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Winamp is a media player for Windows, Android, and OS X developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev [6] [7] [8] by developer’s company Nullsoft, Which They later sold to AOL, WHO sold it to Radionomy in January 2014. Since version 2 we have been sold asfreemium and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins, and features music visualization, playlist and a media library, supported by a large online community.

Version 1 of Winamp was released in 1997 and Grew Quickly popular with over 3 million downloads, [9] Developing paralleling the trend of MP3 (music) file sharing. Winamp 2.0 was released on September 8, 1998. The 2.x versions Were widely used and made Winamp one of the Most downloaded Windows applications. [10] By 2000 Winamp hadd over 25 million registered users. [11]

A poor reception to the 2002 rewrite, Winamp 3, Was Followed by the release of Winamp 5 in 2003 and a later release of version 5.5 in 2007.

Features [edit]

Playback formats
Winamp supports music playback using MP3, MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV and WMA. Winamp Was one of the first common music players on Windows to support playback of Ogg Vorbis by default. [12] It supports gapless playback for MP3 and AAC, and ReplayGain for volume leveling across tracks. Includes support CD playing and Importing music from audio CDs, optionally with CD-Text, and burning music to CDs. The standard version limits maximum burn speed and datarate; the “Pro” version removes These Limitations. [13] 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. Where is supported 5.1Surround sound formats and decoders Allow. [14]
media Library
At installation, Winamp scans the user’s system for media files to add to the Media Library database. [15] It supports full Unicode filenames and Unicode metadata for media files. [16] In the Media Library user interface pane, under Local Media, Several selectors (Audio, Video, date and frequency) permit display of subsets of media files with Greater detail. [15]
Adding album art and track tags
Get Album Art Permits retrieval of cover art, and confirmation Before adding the image to the database. Autotagging analyzes a track’s audio using the Gracenote service and retrieves the song’s ID2 and ID3 metadata. [15]
Podcatcher
Can Also eu Winamp used as an RSS media feeds Aggregator Capable of displaying articles, downloading or playing That Same content as streaming media. SHOUTcast Wireprovides a directory and RSS subscription system for podcasts. [15] [17]
Media player device support
Winamp has extendable support for portable media players and Mass Storage compliant devices, Microsoft PlaysForSure and ActiveSync, and syncs unprotected music to the iPod. [15] [18]
media Monitor
Winamp Media Monitor Allows web-based browsing and bookmarking music blog websites and automatically Offering for streaming or downloading all MP3 files there. Themed Monitor is preloaded with music blog URLs. [15]
Winamp Remote
Winamp Remote Allows remote playback (streaming) of unprotected media files on the user’s PC via the Internet. Remote adjusts bitrate based on available bandwidth, and Can Be controlled by web interface, Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 and mobile phones. [15]
Plug-ins
In February 1998, Winamp Was rewritten as a “general audio player Purpose” [19] with a plug-in architecture. This feature Was Received well by reviewers. [20] [21] Was Development early, diverse, and rapid: 66 plugins Were published by November 1998. [22] The Winamp software development kit (SDK) Allows software developers to create seven Different types of plug-ins. [23]
Input: decodes specific file formats.
Output: sends data to specific devices or files.
Visualization: Provides sound activated graphics.
DSP / Effect: manipulates audio for special effects.
General Purpose plug-ins add convenience or UI features (Media Library, alarm clock, or pause When logged out).
Media Library plug-ins add functions to the Media Library plug-in.
Portables plug-ins support portable media players. [24]
Plug-in development support increased Winamp’s flexibility for, for example, a Plethora of Specialized plug-ins for game console music files Such as NSF, [25] USF, GBS [26] GSF [27] SID [28] VGM [28] SPC [28] PSF and PSF2.
Skins
Skins are bitmap files Aesthetic Which alter the design of the Winamp graphical user interface (GUI) and Can add functionality, with scripting. [29] Winamp published documentation on skin creation [30] in 1998 with the release of Winamp 2, and Winamp users Invited to Publish skins on Winamp.com. As of 2000 there Were Nearly 3000 Winamp skins available. [31] [32] The Ability to use skins Contributed to Winamp’s MP3 Popularity early in development. [33] With the increasing number of available skins, skins Developer genresor of categories, Such as “Stereo,” “Anime” and “Ugly”. Online Communities of skin Such designers as 1001Skins.com and Skinz.org have Contributed Thousands of designs; [34] [35] Also at GnomeArt. [36] Designers see skins as an Opportunity to Be Creative [37] Examples have nontraditional Included Klingon, iPod, and Etch-a-sketch designs. [38] The Winamp skin is the Most popular format, The Most Commonly Adopted by other media player software, and is usable across platforms. [39] One example is the XMMS player for Linux and Unix systems, Which Can use unmodified Winamp 2 skin files. [40] [41] Winamp 5 supports two types of skins – “classic” skins Designed to Winamp 2 specifications (static collections of bitmap images), and more flexible, freeform “modern” skins per the Winamp 3 specification. Modern skins support true alpha channel transparency, which scripting control, a docked toolbar, and other innovations to the user interface.
Winamp Was first released in 1997 When Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev, [6] [7] [8] formerly students at the University of Utah, Integrated developer’s Windows user interface with the Advanced Multimedia Products “AMP” MP3 file playback engine. [ 43] The name Winamp (Originally spelled WinAMP) Was a portmanteau of “Windows” and “AMP”. [44] The minimalist WinAMP 0.20 was released as freeware on April 21, 1997. [45] [46] Its windowless menubar-only interface showed only play (open), stop, pause, and unpause functions. A SPECIFIED file on the command line or dropped onto WOULD BE Its icon played. Was MP3 decoding performed by the AMP decoding engine developed by Advanced Multimedia Products co-founder Tomislav Uzelac, Which Was free for non-commercial use. [47]

WinAMP 0.92 was released as a freeware in May 1997. Within the standard Windows frame and menubar, it hadd the Beginnings of the “classic” Winamp GUI: dark gray rectangle with silver 3D-effect transport buttons, a red / green volume slider, time Displayed in a greenLED font, with trackname, MP3 bitrate and “mixrate” in green. Was there no position bar, and a blank space analyzerand Where the spectrum analyzer waveform Would Appear later. Multiple files on the command line or dropped onto Were enqueued Its icon in the playlist

1006 version was released June 7, 1997 [9] [48] renamed “Winamp” (lower case). It showed a spectrum analyzer, and color changing volume slider, soft no waveform display. The AMP non-commercial license Its Was Included in help menu.

According to Tomislav Uzelac, Frankel licensed the AMP 0.7 engine June 1, 1997. [49] Founded formally Frankel Nullsoft Inc. in January 1998 and Continued development of Winamp, Which changed from freeware to $ 10 shareware. [9] In March, Uzelac’s company, Advanced Multimedia Products (Which by said hadd been merged Into PlayMedia Systems), sent a Cease-and-Desis letter to Nullsoft, Claiming Unlawful use of AMP. That broke the Nullsoft responded with AMP Replaced hadd Nitrane, Nullsoft’s proprietary decoder, soft Playmedia disputed this. [Citation needed]

Version 1.90, released March 31, 1998 Was The first release as a general-purpose audio player, and documented on the Winamp website as Supporting plugins, of Which it Included two input plugins (MOD and MP3) and a visualization plugin. [19] The installer for Version 1.91, released 18 days later, Included wave, CDDA, and Windows tray handling plugins, as well as the Famous Wesley Willis-inspired DEMO.MP3 file “Winamp, it really whips the llama’s ass”. [50] [ 51]

By July 1998, Winamp’s Various versions hadd been downloaded over three million times.

The Winamp 2 and Winamp3 branches fused Were Into later joked Nullsoft Winamp 5. That “nobody wants to see a Winamp 4 skin” ( ‘4 skin’ being a pun on foreskin). [58] Also joked That It Was “is so good Winamp 5 They skipped a number” and “Winamp 2 + 3 = 5”. [59] Winamp 5 Was based on the Winamp 2 codebase, with Winamp3 Several features (e.g. modern skins) incorporated. Winamp 5.0 was released in December, 2003.

From version 5.2 onwards, support for synchronizing with an iPod is built-in. [60]

Winamp 5.5 [edit]

Winamp 5.5: The 10th Anniversary Edition was released on October 10, 2007 [61] ten years after the first release of Winamp (hadd been a preview version released on September 10, 2007). New features to the player Included album art support, much Improved localization support (with Several official, Winamp Localized releases, Including German, Polish, Russian and French), and a UNIFIED player and media library interface skin. This version dropped support for Windows 9x. [15] [62]

As of 5:55 version, Winamp development is credited to Ben Allison (Benskin) and Maksim Tyrtyshny.

Winamp 5.7 [edit]

Was there a Winamp 5.7 beta program for an invite-based Winamp Cloud feature, Which Would let Winamp Entire play a user’s cloud-stored music library across all supported devices. [66] This feature Would have allowed AOL to Provide a music locker service Would That essentially compete with other online music Lockers. The beta program canceled months Was Before the announcement Winamp to shutdown the project. [67]

Acquisition by Radionomy [edit]

On November 20, 2013, AOL Announced That on December 20, 2013, Winamp.com It would shut down, and the software eu Would no longer available for download, nor supported by the company after That date. [64] The Following day, an unofficial report surfaced That Was Microsoft in talks with AOL to acquire Nullsoft. [68] [69] On Despite AOL’s announcement, the Winamp site wasn’t as Planned shut down, and on January 14, 2014 Officially Announced That It Was online radio Aggregator Radionomy Belgian hadd Bought the brand Nullsoft, Winamp and SHOUTcast Includes qual. No financial details Were Announced publicly. [70] [71] Howevera, TechCrunch has Reported That the sale of Winamp and Shoutcast is worth between $ 5 and $ 10 million, with AOL taking a 12% stake (a financial, not Strategic, Investment) in Radionomy in the process.

Released as a beta product in October 2010, the Android version for OS 2.1 Includes desktop syncing with Winamp (ver. 5:59 beta +) over WiFi or USB. [5] It Was Received with enthusiasm in the consumer Some press blog. [73] [74]

Mac OS [edit]

In October 2011, Was Winamp for Mac Sync Introduced as a beta release. It is the first Winamp version for the Apple Macintosh platform and runs under Mac OS X 10.6 and above. Its focus is on syncing the Winamp Library to Winamp for Android and the iTunes Music Library (Henc the name, “Winamp Sync for Mac”). Nonetheless, a full Winamp Library and player features are Included. The developer’s blog states That the Winamp for Mac Sync Beta Will pave the way for inserting Winamp-related development under Mac OS X. [75]

Easter eggs [edit]

Included Historically Winamp has a number of Easter eggs: That are hidden features Accessible via undocumented operations. One example is an image of Justin Frankel, one of Winamp’s original authors, hidden in Winamp’s About dialog box. [76] The Included easter eggs have changed with versions of Winamp, and over thirty have been documented elsewhere. [77]

Derivative works [edit]

Unagi is the codename for the media playback engine derived from Winamp core technologies. Announced in 2004 AOL WOULD BE incorporated Unagi That Into AOL Media Player (AMP), in development. [78] After beta testing, AMP Was discontinued in 2005 Lived on soft portions in AOL’s Web-based player