Nullsoft 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.


Winamp Highlights:
New portable device features - transcoding, new sync options, USB thumbdrive player support, video sync, direct-from-device playback
Faster ripping
Improved AAC and aacPlus encoding
Unicode metadata, filename, and title support
iTunes-compatible gapless playback (MP3/M4A) and encoding (M4A)
Optional 24bit playback
ReplayGain support


Winamp Player Features:
Plays Music and Video Files (aacPlus, MP3, AAC, WMA and more!)
Compatible with Winamp 2 Plug-ins
Full Support for Classic and Modern Skins
Plays Videos (NSV, WMV, and more!)
Powerful Media Library
Browse SHOUTcast Radio & TV Stations
Browse Winamp Music Videos & Songs
Integrated AOL Video Content (News, Sports, Movies & more)
AOL Radio Featuring XM
SHOUTcast Wire (podcast directory)
Predixis MusicMagic (dynamic playlisting)
Bundled Visualizations
Rip/Encode music into aacPlus, AAC, WMA, or MP3!
Burn CDs up to 48x!


Changes in Winamp 5.54
New: Chinese, Japanese & Korean installer translations and language packs
New: [in_swf] Adobe Shockwave Flash (SWF, RTMP) playback support
New: [gen_dropbox] Winamp DropBox alpha (use: Ctrl-Shift-D)
New: [Online Services] AOL Radio featuring CBS Radio (requires in_flv)
Improved: Background reading option for playlist metadata
Improved: Classic songticker scrolling for Winamp Modern skin pledit winshade
Improved: Vista elevation (fixes: installing skins, filetype reg, Pro reg)
Improved: Zero padding option for playlist item numbers
Improved: [in_flv] Better streaming support and other improvements
Improved: [in_mp3] Added APEv2 tag options to configuration
Improved: [in_mp3] Optional retention of existing APEv2 headers
Improved: [ml_disc] Artwork support for Data CD Reader
Improved: [ml_disc] Better detection of any copy operations in progress
Improved: [ml_disc] Improved start times if ml_disc view is active
Improved: [ml_local] Redesigned 'Show Info' panel
Improved: [ml_nowplaying] Redesigned 'Now Playing' artist experience
Improved: [ml_playlists] Right-click option to sort list of playlists alphabetically
Improved: [pmp_usb] Connect/Disconnect/Blacklist config options
Fixed: Alt+F4 closing Winamp instead of individual dialogs
Fixed: Bento browser redirecting network drive url's to Winamp Search
Fixed: Blank playlist when in docked toolbar mode and Winamp is minimized
Fixed: Modern skin component windows appearing individually in Alt+Tab
Fixed: Multi-flashing on startup when previously closed whilst minimized to systray
Fixed: Pure Virtual Function Call runtime crash errors
Fixed: Redraw issue when built-in classic vis is disabled
Fixed: Various multi-monitor docking issues
Fixed: Various other 5.53-specific keyboard accelerator issues
Fixed: [Bento] Drag+Drop into Playlist from Open Files dialog
Fixed: [burnlib] 'CD Drive locked by another Winamp process' on 2nd burn attempt
Fixed: [burnlib] 'Burner releasing failed' error
Fixed: [dsp_sps] Crash on close when config Help dialog is still open
Fixed: [enc_flac] MD5 checksum generation
Fixed: [gen_ff] Attached vis plugin crash on winshade to normal mode in Modern skin
Fixed: [gen_hotkeys] Assigning Winkey with already used Ctrl combinations
Fixed: [gen_ml] Enter/Shift+Enter broken for ML treeview items (5.53-specific)
Fixed: [in_cdda] Composer/Conductor logic bug when saving CDDB data to database
Fixed: [in_flac] Minor metadata writing bugs
Fixed: [in_midi] Seeking with 'DM/MS Synth' device in Streamed playback mode
Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on files with invalid/corrupt gapless data
Fixed: [in_mp3] Create new ID3v1/v2 tags configuration setting
Fixed: [in_vorbis] Huge lag on files with large embedded cover art
Fixed: [in_vorbis] Metadata & Format Info display for streams in View File Info
Fixed: [in_vorbis] Potential unicode-related crash on open/close issue
Fixed: [jpeg.w5s] Saving corrupt album art
Fixed: [ml_autotag] Results dialog hidden under Winamp when AOT is enabled
Fixed: [ml_disc] Small resource leak
Fixed: [ml_playlists] Enter/Shift+Enter broken for selected ML Playlist items
Fixed: [ml_playlists / ml_transcode] Sending playlists from ML tree to Transcoder
Fixed: [ml_wire] 404/timeout with valid rss feeds on Vista
Misc: Miscellaneous localization tweaks, fixes & updates
Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
Misc: Setup fixes (Agent not always starting, WLZ filetype not registering, etc)
Misc: Various other 'Winamp Modern' & 'Bento' skin updates
Misc: [enc_flac] Now encodes using libFLAC instead of Flake
Updated: Bento skin v1.2
Updated: freetype 2.3.7
Updated: libpng 1.2.28
Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.98



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