Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, CD, WMA, Audiosoft, Mjuice, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances called skins and audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins. Download and enjoy it free of charge, free of guilt.

Features:

• Basic controls: play, pause, stop, forward song, previous song, select new song
• Built-in spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope
• Track info: author, title, bitrate, sample rate, time, etc.
• Additional controls: position slider, balance, volume, equalizer, playlist, shuffle and repeat
• Can run in unobtrusive windowshade mode.
• All windows dock seamlessly.
• Drag and drop playlist editing
• Create and save new playlists or load a previous playlist.
• Edit song information via ID3 tag editor.
• Sort by title and filename or randomize.
• Playlist displays current song duration and complete playlist duration for easy dubbing.
• Playlist can run without the main window, and includes mini-controls, time display, and visualization.
• Ten band graphic equalizer and built-in pre-amplifier
• Create and save new pre-amplifier and equalizer settings or load previous setttings.
• Create and save song-specific pre-amplifier and equalizer settings.
• Get up to the minute in information on Winamp.
• Browse Winamp´s Plugin and Skin collection to customize your copy of Winamp.
• Support for .wsz files in your skin directory as well as .zip files
• Bookmark playlists and SHOUTcast streams

The free lite version of Winamp is also available on FreewareFiles.com. The Lite version Plays MP3s, AAC, WMA, and more; Compatible with Winamp Plug-ins; and has Full Support for Classic Skins.

New Features:

• A Completely Redesigned Interface, including Album Art
• Multiple device support, including iPods
• Access and Share Your Music and Videos with Winamp Remote
• Play and Playlist the Best Music on the Web with Media Monitor
• Get Artist & Concert News, Videos & more with Smart Search
• Enjoy Dynamic Song Recommendations
• Experience MP3 Surround Sound Support
• Access to Thousands of Internet Radio Stations, Videos and More!
• 50 FREE MP3 Music Downloads compliments of eMusic's 2-week Trial
• Auto-Tagger provides automatic updates to file information
• Control Winamp From Your Browser with the Winamp Toolbar

What's New in version 5.54x:

• 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