Winamp supports a wide variety of contemporary and specialized music file formats, including MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV, OGG Vorbis, and Windows Media Audio. It supports gapless playback for MP3 and AAC, and Replay Gain for volume leveling across tracks. In addition, Winamp can play and import music from audio CDs, optionally with CD-Text, and can also burn music to CDs. Winamp supports playback of Windows Media Video and Nullsoft Streaming Video, as well as most of the video formats supported by Windows Media Player. 5.1 Surround sound is supported where formats and decoders allow.

Winamp supports many types of streaming media: Internet radio, Internet telelvision, XM Satellite Radio, AOL video, Singingfish content, podcasts, and RSS media feeds. It also has extendable support for portable media players, and users can access their media libraries anywhere via internet connections.

You can extend Winamp's functionality through the use of plug-ins, which are available on the Winamp site.

What's new in this version:

New: Winamp Cloud Beta

New: Option to run Winamp in Safe Mode (also via /SAFE=1 commandline switch)

Improved: Added tooltips for truncated text in Media Library listviews

Improved: Bookmark menu handling now follows Winamp's Play/Enqueue setting

Improved: Display album art source info in Artwork tab of File Info dialog

Improved: Added 'Explore item folder' to context menu in playlists

Improved: Show rating from tags if file is not in Local Media Library

Improved: Windows 8 filetype association compatibility (w.i.p.)

Improved: [gen_ff] Multi-monitor support for Bento/Modern skin notifier

Improved: [gen_ff] Windows 8 multi-monitor/taskbar mode compatibility

Improved: [in_mp3] Shoutcast v2 in-stream artwork support (and other misc fixes)

Improved: [in_mp3] Use MIME to determine decoder before assuming ext. is correct

Improved: [in_mp4] Optimize MP4 Raw Reader by using chunks instead of samples

Improved: [in_mp4] Write ratings to tags (using the "rate" atom)

Improved: [ml_local/history] Friendlier error message if nde/database fails to load

Improved: [ml_local] New 'Date Added' column (smart views adjusted accordingly)

Improved: [ml_playlists] Save playlists to custom m3udir, if specified in paths.ini

Improved: [ml_wire] Save (and backup) database files on updates instead of on exit

Improved: [pmp_ipod] Added BPM, TotalTracks, Disc# & TotalDiscs metadata support

Improved: [pmp_wifi] SSDP support and other optimizations

Fixed: Bento/Modern skin notifier sometimes no longer appearing (thanks pjn123)

Fixed: Issues with re-embedding of vis plugins in Bento skin when exiting fullscreen

Fixed: Issues with some Icecast servers providing invalid stream links (v2.x bug!)

Fixed: Potential crashes when rapidly switching between dsp plugins

Fixed: [in_mp3] Mapping of POPM ratings scale

Fixed: [in_mp4] Bug where too-small passed-in buffer size resulted in loss of data

Fixed: [in_wave] mldb info for .wav files being wiped after viewing Alt+3 dialog

Fixed: [ml_disc] Blocking of context menu items in ml tree for History & Bookmarks

Fixed: [ml_impex] UI lockups on import/export of large databases

Fixed: [ml_wire] Subscriptions to podcast channels with the same name

Fixed: [ombrowser] Alt Gr keys broken in Online Services text input fields

Fixed: [pmp_p4s] Crash/hang on exit after transferring files to MTP/P4S devices

Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations

Removed: [gen_orgler] The end of Winamp Charts & Music Usage Database

Updated: [png] libpng v1.5.13

Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.6

Winamp Cloud:

With Winamp Cloud, you can easily access all your music libraries wherever they are stored. Winamp Cloud will allow you to aggregate and manage your entire music library with our cloud service from the following sources: Winamp Media Player on PC, Mac (in development), Android and even add to your library directly from our new Cloud Player.

Download: Winamp 5.70 Build 3381 Beta 6 | 17.3 MB (Freeware)

View: Release Notes | Winamp Cloud Beta