Winamp Media Player:MP3 Video and Music Player

Jul 7, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

Ask any real music lover if he or she likes to listen to music on a PC? If the answer is yes, then they definitely use Winamp.Winamp has been around the PC music scene since the time MP3s came into being. Before I go ahead, let me tell you that there are many places where you can download free music.

Winamp is the brainchild of Justin Frankel, an uber geek who was not satisfied with how MP3s sounded on PCs. In fact, there was no decent player that could even play MP3s properly at that time. Therefore, Justin went ahead, coded his own player, and named it Winamp. The rest is history.

Winamp was first shared amongst a few friends and from there the chain reaction started. Soon, Winamp was the most downloaded MP3 player on the Web and Justin and his friends started their company called Nullsoft, their mascot being the llama!

Winamp didn’t become the most downloaded MP3 player just because it was the first one. Well, that was one of the reasons, but the other reason was its user interface. At first, it could only play MP3s but later on support for WMA was added. Today the latest version of Winamp can also play Ogg files and there are other free plug-ins available that lets it play other kinds of music files too.

The latest version of Winamp is 5.58, which you can download from http://www.winamp.com/player/free.php/. There are two versions that you can download-Free and Pro. There are some advantages in the Pro version that are absent in the free on (obviously) however there is no limitation on playing music.

During installation, you will get the option of whether you want to see Winamp in Classic Skin or the Default Skin. Depending on what you choose, the player will open using that skin.

In Winamp, the skin refers to the way it appears to the user.Think of a skin as wallpaper that you would change in Windows.Only making a skin for Winamp requires some skills since it has to be resized and adjusted according to the dimensions of the player.

Okay, enough of that… lets move on to the interesting part. As you can see, Winamp also features an equaliser and a play list window.

The equaliser lets you adjust and listen to your music according to your preferences. The Playlist window lists the songs that you have chosen to play in the player.

When Winamp first made its debut, it was a very simple player with support for only MP3 playback. Its journey since those times has been an extremely interesting one. Today, Winamp can be considered as an all-in-one solution for your audio playback, ripping and decoding, recording and more in Windows. With user support and members active worldwide this player has countless plug-ins, skins and enhancements that you can use for whatever audio task that you have in mind.

Using Winamp is child’s play, since if you have ever used a tape player you can easily identify with it. Buttons are easily accessible and the player is extremely manageable. If you don’t like the equalizer window, do away with it. If you want an unobtrusive mode, check out the Winamp mini mode, where the player doesn’t take more than a single line on your whole screen. Once again, let me remind you that you can always download free songs.

Winamp not only plays audio but also video. There is also a proprietary video format for Winamp which is the .nsv format.Winamp also plays streaming online radio using Shoutcast. You can also download music by popular and not so popular artists from the Winamp Web site.

Winamp is one of the most used players on the face of this earth, and the only thing that we can say is may the tribe increase. Amen!

Price:Free

Download:http://www.winamp.com/

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