Winamp is a free media player for Windows (a commercial version is also available), extensible with plugins and skins, featuring graphical sound visualization, playlist editing and a media library.

CD support includes playing and importing music from audio CDs, optionally with CD-Text, and burning music to CDs. (The standard version limits maximum burn speed and data-rate, but in any case there is no need to use Winamp for burning or ripping cds).

Winamp supports playback of Windows Media Video and Nullsoft Streaming Video. For MPEG Video, AVI and other unsupported video types, Winamp uses Microsoft’s DirectShow API for playback, allowing playback of most of the video formats supported by Windows Media Player.

5.1 Surround sound is supported where formats and decoders allow. Combined with specialized plugins such as the Kernel Streaming Plugin, Winamp can be used as a source of Hi End sound.

Some versions of Winamp are known to cause system instability, but this seems now to have been corrected. The default GUI needs more variety and modern designs.

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