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 5.56:

• New: Winamp Orgler plugin - Let's you track, chart & share your listening history
• Improved: [jnetlib] New SSL support for playback of https:// streams
• Improved: [ml_autotag] Fuzzy matches now unchecked by default & marked 'Unsure'
• Improved: [ml_local] New background scanner
• Improved: [ml_online] Various tweaks, fixes & enhancements
• Improved: [ml_pmp] Added support for drag+drop from Explorer to device playlists
• Fixed: iexplore process not ending when browser closed after opened via Winamp
• Fixed: Save EQ preset name duplication bug
• Fixed: [Bento skin] SHOUTcast homepage url's redirecting to Winamp search
• Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Up/down buttons reversed, 'stop after current' & other issues
• Fixed: [in_mod] Crash on some .s3m modules (w.i.p.)
• Fixed: [in_mod] Playback glitch during background transcoding
• Fixed: [in_wm] Decimal point issues in Alt+3 format info
• Fixed: [in_wm] Embedded IE browser for DRM license acquisition
• Fixed: [in_wm] Loading of URLs in WPL playlist files
• Fixed: [in_mp4/libmp4v2] Integer overflow bug with MP4 sample size
• Fixed: [libsndfile] VOC buffer overflow vulnerability
• Fixed: [ml_impex] Read "has video" field from iTunes XML (and write on export)
• Fixed: [tagz.w5s] Hang with $right function in ATF when specified field is empty
• Fixed: [vis_avs] msvcp71.dll dependency
• Misc: Added front.jpg/gif/etc to album art criteria
• Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
• Misc: New omBrowser.w5s shared component for ml_nowplaying, wire & online
• Misc: Removed dashboard (ml_dash) from distribution
• Misc: ml_orb now only installed as part of separate Winamp Remote package
• Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.5
• Updated: libsndfile 1.0.20