Winamp 5.53 Build 1938 - Final

Winamp 5 description
A flexible and sophisticated application for playing and managing your music
Winamp is more than just a player. It's your window to the multimedia world. From MP3s to streaming video, Winamp is the one place you go to feed your audio/video habit.

Here are some key features of "Winamp 5":

· Winamp can use both Modern and Classic skins, so you can be both hip and retro at the same time.
· Winamp gives you easy and organized access to your favorite media. That's what you call mass media
· Winamp can play a huge variety of audio and video formats right out of the box... err... out of the installation.
· You get access to hundreds of free audio and video channels in the Media Library. This ain't your father's library.
· Winamp can burn your music to CDs.
· Winamp makes it easy to create and manage your favorite songs through playlists. Yes, you can be your own DJ.
· Winamp allows you to extend it's functionality through the use of "plug-ins" Its like the Mr. Potato Head of music.
· Winamp will allow you to alter the sound of your music through a built-in Equalizer. An audio receiver right on your PC.
· Winamp allows you to watch visual effects that are driven from your music with Visualizations. From flaming fireballs to screaming strobe effects, its all there.

Winamp Main Window
· Winamp 5 features our new Modern Skin that's easier to use and more powerful than ever
· Easily access the Media Library (ML), Playlist Editor (PL), integrated Video
or Visualizations (Video/Vis Drawer), or the EQ, Skin Options, and Color Themes (Config Drawer) from the Main Window
· Includes over 50 color themes that suit nearly every mood or occasion!
· Winamp 5 carries forward the unobtrusive "Window Shade"

Winamp Playlist Editor
· Drag and drop media directly into a Playlist from Windows Explorer or the Media Library
· Jump directly to an item within the list by double clicking it or selecting the item and press Enter
· Sort Playlists by title, file name, or path and file name
· Easily Open and Save Playlists from the Manage Playlist button

Winamp Library
· Organize and find your favorite songs and videos in ONE place
· Rip your favorite music CDs into AAC or MP3 (Ripping limited to 2x speeds for free users. MP3 encoding is only available in Winamp Pro)
· Burn your favorite music compilations to CD (limited to 2x for free users)
· Media Library "Views" allow you to easily create rule based lists of your media
· Easily modify your music collections tags (Artist, Album, Song name, etc.)
· Internet Radio and TV
* Easily tune into user created Internet TV and Radio stations
* Over 4000 Internet Radio stations and 40 Internet TV channels to choose from
* Bookmark your favorite stations and channels for future access
· Winamp Now Playing
* View album art, artist biographies, discographies
* Keep track of your favorite artists by browsing fan sites and news articles presented in the client
* Easily buy your favorite CDs, memorabilia, or just sell your own
Winamp Video
· Play many major video formats (NSV, WMV, MPG, etc.) with ease
· Easily resize video playback using the 1x, 2x, and Maximize window buttons
· Watch your favorite videos in Full Screen mode
· Quick access to dozens of Internet TV stations created by users
· Detach the video window from the main player
Winamp Visualizations
· Winamp 5 comes bundled with the latest version of the ground breaking AVS (Advanced Visualization Studio) and Milkdrop visualizers
· Enjoy over 100 bundled visualization presets created by users
· Switch between presets manually or sit back and watch your presets on Random
· Easily jump to Full Screen mode
· Download new visualizations and presets from Winamp.com

Winamp Equalizer
· Shift the sound from both speakers to left or right using the Balance slider
· Enable Cross Fading to transition the audio smoothly from one song to another
· Select from the dozens of EQ presets to tune the sound
· Create your own EQ settings and save them for future use
Requirements:

Minimum
· 400MHz Pentium II
· 64MB RAM
· 10MB Hard Disk Space
· 16bit Sound Card
· Windows 98 or later
Recommended
· 1GHz Pentium III
· 128MB RAM
· 10MB Hard Disk Space
· Windows 2000 or later


What's New in This Release:

· Improved: Different shell descriptions for different associated filetypes
· Improved: New 'Refine Search' feature in Cover Art Downloader dialog
· Improved: Unicode support for Language Packs incompatible with system locale
· Improved: [in_cdda] Now reads & writes CD data to an NDE database
· Improved: [in_cdda/ml_disc] Reimplementation of simple offline CD Info Editor
· Improved: [in_flac] Faster FLAC metadata gathering
· Improved: [in_mp3] More accurate .AAC length calculation
· Improved: [in_wav/in_mp4] Support for http streaming of files larger than 2GB
· Improved: [ml_disc] Added support for Data CD reading (w.i.p.)
· Improved: [ml_local/nde] Background scanning & database optimizations
· Improved: [ml_local] Unicode compliant filename-based metadata guessing
· Improved: [ml_transcode] Remove trailing periods from destination filepath
· Improved: [pmp_usb] Added AlbumArtist support to Naming Convention
· Fixed: Classic EQ appearing with Modern skins after switch->minimize->restore
· Fixed: Various miscellaneous Album Art related issues
· Fixed: [enc_lame] Now rejects multi-channel and above 48KHz source files
· Fixed: [gen_ff] Translated skin image loading
· Fixed: [gen_ml] Header sort arrow and Rating column display under Windows 2000
· Fixed: [gen_ml] Various drawing glitches when changing views
· Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash under limited connectivity conditions
· Fixed: [in_cdda] Spectrum vis in analog MCI playback mode
· Fixed: [in_flac] Small memory leak when writing FLAC metadata
· Fixed: [in_flv] Last two seconds of flv videos being cut off
· Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on encountering a bad ID3v2 version (e.g. ID3v2.F)
· Fixed: [in_mp4] Crash on file-not-found during background decode
· Fixed: [in_wave] Infinite loop on attempted repeat playback of dead files
· Fixed: [in_wm] ASX v2 loading
· Fixed: [in_wm] Crash on files & streams with a huge discontinuity jump
· Fixed: [in_wm / out_ds] Copy 'Status' to clipboard Unicode bug
· Fixed: [ml_autotag] Crash with certain tracks
· Fixed: [ml_history] Crash on drag+drop all history items to playlist
· Fixed: [ml_local] Rating of items with Unicode filenames
· Fixed: [ml_online/orb] Nodes dropping to bottom of ML tree on Lang Pack change
· Fixed: [ml_playlists] Play playlist from Media Library main menu item
· Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Filename length incompatibility with iPod Music Quiz v2
· Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Missing 'Advanced' button in Edit Query dialog
· Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Physical deletion of playing file
· Misc: Added Russian installer translation and language pack
· Misc: In2TV removed from Online Services
· Misc: Installer now built with NSIS Unicode version [thanks Jim Park]
· Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements and optimizations
· Misc: Moved shared zlib.dll compression library out of winamp.exe
· Updated: Bento skin v1.1 #120...


download link:

http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp553_full_all.exe