Winamp supports a wide variety of contemporary and specialized music file formats, including MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV, OGG Vorbis, and Windows Media Audio. It supports gapless playback for MP3 and AAC, and Replay Gain for volume leveling across tracks. In addition, Winamp can play and import music from audio CDs, optionally with CD-Text, and can also burn music to CDs. Winamp supports playback of Windows Media Video and Nullsoft Streaming Video, as well as most of the video formats supported by Windows Media Player. 5.1 Surround sound is supported where formats and decoders allow.
Winamp supports many types of streaming media: Internet radio, Internet telelvision, XM Satellite Radio, AOL video, Singingfish content, podcasts, and RSS media feeds. It also has extendable support for portable media players, and users can access their media libraries anywhere via internet connections.
You can extend Winamp’s functionality through the use of plug-ins, which are available on the Winamp site.
As always Winamp also features:
* iPod Support: Play and manage music on your iPod
* Album Art: Retrieve and view Album Art
* Auto-Tag: Automatically update your song information
* Dynamic Song Recommendations
* Remote Media: Access your media remotely
* Thousands of skins and plug-ins to make Winamp even better
* Free videos, radio stations, MP3 downloads and more
Winamp 5.62
* New: Fraunhofer AAC Codec with VBR encoding support
* New: [theora.w5s] Theora decoder for MKV
* Improved: [ml_local] New extra large albumart and option to hide album title
* Improved: [in_mp3/jnetlib/ml_wire] http status code 303 & 307 redirection support
* Fixed: [in_midi] Add buffer overflow check for malformed Controller Change messages
* Fixed: [in_midi] SysEx message processing integer underflow vulnerability
* Fixed: [in_mod] Crash on .IT files with 0 channels (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Crash on truncated files
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Distortion on MP4 files with malformed stts data
* Fixed: [jnetlib] Memory leak when connecting to https streams
* Fixed: [ml_impex] Importing playcount data
* Fixed: [ml_local] Advanced Query Builder
* Fixed: [nsvdec_vp5] Integer underrun (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
* Fixed: [pmp_wifi] Playlist syncing
* Fixed: [vis_milk2] Some presets not reacting to music (Milkdrop v2.24)
* Fixed: [vp6] Crash on rescaling with irregular video sizes (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
* Fixed: [vp6] Integer underrun in Deblocking filter when picture size is 0,0
* Misc: Default “Restore file associations at Winamp start” setting to “off” on Vista+
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Redesigned SHOUTcast Radio online service view (new school & classic options)
* Misc: Replaced CT aacPlusDecoder.w5s with new FhG aacdec.w5s
* Misc: Replaced CT enc_aacplus.dll with new FhG enc_fhgaac.dll
* Misc: Toolbar now compatible with Firefox 5
