Plays almost any kind of audio and video files in existence. Embeds a sound equalizer, lyric editor and playlist creator. Features a wide variety of skins for a personalized look.
Winamp 5.6 player is designed to cover the large area of video and audio media file types available today from the most common ones such as *.mp3, *.wma, *.mp4 and *.avi, or *.mpeg to the ones less usuall like MIDI, *.m3u or *.flv and *.mkv.
The player comes with various types of new skins and visualization styles and is easier to personalize in both menu styles, as well as preferences, playlists, bookmarks, history, etc. It also has a lot of new features, such as controlling the playback in your browser, building playlists using the Automatic Playlist generator, cleaning up your metadata with Auto-Tag feature and wirelessly sync media with the Winamp Android app that will allow you to organize your music and your videos a lot more easier and faster and even listen to the latest tracks available on podcasts and internet radio.
Winamp player is very handy software along with its automatic updates and is guaranteed to make your music and videos a lot more accessible and fun to listen and watch.
v5.9 [Jan 9, 2013]
- Improved: Windows 11 compatibility.
- Improved: Playback of https:// streams.
- Improved: Updated and tidier generate html playlist code.
- Improved: [in_mkv] vp8 support.
- Improved: [in_mod] Playback of .itz, .mdz, .s3z & .xmz compressed modules.
- Improved: [ml_wire] New working Podcast Directory.
- Improved: [out_ds] Display device information correctly in Unicode format.
- Fixed: [in_midi/in_mkv/nu/pfc] memory leaks.
- Fixed: [in_mp3] id3 empty genre displayed as Blues or Psychobilly.
- Fixed: [jnetlib/ml_online/ml_wire] JSAPI2 JavaScript API.
- Misc: lame_enc & libsndfile now static links instead of dynamic dll.
- Misc: libmpg123, libflac & zlib now static links instead of dynamic dll.
- Misc: libalac.dll added to Shared folder as part of alac update.
- Misc: Major compiler refactoring work.
- Misc: Many more general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations.
- Misc: Minimum required OS is now Windows 7 SP1.
- Misc: New online Help section and articles.
- Misc: SDK now compatible with VS2017 and newer.
- Misc: Versioning syntax changed to v5.x.x.
- Misc: Winamp\Microsoft.VC142.CRT runtimes now installed on Win7/8.
- Removed: Bento Browser tab - So long, and thanks for all the fish!.
- Updated: [alac/in_mp4] ALAC 2017-11-03-c38887c5.
- Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.100.1.
- Updated: [freetype.wac] freetype 2.12.1.
- Updated: [gif] giflib 5.1.4.
- Updated: [in_cdda] libdiscid 0.6.2.
- Updated: [in_flac/enc_flac] libFLAC 1.3.4.
- Updated: [in_mod] libopenmpt 0.7.0 & Portaudio 19.7.0.
- Updated: [in_mp3] libmpg123 1.29.3.
- Updated: [in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.5 & libvorbis 1.3.7.
- Updated: [in_wave] libsndfile 1.1.0.
- Updated: [OpenSSL] OpenSSL 3.0.3.
- Updated: [png] libpng 1.6.37.
- Updated: [vp8] WebM libvpx 1.11.0.
- Updated: [zlib] zlib 1.2.12.