Newest Winamp Music Player released
In MP3 world everybody knows the ultimate, great MP3 player which has gone through hard evolution during past three years. Winamp 5.6 has been released and is the latest version of the Winamp Media Player (for your desktop). Nowadays WinAmp provide to play almost anything that even makes a music sound. In this post I’ll shoe everything You need to know for The Newest Winamp 2011.
These are Winamp music-media player minimum system requirements :
* 500MHz Pentium III or comparable
* 128MB RAM
* 15MB Hard Disk Space
* 16bit Sound Card
* Windows 2000 or later
* Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher (for Online Services)
* 1x speed or greater CD Burner (Required for Burning)
* 2x speed or greater CDROM (Required for Ripping)
Recommended
* 1.5 GHz Pentium IV or comparable
* 512MB RAM or greater
* 30MB Hard Disk Space
* 24bit Sound Card
* Windows 2000 sp4, Windows XP sp3, or later
* Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher (for all Online Services features)
* 8x speed or greater CD Burner (Required for Burning)
* 16x speed or greater CDROM (Required for Ripping)
Winamp music player Download Link (just check on below):
Winamp 5.601 Full (US English version)
Winamp 5.601 Full (Multi-national installer)
Winamp 5.601 Pro (Multi-national version, asks for key during install)
Winamp 5.601 Lite (basic 2.x-style mp3/cd player)
More installers (mp3 bundle & other languages)
This ultimate MP3 player which has gone through hard evolution during past three years
The Newest Winamp supported:
Winamp music media player supported Windows 7 & Vista, Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions
Supported language included : French, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese & Romanian
Winamp media player support unicode filenames and tags.
Winamp media player uses a high quality Fraunhofer IIS-based MP3 Decoder for playback.
The MP3 Encoder used for ripping and transcoding is based on LAME.
You can play my purchased music from services such as the new Napster, Music Match, Music Now, Walmart or Amazon .
Winamp support Surround Sound in 4.1 or 5.1 outputs. But 5.1 Surround is supported through analog playback only. Currently DTS/AC3 Digital SPDIF out is only 2 channel
Winamp music media player supported B4S playlists.
Winamp media player supports a feature called “Watch Folders”
Winamp supports interchangeable user interfaces called “skins”. Most skins are created by users like you. You can learn to create skins using our online documentation located in the development section of the site.
Users may publish their skins on Winamp.com.
Winamp music media player fully supports both Winamp 2 and 3 skins natively.
Winamp music media player supports a feature called Desktop Alpha Blending which allows skin authors to create skins that have smooth window edges. This feature requires high-end video hardware to ensure that the player remains fast and responsive. This feature is disabled by default. You may enable this preference from the Winamp Preferences by checking the “Enable Desktop Alpha Blending (when requested by skin)” option located within “Alpha Blending” tab under the “Modern Skins” view.
Winamp supports two skin standards, Modern and Classic. What’s the difference between Modern and Classic Skins? Modern skins are skins that adhere to the Winamp 3 skin model. Modern skins offer authors a tremendous amount of flexibility by allowing authors to change the player’s shape, size, layout, and function. Classic skins are skins that adhere to the Winamp 2 style model. Classic skins are easier to create but do not allow the author to change the form or function of the player. Classic authors may only replace a standard set of images that alter the player’s visual appearance.
Winamp 5.6 media player still support color themes, the Bento skin is bundled with ~20 color themes and the Winamp Modern skin is bundled with over 30 color themes. To access the Bento or Modern skin’s color themes:
* Bento skin: Select “Skin Settings” in the Info Pane menu; Modern skin: Expand the “Config” drawer
* Bento skin: Click on “Color Themes”; Modern skin: Switch to the “Color Themes” tab
* Select the desired color theme and press the “Switch” button, or simply double-click the theme to apply it.
newly redesigned SHOUTcast online service, increased optimized audio playback
This release includes a newly redesigned SHOUTcast online service, increased optimized AAC and HE-AAC audio playback powered by Fraunhofer, a Firefox 5 Winamp Toolbar release, and updated support for Winamp for Android 1.1.1. The new SHOUTcast online service redesign makes searching for your favorite radio stations even simpler. Here are new ways to discover more radio stations:
- Featured and Top Stations – View a list of curated featured SHOUtcast stations from the Winamp team. Or select a Top Station based on trending stations Winamp listeners are tuning into.
- Search songs or stations – Use the new real-time search to find not only stations but songs that are currently playing.
- “Classic” view – for those that like their SHOUTcast old school, we still have a simple “classic” view. Discover a new SHOUTcast station today!
The Newest Winamp music media player doesn’t support :
Winamp Doesn’t support DRM-protected music and videos downloaded from iTMS
There is no support for drm-protected M4P, M4B or M4V files.
Winamp currently does not natively support the playback of QuickTime or Real Audio/Video.
What are Winamp plug-ins?
Plug-ins are software extensions made by software developers to enhance Winamp player functionality. Like skins, plug-ins are published on Winamp.com from our developers for general users to use and enjoy. Through the use of plug-ins, Winamp may be extended to support new audio or video formats, extend the capabilities of the Winamp Library, render new types of audio visualizations, etc. You may download plug-ins from Winamp.com by navigating to the “Plug-ins” tab or going to plug-ins.
Tips Using Winamp Preferences:
Select the Preferences item within the Options menu or use the CTRL+P keyboard shortcut.
Winamp reintroduce the popular Jump (keyboard shortcut J)
The Winamp Modern skin integrates the Visualizer and Video directly into the main window. There is a way to separate them:
The Visualizer and Video window may be detached by pressing the “Detach Visualizer” or “Detach Video” buttons from within the “Video/Visualizer” drawer. To reattach the Visualizer or Video window, press the “Reattach Visualizer” or “Reattach Video” buttons located in the bottom right hand corner of the respective windows.
You cannot detach any components or windows in the Bento skin, because Bento is a SingleUI skin (Single User Interface) and is designed to have all components integrated in one window.
Open the Media Library:
When using the Winamp Modern skin, press the ML (Media Library) button located to the right of the PL (Playlist Editor) button If you prefer using the Winamp Classic skin, to re-enable the Lightning Bolt shortcut, go to the “Media Library” view of the Winamp Preferences (CTRL+P) and check “Main Window lightning bolt opens Library instead of About Box”.
I always put all my music and videos in the same place, is there any way to configure Winamp to periodically check for any new media and automatically add it into my Library?
Winamp media player featured “Watch Folders”.
You can specify folders you wish Winamp to scan for new media. To access this feature, open the Winamp Preferences (CTRL+P) and select the “Watch Folders” tab within the “Local Media” view under the “Media Library” section. You may configure Winamp to periodically rescan these folders and automatically add any new media found to your Media Library. By default, auto rescanning is disabled. You may initiate a rescan of your folders by selecting the “Rescan Watch Folders” item within in the “Library” button menu located on the bottom left hand corner of your Media Library.
Convert music files from one format to another using Winamp media player :
Winamp 5.6 comes with a Transcoding Tool for converting between MP3, WMA, M4A/AAC, OGG, FLAC and WAV formats (MP3 Encoding is available in Winamp Pro only). To use the Transcoder, right click the file(s) in the Media Library or Playlist window and select “Send To > Format Converter”.
Manage portable music devices & players with Winamp
Winamp 5.6 seamlessly integrates support for iPod (Shuffle, Video, Nano (not 5th gen) & Classic models, but currently NOT Touch or iPhone models), Creative Nomad/Zen/MuVo, PlaysForSure (P4S), USB Thumbdrive, Android smartphone and ActiveSync Device management. Note that Winamp does not support Zune.
Visualizations
Visualizers or Visualization Plugins are dynamic add-ons that produce images, colors, and textures that change based elements of the music being played. Winamp offers two primary visualization plugins ( AVS & MilkDrop) allowing you to create different presets. If you’re feeling invincible, you can even attempt to create your own visualization plugin or you can say platform. There are many visualization plugins available which users have generated.
Presets are outputs of a visualization platform. You can customize the visualizers and get any effect you want. Many users have uploaded such presets ( AVS Presets )in winamp website:
Online Services guide:
You can use online Services add, it is fun, new web features to Winamp that require an online connection. Get access to thousands of online radio stations, discover new music and artists, and much more. There’s a brave new world out there…give it a try. By the way, anyone can submit an Online Service, so explore them, have fun, and create one yourself if you want. To use Winamp Online services, when you install the latest version of Winamp (Download Now) you’ll instantly get access to some of our Featured Services, including SHOUTcast Radio, OurStage Radio, and Spinner MP3 of the Day. If you want to explore the full roster of available Online Services, click on “Online Services” in the Winamp Media Library and you’ll be in the Online Services Gallery. The Gallery is constantly updated with new Online Services, so check it often.
To do associate file types:
From the Options menu, select Preferences (or Ctrl+P using the keyboard). Select “File Types” under General Preferences. Select the desired file types you wish to associate…
If Winamp media player keeps making itself the default player, You can stop this from by this way :
If you overlooked the Setup page during installation where it asks what file types to associate with Winamp and whether to maintain them, go to the above-mentioned Preferences page, deselect the relevant extensions, uncheck “Restore associations at Winamp start-up” and, if enabled, uncheck “Maintain file associations” under Winamp Agent.
Winamp Pro
When you register your copy of Winamp 5, you will have access to the following features:
- Navtive video support for the most popular H.264 file formats
- High quality bitrate AACPlus encoding (twice the quality of the free version)
- Unrestricted CD Burning — Winamp Pro enables you to burn your favorite music compilations at your computer‘s full potential. Once registered, Winamp Pro will allow you to burn your Audio CDs at speeds up to 48x, 9 times the speed of Winamp 5.x! (Actual speeds may differ, depending on your computer‘s specifications.)
- Unrestricted CD Ripping — Purchasing Winamp Pro enables you to convert all of your favorite music CDs into digital files at you computer‘s maximum potential. Once registered, Winamp Pro can rip your CDs at speeds up to 48x, 9 times the speed of Winamp 5.x! (Actual speeds may differ, depending on your computer‘s specifications.)
- MP3 Encoding — With Winamp Pro, you can rip all your favorite music CDs into the industry leading MP3 format. When all your songs are encoded in MP3, it provides you the freedom to play them in all MP3 capable hardware and software media players.
- MPEG-4 video support — With Winamp Pro, you can play all of your MP4, M4V, AVI, MKV, NSV & FLV videos with MPEG-4 video content (h.264/avc, mp4v2, Xvid, DivX4/5, etc) without needing to install any extra codecs.
- You support continued development of Winamp music player
