupt, contacting them gets a response from digital river, not very impressed, have uninstalled it and stopped it asking about checking for updates
GhoS reviewed v5.2 on Feb 23, 2006
Its been this way for quite some time. The new release is known before it shows up on the winamp page. I'm not sure why that is, but maybe the people behind winamp are slow at updating their pages.
Its a great program though which I have used for quite some time and continue to use. Though admittedly at stopped for a time during the Winamp 3 debacle.
stevetures reviewed v5.2 Build 449 Beta on Feb 22, 2006
Of course it gets a 5. But here's why:
The most important feature with the new Winamp is the Portable Music Player plugin for the library. It recognizes by PlaysForSure MTP device (a flashed Creative Zen Touch), and it has a legacy Creative plugin as well as an iPod plugin. The PlaysForSure plugin works with a few ups and downs:
1.Can transfer any music to your pmp with a simple right click in the library.
2.Can easily create playlists from pmp.
3.Does not yet allow playing music directly from a device (a dialog box pops up and says something about 'to be implemented'.
4. It is very slow (45-90 seconds) in discovering my pmp.
That being said, hats off to the remainder of nullsoft as the head in the right direction. And hey, if you don't like the 'bloat' in winamp, you can always go into the preferences and click the 'uninstall plugin' button. The first things to go for me are the modern skin, JTFE. When minimized, it uses 1494 K of ram. Of course, foobar2000 beats that using 688 K, but that only really helps if you are using a good old 32 M Windows 98 166MHz IBM laptop (the only place I use it).
Cheers to the Winamp team. Hope the following releases can squish some more bugs.
SamppaX reviewed v5.2 on Feb 22, 2006
I give winamp 5/5 this time... I use foobar2000 now because it's very goob low resource player.
But don't understand me wrong "Winamp is still one of the best" [Before foobar2000 i used winamp many years.] but now foobar is superb for my needs.
One thing i don't believe tought is that someone said that "winamp [minimized] uses less ram than foobar2000"?
sn0wflake reviewed v5.2 on Feb 22, 2006
Delicious.
GeorgeSantayana reviewed v5.2 on Feb 21, 2006
Quite nice. Very extensible and customizable.
Bloated? Foobar? Time to upgrade your 386, Poindexter.
crashoverride reviewed v5.2 on Feb 21, 2006
Bloat?......Bloat? you winers obviously have never used music match. Foobar..I hate that fubared junk.
Edit:
To the blind person above me. If you had taken the time to read, you'll notice that I said nothing about foobar being bloated. I only said that I do not like it.
knuckles reviewed v5.2 on Feb 21, 2006
I'm just happy winamp is still around. It was one of the first and it remains as one of the best. I personally enjoy a music library and that's why I love winamp. Winamp as a player I think is slightly below par compared to foobar, but in terms of a library winamp wins. Since foobar lacks this functionality. Of course the people who use foobar organize their music based on heirarchies of folders. I personally use Musikcube because I do not need all of the features of winamp, but for ipod and media player owners I think this new version will help winamp regain some of its users from itunes. Not to say that itunes is horrible. It has some great features but its use of system resources is unacceptable. I would agree with a previous reviewer that winamps new method of tagging radio stations is way too bulky and lack functionality.
Since I do not usually use this feature I'm giving it a five instead of a four.
Sinister reviewed v5.2 on Feb 21, 2006
It definitely uses less RAM than foobar 0.8.3 and about the same amount as foobar 0.9 RC. Just use the oldskin.
kazoom reviewed v5.2 on Feb 21, 2006
It now has podcast subscriptions to listen to :)
Lurifax reviewed v5.2 on Feb 21, 2006
Winamp is getting worse and worse, compared to the competition. It was great some five years ago, now it's just a name.
xrayspex reviewed v5.2 on Feb 21, 2006
There's options to sort by Name, Bitrate or Type at the top of each Genre results
Zoroaster reviewed v5.2 on Feb 21, 2006
If I haven't removed Winamp since a long time Winamp, it's only for its station browser facility. Now even that has been "upgraded". The whole is a bulky, bloated music system. Remember Winamp at its beginning, mainly the 2.x versions, remember how the company was before it had been acquired by AOL? Those times are over, and Winamp is finished. It has become craps, in my opinion.
THZGryphon reviewed v5.2 Build 449 Beta on Feb 19, 2006
The new station browser is awful, there is no way to sort them by bit-rate or listener count any longer that I can find. Each stations info now takes up 3 times the space of previous versions causing more need to scroll.
ds0934 reviewed v5.2 Build 449 Beta on Feb 17, 2006
I tried build 4.36 but it was too buggy. I will wait until it goes "final" to avoid problems. I had to roll back to 5.13 to keep using it. I really like WinAmp though, so I'm looking fwd to 5.2
horsecharles reviewed v5.2 Build 449 Beta on Feb 17, 2006
Installs cleanly now. Still shouldn't jsut autostart upon install though.
nant` reviewed v5.2 Build 449 Beta on Feb 17, 2006
The above changelog is incorrect for this build.
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Fixed id3v2 url tag writing bug
Fixed filename display for mp3 with no tags if atf is disabled
Fixed some Win98 bugs (????? in taskbar, crash on stop/close, etc)
Other general minor bugfixes & optimizations
New JTFE 0.97
crashoverride reviewed v5.2 Build 440 Beta on Feb 15, 2006
So far now crashes which was the only problem I had with build 436 other than momentary freezes when adding music to the library.
horsecharles reviewed v5.2 Build 440 Beta on Feb 15, 2006
The install bug & its error message is improving with each subsequent recent release: it has gone from--
a. automatically rebooting computer(immediately & w/ no way of delaying or preventing), to
b. error ONLY locking computer-- ctrl-alt-del not working, thus requiring a manual hard reboot.
c. being able to continue one's work, albeit with that error message box annoyingly covering part of one's work-- could only be moved around, but not minimized, much less closed. To now:
d: error message box can now be shut down!!!
Of course, apart from being funny, it remains to be asked why the box w/ the illegal operation still appears, and MOST Importantly: WHY Winamp is still opening up W/O one's Permission!!!
BTW System's fully patched & i've experimented toggling the 'send anonymous usage stats' option on/off during installs.
nant` reviewed v5.2 Build 440 Beta on Feb 15, 2006
Build 440 Changelog
Fixed playlist loading bug
Fixed reverse/randomize playlist focus bug
Fixed blocking vorbis editor bugs
Fixed crash when editing vorbis files in ml
Fixed saving genre via drop-down menu in vorbis editor
Other general minor bugfixes
stisev reviewed v5.2 Build 430 Beta on Feb 15, 2006
@@@@ EMERGENCY WARNING TO ALL USERS @@@@
**DO NOT** install build 536. It will b0rk your ability to change skins. Confirmed bug!
pyridox reviewed v5.2 Build 430 Beta on Feb 14, 2006
Well, the last beta did freeze on my system here. I had to kill it in task manger a few times. So for now, I'm back to 5.13. Hey, that's why they call it Beta!
Winamp is still one of the best, I can't wait until they get the betas finished.
DakotaSunRunner reviewed v5.2 Build 430 Beta on Feb 14, 2006
I have been using the winamp beta for some time now and I have not had any problems at all. It did not freeze, reboot or anything else after installation. It is a great piece of software that has not presented any problems at all. I think winamp has allot going for it and as far as I am concerned it is better than some of the other junk out there that proclaim to be the best and are not.
horsecharles reviewed v5.2 Build 430 Beta on Feb 13, 2006
Install routine still buggy, though in a different manner with this release: cannot close program(it auto-opens w/o permission after install): returns an illegal operation box that refuses to close w/o a reboot.
My previous caveat was not a bash, but an admonition to others not to overly thrash reviews of a beta release-- although a setup bug is really not excusable for a beta, much less a program so ancient already.
The MAZZTer reviewed v5.2 Build 430 Beta on Feb 13, 2006
Beta software has had all major bugs known up to that point ironed out... any bugs intentionally left in at that point do not hinder the working of the actual program. That's my definition of beta, at least.
The build before this one is fine and stable, this one probably is too.
Also it claims to have fixed a big memory leak in the modern skin, which is good.
horsecharles reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 13, 2006
Careful w/ this release: it is a BETA, as they responsibly & amply warn you before setup. When you install it, have all your other work saved already, as it may cause either:
a hard lockout only solved with a hard reboot, OR a spontaneous reboot immediately upon install.
davidtb reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 13, 2006
If I had a nickel for every time Winamp did an update, I'd probably have err, ahh, a couple of bucks.
Call it fat, bloated, resource hoggin', sonva blahblahblah,but I'm used to it, I like it, I've accepted it's short commings.
I wish Songbird impressed me more, but it's on a short cut description to the beginning of this paragraph, but it has possibilities. I think I just said nothing. I should run for office.
terminalx reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 12, 2006
I have never had any issues with winamp from 2.x onward its always loaded fast for me and never a lag on the system.
I don't see how this program is "bloatware" especially when there are 3 different versions to choose from and one can choose the barest of requirements plus customize it during install as well...
crashoverride reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 12, 2006
I've been using Winamp since the 2.xx days and will continue to do so. WMP is pathetic. Musicmatch is more bloated than this and loads extremely slowly. Foobar and I just can't get along. When Itunes runs as it shold it's ok. Don't even get me started on Real Player and Quicktime.
ckjnigel reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 12, 2006
A year ago there was hair rending as many wept that the original Winamp development team was gone -- only decline to uselessness could await.
I don't know how AOL got the current guys (any girls?), but they're clearly enthusiastic and clever.
As an all-in-one media center it's unsurpassed.
freegoo reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 12, 2006
I've tried various other players including WMP, Foobar, QCD, iTunes, etc. and Winamp is still the player I use 99% of the time. It simply can't be beat for general music playback in my opinion. I love the queue system (hold alt and click on a song in a playlist and it will queue it up to be played next), the jump-to feature (press J), and it's simple interface (with their modern skin). And as far as I can tell, there isn't another player out there that can touch Winamp's extensive plugin and skin support.
Resource hog? Not on my system. With song playing it uses about 13 megs and 0-1% cpu usage. When playing a video it spiked almost all the way up to 15 megs (WOW!) and 1-3% cpu usage. Maybe you people with problems should quit buying Dells or cheap hardware?
ModderXManiac reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 12, 2006
Bloat, piss-poor video playback, sloooow by all means, not worth the download. See now, I'm reviewing the product as is. Think, if they provide video playback, don't you think they would want to give it an appealing expierience? I won't make the five meg download to take the video feature off at setup. Also it would be vital to mention the bandwidth this app requires uselessly even when not streaming any media, which became quite critical while I was on a dial-up connection as of just a month ago I can't stand apps THAT intrusive. After diagnosing for a few days even to find where the bandwidth was going,I said "This isn't worth it" uninstalling changed it all, and really, it wasn't worth it.
IT'S CRAP.
Anyone with a brain uses Foobar2000.
"Sure, it slows a bit. But tell me another app that can keep track of all that data and not explode?"
Windows Media Player, Foobar2000, 1by1 Directory Player; All of which perform better than this. Sure, this really CAN handle all that track data, but it'll use up more resources doing so than any other player, well, except musicmatch, which sucks too.
Clearly you are a n00b reviewer.
*edit* hey, freegoo, I have a custom Athlon fx 57 system with 2 gigs of ram, this is a crap product. There's no reason it should be as bloated as it is with how much it sucks.
matt2971 reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 12, 2006
"Sure, it slows a bit. But tell me another app that can keep track of all that data and not explode?"
Foobar? Or any other player that isn't jam-packed full of bloat like Winamp is these days.....
xpose reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 12, 2006
There are really only 3 possible apps you would want to use as mp3 players: foobar, winamp, and windows media player. Lets not waste time mentioning any others. I should also add that Ive been using winamp since it was pretty much the only app in town.
- foobar is too basic for me. If you want basic, thats fine. But knocking winamp for being feature rich just doesnt make sense.
- wmp is too laggy for me with a large music collection.
Those who knock winamp for being a resource hog, or crappy video playback. Well, I didnt realize you were still using a 486. Secondly, it keeps track of a great deal of information in its media library. And finally, being able to play videos is just an addition to its core functionality of being a music player.
drdrs reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 12, 2006
I give the recent WinAMPs (5+ & the Betas) my top rating.
It's (mostly) free, it does all my FLACs & mp3s for me in fine sound, & I can make it look GooooD on my desktop.
I also use Foobar and my new FaVe, musikCube, for "other schtuff" but - I always keep updated on WinAMP.
*ThAnX, WinAMP Dev. Team.!!!*
sQin reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 12, 2006
its good only for playback. media library is too slow to organize 6000+ tracks
RoSmecher reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 12, 2006
it's lost it's flavour. a little bit sour now. slow loading speeds, and too many buttons and features, simple is better i think.
ccombe reviewed v5.2 Build 427 Beta on Feb 12, 2006
Winamp was always my first true love for mp3 player, I then moved on to Foobar and have settled with MusikCube simply because I have not had to customise anything for it to behave exactly the other way I want, single best feature is when you load the program it auto detects and file changes and sets up my library all over again. I love it.
WInamp just doesnt respond to my 30,000 + file playlist, its lost alot of its speed. Still a great app which i recommend to heaps of people starting out with mp3's
Bh420 reviewed v5.2 Build 393 Beta on Feb 1, 2006
Winamp still and will always kick ass. @ ModderXManiac if you dont like it then don't download it and b****. you only came to BN to rant about how much you think it sucks without even trying it. Go to the foobar part of BN you fanboy and git out.
ModderXManiac reviewed v5.2 Build 393 Beta on Jan 31, 2006
There is absolutely NO reason a music player should have security issues.
This is bloated crap, if you have to turn off the "fancy" gui and video options to make it even the slightest faster, that's crap.
Foobar 2000 won me over a loooong time ago.
iamtux reviewed v5.13 on Jan 31, 2006
Been using Winamp since v2.x. Its a mainstay on my OS no matter what. Its always one of the first programs I install. I recommend it to everyone, becuase its powerful and lightweight. v3 kinda flopped, but it was still pretty cool. Then v5 has been awesome. The only thing I fear is that it will get to the point where they can't add anything to it anymore. I wish the original team hadn't left, but I'm glad to see the project is still maintained. Go Winamp!
snakes200 reviewed v5.13 on Jan 31, 2006
winamp has always been good for me. cept for maybe winamp 3 of course. but for evryone complaining about security holes. there is never a such thing as safe source code. every peice of software (yes even mac OSX which has had 5 major re releases released for it has holes. and yes even linux does as well. only thing is people don't know much about these holes cause linux isn't widely used like windows is.) so why can't winamp patch just like every other software company does?
AntiochMedia reviewed v5.13 on Jan 30, 2006
The last beta version seemed to incorrectly set the font size for my skin in the playlist when collapsed. This fixes it. All in all - WinAMP is great - every version seems exactly the same and all of the superflous features are there if you need them and practically unnoticeable if you don't.
WinAMP was free AOL XM Radio built in. 95% of WinAMP users probably don't even realize that.
Metshrine reviewed v5.13 on Jan 30, 2006
Oh no, everyone's whining about winamp fixing a security vulnerability. I guess they should just leave them in there and let the users remain vulnerable. Then perhaps everyone here would stop whining, oh wait, no they wouldnt, they would whine even more about them NOT patching. Guess the user below is right, winamp is now equal to windows because in the eyes of the user, they are damned if they do and damned if they dont.
Winamp is my all time favorite media player. Plays everything I want, mov, rm, avi, mpeg, and all audio file formats. The only thing I require, which is coming with 5.2, is DVD Playback. CANT WAIT!
EDIT 31JAN2006
Security Vuln Info
"The vulnerability lies in a buffer overflow, which occurs when processing over-long .PLS file names. This flaw could allow a remote user to run arbitrary code and therefore, compromise the security of affected systems. What's more, an exploit (*) has been published, which increases the risk of attacks that take advantage of this vulnerability."
Gorgurth reviewed v5.13 on Jan 30, 2006
Winamp 5.13
* Fixed [in_mp3] extremely critical security vulnerability
Congratulations, winamp=windows? jejeje
THZGryphon reviewed v5.13 on Jan 30, 2006
Winamp 5.13
* Fixed [in_mp3] extremely critical security vulnerability
Metshrine reviewed v5.2 Build 365 Beta on Jan 27, 2006
Ugh, another user that doesnt realize this is the internet and stuff will get posted regardless of whether the devs want it to or not. If the dev's truely didnt want it posted, they can easily contact betanews and get the post removed.
Tokar reviewed v5.2 Build 365 Beta on Jan 27, 2006
Ugh...
another beta build WinAMP devs advised against listing on software sites.
Siyavash reviewed v5.2 Build 365 Beta on Jan 27, 2006
Winamp 2.x Rocked, Winamp 3.x Sucked. Winamp 5.x is a good app. However, NOT for playing videos. I don't like it. It doesn't buffer in a good way, WMP is much faster when you move forward or backward while watching a video. But for music, nothing beats winamp! Specially when using the "classic" skin. :)
Matb_TePe3a reviewed v5.2 Build 365 Beta on Jan 26, 2006
@tremens
great advice
desibabausa reviewed v5.2 Build 365 Beta on Jan 26, 2006
I like winamp 2.95 better....
but who cares this version has to be good too....
by the way if you want: you can download old version of winamp at http://www.oldapps.com/winamp.htm
enjoy :)
share it... dont be evil.
nebojsaf reviewed v5.2 Build 365 Beta on Jan 26, 2006
Simply best player for music!
For video playing there are better programs.
Murphy71984 reviewed v5.2 Build 365 Beta on Jan 26, 2006
Thank goodness! I was wondering why it kept crashing everytime I closed it...
tremens reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
another great thing about winamp: if you look at the directory, it's completely modular. so all you talking about bloat are fools. don't like the media library, delete gen_ml.dll. Add additional in_*.dll for more format support, delete ones you don't need. Don't need encoding? delete the dlls!! don't use the visuals? delete the vis_*.dll
internet radio and video are easily removed as well
delete the dlls
etc etc etc
it's not rocket science
I use WinAmp Full Lite :)
AntiochMedia reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
Awesome.
Does anyone actually realize that WinAMP has AOL XM Satellite Radio built in? The reason I mention this is that I can't remember having a modern version of Windows without WinAMP... and yet for some reason, I still use WinAMP like I used it when I first downloaded it... I play stuff with a minimalistic theme, dock the player, set it to appear on top and that's it.
I think that WinAMP needs a v6.0 that is packaged with 3 types of skins -- Classic, Modern, and Media Library -- the Media Library and WinAMP are integrated together like iTunes - not in separate windows -- and for WinAMP/AOL to start marketing this...
I of course would continue using Classic - but the point being that with WinAMP being an AOL asset, I want AOL to continue seeing WinAMP as a valuable commodity and continue to push WinAMP as a contender against Windows Media Player and perhaps also as a client for multiple music stores in the future ...
I just want WinAMP to continue aggressively, because I think it's the best and so should everybody else. (so there)
lookwhatifound reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
winamp is not a high resource hog actually. but the modern skins do tend to make winamp sluggish at start in older machines. i never liked fancy skins anyway. so i install winamp without modern skins support & it takes about 8MB RAM & 0% CPU usage for audio (without visualization). foobar also uses about 4MB RAM & 0% CPU usage. so both are great audio players, but winamp has better looking interface.
Tokar reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
I thought the developer on the WinAMP forum said software sites shouldn't list this build.
http://forums.winamp.com...ead.php?threadid=236311
"At this time it is NOT recommended for download sites to mirror these. More stable builds will come in the next few days that will be more appropriate for download outside of this forum."
Heh...who cares what he says. Who doesnt like a good, juicy beta!
To the foobar man: foobar isnt anywhere near as good as WinAMP. And it doesnt have the community that WinAMP has. Just go over to WinAMP.com and find a SH*Tload of plugins, skins, and audio codecs all for the program. And foobar, what does it have? A pretty weak forum.
Paradise-FH- reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
arbitrarily comparing cpu between usage users is a terrible measure. there are too many unknowns (cpu speed, cpu cache, other processess running, amount of ram available, frequency of ram, speed of hard drive, etc.). I've never seen winamp take up enough cpu cycles to affect anything i've been doing (photoshop, flash, tomcat w/ java apps, even gaming).
for those who don't like video: disable it in the setup or remove the plugin from winamp preferences. ta da, gone.
it's a pity that people can't see past aol owning this to see that it is still a very flexible media player. too many reviewers are trying to find faults that just don't exist.
just because Justin isn't driving doesn't mean that it's time to throw winamp away.
crashoverride reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
CPU usage stayed around 3% playing music and topped out at 14% on video play. Uses a bit of ram at 29,324k for music and 37,800k to play a video. Playing music with visual topped at 50% CPU and 39,984k ram. Been using Winamp since the early days and think I'll continue to do so. Just tried Foobar since you guy's seem to like it. Played one song half way thru and removed it. Sorry but I just have no love for Foobar(Fubar in my book).
SamppaX reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
i godda give 3/5, sorry winamp... I used winamp many years... Winamp has come too much resource hog. I use Foobar2000 now, and it's all i need (All about music).
Winamp should remove video support. (Never used and never will).
I hope we can see Winamp rising from the "dirt" back to Top 3 players... =/
meks reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
well, i cant confirm a cpu usage about 10-15%. in fact, winamp, while playing, stays blow 5% (overall).
not to mention that if youve enabled all those visualization extras, cpu usage will raise. but hey, isnt it supposed to increase while rendering needs to be done?
i for myself am a fan of winamp...
markoX reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
Winamp is very good music player (best sound and powerfull EQ), but it uses too much of CPU power - min 10%-15%
pyridox reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
Been using Winamp since it's conception. I use it mainly to play audio, and it works very well for me. I also don't use the video effects, as I usually have it running in the background, playing music or Shoutcast streams.
I have tried Foobar, and it's also nice, but there are a few small things that it doesn't have; like volume control built in, as mentioned by someone else.
photonboy reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
Jack of all Trades. Master of None.
Face it, there are many better programs for video out there. Videolan's VLC, Zoomplayer, WMPClassic6.4.8.7 and more.
It does do a few things in the video domain such as some internet video access. (DVD-Video? Forget it)
It plays audio, and once was the best. But now I want a full page program similar to iTunes, Musicmatch, WxMusik to name a few.
Now with Home Theatre's becoming common, I've experimented with programs such as Meedio to use with my Remote Control and very soon a new HDTV.
Admittedly I've seen video improvements now that it supports the codecs properly but at the end of the day I just don't use this.
If you don't find your niche you'll be discarded.
pseudo reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
When foobar has a volume button or even a sliver of a GUI come back to compare to winamp. Besides who ever says that foobar sounds better than winamp is either liar or a darn n00b.
Winamp definitely has matured to a multi-format player. The aac+ encoder is a good addition. Could it be optimized for faster function though? And yes a little less use of system resources while playing simple MP3s would be nice.
webcrawler reviewed v5.2 Build 359 Beta on Jan 25, 2006
In my experience, Foobar2000 is the best mp3 player. It reproduces sound above and beyond the default packages that ship with other media players. iTunes in my experience has one of the worst sound reproductions. While my computer can handle Winamp Full, I would rather have Foobar2000 playing my own music while I play Sim City. I see no need for bling-bling in utilitarian programs. This applis to messengers... I want a foobar2000-philosophy program for all protocols. It works, works well, and is fast as hel1. Yeah, I use gaim, but it's not as refined and utilitarian as I'd like it to be.
sarcosos reviewed v5.12 on Jan 24, 2006
A multimedia player with an advanced, powerful media library? Rather a rudimentary, like it's 1999, audio player. Still, fully functional.
oubeaver reviewed v5.12 on Jan 7, 2006
I have always given Winamp a 5. Been using since it came out. Best MP3 player, hands down. But WTF, after installing this version I had to restart my computer. Where the hell did that come from? Also, I too have been having some weird problems with it. It starts minimized in the systray and I have to right click on the icon to activate the main window. Something's going on with Winamp and its not good. Damn AOL. Anyone else having weird problems?
lilmegz reviewed v5.12 on Jan 2, 2006
I like Winamp overall for playing MP3s and M4A files... but in this version I am having a problem during winamp loading, itll hang my system.
The Seeker 11 reviewed v5.12 on Dec 13, 2005
To expand on tremens' review, the lite version is capable of playing ogg files but will not play them by default.
To add ogg support to Winamp Lite, download the Nullsoft Vorbis Decoder here.
I did this and am now loving Winamp Lite. It uses minimal resources and sounds great.
tremens reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
The lite version supports ogg. It doesn't have the media library or support the v3 skins. You can add any input by copying the in_?.dll
If you have a slow computer, use foobar, but Winamp + DFX + Tripex is the best mp3 playback possible IMHO. Winamp Full uses alot of memory when it's an active window(around 24 MB, no dsp) and doesn't start lightning quick, but if you minimize it to the system tray, it drops to 0% cpu and about 3-4MB memory(again no dsp). This is on a 845G, 1GB RAM, P4 2.0GHz
Winamp 5 Full + ml_ipod = is great for loading ipods
Although its sad that justin and pals have left, I don't believe winamp has been AOLized like many fear. Both full and lite run as expected for their feature set.
I just have a shuffle, but I think Itunes is crap
Goldengamegod reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
Greate player, few things missing from the change log though.
"Notes:
Many input plugins were tweaked for versatility and better performance, for example:
The MP4 plugin can now play MPEG-4 HE-AAC encoded files, which eliminates the need to use third party plugins for certain files.
The AAC/AAC+ plugin will manually calculate the bitrate when the decoder is unable to. This allows for seeking within MPEG-2 AAC files encoded using variable bitrate.
The CD playback plugin has been improved to reduce (and on some drives, eliminate) the small pause between tracks.
Many improvements were made to increase overall performance and reduce memory usage, for example:
Playlist entries now take up significantly less memory. Many testers reported that memory usage dropped three-fold on very large playlists (10,000+ songs).
The modern skinning engine has been significantly optimized. Skin loading and switching is much faster. Typical CPU usage is three times less in most scenarios (desktop-alpha mode will still be slow).
The startup routine has been slightly tweaked to improve Winamp load time. Load time is fast even when using a modern skin.
-Benski
---------
New in_wm.dll now supports WMA, WMV, ASF and mms:// streams. If you previously unchecked support for video you'll still get video support if selecting WMA under the Audio section of the installer (more info). On upgrades, the installer will also automatically remove WMV and ASF from the DirectShow Decoder extension list.
The only setting which you might need to adjust (via: in_wm config) is 'Speaker Configuration' (default value is 5.1 speakers). Note, we do not recommend changing ANY settings in the in_wm Advanced config, not unless you REALLY know what you're doing (thankfully, there's a Reset button which will reset all defaults).
Also note that you no longer need to add /.wma to the end of mms:// url's :-)
If you use Playlist Loader plugin for .asx playlist support, then make sure you've got the latest version, and then go to: Prefs > File Types > Extra Options, and Select All (to make pl_loader exclude adding /.wma when parsing .asx playlists). Note: If Winamp version is 5.12 or higher, by default, pl_loader will no longer add /.wma to the end of any mms:// url's.
Note the new "Download System Codecs" option on Screen 5 of the installer options. This will download and install the Windows Media 9 Codecs (approx. 5mb), but only if required. If you uncheck this option or if the download fails, then in_wm and enc_wma might not behave properly (assuming you install support for them in Screen 2 of the installer options).
"Use sonic engine" now 2 separate/unlinked options in 'Prefs > CD Ripping' and 'Prefs > Plugins > Input > in_cdda > config' (so you can now simultaneously use sonic for faster ripping, and use aspi/spti for gapless playback)
Support for %cdengine% in ATF string (will show if cd playback is using sonic, spti, aspi, etc engine), eg.
[%artist% - ]$if2(%title%,$filepart(%filename%))[ '('using %cdengine%')']
Winamp now supports he-aac in .m4a/.mp4 container (aka: Nero Digital), so there's no longer any need to recommend the 3rd-party rarewares/audiocoding in_mp4 plugin. Note, there's still no support for mp4 video or proprietary ALAC (Apple lossless) - in either the Nullsoft or 3rd-party in_mp4 plugin.
Take note of the new Winamp\System folder, and leave well alone.
Official Final Build version = 5.1.2.272
-Egg"
hugh750 reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
I Just downloaded winamp 5.12 yesterday and i would give it five stars but i gave it four because in where it lists what was changed it lists"HE-AAC MP4/M4A files" as now supported when in the previous version i was able to play music files that i ripped from my own cds encoding them using HE-AAC MP4 (i Used nero 6 to rip).
Brian49 reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
I can't see the `bloat' argument - you are free to install as much or as little as you want. For me the most worthwhile aspect of Winamp's development these days is that of the input plugins. The star feature of this particular release is the greatly improved WMA input plugin, at last with a decent set of config options and usability with DSP plugins (but not with different output plugins, it would appear).
And| reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
christoofar
As far as I know the last version 2, was 2.91. Anyways, I will agree with you to some extend.
I am actualy on the search for a new player. WinAmp has become to bloated for me. It does have good quality, but it has to much of nothing.. "Then get the lite one", yeah right, and not to be able to play ogg files? Or whatever that filetype is that doesnt play in lite.
Please stop screwing everything up, AOL.
Natrunner reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
The lite version is excellent, stable, and simple. I have been Winamp for years without any problems. As for the full version, forget it as it is clunky and prone to some crashing.
kholdstare reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
Winamp has always been the best player out there glad to see it coming out with new versions. The ignorance of people who say there is not a better version after 2.95 or its bloated. apparently these people do not know how an installed works on how to add and remove what features you want. thats where the ignorance is
christoofar reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
"As long as they don't add usless code and garbage that AOL is notorious known for, making it useless, they get a 5. :)"
Yer kidding....right? THAT horse left the barn ages ago.What, no ice chipper attachment...yet?
Anything after version 2.95 is a waste of space/resources.
Kamika007z reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
jsc315,
That was an ignorant statement and rating. If you used the program you'd realize that it's a great player. Yes, it's owned now by AOL, but they have stayed true to the original program and are constantly updating it and fixing many bugfixes, making it faster and faster and better.
As long as they don't add usless code and garbage that AOL is notorious known for, making it useless, they get a 5. :)
ghammer reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
WinAmp is a helluva a player.
Most people will never need anything else, especially with the plugins available.
If you do need something better, try J. River Media Player 11.x
Metshrine reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
Best player ever, cant wait for 5.2 with dvd support (hopefully they can work out the legalities with Sonic).
As for the user below, where did you get the "No changes for 5.12" statement? from the forums
Whats new:
* New: [in_wm] Windows Media Video support (with DRM)
* New: [in_mp4] Support for HE-AAC MP4/M4A files
* Improved: lots of minor plugin improvements
* Improved: Visualization data calculations
* Improved: Significantly less playlist memory usage
* Improved: more multi-user improvements (almost there!)
* Improved: [installer] setup options, saved settings, codec downloading
* Improved: [gen_ff] optimized skinning engine
* Improved: [out_disk] new features
* Improved: [in_cdda] playback/ripping with sonic engine
* Fixed: freezing when cancelling cd burn
* Fixed: video scaling bug (with modern skin scaling < 100%)
* Fixed: minor installer bugs
* Fixed: freeze when loading classic skin with main window hidden
* Fixed: Visualizations for 24bit and 32bit songs
* Fixed: Advanced Title Formatting with Japanese, Chinese and Korean metadata (thanks mrym)
* Fixed: [in_mp3] raw AAC VBR file seeking and bitrate reporting
* Fixed: [in_mp4] unicode metadata writing
* Fixed: [in_wm/in_dshow] mms:// streaming video playback
* Fixed: [in_cdda] audio cd bitrate display
* Fixed: [in_cdda] Sonic engine on 64bit windows (thanks STanger)
* Fixed: lots of small bugs ...
* Updated: Sonic CD Engine 2.2.50
* Updated: libmp4v2 1.4.1
* Updated: Coding Technology AAC+ Decoder 7.2.0
eblade reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
WinAMP has always been a really good player, and if not for as slow as it is, though I do use VLC as my primary media player, since I'd rather have something just plain play, rather than run it through several players trying to make it work.
For media that I know will play in WinAMP, though, I tend to use it over VLC
linkdup reviewed v5.12 on Dec 9, 2005
"There are no changes noted for Winamp 5 Full 5.12"
wtf!
jsc315 reviewed v5.112 on Nov 16, 2005
updates for winamp? WOW! Been some time since i seen one of these. I forgot about this thing. To bad AOL owns it or it could have been much better.
LordNikon reviewed v5.112 on Nov 16, 2005
I primarily use WinAMP and I love it, but I did give it a 4 for somewhat poor vid support and bugs. Since Version 5 I have started install using the custom settings. I use it now as a minimal MP3 player w/ NO visulations.
OSuser reviewed v5.112 on Nov 16, 2005
when are they going to fix the crashes when and if not connected to stream channels? I've tried on all 3 different systems and all crashed/freezed. Been like this since 2-3 updates ago.
photonboy reviewed v5.111 on Oct 28, 2005
Even though it finally uses my video codecs it is periodically jerky about once every few seconds so it is useless to me for my video files.
It seems to be a jack of all trades, but master of none (or mostly none). It has always had the ability to be a truly amazing program but just never seems to be finished to the point I can really use it above other software.
Where are they headed with this program?
Richardky reviewed v5.111 on Oct 28, 2005
i always have like winamp ...even though its gone to H*ll ...this release is nothing the majority of fixes they claim is not true and are still not fixed...biggest one being blank playlist ...
lordgibbness reviewed v5.111 on Oct 28, 2005
If you don't use video then just download the lite edition, and get any plugins you need afterwards - or just unselect the options you don't want on install. I still think v5.08d is the version to stick with as I don't like AOL choosing which output I can use with the WMA format.
eviljolly reviewed v5.111 on Oct 28, 2005
I've been using 5.093 forever now with no problems, but I figured I might as well update. Haven't noticed much of a difference. I wish I could disable features to make it load as fast as 2.x since I don't really use the video features of it. Actually that's why I am giving it a 4. The video support isn't the best, but that's not really the reason I use it.
jsc315 reviewed v5.111 on Oct 28, 2005
This took them way to long to put out. there have been so many other players that can do what this can do and better. There a few years late with this one. There are very little if ever any updates at all.
Murphy71984 reviewed v5.111 on Oct 28, 2005
Winamp rox my sox!
ye110mann reviewed v5.11 on Oct 28, 2005
The 2nd best audio player.
The first? foobar2000. Less resources, more customizable, and best sound quality. But it is plain. If you want looks stick with WinAMP.
1uk3 reviewed v5.11 on Oct 21, 2005
Pretty much perfect. Don't try Real Player as koza suggests because it really sucks! ;)
Winamp is a great player. It plays pretty much every music file out of the box and has great plugins and visulisations.
Although not 100% perfect Winamp rocks and is my music player of choice =D
sld reviewed v5.11 on Oct 21, 2005
Bose actually produces great-sounding products?
I think quality players like Foobar should be re-positioned as bulls*** brand detectors.
Winamp rocks hot as ever. I don't use it, but my family members do.
The lame mp3 encoder bundled with the installer is already outdated with the release. hydrogenaudio.org already recommends version 3.97 beta.
Some may think hydrogenaudio.org doesn't suit their... personal convictions. I need to remind everybody that the main lame developers hang out in that forum, and receive testing contributions from other HA-ers.
It's good to see Winamp taking lame seriously, and keep the bug fixes and refinements coming.
fss69 reviewed v5.11 on Oct 21, 2005
Still a great player. Nice to see them continue trying to work out kinks and improve it.
To improvelence:
You obviously don't have any idea what you're talking about if you buy Bose and think the Bose Lifestyle is good audio gear. Foobar can produce better audio quality, but you must know how to configure it properly and, of course, have a decent source and audio equipment.
OJO2005 reviewed v5.11 on Oct 21, 2005
first just a little for tipsyboy to think about , 1 , how many programs did you have running while installing winamp ?
2 , how much s*** starts up when you start your computer ?
3 , did you install any other program without restarting your computer before trying to install winamp ( or any other program ) ?
4 , if not taking care of these very basic facts on a computer , any program will likely make problems ...
So about winamp , I have used since the very beginning and it just get better with time...
sorry for all my bla bla to tipsyboy , but all the above goes for everyone to remember if not wanting problems...
tipsyboy reviewed v5.11 on Oct 21, 2005
This piece of electronical garbage froze my system, couldn't even reach the task manager any more.
And all that just while running the setup.
Consequently, I wasn't even able to un-install it - as there was no entry. So I had to restore my registry as well.
This is logarithmic crap!
Beware of this "program".
improvelence reviewed v5.11 on Oct 21, 2005
I have complained about winamp, tried other players..etc. But the fact of the matter is that Winamp is still the greatest. It has proven itself over the years and has withstood the test of time. Foobar is cool if you want an immense level of configuration and have way too much time on your hands...but the sound quality sucks on a good system. (My Bose Lifestyle). You can say I am wrong all you want but you obviously have a crappy system if you think foobar has great sound quality out of the box. Quintessential Player has great sound but it is buggy and the tagging feature is crap. My solution. Itunes for library, ripping and encoding...Winamp for straight foreward music and video. End of story.
hugh750 reviewed v5.11 on Oct 21, 2005
I Just Downloaded This Version And So Far I've Had No Lockups Yah!
So I Recommend This Version!
kholdstare reviewed v5.11 on Oct 21, 2005
Nice to see they are still fixing bugs among other things in this great player don't use anything else and i been with it sense winamp .16. and to the haters always using the bloat word just download the lite version instead of complaining
Gehenna reviewed v5.11 on Oct 21, 2005
Still improving after all this time...
Great Player...Superb Visuals (milkdrop)..Easy to use...What else do you want?
pyridox reviewed v5.11 on Oct 21, 2005
I've tried other media players, and keep finding myself coming back to Winamp. I don't use the visual effects, just use it to play .mp3, .wav, .mid, & CD's mostly.
I guess I'm just set in my ways, been using Winamp since it's conception. When it was the only descent player at the time.
;-)
DJ-Egg reviewed v5.11 on Oct 21, 2005
Prefs > Media Library > Online Media > Modify Preferences:
Uncheck "Look for new Online Media Channels on exit"
Note, if you uncheck this option then the Online Media section will never be updated if any new channels become available.
Also note that this feature/option has been in since v5.09x :/
By the way, there's a slightly more detailed changelog available via the 5.11 thread on the Winamp forums:
http://forums.winamp.com...ead.php?threadid=228913
Thanks :-)
crashoverride reviewed v5.11 on Oct 21, 2005
This thing is one of the best players ever. Oh an before someone complains about the bloat and takes a trip down memory lane check out this site.
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=winamp
burfadel reviewed v5.11 on Oct 20, 2005
Great player, definately my preference for playing music files.
To disable sending anonymous usage data, go to options -- preferences -- general preferences
There is an option there to check for new versions when Winamp starts up, and another one to report anonymous usage statistics.
It would be wiser to disbale it then to block it using a firewall!
l_p_4_7 reviewed v5.11 on Oct 20, 2005
Then either get a firewall, or stop using the program. Simple.
Winamp is easily the best media player for audio files.
arossetti reviewed v5.11 on Oct 20, 2005
This version, for some reason, attempts to contact 204.188.244.130 every time I close the app, even when playing only local files, and with reporting annonymous usage and check for updates both disabled. I hate sneaky apps.
sn0wflake reviewed v5.11 on Oct 20, 2005
The best.
guevara reviewed v5.11 on Oct 20, 2005
Exelent player (my favorit)
Zulithe reviewed v5.11 on Oct 20, 2005
Still the best, in my opinion. :) Though I only use it for audio and the built-in streaming video. Other players are more appropriate for video content (Media Player Classic coupled with FFDShow comes to mind)
Paradise-FH- reviewed v5.11 on Oct 20, 2005
i wasn't happy when franknel and co. packed up and left nullsoft. i can't complain that they haven't kept somebody at the helm fixing bugs though. kudos to aol for doing one thing right.
brotherS reviewed v5.1 on Oct 14, 2005
Hey, remove your spyware! Winamp NEVER crashes here, I love all the great plugins.
flashhh reviewed v5.1 on Oct 8, 2005
This player SUCKS!!!
It is really crashable and useless. It does not support any formats, that other players can't support (maybe only nsv streams). The ihterface is choppy..... SUCKS!
eyeinthesky43 reviewed v5.1 on Sep 11, 2005
It's one of the best I have used.
xrayspex reviewed v5.1 on Sep 2, 2005
The best out there
GhoS reviewed v5.1 on Sep 2, 2005
Nag screen? There is an option to turn the "splash" screen off.
Winamp is still one of the best players out there for audio. Personally I don't use it for video even though it is capable. I'll have to read more into some of the new features as I'm not sure what benefit they are to me, but sound good anyway.
NikMan reviewed v5.1 on Sep 2, 2005
my only one mp3 player. I am using it for listening my mp3s and media player classic to view video clips.
But WInamp is too big. They should work on faster and cleaner player .
Well anyway, It good!
jshrk reviewed v5.1 on Sep 2, 2005
how can you not love this little player. Its got it all, seriously if you dont like something about it > it lets you take it out. Used this program for years, used to love it was scared i wouldnt anymore, but it looks like it might stick around for some time yet. Very fast smooth and takes up little memory / cpu if preforamce settings are set.
improvelence reviewed v5.1 on Sep 2, 2005
The O.G.
richtam123 reviewed v5.1 on Sep 1, 2005
Nice program but I don't care much for the nag screen, other than that it's a fine program.
stevetures reviewed v5.1 on Sep 1, 2005
Fast as ever. Though I've found for older computers, you can uninstall nonessential items and get a significant boost out of it. Just go to the preferences, choose plugins, and click the uninstall button. The Media Library and Modern Skins plugin tend to eat cycles and access the HDD the most. For instance, on a win98 on a 166 32mb 2gig freebee laptop for your poor friend, that stuff is just deadweight anyways.
compugeek32 reviewed v5.1 on Sep 1, 2005
Long live WINAMP!!!
Metshrine reviewed v5.1 on Sep 1, 2005
This is the ONLY player that can handle ANY FORMAT I throw at it with the exception of DVD. I can play real media, quicktime, shoutcast streams, asf, wmv, avi, mpeg, mpeg2, and a plethora of audio formats. What else can you ask for from a media player?
Banquo reviewed v5.1 on Sep 1, 2005
Somebody just said WinAmp sucks and to use Real Player instead...Bwa ha ha! I've read some retarded comments here but that one takes the cake.
bogdandryo reviewed v5.1 on Sep 1, 2005
I've been using Winamp for 7 years and it's still the best! No doubt
THZGryphon reviewed v5.1 on Sep 1, 2005
Great new features.
softssa reviewed v5.1 on Sep 1, 2005
I've been using Winamp for 5 years and it's still the best!
THZGryphon reviewed v5.094 on Aug 30, 2005
Hmm, what happened to the 5.1 download? Got it at work, drove home and now it's gone?
*edit: Looks like they yanked it http://forums.winamp.com...?s=&threadid=224886 Too bad, I like the new features.
stevetures reviewed v5.094 on Aug 30, 2005
High marks as always for Winamp. Too bad with all the internal clashes ala AOL v. Frankel and Co. You all should check out the Dynamic Library plugin for winamp5.
Oh yeah... bittorrents and winamp don't mix. Like cogs and circuits.
sn0wflake reviewed v5.1 on Aug 30, 2005
The best allround multimedia player ever!
flashhh: *LOL* - RealPlayer is full of spyware, unneeded featured, is a pain to uninstall, and a dead format :)
jsc315 reviewed v5.094 on Jul 19, 2005
Its a good player but It only supports so mant file types. I tend to do use bit torrents and a lot of times winamp doesnt work. Its a good program but there are never any updates for it if you want a good media player get Quintessential Player 4.50 the new version is excellent and runs so much better than winamp. now that it plays video it better than winamp
Brian49 reviewed v5.094 on Jul 19, 2005
It's silly to use this website to make sweeping criticisms of the company behind a program, instead of evaluating the merits of the program itself. Winamp is still an excellent player, highly functional and with many good plugins and skins. I also like the way small, incremental improvements continue to be made, having no need of constant new `features'.
Zoroaster reviewed v5.094 on Jul 19, 2005
winamp5094_pro.exe for download is late as usual ...
My only reproach concerning Winamp is its loading time. Consequently I use it for long local or streaming music sessions, but certainly not for a simple wav file...
cip2kro reviewed v5.094 on Jul 19, 2005
I agree kashin. U are right in every aspect. But heh.. i hate aol and i still use winamp. Maybe i'm too familiar with winamp to get rid of it. Or maybe comunity is too large..lot's of plug-ins, skins, etc..
kashin reviewed v5.094 on Jul 19, 2005
It's a good program, but don't waste your time upgrading unless you're having problems. I'm still using 5.08 and have been since it came out. No problems so far. However, notice how they stopped adding features and just release bugfix versions every now and then? That's because the original developers all left AOL a long time ago. AOL is still trying to pretend this program is alive, when it's anything but. It's just their way of cramming whatever bundled garbage they feel like this month down your throat and try to get their AOL icon on your desktop. No thanks.
This is not the best place to say this, but I _DESPISE_ AOL and everything they stand for. Their practice was to "acquire" (read as: buy up) smaller companies that generated attention (such as Winamp's parent company NullSoft) and then run them into the ground, finally abandoning them when they are no longer profitable. That said, I gave this a rating of three. I do love Winamp and I have great respect for the original authors, but I will NEVER rate anything higher than a 3 if it is owned by AOL.
ModderXManiac reviewed v5.094 on Jul 18, 2005
Did some performance tweaks and found this to be a very nice app.
I still prefer the performance of foobar2000 for audio playback.
OSuser reviewed v5.094 on Jul 18, 2005
I wonder if they fixed the part when Winamp can not connect certain stream from SHORTcast TV, Winamp freezes, or is that SHOUTcast's issue? Also, Winamp freeezes up when dragging song's position when playing it freezes up. Other then that Winamp is awesome.
brotherS reviewed v5.094 on Jul 18, 2005
Great! Try Winamp with the great, great Toaster plugin for Winamp: http://www.winamp.com/pl...s/details.php?id=138586
Also, take a look at DFX! It enhances the sound a lot, it's unbelievable until you've heard it yourself, much better than just the equalizer: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1030468205/1
dirtyangel reviewed v5.093 on Jul 4, 2005
This is one of the best (if not THE best) programs for listing to audio files. I don't care about video support, I use other programs that are specifically designed to that purpose. Many skins and plugins are avalible. On a Windows platform, this is a very good choice. Highly recommended :) PS: To you out there who still encode to WMA.. Get real. Get ogg vorbis.
flashhh reviewed v5.093 on Jun 26, 2005
I can't stand it! It even caused me a system crash! And it's very buggy and crappy!
RUFONE reviewed v5.093 on Jun 24, 2005
At least it doesn´t bundled with that annoying EMUSIC thing, but it has one big bug.
When i tryed to play a song in W98 it delivers a '80070037 Buffering error' message.
betabetabeta reviewed v5.093 on Jun 19, 2005
Hmm...looks like Winamp's not dead yet.
All you folks complaining about the WMA/DRM here is downgrader which gives you the option to restore in_wm.dll, wmahelp.dll and out_ds.dll from Winamp 5.08d ;)
http://nunzioweb.com/daz/winamp/wa5downgrade.exe
Credit: DrO (For more details: http://forums.winamp.com...ead.php?threadid=208529)
ds0934 reviewed v5.093 on Jun 17, 2005
Finally! A "version" update that shows serious work was done. I still like WinAmp.
plumlipstick reviewed v5.093 on Jun 17, 2005
As an audio player, Winamp still rocks. The library works quickly and doesn't hog memory like MediaPlayer does. So why do I give it a 4? I wish they'd leave the video playback out of the program since it seems to bring too many bugs and bulks up the player. The video quality isn't good enough to justify the added size. I'd rather see them concentrate on features that enhance what Winamp has always done wel... audio!
sn0wflake reviewed v5.093 on Jun 17, 2005
Excellent application but I prefer the lite edition. Download it at download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp5093_lite.exe
wingo reviewed v5.093 on Jun 17, 2005
isn't someone gonna nag about the frequent updates lately?! ;)
well you had to register winamp in the beginning, i paid but never got a registered version. no answer or anything from the staff. bad experience in shareware -yes- :(
used this for a while but went back too foobar 2000 since its fast and simple, i rarely look at winamps skins anyway. just listen to free music. =)
sanderg reviewed v5.093 on Jun 17, 2005
Version 5.093 crashes after load. This appeared to be due to the Amp Randomizer plugin. After updating that to 2.0, it worked again. Excellent app, I use it all day.
chook reviewed v5.093 on Jun 17, 2005
Still one of my favourite media players. And I dont know why people say the video is bad, it uses the same filters n stuff as media player. Mabye if you give reasons why you think the video playback is bad it would be more helpful to everyone else.
OSuser reviewed v5.093 on Jun 16, 2005
Last version anyone noticed that when you try to or drag the position slide too much it freezes up and locks your windows? Darn you AOL! . .ops I hope they fixed it with this built.
xrayspex reviewed v5.093 on Jun 16, 2005
The best.
ModderXManiac reviewed v5.093 on Jun 16, 2005
Bloated, adware, slow.
I'm sticking with Winamp lite. As for W-Lite, lots of nice fixes.
Its the worst video player i have seen. Worse in some ways than *gasp* REALPLAYER!
Diamhair reviewed v5.093 on Jun 16, 2005
Winamp's still great. Even for those of you who want a minimal installation, you can go w/that and ignore the fancy skins, media player, video player, etc. I like those features though, so I use 'em
^_^
GeneralLeoFF reviewed v5.093 on Jun 16, 2005
Strange AOL has not destroyed this yet. WinAMP is old as hell but it's still on top.
Nikkie reviewed v5.092 on Jun 3, 2005
This one actually loads as fast as v.2 . I havnt had a problem yet and i am running a 486 mhz old peice of hub pc .
if youre looking for ultra light then go with wxMusik or musikCube .
ill stick with winamp though . its fine .
here is my pretty winamp :)
http://img.photobucket.c...2/flash/winampsnap1.jpg
lordgibbness reviewed v5.092 on May 28, 2005
Version 5.08d was the last version of Winamp that I will ever use. From version 5.08e Nullsoft have started adding in controls such as the output plugin you choose to use to playback wma files. I would recommend everyone install winamp 5.08d lite or foobar 0.8.3 special.
sn0wflake reviewed v5.092 on May 27, 2005
To RUFONE:
Install the lite edition. I don't know why Betanews.com persist on linking to the full edition which is bloated with adware. Maybe it's because both are owned by AOL.
eddie reviewed v5.092 on May 27, 2005
RUFONE: You have the option of not installing EMUSIC on Winamp installtion menus...
EDIT:
sn0wflake: Look above. There is a link to the lite version.
RUFONE reviewed v5.092 on May 27, 2005
If i've had run ADAWARE before installing 5.091 version and once done that run Adaware again and it finds 9 'critical' objects. Besides its well known that EMUSIC is spyware. The only thing i can think of is that AOL had became suicidal. Im going back to 5.05, at least that version was 'pure' Winamp.
pscowan reviewed v5.092 on May 27, 2005
wicked program, bloatware its not if you use classic style. nuff said
Metshrine reviewed v5.092 on May 27, 2005
Best media player I've ever used, most plugins available, and great speed. This plays ALL MY media files, including real media, quicktime, videos of any format, and virtually any audio format. Top notch! NO spyware, disregard the misinformed users below. I've never had winamp install something I didnt know about, and that dates back to Pre 2.x releases
RUFONE reviewed v5.091 Final on May 25, 2005
And now its getting worse, i had installed the latest version and brought SPYWARE to my machine, UNBELIEVABLE, even if you download from the main page , darn!! AOL had spoiled the once top of the edge music player.
There is no other with the same sound quality and i have tryed many.
I will keep looking.
jmatthews112 reviewed v5.091 Final on May 22, 2005
@Crun
Winamp doesn't phone home. In 5.09 there was issue with a Online Media Check for Streaming Media Channels that can now be disabled via the Media Library preferences in 5.091.
Buggy? Come to http://forums.winamp.com and help find bugs so that we can make the best player possible.
Bloated? Learn to uncheck the proper boxes for Modern Skin Support, Media Library, Video Support and others.
I agree wholeheartedly with SG1969, but I give WA 5.091 a 5.
Crun reviewed v5.091 Final on May 22, 2005
I have used and recommended Winamp for years, but not anymore.
It's another wonderful program destroyed by sheer greed.
Use anything other than this buggy, bloated piece of phone-home-ware.
jpmccord reviewed v5.091 Final on May 22, 2005
I agree with And|. Winamp is a great media player, but since major version 2, it has become needlessly bloated. I actually prefer version 2.65 over any other version of Winamp, but I have switched to foobar anyway. Winamp is still a great player, but it's just not what I'm looking for anymore.
And| reviewed v5.091 Final on May 21, 2005
I have been with WinAmp since 1996 or 1997 cant remember. I think it is the best media player ever, but ever since AOL bought it, it has become bloated.
Not like the old days anymore. Actually I think I will get the 2.91.
webcrawler reviewed v5.091 Final on May 21, 2005
Though I do not use winamp for mp3 playback since I discovered Foobar2000, the core reason why I keep it is the media library and the free shoutcast radio and video streams. Where else do you find family guy streams 24/7?
SG1969 reviewed v5.091 Final on May 21, 2005
roj: this is not bloat. it's called all-in-one.
some people, especially beginners, don't want to install 4-5 different apps, when 1 will do. winamp is not aimed at advanced users or audio professionals. and for what it is, it does the job very well. has very good skinning capabilities, good support for the most common audio/video types, and an easy ripping system that pretty much anyone can figure out (contrary to EAC where you have to go through all the settings if you wanna get it right).
Please think before you write a review next time.
jshrk reviewed v5.091 Final on May 21, 2005
It depends on your tastes, i love this player think its the best around, plugins are great for it, reason it connects to internet is if u have automatic update check on or that file info part btw. I love the shoutcast tv on it think thats a great feature, have always loved winamp however h8 the new AOL features being pumped into it, if any more of its crap is shoved in the player im gonna give up on it, real pity. AOL wont advance this player any further apart from do that im afraid, the last time AOL came up with something unique and useful was... never, instead of the core of the player e.g. sound! updates which is none i can only see this player going downhill from here :( Giving it a 5 star cause im a Winamp diehard fan but thats the last one it ever recieves unless a miracle happens to it.
Kalphegor reviewed v5.091 Final on May 21, 2005
The Best Media Player. Ever. Period.
Jean-Luc Picard reviewed v5.091 on May 19, 2005
Best audio player ever. Plays most formats and is fast and easy to use!
anomoly reviewed v5.091 on May 19, 2005
I personally think JetAudio does a better job as an allinone media player. I use foobar(& nero)for music & mplayerc for video & internet. Also, since EAC is the best ripper, I see no need to join the "winamp is the best" club (shudder). 3 for popularity
guevara reviewed v5.091 on May 19, 2005
well, i give this 4 because i normaly love winamp.
and i use it all the time.
But the last versions do like to try to connect to the internet, when the dont have any thing to do there.
i returned to version Winamp 5.03
and now - no problemo.
why does the 2 last versions try to connect to the net if you told them not to collect any information, hmm. ?
Paradise-FH- reviewed v5.091 on May 19, 2005
wah wah wah ... the end of the world is nigh. ffs, shut up and give a decent review. adding one song to the package doesn't make a piece of software bloated. it's still the same winamp 5 it was .02 versions ago.
digThisXL reviewed v5.091 on May 19, 2005
Any version of Winamp above 3.x is a bloated monster. There is no hope since Justin Frankel (the original author) left the project.
I switched to foobar2000 about a year ago and have never looked back. Give it a try.
dirtyangel reviewed v5.09 on May 5, 2005
This is not an official build, read more about it on Winamp forums.
It's good to see they are still working on the BEST player ever, making it even better. IMHO: Wait for the official 5.10 version
lilmegz reviewed v5.09 on May 5, 2005
This version of Winamp is NOT listed on the OFFICIAL Winamp site yet.
Winamp is one of the best programs out there to play MP3s with but not in other user's views I see. I started using Winamp when it first made its debut release too! Since then.... hooked on it for good!
DiGiTaLFX reviewed v5.09 on May 4, 2005
Its worn old. Stupid bundle with downloader. I've finally left winamp for musikCube instead - worth the move if you ask me. (neutral as its not exactly bad, just old)
howie1397 reviewed v5.09 on May 4, 2005
Winamp is one of the oldest general use mp3 players. I don't do crazy stuff with playlists and whatnot. I like to listen to my music; winamp does it with minimal overhead; has some nice extras and doesn't crash on me. For the slimness of this application you can't go wrong.
Portal3 reviewed v5.09 on May 4, 2005
I need a media player to load without any hassle and to play mp3s with stereo @ 192kbps. Winamp seems to suit my needs remarkably well. All I have to do is press the "open media player" button on my keyboard which opens Winamp, then add tracks to the playlist and press "play".
I've noted the RAM usages of Winamp in different situations: playing a 4 minute mp3 @ 192kbps (7MB*), playing a 4 minute WMV @ 450kbps (20MB*). This doesn't affect the performance of my mid-range system as it's a mere 2.8GHz P4 with 512MB DDR RAM running Windows XP. Using globalhotkeys it took me less than 1 second to open Winamp and play a queued track.
I do use various other media players as I don't regard this as an "all-in-one" media player. If your bias to another media player then by all means, stick to using it. If you'd like to use something small and versatile that loads instantly with negligible RAM usage then Winamp is for you.
*WARNING: I don't recommend running this on a Pentium 1 133MHz - it might be heavy on resources; but lets face it: nearly everything is heavy on resources using an old computer.
sQin reviewed v5.09 on May 4, 2005
It's a quality player just to play songs, but to organize 1000s of music i prefer foobar2000
BogdanSHA reviewed v5.09 on May 4, 2005
Forgie, son, Winamp takes abou 1oMb of ram when it starts & 3,5Mb when it's operating wether it's minimised or not.
Metsn reviewed v5.09 on May 4, 2005
There are much more better players in this time...winamp sucks since version 3...thumbs up for foobar2000...
Dave_Man reviewed v5.09 on May 4, 2005
Worth it just for the radio!
Chronix Aggression rocks!!
Bh420 reviewed v5.09 on May 4, 2005
Winamp forever foobar just sucks!
best version of 5 yet
whitedragon reviewed v5.09 on May 3, 2005
Best version yet!
forgie reviewed v5.09 on May 3, 2005
for those people who dont feel winamp is a resource hog.. try having a playlist/library of 5,000+ then get back to me. foobar is superior. sorry.
l_p_4_7 reviewed v5.09 on May 3, 2005
Best winamp yet! Ignore the haters.
hugh750 reviewed v5.09 on May 3, 2005
I Just Downloaded Winamp 5.09,And I Runs Beutifully On My Computer.
eviljolly reviewed v5.09 on May 3, 2005
Yeah I wouldn't say winamp5 is a resource hog. When winamp3 came out I thought that it was going to hell, and I didn't even try winamp5 for a long time, but to my surprise it's really pretty well balanced between being feature rich and light on the resources.
Tokar reviewed v5.09 on May 3, 2005
not particularly sure what you people are smoking...
Im a guy who likes something that has a minimalist interface, not some kind of iTunes look. I like to just open individual files one at a time...not make some huge playlist that auto shuffles. For that, WinAMP is the best.
Resource hog? I REALLY dont know what you are smoking...Ive never had any problems with computer slowdown with WinAMP.
And the fact that there are SO MANY plugins out there (most of which I will never use) makes this all the better...
Enhancer 0.17 ::THUMBS UP::
Obren reviewed v5.08e on Feb 23, 2005
It is obvious that WinAmp doesn't have any bright future under AOL. It is time change my favourite player, although I have been using it for years.
I tried Foobar, I really wanted to give it a try, but it is plain ugly piece of software with totally unintuitive user interface (I even had trouble to find volume control). Somebody has to notify foobar's author that it is now year 2005, not 1985.
Until I find decent descendant of WinAmp, I will stick to Windows Media Player 10, looks like it improved a lot in the meantime. It lacks plugin support for some exotic formats (Mousepack for example) but apart from that, deserves 10 for functionality, user interface and intuitivness.
2xG reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
Well, it seems that winamp is finally petering out. While it remains a good media player, people are gradually giving it up for other, better players such as foobar.
AOL killed netscape. AOL has killed winamp.
foobar is the new thing.
bangbang023 reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
Um, I have 5.08d and wma files continue to play fine.
zridling reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
Who cares about saving streams? — blog users mainly who are nailing corporations and politicians with their own words. But wait, we can't have that in today's conservative world! AOL bought and promptly killed this fine app. DO NOT DOWNLOAD! It won't the be last time that corporate amerika hates on its users. Any suggestions for alternative players?
Neoanarchist reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
I rate Winamp as of 6 or so months ago a 6 out of 5. Now, not in small part to my deep loathing of AOL, i would rate it a 1, too many restrictions now.
**** AOL
and
**** the RIAA
Stefu reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
The latest winamp version can play wma but it can't save, and older versions can't play DRM Wma. Big deal.. if u wanna play wma use media player. Mp3 is better than wma works with all players. Is not important to upgrade to 5.08e.
Pegusis2 reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
Any time a large company takes over a good product they have to ruin it, when WinAmp was on it's own I would say the biggest part of Internet Users were happy to have it... but not so any more.
I have to be honest and say I don't care much for it any way for a couple of reasons - 1 if you are not on the ball when installing some web browsers WinAmp will get installed; 2 Any time a program that has been installed on your system and the creators of that program can remotely do things to it with out your permission or knowledge is a BAD THING.
lokanetra reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
I still like using winamp but yes, its popuplarity is slowly decreasing,
For anyone interested Screamer Radio *will* save streams. Perhaps not as 'advanced' as Winamp but I use it often since the memory footprint is small and for such a small player, it does quite a bit.
Unfortunately I cannot give anyone a link as there appears to be problems contacting Starduck, Screamer Radio's host :(
I'm sure all those that are Google savvy will eventually find it tho. Great alterbative.
finalcut reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
please let winamp die slowly
foobar is such better
aerthling reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
As much as I love Winamp, I might have to start looking for another media player.
What a shame.
DoctorO reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
As was mentioned in the official news about the napster/drm/winamp work around, the drm key that was allocated to Winamp was effectively set to be refused (since for drm to work you have to connect to a remote machine to validate the key for the file from what i gather)
hence to support drm files again, a new key needs to be allocated to Winamp which is what the 5.08e build does. basically if you're dumb enough to use drm wma files i think you need help anyway :)
-daz
infectiphibian reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
ooops, it's getting down, getting doooown. it's a pity, it once was a nice player.
httpd.confused reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
I find it so impressive how they keep finding new and better ways to completely suck!
Hawk999 reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
Although Winamp is a good media application and its skins are stunning, it time to leave the sinking ship. foobar is the future for audio playback.
nuclear reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
Very disappointed to see a Winamp release for the sake of crippling the usability of the program regardless of reason. Far too obvious that this was done in response to the recent Napster issue, and regardless of whether or not I even need the functionality that has been removed I certainly have no intention to continue using future versions of this program. What's next, removal of disk writing support completely? Removal of cd burning support in pro versions?
sjc001 reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
It is a load. On the earlier versions you could use it to copy music from the new Naspter and get around the DRM restrictions.
RaveN-FH- reviewed v5.08e on Feb 22, 2005
I don't have any WMAs but I have to say I'm real curious about 5.08d and earlier not being able to play WMAs. Can anyone confirm that earlier versions can no longer play WMAs? It sounds like a load of crap to me.
SG1969 reviewed v5.08d on Jan 30, 2005
i have been using winamp for a long time, probably about 4-5 years now, and i agree that it is a very good player, with excellent skins, decent media library, and speed is OK though it has become a little sluggish. still, the latest 5.x are much better than the original 5.0, both in terms of performance and stability.
but i recently switched to foobar. if you havn't tried it, give it a shot, it's really worth it. you can have a decent looking player using foo_ui_columns, and you can even have milkdrop with it!
bolaris reviewed v5.08d on Jan 30, 2005
This is how it goes.
Winamp is undoubtedly one of the best players out there. But as I say "one of" the best, not "the best" There can be only one, and that is FOOBAR. I had used Winamp for many years before eventually transitioning to foobar after realizing it to be far more superior in quality, speed and format support.
Don't get me wrong, Winamp will not let you down.
Winamp rocks! But Foobar is GOD. -End of story..
-PET- reviewed v5.08d on Jan 30, 2005
This "Simply the best" has turn into "Simply the worse program with the most unusefull things".
The old winamp was ok. Some simple skin, it loads fast, you can lisen to music. Now, he can read VIDEO files, write CD's... i'm wondering when he will cook.
I say...NO MORE WINAMP ! Try foobar2000 (www.foobar2000.org). Yes, a player no so good visualy, but lot lot better.
You can change the playlist color, and skins, ho needs them ? I just want a fast program, with ho i can lisen to music.
If the mp3 file has all the tag's, he will display somethng like this :
Artist - [album][song number] - song name
Example :
Led Zeppelin - [Houses of the Holly][05]- Dancing Days
Mountain_Man reviewed v5.08d on Jan 29, 2005
Winamp gets me wet.
daver18qc reviewed v5.08d on Jan 29, 2005
I can't say more than anyone else here... Simply ThE BeSt there is, in my opinion. If you want a good looking player, select Modern Skins, if you want pure, gold-old winamp that's as fast as your computer can be, choose classic skins. It's a shame that AOL bought it and made it a shareware though...
krondike reviewed v5.08d on Jan 29, 2005
Why change the version number to a, b, c, d. When are they gonna release 5.09? Or is it some point that they are stock in version number 5.08?
Anyway Winamp 5 rocks its the best of the best from Winamp 2 combinated with goodstuff from Winamp 3 (witch by the way is 5 and already been annonunce by the Winamp crew).
If you don't hate Winamp 3.xx like most people do, and need to upgrade Winamp 2.xx Get Winamp 5, it's bether than other music players!
bsr500 reviewed v5.08d on Jan 28, 2005
This version fixed a pretty bad bug.
best mp3 player IMO, I just with that I could have the piece of mind of aol not owning part of it, but I guess not. this will probably be the last update I ever do, unless all further updates are nothing but bug fixes, no major changes. Otherwise I will be finding another player in the future
Couscous reviewed v5.08c on Jan 19, 2005
It works perfect. I like the little "Equalizer" that it shows under the time remaining. It loads faster than WMP v10 even without the Winamp Agent loaded. Winamp plays for formats too. If you're serious about digital audio and can't settle for just MP3 & WMA then Winamp is player you use.
angrykeyboarder reviewed v5.08c on Jan 14, 2005
Everyone and their cousin seems to adore this program. At best it was good, not great.
I have to ask, why do I need a microscopic (pre v.5) version of a Stereo Amplifier on my Computer Screen?
My computer isn't an Amp, it's a Computer. Winamp is Software, not an Amplifier....
For years I felt Music Match Jukebox was superior to Winamp, but with V10, Microsoft has finally "arrived" with WMP 10 (which looks like an Amplifier, only if you want it to).
Very sharp interface and you can actually read the controls in full mode...
Naah, Winamp got lots of hype. Yeah it's got the most skins of anyone out there, but do I really need a Popsicle-looking "amp" on my desktop? It fails to blend with anything else...
pyridox reviewed v5.08c on Jan 11, 2005
Been using Winamp for years, even before AOL owned part of it. It plays virtually every audio file format, and does it very well.
Noldster reviewed v5.08c on Jan 11, 2005
#1 for me
Cael reviewed v5.08c on Jan 11, 2005
The only media player that I seem to be capable of getting along with.
I absolutely love the media library with its customizeable views.
betaeater reviewed v5.08c on Jan 11, 2005
Simply the prefered Audio player for me.
windowsxphome2005 reviewed v5.08 on Jan 9, 2005
I have it. I always have, and always will.
funky303 reviewed v5.08 on Dec 24, 2004
unfortunately this release seems to be the last winamp from nullsoft.
when you go to the Credits you can read the message there:
Winamp 5: the final nullsoft edition
Dedicated to all our users
it's sad to see what has been made of nullsoft when it was bought by aol. :(
@ marcos_cu :
adding that bundle is NOT the only update.
they fixed several bugs, although they didn't mention it.
5.06 & 5.07 had a bug in their streaming decoder, which led to a loop after streaming 403.53 minutes.
that error is gone in 5.08
Raven Sati reviewed v5.08 on Dec 23, 2004
Program is a 5 for sure. The bas****s who are basterdizing it rate less than zero. The creative developers leave, the greedy people take over and they say marketing some bad music is an upgrade. The advent of "trickware". Lies and greed, must be republican neo-cons in charge of winamp now.
freshjiveh reviewed v5.08 on Dec 23, 2004
Always have used, might still - that is until AOL bas****izes it.
madk0w reviewed v5.08 on Dec 23, 2004
Always used it, and always will.
Simply the best.
marcos_cu reviewed v5.08 on Dec 23, 2004
If as they say, the only change is:
Created new eMusic bundles
That's a sucky update. Boh to Nullsoft for a lame useless update.
brotherS reviewed v5.08 on Dec 23, 2004
After waiting far too long to upgrade from 2.9x to 5.0x I finally did it about six weeks ago. WOW!! I love the Global Hotkeys and after I discovered the "Toaster" and the "Advanced Controls" plugins it's even greater! Try it!
chasanc reviewed v5.08 on Dec 23, 2004
coolticker!
Winamp 5.x supports modern skins. If you have an old machine, loading may take some time but if you select classic skin, it loads very fast.
As you said I put winamp 5.x plugins into 2.9x plugin diractory but got some conflicts. I don't suggest this usage.
coolticker reviewed v5.08 on Dec 23, 2004
Winamp 5.x takes to much time to load comparing 2.91, and the trick I use is to get all plug-in DLL's I need from 5.x (like up-to-date MP3, MOD, MID and DirectSound plug-ins) and put them into the 2.91 plug-in directory and let's go :-)
Personnaly I don't care about new video plyaing or high level skins features of 5.x, when I listen music I don't about visual interface of the player, I just want it small in size, fast to load.
blackcherry reviewed v5.08 on Dec 23, 2004
winamp is pretty meh these days - it was big back in the days of v2.0, but they're starting to lost customers to other players such as WMP10 and iTunes.
Zeeshaan reviewed v5.07 on Dec 3, 2004
AOL doesnt develop this, Winamp v5 was developed by team NullSoft, Winamp is just distrobuted by AOL. Like games, such as Half Life 2, made by Valve, distrobuted by Vivendi
DoctorO reviewed v5.07 on Dec 3, 2004
Winamp is Winamp and that's enough to say about it :o)
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Just to clarify on a comment by kgruber which people keep citing for whatever reason...
"I can't imagine who would post enthusiastic reviews other than AOL trying to breathe in new life into a rotting corpse."
Well you've been using a AOL owned Winamp for a long time if you're still using 2.8 ;) Winamp / Nullsoft was bought in 1999 and without that it's doubtful 2.8 would ever have come to be as it is.
-daz
lzvk25 reviewed v5.07 on Dec 3, 2004
Nice program, I used it for a long time but Quintessential Player (http://quinnware.com/) is much better and what are the 'pro' features in Winamp, they are already bundled here for free.
tasty reviewed v5.07 on Dec 3, 2004
I just installed 5.07 on a P3/500 with 64MB RAM... Using the classic version of the modern skin, winamp never uses more than 14MB RAM and 11% cpu utilization when playing both audio (mp3,ogg,wav) and video (asf,mpeg4,avi). People who think WMP is efficient are blind to the fact that many of its components are embedded in already running processes and services. Run a trace on both winamp and windows media player and watch.
kgruber reviewed v5.07 on Dec 3, 2004
I used to think that WinAMP was cooler than sliced bread. However, with each iteration after 2.8 the program got slower and less responsive.
I have found this program to be slower to load and less responsive than WMP10 on my HP Pavilion ze4315 laptop. The drag is even more noticeable when playing divx video.
I still keep 2.8 around for playing MP3s only, as it's the fastest AND decent looking player around for that purpose. For the rest, I use WMP10.
Winamp 5.x is bloated garbage that offers little or no advantage over WMP10. I can't imagine who would post enthusiastic reviews other than AOL trying to breathe in new life into a rotting corpse.
arossetti reviewed v5.07 on Dec 2, 2004
zridling,
You're kidding, right?
zridling reviewed v5.07 on Dec 2, 2004
Anyone got a link to 5.07 full version? Neither CNet nor Nullsoft has posted it yet.
petgamer reviewed v5.07 on Dec 2, 2004
I love Winamp. It's a great program...I just don't use it. It may sound stupid I know...just my preference. It's good to see they finally fixed that security flaw in the program. I'm looking forward to more improvements on Winamp to come!
bsr500 reviewed v5.07 on Dec 2, 2004
wmp is the biggest bloated piece of garbage ever... I dont even use it for video.. Media player classic and winamp are the only media players I use.
johnk119 reviewed v5.06 on Nov 18, 2004
AWESOME DOESN'T USE HARDLY ANY RAM COMPARED TO WMA... NOR DOES IT REQUIRE MUCH CPU UTILIZATION AROUND 2% WHEN PLAYING ALITTLE MORE WHEN IT FIRST STARTS CAUSE IT'S FILLING THE BUFFERS... IT'S A GREAT PROGRAM FOR MUSIC VIDEO AND ANYTHING ELSE... HOWEVER IT'S STILL THE BEST MP3 PLAYER THEY SHOULD HOWEVER ADD MORE FEATUERS EVEN THE TRIVIAL ONES TO IT'S MP3 CAPABILITIES
tasty reviewed v5.06 on Nov 18, 2004
This small update is probably just in response to the stories that the winamp project is dead. The programmers say the project isn't dead, and they're the ones who make it a project.
Kylde, you need to read beyond the headlines in more ways than one. I don't consider 2% cpu utilization as too much. Maybe you should uninstall your bonzi buddy and comet cursor, then switch to the classic skin so your eMachine can keep up.
Kylde reviewed v5.06 on Nov 18, 2004
isnt any/all of this a moot point now development is over ? and it still takes up too much cpu
DoctorO reviewed v5.06 on Nov 18, 2004
Not bad for a dead player to come out with a new build ;) As always it's recommended that you update to the latest Winamp build (and if using an older machine remember to uncheck what you don't need and don't use Modern skins if it's that slow to have the speed of the 2.x series in your hands)
Oh and Eric Caoili is a guest writer for the Winamp.com news pages and has never been part of the Winamp team (just to clarify things)
[edit]'This small update is probably just in response to the stories that the winamp project is dead.' er not really since 5.06 was started on about 2 months ago (just to clarify things)
-daz (Plugin Dev)
Portal3 reviewed v5.06 on Nov 18, 2004
Not much you can say about this Media player...other than it's the greatest music player ever! Not to mention the kickass visualisation implementation!
I'm yet to have "any" problems with Winamp. Not a single crash on my computer nor any glitches that you come across with some other infamous media players.
Nigma reviewed v5.06 on Nov 18, 2004
What?? There are other mp3 players, not just Winamp? Nah, you're gotta be joking :)
l_p_4_7 reviewed v5.06 on Nov 18, 2004
I'm so happy Winamp isn't dead as it's easily the best audio/mp3 player available.
zridling reviewed v5.06 on Nov 18, 2004
Whew, am I glad WinAmp will survive AOL's idiocy. Version 5.06 is considered a critical security fix.
Stefu reviewed v5.06 on Nov 18, 2004
Was, Is and will still be the best music player!!!
eddie reviewed v5.06 on Nov 18, 2004
Funny that the person that wrote the story in the link below, Eric Caoili, is no a longer a member of the Winamp team ;)
Yochanan reviewed v5.06 on Nov 18, 2004
Yes, I know we've all heard Winamp is dead, but Nullsoft says otherwise:
http://www.winamp.com/about/article.php?aid=10627
RaveN-FH- reviewed v5.06 on Nov 18, 2004
what a sad day to see this great program and it's great team close down :(
to be continued?
laws2kuk1 reviewed v5.05 on Nov 14, 2004
Winamp is one of my favourite MP3 Player, always has been, and always will be.
The only other media player that comes close to Winamp is Windows Media Player and I only think this because of one feature... The ability to have Windows Media Player minimized on the toolbar, with buttons to me seems really convenient. If Winamp had this feature then it would kick Windows Media Player off the face of the earth.
Kukac reviewed v5.05 on Nov 6, 2004
I'd prefer if it stopped getting bloated with CD-ripping, video playing etc. capabilities. All I need is a powerful audio player. It needs an uncomfortably long time to start up compared to other players. Still my #1 player.
rhen reviewed v5.05 on Sep 8, 2004
The best audio and a good video player. The media library is the best. The memory and CPU use with classic skins such as winamp 2 series. Very easy to use. You're download many extras for this program.
I've tried to rip with but not too good. To my mind this fuction is not usable. I suggest to use free version.
westonc reviewed v5.05 on Sep 3, 2004
Very good player, but they should axe the video aspect of the software and just stick to audio and make the quality as high as possible.
Pembo reviewed v5.05 on Aug 31, 2004
What can I say. It keeps getting better & better.
Leaner, meaner & now (bug-fixed) cleaner, nuff-said!!!
sn0wflake reviewed v5.05 on Aug 28, 2004
Dreimanis: foobar uses less memory but it can't stream all formats.
Marcinneekk23 reviewed v5.05 on Aug 28, 2004
The best of the best;)
twynne reviewed v5.05 on Aug 28, 2004
Great bit of software - can't fault it. Anyone know what the visualisation is above?
BuFu reviewed v5.05 on Aug 28, 2004
simple the best =]
Zodiachus reviewed v5.05 on Aug 28, 2004
- Minimal memory/cpu usage
- Excellent sound quality
- Nice default interface
- Simple to use
- Unobtrusive
deda: what dfx plugin?
Dreimanis reviewed v5.05 on Aug 28, 2004
wonderful. but beaten. by foobar.
deda reviewed v5.05 on Aug 27, 2004
Zodiachus, try here => http://www.fxsound.com
dragonmaster1030 reviewed v5.04 on Aug 23, 2004
Very good player. I can't really tell a difference in sound quality between any of them. But I do like the nice simple interface of Foobar 2000. Anyone know of a Foobar skin for Winamp??
T3hn0|m4n reviewed v5.04 on Aug 2, 2004
Winamp is the best program for music and making AVS!! :)
RUFONE reviewed v5.04 on Jul 30, 2004
Excellent as usual. Some slowness in the program is due to the modern skin selection, more complexity in this matter uses more processor and memory, try using a less sofisticated skin and you'll see a better performance.
I've tried FOOBAR, and i dont think it is better than Winamp.
Good work fellas
ap0110s reviewed v5.04 on Jul 29, 2004
I love what's new in the ML library now, little need to fire up iTunes to preview music when I can stream it easily with videos via the improved ML :)
Shame about work on Winamp coming to a halt, AOL are good at being incompetant, I will give them that.
sim0n reviewed v5.04 on Jul 28, 2004
5 years with Winamp but.... foobar2000 is much, much better.
r4dius reviewed v5.04 on Jul 28, 2004
The only problem i see with version 5 is the Winamp Modern skins that makes it run SOOOOO slow that i've to use a skin from v2.
chasanc reviewed v5.04 on Jul 28, 2004
Excellent program. I tried many other audio players. All have some good and bad sides but generally they only do what they developed for. Winamp collects good parts of those players :)
And there are many many plugins for this wonderful program.
For best audio quality with radio station stile playback I use:
- mad plugin v1.51 for mp3 decoder(my all collection is in mp3 format).
- Dee2 DSP plugin with Hi-Fi preset(compression generally erases high frequencies). This wonderful plugin re-generates them.
- Sqrsoft crossfader v1.75 output plugin with radio preset.
I like high quality music. Winamp makes it real :))))
bored154 reviewed v5.04 on Jul 28, 2004
absoulte best media player.
Zulithe reviewed v5.04 on Jul 28, 2004
voloda Winamp 5 is the exact same as Winamp 2.x, just with some additional features carried over from the flop known as Winamp3. If you set Winamp 5 to use the 'classic' skin it will use the same resources as 2.x, maybe even less since there have been improvements since 2.x
This is such an excellent program, I'm saddened to see the development slow down so much lately. 5.04 looks like the last version we'll be seeing for a good while. The good news is that foobar2000 is still improving rapidly, so at least we have something to look forward to!
donpacman reviewed v5.04 on Jul 28, 2004
Hands down still the best!
voloda reviewed v5.03c on Jul 8, 2004
I am using winamp since v1.76 and I never had a problem with it until I recently discovered that 5.03c eats 70%-90% of my CPU, I was so sad... :(((
I uninstalled it and using 2.91.
I dont know what caused this, but I hope next version will be better :))
WinAmp is the best audio player ever made.
abear27 reviewed v5.03c on Jul 8, 2004
WinAmp is by far my favorite MP3 player. It loads fast, has an easy to use interface, and lets me manage playlists quickly.
I never encountered a problem with any version of WinAmp, and the latest release here (5.03c) is no exception.
lilda8615 reviewed v5.03c on Jun 29, 2004
winamp is pretty good other than the fact it doesnt have a minimized control bar like windows media player but i would say its better than iTunes and wmp other than that factor.
ITUNES IS THE WORST MEDIA PLAYER
scriptee reviewed v5.03c on Jun 27, 2004
The latest versions of WinAmp are very good; Excelent GUI, visuals and functionality. I do still, however, keep a copy of 2.x for when I want a completely no-fuss player thats going to load up quickly and just play the darn song :)
Richardky reviewed v5.03c on Jun 27, 2004
Is the best player hands down all the features are great and i dont think bloated at all..the most plugins available to download which most are (free) and good.very eye pleasing GUI great online radio stations (free) and still for years now my only prefered player for music.. (@graysky) as i dont agree with you on your oppinion i will say (XMPLAY) is a good little player and sound quality for someone who just wants a plain basic player.
l_p_4_7 reviewed v5.03c on Jun 26, 2004
@ graysky: No offence but judging from your review you come across as one ignorant person.
Firstly, 5.x is NOT bloatware. The new features are welcome and it has been optimised to run much faster than 3.x. Admittidly you'll need a reasonably fast CPU/Memory to have it run perfectly on modern mode but how many people have really slow computers nowadays?
Secondly, you stated that 2.x was OK. Two words. Classic mode. If you select this option WMP 5.x transforms into 2.x exactly performance wise. Way to contradict yourself.
In the future only write reviews when fully informed please.
mo_mo reviewed v5.03c on Jun 26, 2004
i love winamp, it's the best player i ever used
sld reviewed v5.03c on Jun 26, 2004
Wonderful player. All that features, yet when you just want the basics, you can uncheck everything you don't need in the installer and get an audio player that's quintessentially Winamp 2 (sorry to all QCD zealots, I just had to pun that).
Contrary to what some people claim, due to their zealotry for other Qlayers... I mean, players, Winamp is a 'clean' program ie no spyware, no adware, as long as you are smart and sensible enough to go through your installation checklist. If not, stick to WiMP.
groovee reviewed v5.03c on Jun 26, 2004
still works the best for me.
DoctorO: great share on the update thingy. thx.
Sharp_Rulez reviewed v5.03c on Jun 25, 2004
open about, first tab, hold down ctrl+shift, and double left-click in the middle
graysky reviewed v5.03c on Jun 25, 2004
Bloatware -- version 2.x was okay, but eversince they sold out to AOL, the product has gotta larger and larger with features getting smaller and smaller compared to some of winamp's competition.
You can use much more sophisticated players now such as xmplay (http://xmplay.com/) and foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/) both of which blow winamp away.
Morsel reviewed v5.03c on Jun 25, 2004
Iz Ok I guess but for "long playlist handling" ITUNES is still king of the hill.
DoctorO reviewed v5.03c on Jun 25, 2004
roj: if you don't like it, don't use it and really just don't make dumb trolling comments like you have.
just to point out, the only change from 5.03a to 5.03c is the "Added eMusic trial offer to installer. uninstaller included in Program Files\Winamp\eMusic" which as with all Winamp installs can be deselected when running the installer so it won't ever be put on to the machine.
Winamp is a great program for what it does though i am biased since i've used it since 1999 and now develop plugins for it (and break winamp from time to time ;) ). If it fits what you like then use it, if not, then just use something else and enjoy that which is so simple to do (yes?).
-daz (a happy Winamp user/dev'er)
p.s. remember to install the update patch if you haven't already (http://forums.winamp.com...?s=&threadid=179096)
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graysky: you might want to check things first, Winamp/Nullsoft has been owned by AOL since the 2.5 release and it has to be said that without their funding then there wouldn't be a current Winamp (which seems to be a major misconception that is dealt with on the Winamp forums frequently especially since Winamp 5 was released)
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toqer reviewed v5.03c on Jun 25, 2004
Winamp RAWKS! Anyone that thinks otherwise can kiss the llama's ass. Since I started using nullsoft streaming video for streaming people singing karaoke from the karaoke bar I work at, i've become a worldwide celebrity loved by 100's!! No joke, check out these articles.
http://www.winamp.com/about/article.php?aid=10572
http://winampunlimited.com/toqer/
http://www.metroactive.c...16.04/bars-0425-sj.html (search for seven bamboo on the page)
All that, and a NYT's article is on the way. All you naysayers about winamp just aren't using it right. Saying it's crippleware is WRONG! If you're too cheap to get the full ripping version, just download CD-EX for your ripping needs.
Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass.
Diamhair reviewed v5.03c on Jun 25, 2004
Winamp is the standard in which all media players should be judged on. Highly customizable install, and loads of plugins and skins to further customize the app.
darthbeads reviewed v5.03c on Jun 25, 2004
"Crippleware"? Give me a break. It's a media "player." It "plays" for free. If you want "additional" features, you can pay for them to be fully available.
Great player, huge community support, mind-boggling assortment of plugins and skins. Does everything that it claims to do very well -- this is the only standard I can base any rating on.
Hawk999 reviewed v5.03c on Jun 25, 2004
Not bloatware, really freeware and one of the best media players one the net. And very customizable via myriad of plugins. The strongest point is that it combines the best features of all available player in one easy program. For instance it incorporates QCD best feature Quick Track via a smart plugin with added features.
Almost any function you might wish to have in a media player can be added through a plugin. Add to this the friendly and detailed support in the Winamp community and the spectacular freeform skins and there's no reason to use Winamp. Except perhaps for a few diehard zeleots who keep believing *their* favorite program is somehow better.
roj reviewed v5.03c on Jun 25, 2004
Yet another of the myriad bug fixes from the king of bloatware which insinuates itself into your system and wants to charge you for full functionality of features crippled in the distro.
With *true freeware* apps out there that:
- offer excellent sound
- provide the same (and better) features
- aren't crippleware
- aren't bloatware
- won't intrude massively into your system or leave turds behind when you uninstall them
- won't spam you with ads for useless services
...one wonders why anyone who's net savvy would waste their time with this ersatz.
The REAL shortlist for players is as follows:
- Quintessentiual Player
- XMPlay
- Foobar2000 (I can't believe I added this last but yes, it does rate consideration)
This old shingle has seen its day.
DoctorO:
I don't like it, I won't use it and if you can't handle an unbiased review that calls a spade a spade but isn't gushing praise for your sacred cow, might I suggest that you bury your head in the sand ostrich-fashion and hope fervently that someone with hobnailed boots and a keen sense of opportunity isn't passing by when you do.
Zankur reviewed v5.03a on May 6, 2004
The stalwart has come-up with another stunninig update.Very few come near it.Keep it up!
eco reviewed v5.03a on Apr 1, 2004
You know, sheppe, that even back when Nullsoft started charging a fee for winamp, you didn't have to pay it. It was purely optional. I don't see why this would lead to you leave it...
Anyways, with the release of Winamp 5, the program is better than ever. The best few features added in version 3 plus the pure greatness that was version 2 put into one package. It's such a shame Justin left...but he deserves to have some fun with that $100 Million he go from AOL when they bought Nullsoft. :)
sheppe reviewed v5.03a on Mar 31, 2004
I have returned to WinAmp! Years ago when they began charging for the program I stopped using it and went through several other media players, including Sonique and several versions of WMP. Following that there were reports of the flop that was the previous version of WinAmp, so I stayed away from it. But, the reviews on this latest version persuaded me to try it again, and boy am I glad I did. Great sounds quality, speedy load-time, and tonnes of skins make this my player of choice. My only complaint is that the free version is slow about ripping and burning CDs... but hey, that's what CDex is for! ;)
Targaff reviewed v5.03 on Mar 26, 2004
Foobar doesn't support DSP plugins? So what are those four quite functional DSP plugins doing in my components directory, then? If you're going to post something like that, at least keep it accurate. In other news, Winamp rocks if that's your thang - I have both installed and switch between them freely depending on my mood.
coch reviewed v5.03 on Mar 25, 2004
What's the difference between the pro download you mention and the full version I have registered? Having registered my copy of Winamp full version gives me the PRO features, or am I missing something? Or does the Pro download enables Pro features without registration?
donpacman reviewed v5.03 on Mar 25, 2004
Don't forget the Pro... http://download.nullsoft...lient/winamp503_pro.exe
Nicholas440 reviewed v5.03 on Mar 25, 2004
Winamp..!! It whips the llama's ass!! Foo on your foobar it doesnt support dsp plugins. Get Winamp, it whips the Llamma's a** !! 5 stars
finalcut reviewed v5.03 on Mar 25, 2004
still no way to add a folder (sub folder) to put playlists in the library. would be so useful when you have lost of playlist saved..
I'll stick with foobar that does sort playlist perfectly with the idea of tabs
foobar2000 for life
nethomehelp.co.uk reviewed v5.02 on Feb 28, 2004
Winamp has reclaimed the title of best media player.
Excellent interface,visualisations & skins.
V5 now loads quicker, is more robust with video and also has the fastest & most convenient media library I've used yet, which now incorporates a speedy Internet Radio & Internet TV search... Awesome!
Well done Winamp.
septje reviewed v5.02 on Feb 17, 2004
Winamp 5 is fantastic. I was very disappointed upon the release of Winamp 3 and subsequently went back to Winamp 2.9x. When I downloaded Winamp 5 the night it came out, I was hooked. It had everything I ever wanted in a media player. It was so good, I bought it then and there. Well done Nullsoft. A champion effort!
zyfos reviewed v5.02 on Feb 8, 2004
I'm glad they got rid of those badframes.stt files. I found 4 of em on my harddrive. Very nice program, tho I wish it could load faster when using a skin other than classic.
Joco reviewed v5.02 on Feb 7, 2004
I apologize for the misleading review I made yesterday. The high CPU I experienced had nothing to do with Winamp 5.02.
QBgreen reviewed v5.02 on Feb 6, 2004
For those experiencing high CPU usage, revert to a classic skin. I do this particularly when online. Makes a big difference.
SEABOY reviewed v5.02 on Feb 6, 2004
using it since 1999 never changed it..always the best with high performance for each newer version
xippon reviewed v5.02 on Feb 6, 2004
Simply the best, faster than 3. I still waiting for multi playlist supprot from 3 version.
kljs reviewed v5.02 on Feb 6, 2004
5 stars just for the whole huge list of fixes/featuers and such.......
damn, why didn't they put it at 5.1?..... ;)
Ksilebo reviewed v5.02 on Feb 6, 2004
Best media player out there.
BoNeLeSS reviewed v5.02 on Feb 6, 2004
Great player, but still refuses to play some AAC variants... Other than that is one of the best out there.
sld reviewed v5.01 on Jan 13, 2004
Well, Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5
It's all the basic functionality of Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 modern skin support + Media Library + a few other nifties.
It's symbolic, really. Nullsoft simply chose to skip over the number 4.
LuniS_NekO reviewed v5.01 on Jan 6, 2004
I, too, was extremely afraid when I saw "AOL/NullSoft"... Here I was looking at the screenshot and saying "Oh, sh*t... Another RealOne..." But now, I feel as if I have blasphemed, and I shall have to go, later, and pray to the Llama God for forgiveness. Winamp5 is all you could ever want in an audio player. And my biggest w00t, THE MEDIA LIBRARY ACTUALLY WORKS!!! In Winamp 2, it never worked. Now it does!!! Meesa very happy, oh Gods of The Llama! My only question is this... What happened to Winamp 4? Or did it ever exist?
~LuniS
DiGiTaLFX reviewed v5.01 on Dec 27, 2003
Fantastic. What more can I say. Keep up the good work NullSoft!
samsonleung reviewed v5.01 on Dec 26, 2003
Nice player. I have tried it since it is in alpha version. Getting better and better now. However, I have found a bug. When I am using Classic Skin, and I change the configuration about modern skin. The error message jump out. But not everytime. Anway, still the best version of WINAMP I have used before.
animecabbit reviewed v5.01 on Dec 20, 2003
Wow, after installing and uninstalling WinAmp3 and reinstalling WinAmp2, I think version 5 is definately a good upgrade. I don't use any of the video features, that's what BSPlayer is for. It's nice that it has Winamp 2 skin and plug-in support.
Much less bloated than Winamp 3 and much faster than Windows Media Player, it's definately a keeper in my systems! Even my old a** laptop has no problem running this!
Carlospr reviewed v5.01 on Dec 20, 2003
Really great! Nice crossfade feature, modern skin support (MMD3 is awesome, check it out!), all Winamp 2.x plugins work fine (e.g., Wincue, Enhancer, CoverTAG, Winamp Lyrics, Hitmp3 and mp3PRO). The Media Library is useful and reads mp3 tags since there is no input plugin installed for mp3, like mp3PRO (don't know about others), however I still enjoy Wincue for the job. I liked the notification option added in Winamp modern skin, as well the global hotkeys. The only problem is that is not easy to change the skin, since Winamp crashes. I have to right click a skin file and click Install... But, according to Winamp's forum, it's a bug related with the installed plugins... Try it!
coch reviewed v5.01 on Dec 20, 2003
My guess is that it's milkdrop, which gets installed with Winamp!
Jessy82 reviewed v5.01 on Dec 20, 2003
can anyone tell me which visualization plugin/preset of it is being shown in the snapshot?
great prog no doubt..
deanparkr reviewed v5.01 on Dec 20, 2003
Great program! Excellent features, even though they are difficult to find with the cluttered interface. Audio is excellent as usual and the video is good. Win AMp is on par With Windows Media Player Series 9
Bluezion reviewed v5.01 on Dec 20, 2003
Weirdly, loading winamp while "wearing" the new modern skin, takes about 3-4 secs in my AMD 1.4GHz, 512MB system. Compared to Foobar2000 eats 4-5MB more when just loaded and 1.5MB more when minimized (Winamp-2MB, Foobar-500KB). Of course it's a great player for all those who seek aesthetic pleasure...I prefer caring for practical usage and advanced settings...meaning that Foobar2000 at the moment fulfills all my needs.
BoNeLeSS reviewed v5.01 on Dec 20, 2003
Really good... But still lacks of proper MP4-AAC (like iTunes). Anyway, still beats of the competition. Two thumbs up!
kljs reviewed v5.01 on Dec 20, 2003
Black-Wolf.....you must be cwazy. Are you sure you got the right Winamp 5?
Black-Wolf reviewed v5.01 on Dec 20, 2003
Bulky, spooky, ad-aware filled software.
Get WinAMP Lite.
Noldster reviewed v5.01 on Dec 19, 2003
5/5 - Definatly Straight program.
L-E-O reviewed vFinal on Dec 19, 2003
I would like to thanks first the Nullsoft team for Winamp 5 it has the best of both worlds (the 2.x and 3.x).
The bad point is that in this version called "Final" there's still many bugs related to the new interface and the child windows of winamp.
For those of you that are using LiteStep shell replacement will know what I mean exactly.
It's obvious that this "Final" version wasn't tested at all on a computer running LiteStep as a shell!!! or it was tested only in old skin mode.
If you use the new skins mode the windows of winamp are "jumping" in the desktops in a crazy way and you even get your winamp main window disapearing. I had to change manually in the winamp ini the new skins mode to old skin mode to get back the winamp window.
If you use it in old skins mode the main window works fine on all the LS virtual desktops but all his child windows are jumping around the screen or having other issues (same probs that the new skins mode)
A small bug I noticed is that only the main window of winamp support de shadows of WindowFX (Stardock) all the other windows doesn't get any shadows.
Can't wait for a new version :)
(sorry for the bad english is not my mother tongue)
Krimson reviewed vFinal on Dec 19, 2003
Pretty good prog, uses a lot less memory than version 3.
Only thing I noticed that when using a skin other than default, you get 4 menu options for selecting color schemes... anyone experienced this too?
Mexaner reviewed vFinal on Dec 18, 2003
The best Winamp ever! The "Media Library" is very useful!
wolseleydude reviewed vFinal on Dec 18, 2003
Great app but not the best where video quality is concerned. However I would not use it for that purpose. (I dont and wouldent use it for that anway though). Otherwise, Winamp 5 Full is just about perfect.
GeneralLeoFF reviewed vFinal on Dec 16, 2003
Outstanding program but video playback still sucks (I dont and wouldent use it for that anway though). Everything else about WinAMP 5 is just about perfict.
alanity reviewed vFinal on Dec 16, 2003
Hot dog this is one fine piece of software, for everyday listening it hasn't replaced foobar but I still love it and as usual the avs looks very schway. I think winamp3 was a very interesting project but it wasn't ready/hadn't been properly thought out.
adidazz reviewed vFinal on Dec 16, 2003
Winamp5 is great. And for those who were wondering about the size, its a discrepancy. Its actually about 4 mb.
arossetti reviewed vFinal on Dec 16, 2003
Nice program, but why is the full download 409 KB when the lite download is 654 KB? Am I missing something here?
Mellon reviewed vFinal on Dec 16, 2003
Awesome player!!!
BillBraskey reviewed vFinal on Dec 16, 2003
With the release of winamp3, I feared this project was headed in an AOL influenced downward spiral. I stuck with 2.x for a while...Then switched to Foobar (Which is a very good player). There is just something about winamp though and the release of 5 is a MAJOR relief, it is good to see AOL didn't completely destroy something. The fact that Nullsoft is now owned by AOL will always be in the back of my mind but Winamp5 is EXCELLENT. Fast, stable, low on resources...All the things winamp had come to stand for. I guess I will be setting this as my default player again. As I am very pleased with its support for old 2.x plug-ins. I am still confused as to why there is NO mention of this on the winamp website...They really need to Axe 3 completely, the was the biggest disgrace in software history.
Gortex reviewed vFinal on Dec 16, 2003
Great Soft but
Can't use with shoutcast-dsp-1-8-2b ... :(
jogygeorge reviewed vFinal on Dec 16, 2003
Did you do a clean install or on top of a 2.91? If not a clean install, remove any transparency plugin that you might have. I had the same problem with the transparency plugin!!! 5 is Great!!!
havvk reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
Good but CRAP! The playlist does not work at all with the new skin at least for me. If I add music to it, all I see in the window is BLACK. Then if I want to change songs I have to move the playlist window to the top left corner of my screen and poof! the songs come into the window. VERY STRANGE. Anyone else have this prob? I am still a loyal Foobar2000 user cause the program rocks and is small and simple and that makes me happy. Btw, Old Winamp2 skin works ok but who would wanna use that?
BootBlock reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
Warning: This software contains extreme greatness. Use at your own pleasure (wot you can't measure, like).
dejavu reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
Now I can forget my reviews deleted in betanews about Winamp 3 - for me, an insult! Winamp 5 to present oneself! Congratulations! Five stars!
geminiz reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
excellent, finally nullsoft is winning back its respect after the embarassment of winamp3.
with good old MAD plugin, it's ready to go!
djdanska reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
Sweet!!!
darthbeads reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
I would be very curious to learn how Tidus41 and Stephan Schwartz define bloatware. I would also be very curious if they are the same person, and if they are both sleeping with the developer of QCD! Winamp 5 has MORE features than QCD, sure, but it also runs FASTER and has a SMALLER memory footprint than QCD! I think QCD is a fantastic audio player, don't get me wrong -- but calling Winamp 5 "bloat" relative to a program that started as just a means to play CDs and then had all of the digital file encoding/decoding technology ADDED to that model is outrageous and absurd. Winamp 5 (with the exception of the "Plus" version for faster ripping and burning issue) is an excellent example of a team of extraordinarily talented developers admitting that they screwed up (Winamp 3) and then listening to their (unpaying) customers to develop a truly superior product. An absolutely FIVE STAR digital media player!
Darken reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
Great soft! :)
Tidus41 reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
Yuckkkkkkkkkkkk!
This is such bloatware! And why pay for ripping features when you can download iTunes and do it all for FREE?
I just don't get it.
also, use QCD, you'll never go back, it's the best.
TomRC reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
If you dont want it slow use the classic skin.
For me Winamp works fine for years now.
Really great product with a lot great features
for free.
AutoBot reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
I gave winamp 5 a good once over twice, I give it a three because of the effort that went into creating it. With the classic skins memory and cpu usage are pretty much on par with 2.x series but activate the winamp modern skin and cpu usage rises to an unacceptable 80+ percent on a 600mhz PIII.
Now the fact that to do anything really usefull you have to pay for this, there is no way. If you want the best all around media package go get jetAudio 5 Basic, or better yet jetAudio 5 Pro as it's the best money I have ever spent on software.
Apollos reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
It isn't bloat, if you don't want any features, simply take the tick off the installation bosex, it's not hard really, and if you say it is, then, PLEASE STAND BACK FROM YOUR PC, PULL OUT THE POWER CORD AND SURRENDER IT TO SOMEONE WHO ISN'T A COMPLETE UTER N00B.
kthx p.s. I bet you people calling it bloatware are foobar users, lol
yokozuna reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
Horrible bloatware :-(. Do not try this at home.
tasty reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
best av player ever. stay with version 2 if you think this is bloated.
roj reviewed vFinal on Dec 15, 2003
"High-fidelity" - riiiiiiiight... Mediocrity is aparrently its own reward.
thehunger reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 12, 2003
Damn this thing is getting good! There are still some usability issues, and the video playing needs to improve especially with aspect ratio's, subtitling etc.
But what I'd REALLY like to see in WinAmp is integration with TV and FM Radio tuners, like the ones in ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder cards or Hauppage WinTV cards. That way, we can really, truly have access to ALL the media from a single application (besides, the ATI apps are really crap anyway).
BiggFatty reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 12, 2003
OK I think I'll stay to Winamp5 rc8 instead of this, don't know what they did. Basically this is just a upgrade of 2.91, I think it uses the same amount of memory, but looks better in certain places. Only 1 thing I don't like: it doesn't read long id3v1 tags.
chikimonke reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 12, 2003
It looks real good to me, but I have one complaint. I'm not sure if it can be fixed with an option that i'm not seeing, or if it's something programmed in. I like to be able to click and drag a music folder into the playlist. In 2.91 it would just add the folder. In 5 it deletes my current playlist and adds the new folder. How do I keep this from happening? I know I can just go to the playlist window and add the directory from the buttons there, but a lot of times it's more convinient for me to click and drag.
bgronas reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 12, 2003
is there any reason to change from winamp 2.9x to this?
..and WHY?
darthbeads reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 12, 2003
An astonishing improvement over v.3! One of the first, and hands-down one of the best audio players out there. I personally love the default "Modern" skin, particularly how it can be stretched. To phoenixx_, there is a setting for the Modern skin to control how it handles switching to and from winshade -- the only way I could find it was in the Preferences panel. First make sure that "Winamp Modern" is your selected skin, then click on "Modern Skins" under "Skins" in the Preferences panel. Then clink on the "Current Skin" tab. At the bottom of the panel should be a button called "Skin Options Menu." Click on this and select the "Main Windowshade Mode" menu and choose to "Unlink Position and Width." Now, more or less, your individual settings for Full Size and WinShade will be separate from each other. Also, you can use this menu (or right clicking directly on the player) to adjust the scale of the skin -- if 100% is too big for your monitor, then try 75% or 50%.
wolseleydude reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 12, 2003
I think it is one of the best players out there!
Awesome!
hadv reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 12, 2003
A problem. When a video file is playing, I using key to move forward or backward, the video screen is stop! i dont know this error. I not sure. So I reinstalled it, but that problem still occur. Another Player play sweet!
phoenixx_ reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 12, 2003
Still the best out there..... But I still have that complaint about the new modern skin. It's still too large (covers like 25% of the screenwidth), and the "grab to resize window" in the lower right corner still only shows a "resize horizontally" cursor (should be a diagonal cursor).......
The new thing that bugs me now which I discovered is when you switch between winshade and regular (modern skin) the position of the window itself changes rather much, it kind of "jumps"............
But all in all... super player... I hope they take their time to fix these bugs before the final release :)
animespy reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 12, 2003
AVS update, fix path in modern skin... um, good. That's nice, but it's not enough to make me want to download the prog again. ..I'll wait for a bigger update.
Qlib reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 11, 2003
even more exellent.. I cant wait for the final.. :D
Now i just want PLAYLIST and MEDIALIBRARY to be dockeable in the top part using TAB's to switch between video..vis..medialibrary and playlist!!!
U nullsoftians hear me????
dr_goodbytes reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 11, 2003
the only thing i can think of that would be really good would be if the playlist was attached like the vis window.
aside from that it's really good.
Havohej reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 11, 2003
Excellent program from devs with a great sense of humour. Hail Satanas and Winamp5!
tech_8356 reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 11, 2003
Winamp 5 owns them all...end of story.
mrp- reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 11, 2003
Wow
xtool reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 11, 2003
RC666? It's the Devil's numbers! Love it!
uNdisputed reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 11, 2003
hi`s to all.. winamp 3 made me go back to 2,77..lol..but the great comeback ..5`s good..
thank`s nullsoft.....
keep the good work going.
copied the dfx dll and pasted it in the plugin folder and it work`s too..try it out buddies
regard`s
Sharp reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 11, 2003
Great soft.. their staff do a lot of beta testing to track bugs : 10 alphas, 5 betas, 13 RCs (RC0 to RC11 + RC 666) in less then 5 months!
@Noldster: this rc has been released after RC11
Noldster reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 11, 2003
I dont know much about RC #'s, but isnt the number suppose to go up? (i.e. WinampFull 5.0 RC8 to WinampFull 5.0 RC9)
But anyways, fantastic program. For some reason 5.0 always takes 2 seconds to load a song, but it doesnt matter still 5/5 :-)
will fisher reviewed vRC 666 on Dec 11, 2003
This most likely the last release before the final. Good work!
klopsik reviewed vRC 8 on Dec 8, 2003
Pretty cool! But... Video playback is organize a little worse than in VidAMP plugin for WinAMP 2.91,- especially in dynamic scenes picture refreshness slows down.
Resume: one of the best universal multimedia players... for fast machines.
Sahok555 reviewed vRC 8 on Dec 6, 2003
Winamp 5 is cool program!
New version of winamp 5 RC10 download from here,go to link:
http://www.techconnect.w...le=article&sid=3934
dkratter reviewed vRC 8 on Dec 6, 2003
The best parts of the 2.x series plus the best parts of the 3.x series equals 5, hence the new version number.
This new series is certainly a major improvement over the 3.x series, and is a decent improvement over the 2.x series.
ynjhs reviewed vRC 8 on Dec 6, 2003
Winamp 3 was such a disgrace! boy was I happy to see the return of a useable and worthwhile winamp version. What gets me is that winamp doesn't even mention the beta on their website... why? Plenty of talk about winamp 2.x and 3 but nothing on 5. Also, whats the deal with the number 5, is that supposed to be a versioning system like Linux?
Overall, a top notch program I've used for years (though refuse to recommend ver. 3)
ChongChong reviewed vRC 8 on Dec 5, 2003
Winamp 3 was appalling, I was using 2.8 for ages, cause winamp 3 keeps on dying after 2 or 3 days. I just installed 5, and am yet to find a bug. Excellent, Well done Winamp Kru!! Chong
sunburntkamel reviewed vRC 8 on Dec 4, 2003
this is a much more worthwhile step up than wa3.
the skin engine is still heavy on old systems, as is wma playback. overall, it's pretty solid, tho.
oubeaver reviewed vRC 8 on Dec 3, 2003
Way to go Nullsoft. Winamp5 is slick as hell. I love it. Winamp really never disappoints me. Winamp 3 was close though. I used it for like 10 minutes. Anyway, I wonder when it goes gold and if it will remain named Winamp5? I may even start using it for my movie watching....maybe.....peace!
ranasrule reviewed vRC 8 on Dec 3, 2003
WINAMP 5 rocks..... it really does whip the lamas a** unlinke WINAMP 3 in which the lamma did the whippin !!!
flyingzhf reviewed vRC 8 on Dec 2, 2003
yes
glennremar reviewed vRC 8 on Dec 1, 2003
This update was great. I had removed Winamp 3 because of bugs with it and went back to 2.91. I liked the new interface in Winamp5. The internet TV and radio features were very cool. I had not listened to other internet radio stations especially after they disappeared because of royalty disputes. But it is a great way to hear new music that you do not get on regular radio stations. It would be great to see more media companies use these features. I did notice that double-clicking a mp3 file took a while to start the player. I had some problems with the application refreshing the display in the Media Library windows. For example, I had to select the row in Internet TV and Radio to redisplay the row. It would also be nice to have an option to automatically cycle through each station in the list of Internet Radio every few seconds. Or at least update the now playing entry when you select the radio station in the Internet Radio window. I also had the Internet TV window appear partially off screen when I opened it. I am not sure why the Internet Radio streams appear as entries in the Playlist Editor. All entries point to the currently playing song.
maelgwyn reviewed vRC 8 on Dec 1, 2003
I find that the samller features such as menu skins have not been implemented. This, coupled with some shell issues detracts from the overall product. However, I wont be getting rid of it... I have to admit, the new skin and the visualisation / EQ in drop down windows really looks cool. Overall, I would recommend procuring a copy, however, I would not replace the other copy of WinAmp yet... especially if you like a more polished look.
Otherwise, FANTASTIC!
Maelgwyn
Insimbi reviewed vRC 8 on Dec 1, 2003
Excellent! Awesome program - I love the new modern skins and low CPU usage. Keep up the good work!!
w_molokhia reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 30, 2003
Thanks very much
DJWesley2K reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 29, 2003
Looks good ... I like the Radio station feature very much!
Keepin it real ... WinAmp Rules!
Chief Wiggum reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 29, 2003
Well, now we have some few improvements on this version, such as the ability to change boot screens, and other that I don't remember. I found it's very easy and secure to change themes/wallpapers/boot screens/login screens. Best program for the area. Recommended!
bsf reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 28, 2003
okay, it's a lot better than wa3..
it takes less memory (yes, a lot less)
but guys are you checking your vram too ?
wa5 still takes a lil more than wa2.x but it's good considering all these fancies stuff, and it's just that lil bit. I'm happy with it
RUFONE reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 28, 2003
Is excellent,but i still can´t give it 5 stars because it lacks one of themost useful (at least to me) features of the WA3 and that is the SONG QUEUEING, in WA3 you could easyly queue a song by right-clicking on it,i miss that part, really i swear. The rest of it excellent as usual and the skining runs without any problems. Great work fellas
L337JasE reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 28, 2003
I've been using this program for several years (when it was called Windows Commander), on an occasional basis. It lets you do many complex file operations without using a command prompt. But the main problem that I find with it is the menus do not follow the usual Windows conventions, so it's a bit fiddly to use.
acollis reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 28, 2003
Wow, I must say this is a million times better than 3 - which was full of bugs. I personally liked the fact that this doesn't eat as much CPU cycles as the previous versions and all the options that they have included. I like how they have included some of the newer functionality (eg. cross fading) into the interface. Man...I donno, I just love it!!!
Monyet reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 27, 2003
Really great - highly recommended!!
Trisse reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 27, 2003
It a very good soft. I have used it since 1.0 and I also have payed for it. I have considering switching to StarDock and Object Desktop but I have started ti chnage my mind back to StyleXP when I installed 2.0 BETA..
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[Geck] reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 25, 2003
Really great, easy to use (as all versions), nice look, great functions... but in this one i am extremely missing the point "Direct Sound" ind Perfences, cause I always switch between my Onboard Soundcard (Headset) and my Hercules Muse LT (for Sourround Speakers). anyone know how to get this??
qtsohg reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 25, 2003
The Best ever!
It has the only media library that didn't fail on me, when adding all my MP3's (20Gb).
Awesome!
Darken reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 24, 2003
After many tests. I love it! Fast, stable and very nice appearance (Modern skin). Finally, only eatting 6 Mb of memory and 0% of CPU. Good job!! :) 5/5!!
neilmunn reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 24, 2003
Worth installing for the ability to minimize to the system tray alone!
New skins look fab, but I have only seen them once. Ever since the first run I can only open Winamp if I delete gen_ff.dll, the file that enables the modern skins. Doh!
stfndln reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 24, 2003
I have installed winamp 5 not long ago and have to say it is better then winamp 3. The feature multi-tag editing which was not in the winamp 3 has been added (nice). Altough i see one feature which is not included and that is the creation of directories based on tag information. Hope this will be added...
Nice job on the new version
Smooth_J reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 23, 2003
I have been with winamp since the beginning and this is the best release yet...
I have like 3% cpu usage (not even) and its using around 12 mb worth of ram.
RenderPal reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 23, 2003
I hated Winamp 3 (and never used it), but Winamp 5 really whips some asses again.
Memory usage is slightly above the usage of Winamp 2, CPU is a bit more, too.
Only really bad thing is that it doesn't react on media keyboards anymore (they have to change this).
Steven_XXL reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 23, 2003
Borg_Number_One
a.k.a. StevenXXL
Now Winamp 5 is published and Nullsoft will be famous again.
However I foun some little bugs while using "sidamp"(in_sid) and "nezplug" (in_nez).
Sidamp's/NEZPlug'S own mini Sid-Subtitle-Slider does not appear in "Winamp modern skin mode". Winamp 5 often crashes if a sid or Nintendo-mod will be started.
star51L reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 23, 2003
The best got better:-) Solid as a rock.
yorick.by reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 22, 2003
Much more stable than the previous I had (beta2). The only useful thing I'd like to add - "add song to Most Played after xx% of listening" I think it would be useful for many people...
And| reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 22, 2003
If you are sitting and judging a program, wheter or not it uses 9mb of ram or 15mb of ram, you ought to buy a new computer.
This program doesnt use alot of resources, and you problably never feel that it is running.
Nevertheless, it is really the best release Nullsoft has created, I am sooo looking forward to the final release.
And if Nullsoft is looking at this, please make some more colour themes for the modern skin, or even a few other modern skins :-) That would be great!
viper2200 reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 22, 2003
works great for me and uses little resources only 9MB of ram and 3% CPU power
wa5rocks! reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 21, 2003
WOW! the folks at winamp have got it down pat this time. The annoying lack of 'depth' that plagued wa2.x and wa3 are gone gone gone! Clear highs, booming lows and lots and lots of middle. Throw away all those plug-ins that you needed to get previous Winamps sounding rite and just let'er go on her own. Lovely!
Sugo-V6 reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 21, 2003
Hello everybody
First time to use a beta software and the look is great...
i dont knw i cant find it or it is a bug, i cant see the chinese songs name in the main section (just saw some sqaure like symbol) but i can see the exact name in the playlist?
sld reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 21, 2003
Winamp 5 was never an upgrade, never is, and never will be an upgrade from Winamp3. Winamp3 is totally different from the Winamp 2/5 series. The upgrade for Winamp3 is now known as the Wasabi Player.
hannisen reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 21, 2003
This is surley a great improvement to both Winamp 2 and 3. Works very well, needs some resource improvement though, but I guess that's why they call it 'beta'. Only complaint I have is that some albums that I added to the Media Library got split up in two identical entries with a few tracks in each. This totally messes things up and is kinda frustrating. I really hope they fix that before the final release. I can mention that iTunes does the same thing... Winamp 5 is way better than iTunes though, just they fix that issue it's a given choice for me and my media.
xippon reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
like insane-pt said, it's good combination with w3 and 2.xx .But the true power it gets with plugin named "Enchancer 017" (from http://classic.winamp.co...jhtml?componentId=81361)
1o9 reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
So far so good.
It 'tends to use quite a bit of resources when compared to Winamp2 but I'm sure that'll be (hopefully) resolved before the final release.
guti reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
Average some quality, great looking, average features, and high resource consuption (in my machine about 40 Mb of RAM).
Obviously is seems more stable and faster than the last 3.0 alpha version, but still not comparable with WinAmp 2.x or Foobar2000 0.x.
insane-pt reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
Finally!!! I *HATED* wa3 and never stopped using 2.x but now i tried this i'm not going back... even as beta it's freaking GREAT :)
Excelent Job Guys... and thank god you forgot wa3 =)
NULLedge reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
I like the custom *feature* that lets me take screen shots of it playing a video and when i paste them into photoshop the video continues playing in photoshop. now thats a special bug :)
spikeymikey reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
THANK YOU NULLSOFT!! I lost faith in you after WA3 but this new version is really snazzy. I used to toggle between Windows Media Player for video and Winamp for audio, but with WA5 I can easily replace both with great confidence. WA5 is now my default player for all audio and video. I haven't had a chance to test it out, but does WA5 work with Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative? That would be very nice if it did.
Qlib reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
Its 2003.. almost 2004.. my Winamp 5 RC8 used like 12mb at the MOST and that was with a playlist of about 2800 files.. If your PC is SO SLOW AND WEAK that you cant spare 12mb of ram to a program that features as much as this.. then BUGGER OFF.. Winamp3 the ONE time i tried it used like 33mb just to start and SIT there and DO NOTHING..
THIS IS GREAT STUFF.. tons of fixes I never even noticed were any problems.. now if only they could dock the MediaLibrary and Playlist with Tabbed interface in the same area the Video and Visualization can be in then it would be even greater!!
Now.. all I needs is a VERY GOOD DETAILED GUIDE on how to freeformly skin this or a XML Skingenerator app heh
adv4nc3 reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
bellissimo!
hal9000 reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
I HATED WA3 so i thank god that it doesnt have that s***ty playlist thing!
Its obvious to me that they realised that there were many people that didnt like the way was3 went so they have taken the best bits out wa3 and bolted it onto wa2
well done chaps this is the logical progression of Winamp
VikingStorm reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
No memory problems for me here. Works good.
xtrance reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
Pretty good. But it eats just too much memory!
FIX THIS!!
mrWeed reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
i hope they bring back the multiple playlist option... i liked it in WA3
adnans reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 20, 2003
Another great release of winamp 5, but I'll be staying with Beta 2 for now.
Why? The media library is totally busted for me. In Beta 2, I let it scan a directory or two with some avi's, just to try it out. Never used the library for anything other then listing NSV streams after that.
I just hit the media library button in RC8, and winamp is trying to run a recovery of my library. It claims there are 34 total items, and the items lost counter never stops. It got to 3 million items lost the first time, before I killed winamp from task manager. Restarted winamp, and the same behaviour.
That, and some of the uDesignit skin is broken :)
thehunger reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 19, 2003
Very, very nice! A few crucial capabilities are missing: For the video player we need to be able to change the aspect ratio as a minimum, and access to codec and filter settings. I'm not sure that subtitling is in here at all?
For the media library, I would love it if it could rename files based on tags - similar to what Foobar2000 does.
And another thing: This signals that WINAMP finally goes commercial. "Full" now means "Full" as in "Not the Pro version which will let you rip to MP3 and faster than 2x". You'll have to pay for the Pro version.
djdanska reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 19, 2003
Sweet is the word!
mrfloyd666 reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 19, 2003
Crossfading is in Winamp5. If you click on the "Config" drawer and switch to the Equalizer tab you'll notice a crossfade button and a crossfade duration that you can tweak.
crackers8 reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 19, 2003
Wow! I heard bad things about WA5 during development - namely that it was sluggish and featureless. But it's an RC now and look at it. I think they've done everything with it that WA3 was supposed to do and missed the mark on! It performs a lot faster and has a few new features. They also finally included a new/nicer skin. I miss crossfading (did I just not find it yet?) being built in and multiple playlists (only a little). But after 5 mins of having it, I like it.
MadEx2k2 reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 19, 2003
Noldster, lol I swear I *just* noticed that a few minutes before I came and read your review. Compatibility of WA2, and look and feel of WA3. 2 + 3 = 5, so that's why they skipped WA4?
Anyway, excellent program. Nullsoft proves that Winamp is still king!
Tidus41 reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 19, 2003
This is a great program for windows, works great on my windows xp pro... now why wont they port it to mac os x?!?!? ;(
Noldster reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 19, 2003
and btw verb, u mean its the best of Winamp2 and 3 combined. 2+3=?
verb reviewed vRC 8 on Nov 19, 2003
WA5 is everything WA3 should have been - but faster, less buggy, and less demanding on system resources. ;)
Plasticman reviewed vBeta 2 on Nov 10, 2003
The program has some good functionality to it. I like the new screens. It even gives me the option to have it look like the original classic winamp if I am feeling nestalgic. The only complaint I have is I got an error stating that it may not support my CD Burner and this error message: The ordinal 373 could not be located in the dynamic link library PX.dll
But then I understand that this is just a beta and the bugs need to be worked out...
Plasticman
robrique reviewed vBeta 2 on Nov 10, 2003
Excelent usability, great functionality...
It's really the best of both worlds (Winamp 2 and 3)
Already became my default player ;-)
ChatER reviewed vBeta 2 on Nov 9, 2003
SUUUUUUUUUUUUUPER
jon8rfc reviewed vBeta 2 on Nov 8, 2003
It runs fine for me, I how Internet Radio runs as well. The reason I give this a 4 of 5 is purely because of the cpu power required to play a new file as well as initially starting up the program. This is because it's a beta though, I'm sure they'll have it cleaned up for official release.
Blitzkrieg reviewed vBeta 2 on Nov 3, 2003
I'm pretty pleased with it so far, some of the Winamp 2.x plugins work with this release. I can use the Winamp Toolbar again on the taskbar!! Yippie!!
nas0Ne reviewed vBeta 2 on Nov 3, 2003
that's pretty good, but when i change a skin, it simnply changes place!!
Noodles23 reviewed vBeta 2 on Nov 2, 2003
Overall i think winamp 5 is good, although i miss the ability to "enqueue" tracks on the playlist, and to have multiple playlists (ala winamp 3)
gOOglEy03 reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 30, 2003
well, i do have it on 96 dpi, i dont remember how to change that setting. winamp is still reacting the same way no matter what i change so ill just be waiting for the next beta/final. ill be checkin here frequently.
beng^3 reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 30, 2003
Why, why, why, why you still can't repeat a couple of songs in your playlist??? (say you have 200 song and you just wanna hear 5 of them and repeat ad infinitum). And please don't say, "Oh, make a new playlist". NO I want to have all my songs, but sometime I wanna be able to listen to fews of them (very few). I need this option!!
And where the hell is the queue uption (when you right click a file on the playlist with winamp 3 you could enqueue a file or two). This is a rather nice substitution from the above function I want. Please have this winamp3 feature on final 5.
and also importantly the repea bunch of songs (opr maybe just one song) in a playlist feature. Because currently the repeat function only repeats THE ENTIRE PLAYLIST!!
Oh and the window size that MANY have noted. Fix that too. I wanna make the winamp smaller. However after I changed the scalling to 75%, close it, adn re-open it, it goes back to 100%. sup with that?
lonedfx reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 30, 2003
googley03, this seems to be due to a bug when using fonts at another setting than 96dpi, it's been fixed, wait for the next beta :) If that's not what it is, then you're welcome to communicate your problems on the winamp.com forums, you'll find many people are listening. Cheers
hi1fan reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
Funky303, both gOOglEy and I have the same problem. We had it set on random skin on display purposely. The problem isn't the skin changes but when it does, the playlist window automatically goes back to the default size. Maybe you addressed him because he wasn't as specific, but this still is an issue that needs to be resolved by the final release.
fizzle reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
Ok. I don't understand why, but when i open Winamp, the main window isn't displayed, like if its coords were out of the desktop range. I have to set the value wx= and wy= to "0" and now the main window is displayed. But when I re-open it, it keeps being not displayed!! So I switched back to beta1 :)
funky303 reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
I really like winamp5.
It has taken the role of my full media player, vids & all audio.
@ g00gle3ye : I REALLY HATE PPL who use lame 733t names and do not have an eye on the checkboxes they made. go to the options, then to skin chooser, and you'll find a checkbox with the text " Random skin on play". Just uncheck it and your problem will be gone. it is NOT activated by default, so you must have set it without knowing what you did.
Soundquality Pro & Contra:
One MAY find sound differences between players, but i use some more or less cheaper destop speaker systems and a better 5.1 home cinema system connected on my soundcard.
For gaming and daytime listening I don't really care on superb sound quality (who really does that with mp3s ? even good compression >192 kb is still different/worse than DVD sound or CD Audio sound.)
And what's the problem on using a filter who makes it better or an equalizer ?
Do you think other apps don't do the same ? maybe just adding an always on equalizer and compressor and bassadjusting equalizer directly into their players, not giving you the possibility to disable it ?
Memory usage:
RAM, 512MB, PC 333 DDR-SDRam/DIMM, 184pin., OEM 76.90 €
now what ? you surely cry about 6 or 7 mb ram and run a WinXP machine with Office Bar enabled or many other programs in your taskbar and then comply on 6 MB ?
Big kudos to Nullsoft for not beeing pushed down by aol (see WASTE) and still beeing the ppl they were before doing wonderfull software (shoutcast etc)
guti reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
Very nice appearance, but eatting 6 Mb of memory plus 18 Mb pagged.
Now I am a happy user of Foobar200 (http://www.foobar2000.org)! :-)
djdanska reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
Still the best.
matrixme reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
I use this prog from v1.*
I like itz.
WinAMP - the best player of musical files.
kNIGitz reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
I love Winamp 5 thus far. If you think sound quality is an issue, use the equalizer. If you hate more resources, wait til the final release or stick with whatever Winamp 2 version you want.
Qlib reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
oops and i forgot.. I want docking abillities of ALL windows.. library.. id3 tag editor.. the works.. and i NEVER EVER wanna see the browser window again!
Metshrine reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
By the way, the bug occurs in both beta 1 and 2 if the video window is detached in the winamp modern skin
Bachalor reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
WinAmp is for me a good FREEWARE alternative. But I have detected, that the WINAMP Version 5 use more resources than the version 2.9x (under windows xp). Therefore I use the "old" version again.
resi reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
a work of art, all i can say to it.
Looking forward to the finished piece!
Zulithe reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
Excellent! I *LOVE* the new modern skin and all the color varations, very cool :) It is a little bigger than Classic which takes some getting used to, but overall It's much better. I'm using an 800MHz AMD Athlon and yes, this skin is slower (along with most wa3 or 'modern' skins) but I'm sure it will become pretty unnoticable once I manage to upgrade. I recommend Winamp5 highly over both WA2 and WA3. The best of both worlds!
phoenixx_ reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
This program still runs perhaps a little slow on my PIII 850 Mhz with the sliding "options window", but it's no biggie since you can turn the animation off........
One thing that DOES bug me (hoping someone from nullsoft actually reads this ;) ) is that the new default skin is SO big and combersome! And you can't downsize it either :/.....
I mean I run 1280x1024 on a 19" monitor and winamp still takes up like 20-25% of the screenwidth..... Besides that bug it's still the bug with the "resize corner" (lower right corner)..usually when you hover your mouse over a "resize corner" it should display a diagonal mousecursor, and not a horizontal.......
Oh well, I guess it still has some bugs to be ironed out, but I will still give it a 5 star because it's on the right tracks! (wouldn't be a dream if they only could skip the "AOL on desktop" icon install option as well)
wickedsun reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
The Pro version costs money because they (Nullsoft) have to pay royalties for each copy of Winamp that can encode MP3s. It is NOT a fee for the program itself, Winamp is and will remain free.
Lucifugum reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 29, 2003
It's nice to see that Nullsoft is right on top of bug/nuissance fixing. My major problems with Beta 1 have been fixed in this version.
chrisfrog reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 28, 2003
anyone know why when i choose modern skin everything but the media library thing disappears?
Wiser reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 28, 2003
L337JasE, the idea is: Winamp2 + Winamp3 = Winamp5
L337JasE reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 28, 2003
Hmmn.. not so bad after the Winamp3 travesty. But I think they really finished this program with v2. Small and simple is what I like, so I still use the old version. Did I miss Winamp4?
panic82 reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 28, 2003
I think this new version of winamp has a lot of potential. For all of you who are complaining about Winamp Pro, look at it from Nullsoft's point of view. They're going to continue to provide a free version of Winamp with all the features they have now, but they're going to offer a more advanced version with brand stinken new features that will cost money.
These guys wrote one of the best multimedia applications around and its free no-less! If I ran that company I would have been charging for this software for years. I'm just happy that they are going to continue to provide a free, ad-free version still, with all the same features as before.
Winamp has been my #1 media player for many years, and I think it's about time they get their dues. I personally will purchase Winamp Pro when it comes out. Go Nullsoft!
stealthspy reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 28, 2003
Good software. The only thing going in the wrong direction is the 'Pro' addon.
dr_goodbytes reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 28, 2003
cool! works with all my winamp2 plugins, i don't use winamp2 any more. video playback is good but could be a bit better (doesn't work with short clips very well). midi sampling doesn't seem to work. (that enough criticism). very good player.
Noldster reviewed vBeta 2 on Oct 28, 2003
Great program. This made me permently switch from foobar2000 back to Winamp.
GeSpot reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 28, 2003
Great work. Although it doesn't update the playlist/track title during Shoutcast streams, like v2.91 did. (I hate not being able to see the current song artist/title while streaming.)
And| reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 28, 2003
I has always used WinAmp2. Also when the so-called perfect WinAmp3 came. I never liked WinAmp3, because it couldnt read some of my wma files, and it didnt have the "J" ability. Wich really pissed me off. Now WinAmp5 is here (Almost) and is a really good combination of both. It can handle WA2 & WA3 skins/components, and also a new skin form, called Modern skins.
I say, thumbs up Nullsoft!
krotch reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 25, 2003
What the hell? Maybe it's just me, but what happen to the lightweight Winamp? All I want is music player. I have Windows Media Player, Nero, and CDex for everything else. I don't need another resource hungry program sitting in the background, while I surf the web.
Ever buy an all in one printer/scanner/fax machine. It sucks for all it does, but it can do it all. Which seems to be how this works. It doesn't excel in all forms or even one form.
Great job Nullsoft for making me hate you more. Bring back Winamp 2.4!!!
Not to mention the audio quality coming through. Which comes out fine. I don't know what the other ppl are talking about, but it's perfectly find the way it's coming out. Maybe they need better speakers or a better computer.
Roj>> If you are picky about sound quality why would you not be tweaking the EQ? Those who are picky would be tweaking it to fit their music. You sure as hell don't sound like someone who is picky about sound quality.
Pizda reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 22, 2003
A step in the right direction; although it doesn't feel like a new release, more like a makeover. The player is heavy on the graphic interface, and one can see the original player loading before it switches to the "modern skin"... Seems to me like a nice patchup work, nothing more, nothing less, but enough for me to switch over, and use it.
the_lord_almighty reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 22, 2003
I'm using the MAD plugin for Winamp5 and it sounds great. I sounds a lot different from QCD or WMP or anything else, but in my opinion the sound is really good. But it's always a matter of opinion. Definitely try Winamp5. If you don't like it, use something else, but I think there is a good chance you'll love it (especially with the MAD plugin).
doubleJ reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 22, 2003
I'll give winamp5beta a "good" review, although I think "5" should be something more like "fantastic" or "spectacular". Winamp2 rocked, winamp3 sucked, and winamp5 put them right back in business. Winamp5 has now replaced my 2.91 in both installation and backed up install file. I like that you can revert back to the 2.x look as I think it's about perfect. I currently use the 5 default skin, but the main window seems a bit big and the windowshade version seems a bit lacking in content. Also, could it be a little "too" configurable? It took me like 5 minutes to set it up the way I like.
Hehehe...
roj reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 22, 2003
Regarding a MAD plugin: Not if it's like 3 which wouldn't work with a variety of 2 plugins and thus wouldn't accept MAD. Besides, even with that major boost the sound quality of 2 was less than CoolPlayer, QCD and the much overhyped FB2K. I just won't waste my time and disk space on this when I can get exactly what I want elsewhere, namely less bloat, *far* less bugs and better sound (and that's a reference to the Winamp line in general and not just 5). I was curious to see what had been done with this flavor and I can't say that I'm surprized. Nullsoft did exactly what they've always done and delivered functionality with glitz while providing middle of the road sound quality. In other words "same old same old" and "too little too late". Now that my curiosity is satisfied, I've uninstalled this thing and will continue to use that which delivers for me in spades: QCD + MAD. Your mileage will of course vary - I certainly don't expect to convert the faithful.
insanitee reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 22, 2003
um guys.. Winamp is plugin based. You can get a MAD decoder input plugin if you want...
Flawless reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 21, 2003
it's what winamp3 should have been
neo1980 reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 21, 2003
All i hear about this program is skins, compatibility and memory usage, well frankly me and 99% of other computer users dont care a speck about those, we care about songs, and Itunes, foobar2000 have better quality sound than Winamp and at the end of the day thats what matters, sound, not looks
will fisher reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 21, 2003
roj & hariskar, I'd like to inform you that winamp uses (and has done for a long time now) the industry standard decoder developed by the people who invented mp3. That is the decoder against which all others are tested.
If you want to change how your music sounds, either use the EQ or get a DSP plugin.
hariskar reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 21, 2003
Nice interface, but not good sound. Quintessential or foobar2000 sound a lot better. That is a media players purpose to have good sound isn't it? If the sound was like the programs above, I would use it.
srbjandhyala@yahoo.com reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 21, 2003
It is much better than winamp 3. However the visualisations are not to my liking--so much of reddish tinge. They are shocking the eyes. Otherwise it is a downloadable programme and the modern skin is excellent.
InpherKnow reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 20, 2003
very nice... the GUI is easy, and the default skin is tight. the only lgripe i have is that you cant sort the files by track, which i use a lot, and that the default skin doesnt have trebel/bass controls, unless i'm missing them
felesii reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 20, 2003
quote from the winamp forums "....
Step 2: Winamp "5" (this summer)
(The "5" is just a working title, and may or may not be used.. The (slightly amusing) thought is that Winamp 2 + Winamp3 = Winamp 5; but not everybody around is sold on that idea. We'll see.)
This version will integrate Winamp3 skin and script support into the Winamp 2.x platform.
This will allow users who do not wish to have complex freeform skins to use
classic Winamp skin(s), with the full performance of Winamp 2.x.
Those who wish to use more advanced Winamp3 skins can do so as well.
The integration will be seamless.........
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit! " thats why there's no winamp 4 :P
oh and winamp 5 is really good too.
epimetheus reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 20, 2003
Great step in the Winamp series. Awesome speed improvements. Still a little laggy when being brought from behind other windows. The only obvious bug i noticed: nevermind, it stopped doing it. All in all a great prog so far. Only had it going for about 10 minutes, so we'll see.
xenobrain reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 20, 2003
I was very impressed, Nullsoft really took the user input to heart and fixed a lot of what was wrong with winamp 3 and improved on what was good in winamp 2. The new interface is much more efficient as well. *Definately* a beta though as it has still has lots of drawing bugs. The only reason I don't give it a 5 is due to the upcoming "Winamp Pro". This just makes me cringe, and makes me very uneasy as to the future of Winamp. Don't do this, I beg of you!!!!!! Should it come to pass, I'm switching to foobar (already have, actually....) because I don't wish to support crippleware. Either make it a fully-fledged $14.99 program or continue as freeware.
Kaarosu reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 20, 2003
very nice. I haven't messed with it too much yet, but I very quickly found that there is no more "sort by track" option. I use this A LOT. Hope this is in the final version. Other than that, I dig
PacFu reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 20, 2003
Best winamp yet...my only question is what happened to winamp 4? Kinda like "Leisure Suit Larry 4, The Case of the Missing Floppies."
Kylde reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 20, 2003
Nice, where's "none" gone to for tray options? BTW, the pictured skin is available on install, it's called "modern"
Hans Specht reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 20, 2003
Winamp 5 is great it works stable.
The modern skin is great too, but I can't use my winamp 3 skins! In the description stands that I can use this skins!
gorobotgo reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 19, 2003
So far I'm loving this. Clean, low CPU useage and generally an improvement. However, I have one complaint.
For whatever reason they've removed the counter from the playlist, which I've always used to keep track of time when making mixes.
SuperVegeta reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 19, 2003
Nice Work. Winamp 5 is the future of music listening. Actually, I have found no bugs.
Qlib reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 19, 2003
I see the browser is gone.. I HOPE IT STAYS GONE!!! Most annoying idea ever.. all it ever did was not work and/or popup when you loaded some skin just to really annoy you and force you to modify the skin.
Some issues i've noticed are that it doesnt properly snap to edges yet, also when returning from windowshade mode at the bottom of the screen it doesnt pop in like wa2 does but most of the window pops up off screen.
I cant doubleclick the title to get the ID3 editorbox anymore.. I miss that. I has crashed a few times when searching in the radiolist (I always have my max list at 5000 to get everything). Some intricate and superbly detailed information on how to skin this thing I assume will be available on launchday?!? I hope.. Hitting the shufflebutton doesnt always seem to shuffle anything but turning it off and then on again will so. And there are a few other functions around that doesnt seem to do anything.. its Beta 1 so thats normal.
ken_brown reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 19, 2003
Very nice. What Winamp 3 *should* have been.
hi1fan reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 18, 2003
This is everything I wanted in Winamp5. Winamp2 with Winamp3 support and still as stable for the most part as Winamp2. However, there are some bugs I would like to be fixed in the final release of the product. I have 3 skin folders (for a reason), and when I try to change my skin folder, Winamp crashes. Also, with many Winamp3 skins, it seems to be unstable, and I don't think it likes changing skins because sometimes it crashes then too. You're almost there, Nullsoft. It's almost perfect. I'm looking forward to the final release with these issues resolved
adamdawg reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 18, 2003
I've been using Winamp 5 since the alpha release. I have yet to find a bug, and this is BY FAR the best version of winamp ever!! Anyone know what skin was being used for the picture up top?
5 for Winamp 5!
wambert reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 18, 2003
From a first quick look, this seems to be a great piece of software. i haven't had a chance to take a look on what plug-ins are running (e.g. advanced crossfade plug in) but stability seems to be very high. an above all the interface is great ... the new modern skin is very usable .... especially the windowshade mode (you can adjust the width of the player in windowshade mode, and it's big enough to read the song-title in 1600x1200 on a 19'' monitor).
download and use, it's great!
JW Polaris reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 18, 2003
seems great to me, fast as 2, with the great skins from 3..
the only problem i have is that you cant sort playlist, by track # :\ was kinda good for whenever i wanted to play an entire cd in order
BillBraskey reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 18, 2003
I dont know what the hell they did to make this load so quick. After the release of Winamp3, I figured the project was pretty much dead. I should give this a 4 untill they publicly apologize for Winamp3, but this player is just too good. I am so glad to see Winamp back in the game, this player has been there for me since the beginning, back before it even had a playlist or an installer. I stuck with 2.x when 3 was released, but this 5 realease is a suitable replacement for 2.91 and I am glad you can set it to the classic skin, I do not like the "modern" skin at all. This thing loads in like a aplit second and after toying with it for a while I am very happy. Foobar was a winamp killer, but with this new release the foobar guy is gonna have to step up to the plate.
MrPuddles reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
Combines the best qualities of both 2.X and 3.X. Fast, small, nice... hell - this beta is more stable than any of the 3.X series. Look forward to future releases.
Somnambulator reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
AWESOME. very nice. it's mainly winamp2 with a complete backend overhaul with nice skins from winamp3 and beyond. highly recommended.
Metshrine reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
I must say, that when this is released, this is one piece of software i will most definitely pay for, its worth every penny from what i've seen from the beta and alphas, the developers have done a great job on this one, and i recommend this piece of software to everyone i talk to now. Winamp 5's functionality is just, wow. I have three words that james hetfield from metallica said that totally describe winamp5 "F*** Yeah James!!!!". Seriously thou, give this a shot, you wont be disappointed, winamp 5 is by far the supreme media player in a small easy to use interface.
TotalKonfuzion reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
Very stable, very quick....what winamp3 was supposed to be...love it, have been using it for days and it rocks...cpu usage is very low and memory usage is low as well. Love the program...replaced my winamp 2.91 :)
SpaceGhost reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
The screenshot looks good, but it doesn't run on my 2k3 box. I know it isn't listed as a supported os, but please make it so.
cork reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
I dropped winamp since some versions, but this one is simply fabulous. Everything is there (from excellent media library, amazing freeform skins with color theming, and even the best Vis plugin: MilkDrop, developped by Ryan Geiss @ nullsoft), fully integrated in this reborn player which is back to the status of default audio player.
Download now.
jpmccord reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
I completely agree with franzj. I actually still prefer Winamp 2.95, because like he said, Winamp 3 just wasn't that great. But Winamp 5 is showing promise. It will be in use on one of my computers just to see if it's worth using. So far, I like everything about it!
franzj reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
People like melkor disgust me! The United States is a capitalist country. We shouldn't be so picky about what's free, and what costs money. Software developers do work just like everyone else, and thus they deserve money. You use Winamp, right? You like Winamp, right? Then quit complaining. If you don't like the program, then cite that as your reason for a poor rating. It's really childish of people to expect software (music, etc.) to be free.
And now to my rating. Winamp5 is pretty sweet for its current stage of development. WMP9 is currently my favorite media player, but it doesn't hurt to have competition. Winamp5 will probably redeem itself over Winamp3, which is crap.
jcrichto reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
I love the direction they are taking this version. I've struggled with trying to accept the big bloated players (iTunes, WM, musicmatch). I kept going back to Winamp 2. I love the windowshade layout in this version. Everything you need, right there. Very happy...can't wait to see how it progresses..
sooprcow reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
melkor: You don't HAVE to pay for Winamp. Everything you use Winamp for today will still work 100% free no-nags. You only have to pay if you want to use the pro version features. The reason you have to pay for the pro version features is because it costs Nullsoft money to licenses mpeg3 encoding as well as the cd burning stuff. So next time you say something think.
As for winamp5, it’s freaking awesome. Runs great. I love the new stuff they’ve added to the skinning engine (coding wise)
melkor reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
Winamp5Pro, as in PAY MONEY. check the options, to rip cd's to mp3 or faster then 2x they want you to buy it. I thought the day would never come when i would have to pay for winamp (please ignore the fact that winamp started it's life as shareware).
Piedone reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
I like it! It feels pretty stable and compact, well integrated. I've used Winamp 2.95 for quite a long time, never liked v.3 Now I've upgraded to Winamp5 and I think I'm gonna stay with it, it's a step in the right direction.
Mexaner reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
Great! Still in the betastatus, but very solid! I like the combination of 2 & 3!
And you are right it has something in common with Sonique!
All I can say: Download it, you will be happy after that ;)
xtool reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
Winamp2 + Winamp3 = Winamp5 They've combined the two.
I love it! It reminds me of Sonique in a way. [The interface] Althought it needs to work on its loading. Can't wait for the next built.
linkdup reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
The app is better than that feeling right after you orgasm. Fast like 2, powerfull like 3. All plugs and skins work. It's a beautifull thing really. Oh yeah, plus it has some cool new features.
Ok, well maybe not BETTER than that feeling...... but close.
5 for me.
pjbm92 reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
It Rocks
Tomas reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
Great for me. Modern skin is wonderful.
bintatu reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
Although used instantly, when the modern skin is used, it is worrisome that some classic skins are displayed at the time of starting. Moreover, it is very regrettable that only use by the English area is considered and Japanese cannot be used. Although the former version applied and exceeded the patch, with a modern skin, the display of a 2-byte character thinks that it is difficult. More Japanese users are waiting eagerly for Japanese-ization. Although it thinks that there are more difficulties in Japanese-izing, it is the place which desires an improvement so that use of a 2-byte character can be performed at least. Thank you for finally making such great software.
phoenixx_ reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
Indeed very good successor! Great stuff, much faster than WA3! And they've made a pretty good job on the new skin (and thank god that nullsoft is a company that realises that ppl may want the old skin/style as well).
The only thing that bugs me is that "menus" are activated by default in the new skin, making it look kind of "big", but luckely they've made it easy to turn off.
The other thing that bugs me with the new skin is that when it's in winshade mode that it doesn't display the time or "location slider" (where in the song you are).
The last thing which probably only is a beta-bug is the inability to resize the main player window by pressing and holding in the lower right corner.
Btw, if you look at the "CD Ripping" feature and try to change it from 2x to something higher you will some of nullsoft's future plans for winamp (it says that you have to purchase the "Winamp Pro").
But hey, doesn't bother me! Winamp is meant to be a player :)
Banquo reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
It is beautiful! Works well too, much better than the horrid version 3. I can't comment on the video aspect of it as I use Media Player Classic for those. Winamp is for music in my book. It launches just a bit slower than 2.x but maybe they will further optimize it. The old skinning interface is available for slower systems. One thing bothers me though, where did the cross-fader go? You used to be able to skip smoothly through a song and it would blend together in Winamp 2. I hope they didn't drop that feature. Anyway looking forward to the final version of this. I can finally replace version 2. :)
GeneralLeoFF reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
definitly a step in the right direction. Killer simple interface and the way the EQ drops out and video/vis uses the same window now is perfict. Video playback is still lacking as in winamp 3 though. DivX/XviD files play choppy if at all and there is no aspect ratio support for MPEG2 files. a shame to have such a great interface on such poor media playback. Still a great program and i'll see what happens next.
Smooth_J reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
I thought this was going to be another “winamp 3 type deal.” It’s not though :) The feature I wanted for the longest time has been added :) Keep up the good work and way to go. I just hope this doesn’t get too bloated.
HolyLiaison reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
Love the new version. I've been using the leaked earlier version for a while, but this one blows it away.
BTW antonbest, Winamp 5 is basically Winamp 2 and 3 put together. 2 + 3 = 5 which was their whole idea to begin with.
antonbest reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 17, 2003
Did I miss 4 or something?..Doesn't matter this is an awesome program. Definetly worth the download if you like to listen to music. I recomend this highly
Fnatte79 reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
Best version so far... this beta is more stable than version 3 *he he* I can only say... WoW!!!
snafu4u reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
WOW... Leaps and bounds ahead of WinAmp3 and built in CD Riping and Buring are interesting additions. I hope AOL doesn't try to push trough too much crap in the final version...
virtorio reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
Superior to all other audio players.
Havohej reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
It's nice to see Nullsoft going back to what works with this version. I swear, this first beta is far more stable than even the most recent versions of Winamp 3. Also uses a very reasonable amount of RAM, which suprises me (will be monitoring for mem. leaks though). The new looks is great too, reminds me a bit of QCD... but maintains the superior functionality, crisp sound, and lightweightedness of Winamp 2. I also find it classy that the paid functionalites aren't essential to use Winamp the way I (and I think, most people) have always used it: as an audio player.
Noldster reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
I'd also like to say, that their video playback isnt exacally "excellent". They should have better playback support meaning less fps drop. Trying watching a DivX file where there are alot of action scenes, I sometimes drop to like 1 fps....
xenos reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
Very cool. I love the new look. It's much more polished that previous versions.
zz45 reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
love it! new skin is awesome! try out the different color themes (mine is old wa style). and for the winamp pro, its just the mp3 ripping and full speed burning/ripping that are crippled
tylerj99 reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
i'm hearing reports of winamp 2+ 3=5 and so fourth. Is that what they are doing? Did I miss part 4? is it like the Netscape 5/mozilla story? And was the engine in winamp3 really that bad? i though being a new technology it just needed time to be developed? Anyone know the truth behind this?
Zulithe reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
WOW Zulithe like! :) This *can't* be Beta1 can it? Beta1 was released over a month ago but this is dated the 14th (or maybe I'm thinkin Alpha1? whatever) It's already more impressive in it's Beta stage than the latest version of Winamp3, it's great! LOVE THE NEW DEFAULT SKIN! It's a tad big but it looks very nice, like how the visualisation can dock inside the main window. Uninstall Winamp2 and use this instead! It's excellent
hahawoo reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
Best version!
norky reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
pretty cool, but under general preferences go to cd ripping and change the encoding format to lame. they're gonna have a pay version!
Apollos reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
just excellent.
coolant reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
Amazing! Really cool and works real well.
tim3 reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
Winamp2+3 = Winamp5
They took the good performance of winamp 2 and added the
skin features of winamp3.
docco reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
I like it, although it looks more like an improved winamp2. The way that it reacts is very similar to v2.x, could it be they decided to drop the winamp3 engine and go back to the old one?
Skylor reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
AMAZING!
I love it.
I just hate how the theme is blue and all chromed. Just like EVERY popular Media PLayer out their. *sigh* DARE TO BE DIFFRENT!
l_p_4_7 reviewed vBeta 1 on Oct 16, 2003
Just downloaded and I must say I'm impressed! It loads fast and looks like Winamp 2.x but there is also a skin option to change it to the 'modern' skinning. This obviously slows it down on slower computers but atleast you can switch between the two.
One thing I have noticed though: Winamp Pro! In the options there is now a place to enter registration details in order to register it and unlock more features. Winamp shareware? What's going on?