Winamp este unul din cele mai accesorizate playere, pornind de la interfata (skin) pana la efectele vizuale, respectiv cele de redare a sunetului. Tot prin intermediul lui se pot asculta un numar impresionant de posturi radio (internet radio) si canale TV (internet TV), iar ca oferta sa fie completa se pot scrie si copia (rip) CDuri din/în format audio.

Playerul suporta cale mai raspandite formate audio, printre care mp3, ogg, aac, wav, mod, xm, s3m, it, midi etc., dar si cateva formate video avi, asf, mpeg, nsv.
Facilitatile care l-au facut atat de apreciat:
• redare audio si video (aacPlus, MP3, AAC, WMA, ..., avi, mpg, asf, nsv.)
• interfata usor de utlizat
• aspect clasic pentru PCurile din vechea generatie sau design modern pentru cei pretentiosi
• Media Library - foarte importanta si bine structurata
• statii Radio & TV receptionate prin shoutcast
• un mini browser integrat
• continut AOL (Radio XM si Video)
• efecte vizuale (advanced visualization studio si milkdrop)
• scriere CDuri
• egalizator pentru diferitele genuri muzicale
• ... multe altele
Corectii si noutati introduse in Winamp 5.55 build 2405 (26.02.2009):
* New: Turkish, Portuguese-BR & Romanian installer translations and language packs
* New: WBM system for lazy-loading of *.w5s files
* New: [Bento skin] Playlist tab (optional)
* New: [ml_impex] iTunes-compatible Media Library database import/export plugin
* Improved: [gen_ff] Faster & no flicker when loading/switching skins
* Improved: [gen_jumpex] New 'Add to Library' shell menu item & other tweaks
* Improved: [gen_jumpex] True unicode search support
* Improved: [gen_ml] Optional alternating row colors for list views
* Improved: [gen_ml] Optional skinned menus
* Improved: [in_mod] Experimental ExtendedRead support (transcoding, burning, etc)
* Improved: [in_mod] Now uses global Playback config for thread priority
* Improved: [in_mp3] APEv2 tag editing/creating tweaks
* Improved: [in_mp3] Show instantaneous bitrates for AAC VBR
* Improved: [ml_local] Media Library searches now ignore diacritics
* Improved: [ml_local] New 'Category' and 'Lossless' database fields
* Improved: [ml_local] New playcount Tracking Control options
* Improved: [ml_local] New 'Play/Enqueue random' item for top level filters
* Improved: [ml_online] New toolbar and various other tweaks & optimizations
* Improved: [ml_online] Support for 3rd-party Services
* Improved: [vis_milk2] Pixel Shader 2.0 & 3.0 support tweaks
* Improved: [vis_nsfs] Unicode title display for currently playing track
* Improved: [Winamp Agent] Localization support
* Improved: [Winamp Modern skin] New spectrum vis options
* Fixed: Accessibility fixup for Format Info string in Alt+3 dialog
* Fixed: Genre not being saved with Autotag feature in Alt+3 dialog
* Fixed: Memory leaks in in_mp3, in_wm, gen_dropbox, ml_local, ml_pmp & tagz.w5s
* Fixed: New version check can't be disabled when anon statistics is enabled
* Fixed: Rare crash when closing vis window
* Fixed: Various issues when starting/stopping/switching vis plugins
* Fixed: [Agent] Systray icon not showing if 'Play in Winamp' removed in Shell Options
* Fixed: [enc_flac] 24-bit FLAC encoding
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Shell Options, B Hotkey, Send To menus & other misc bugs
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Library button resize glitch
* Fixed: [in_cdda] Potential cddb Disc null pointer crash
* Fixed: [in_flac] Albumartist & Ensemble fields not cleared when deleting Album Artist
* Fixed: [in_flac] Track restarts when updating metadata
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Potential ID3v2.0/2.1 crash issue
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Empty genre metadata field (eg. when transcoding from flac to m4a)
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Long hangs on slow network drives
* Fixed: [libsndfile] AIFF buffer overflow vulnerabilty (thanks milw0rm/secunia)
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Potential crash on exit
* Fixed: [ml_disc] 'Use uppercase file extensions' ripping option not being respected
* Fixed: [ml_history] Tracking still updates if playback stopped before specified time
* Fixed: [ml_local] Broken 'Create Playlist' button functionality in local media
* Fixed: [ml_local] Remove missing files broken with some older/corrupt databases
* Fixed: [ml_wire] Columns sometimes hidden in Downloads view
* Fixed: [ml_plg] Multiple 'Failed to initialize' error messages
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Crash when deleting playlists/files from a P4S portable device
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Metadata hooking, transcoder, autofill and other bug fixes
* Fixed: [nde] Albums with % in title not displaying tracklist in local media views
* Fixed: [out_ds] Logarithmic volume control dB display glitch
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Deletion of non-existent files from database
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Reading of Play Count statistics
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Various database, albumart, playback & disconnection issues
* Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: New "Send Feedback" item in the Help menu
* Misc: Note that changes made to the ml database are not backwards compatible!
* Misc: Removed some older Milkdrop presets and added some newer ones
* Misc: Separated vlb.w5s and nsvdec_vp3.dll decoders from in_mp3 and in_nsv
* Misc: Separated timer from gen_ff into timer.w5s
* Updated: Gracenote CDDB/MusicID v2.6.0.6
* Updated: libpng 1.2.35
* Updated: Sonic Burning Engine v4.10.32.502
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.4
* Updated: [in_mp3] Fraunhofer Decoder v4.3
* Updated: [lame_enc] LAME 3.98.2
* Updated: [vis_avs] AVS v2.82
Corectii in Winamp 5.552:
* Fixed: [gen_ff] memcpy integer overflow vulnerability in maki script loading
Descarca --> Winamp 5.552 build 2460 Full Multi-national installer (freeware)
Descarca --> Winamp 5.55 build 2460 Full english installer (freeware)
Descarca --> Winamp 5.55 build 2460 Pro Final (19,95$)
Descarca --> Winamp 5.55 build 2460 Lite Final (freeware)
Componente din Winamp pe care le recomand si pe care le utilizez (varianta de instalare in limba română)
1. Motor multimedia
* redare audio
- mp3
- wma (windows media audio format)
- midi
- mod/xm/s3m/it
- ogg vorbis
- mp4
- flac
- cda (CD audio)
- wav/voc/au/aiff
* codare audio
- wma
- wav
- mp3
- AAC/aacPlus
* iesire
- DirectSound
- WaveOut/MME
* recunoastere cd-uri
* extragere/inscriptionare cd-uri
2. Mediateca Winamp
* mediateca winamp
* componente principale (toate cele incluse in acest meniu)
3. Extensii interfata utilizator
* comezi rapide globale
* direct la piesa
* interfete moderne
4. Efecte grafice
* Studio pentru efecte avansate
* Milkdrop2
5. Limbi
* english
* română
Se debifeaza optiunile acestea in pasul urmator:
* Bara de instrumente Winamp
* Winamp Search - motor de cautare implicit
* 50 descarcari MP3 gratuite + 1 carte audio de la eMusic






