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Winamp is a skin (computing)nable, multi-format, freeware audio player (software) made by Nullsoft, part of Time Warner. Winamp was first released by Justin Frankel in 1997. Originally, MP3 playback was based on the AMP decoding engine by Tomislav Uzelac et al. In later versions this was replaced with Nitrane, a proprietary decoder created by Nullsoft and subject of a lawsuit from Playmedia Systems, Ltd. After an out of court settlement and licensing agreement, Nullsoft switched to an ISO decoder from Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the developers of MP3. In November 2004, the last original Winamp team member resigned. The current version of Winamp is version 5.093, released on June 16, 2005. ==History== ===Winamp 1 and Winamp 2=== Although Winamp 1 (first version released in June 1997) was used among early adopters of the MP1, MP2 (format), and MP3 formats, it wasn't until Winamp 2 was released that it became widely used, and was one of the most downloaded pieces of software for the IBM PC compatible. ===Winamp3=== The next major Winamp release, Winamp3 (spelled condensed in this way to include ''mp3'' in the name, as in Winamp3), surfaced on August 9, 2002. This was a complete rewrite of version 2 and was based on the Wasabi (application) application framework, which offered additional functionality and flexibility. Winamp3 was developed in parallel to Winamp 2. However, many users found this version consumed too many system resources and was unstable (or even lacked some cherished functionality, such as the ability to number and chronology find the sum of all of the tracks in a playlist). Moreover, Winamp3's new framework made backward compatibility with skins and plugins uncommon. As a result, many Winamp users reverted back to Winamp 2. Nullsoft listened to its user base and returned focus to the previous, more stable program. ===Winamp 5.0=== The Winamp 2 and Winamp3 branches were later fused into Winamp 5.0 — Nullsoft justified their nonsequential christening by quipping that 2 + 3 = 5 — taking the best parts from both applications. Most of Winamp3's features and code were carried over, with long overdue crash fixes applied and resource-hogging behaviors corrected. Winamp 5.0 was released in December 2003. Most of the Wasabi (application) framework built for creating Winamp3 and its components was released as open source, and as of 2005 an active development effort has succeeded in making a standalone version of Wasabi, minus the skinning and scripting modules which were never released. The wasabi.player project seeks to replace these modules and release an open source version of Winamp3, but it is not being actively developed as of late. Winamp 5.0 comes in two versions, Standard and Pro. The Standard version is freeware, while the Pro version (currently selling for United States dollar14.95) offers a slightly richer feature set, primarily with regard to music ripping and CD burning. ==Concepts== ===Skins=== Winamp also has many Skin (computing) available. [http://www.winamp.com/skins/] Skins are revisions of the graphical user interface of Winamp. Many skins are currently available, such as the popular MMD3 (pictured) skin. Winamp 5.0 has brought many new options for potential skin designers, including alpha channels and docked toolbar. ===Plugins=== Winamp has a comprehensive software development kit, which allows software developers to add small bits of their own software to the Winamp code. These plug-ins range from general plug-ins (for basic functionality) to visualizations (for sound activated graphics). Many [http://www.winamp.com/plugins/ plugins] are available on Winamp's web site. ==Features== The following are features of Winamp 5.0+: *MIDI, MOD (file format), MP1, MP2, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, WMA, and many other audio formats supported. *AVI support, which is played through the appropriate DirectShow filters installed on the user's system; MPEG; and Nullsoft Streaming Video (Nullsoft Streaming Video, a proprietary Winamp format). *Plugin support for additional input and output formats, sound effects (via Digital signal processing plugins), and visual effects (notably Advanced Visualization Studio, or AVS). Some of the plugins enable Winamp to play console emulator-related sound formats such as NES Sound Format, VGM, Gameboy Sound System, MOS Technology SID, HES (sound format), GYM, .SPC, PlayStation Sound Format (see also Video game music); many of which are available at the official Winamp web site. *Support for both Winamp 2's "classic" skins and Winamp3's more flexible "modern" skins (the latter via an official plugin provided with the "Full" install). *Media Library support for Internet radio (via the SHOUTcast technology), as well as Internet television channels listings. *Support for ripping data from audio CDs into MP3 or Advanced Audio Coding formats, a feature further improved in Winamp Pro. *Support for burning music to CDs, a feature also further improved in Winamp Pro. *True alpha channel (transparency) *Support for winshade mode, which allows Winamp to operate as an always on top media bar ==Derivative work== *Unagi (software), codename for the media playback engine derived from Winamp core technologies as distributed with the AOL software or as an ActiveX download. Powers many AOL media projects (i.e video@netscape, video@aol etc). ==References== *Winamp Forums (2003, December 20). Message posted to the thread [http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=160856 Winamp 5.01 with Internet TV Content Rating] by [http://forums.winamp.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=90134 Nunzio390]. ==See also== *Dosamp *List of audio players (software) *Comparison of media players ==External links== *[http://www.winamp.com/ Official Winamp site] *[http://www.winampheaven.net/ Winamp Heaven Version Archive] *[http://www.winampunlimited.com/ Winamp Unlimited news site] *[http://www.winampFR.com/ Third Party French Winamp community] *[http://www.winamp.com/player/version_history.php Winamp 5 Version History] Windows media players Windows software Runs_under_wine vi:Winamp
== Features List == Hmmm, maybe it would be interesting to have a Winamp 5 vs. Winamp 2 comparison chart rather than only having the features list for Winamp 5. Or maybe just a separate Winamp 2 features list . . . or maybe not :) -User:Frazzydee 15:06, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC) Just a list of what is new or starring the new features in the listwould be fine. Unlike Winamp3, Winamp 5 is a direct continuation of the Winamp 2 line, albeit using 5.xx instead of 2.xx --User:Mikm 12:15, 19 May 2005 (UTC) == Winamp is not "windows amplifier" == I think Winamp's name comes not from "windows amplifier", but from a Windows version of AMP, an open-source MP3 decoding engine. AMP in turn stands for Advanced Multimedia Products, the company name of the original author of AMP. See [http://www.lugatgt.org/articles/multimedia/] User:Drew3D 01:56, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC) : Indeed it does, and that was why I added the part about AMP and its author to the introduction when I revised this article... I agree that I think Winamp started out as something like a Windows port of AMP, hence Winamp. User:Jugalator 18:48, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC) ==Rumors of demise== [http://www.winamp.com/about/article.php?aid=10627 This recent news posting] at winamp.com seems to say that rumors of Winamp's demise have been greatly exaggerated. ''"We're going to chalk this one off to one to a poorly-worded and vague news piece that got out of hand (No offense to Nate.). While yes, our team might be a bit lean at the moment, we aren't the starved, skeleton-thin relics we've been rumored to be."'' Okay if I remove the line that says that ''"In November 2004, the last members of the original Nullsoft development team resigned and no further improvements to Winamp are expected."''? --User:Arteitle 00:02, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC) Whoops. Sorry to jump the gun, but I didn't see this message and I've already removed it. User:64.230.144.132 18:57, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) :Well, while it is obviously clear that Winamp itself has not been axed, I think the first half of the sentence is actually accurate; perhaps we could mention something like "In Novermber 2004, during a restructuring of parent comapny AOL, the last members of the original development team resigned; the remaining Nullsoft team, though small, strongly denied rumours that Winamp was dead." Or perhaps we should only mention that in the Nullsoft article? I'm not sure. - User:IMSoP 22:50, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I've been going a bit mad with the corrections on both the Nullsoft and Winamp articles, basically all the original members have left over the past year/year and a half. AOL haven't actually layed any of them off, they just resigned. It's currently maintained by the previous Engineering Manager until replacement staff can be hired. User:Cf 16:44, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) ::Yes, fair enough. Is it not true, however, that AOL is doing some pretty major restructuring (including layoffs) ''in general'' at the moment; and doesn't this, in fact, contribute to the doubt over future development? Perhaps we could say something like "Because of this and restructuring within AOL as a whole future major releases of Winamp are in doubt, although..."? But I don't really know much about the situation, so I'll leave it as your call. - User:IMSoP 17:02, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) :::I agree, thats why I left in that particular line. I'm not about to pretend that its likely that one/two/three person(s) can continue the entire product line. It's all in doubt at the moment. So I'm trying to keep wikipedia as factually correct as I can at the current moment. User:Cf 20:12, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Popularity == I would like to see at least a few sentences on how winamp used to be the most popular windows mp3 player, and then how its popularity was slowly taken down by apple/real/microsoft/whatever. I think that would provide a good context to the history of winamp. I don't know enough about the history to add this, but I know it happened.
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Winamp is a skin (computing)nable, multi-format, freeware audio player (software) made by Nullsoft, part of Time Warner. Winamp was first released by Justin Frankel in 1997. Originally, MP3 playback was based on the AMP decoding engine by Tomislav Uzelac et al. In later versions this was replaced with Nitrane, a proprietary decoder created by Nullsoft and subject of a lawsuit from Playmedia Systems, Ltd. After an out of court settlement and licensing agreement, Nullsoft switched to an ISO decoder from Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the developers of MP3. In November 2004, the last original Winamp team member resigned. The current version of Winamp is version 5.093, released on June 16, 2005. ==History== ===Winamp 1 and Winamp 2=== Although Winamp 1 (first version released in June 1997) was used among early adopters of the MP1, MP2 (format), and MP3 formats, it wasn't until Winamp 2 was released that it became widely used, and was one of the most downloaded pieces of software for the IBM PC compatible. ===Winamp3=== The next major Winamp release, Winamp3 (spelled condensed in this way to include ''mp3'' in the name, as in Winamp3), surfaced on August 9, 2002. This was a complete rewrite of version 2 and was based on the Wasabi (application) application framework, which offered additional functionality and flexibility. Winamp3 was developed in parallel to Winamp 2. However, many users found this version consumed too many system resources and was unstable (or even lacked some cherished functionality, such as the ability to number and chronology find the sum of all of the tracks in a playlist). Moreover, Winamp3's new framework made backward compatibility with skins and plugins uncommon. As a result, many Winamp users reverted back to Winamp 2. Nullsoft listened to its user base and returned focus to the previous, more stable program. ===Winamp 5.0=== The Winamp 2 and Winamp3 branches were later fused into Winamp 5.0 — Nullsoft justified their nonsequential christening by quipping that 2 + 3 = 5 — taking the best parts from both applications. Most of Winamp3's features and code were carried over, with long overdue crash fixes applied and resource-hogging behaviors corrected. Winamp 5.0 was released in December 2003. Most of the Wasabi (application) framework built for creating Winamp3 and its components was released as open source, and as of 2005 an active development effort has succeeded in making a standalone version of Wasabi, minus the skinning and scripting modules which were never released. The wasabi.player project seeks to replace these modules and release an open source version of Winamp3, but it is not being actively developed as of late. Winamp 5.0 comes in two versions, Standard and Pro. The Standard version is freeware, while the Pro version (currently selling for United States dollar14.95) offers a slightly richer feature set, primarily with regard to music ripping and CD burning. ==Concepts== ===Skins=== Winamp also has many Skin (computing) available. [http://www.winamp.com/skins/] Skins are revisions of the graphical user interface of Winamp. Many skins are currently available, such as the popular MMD3 (pictured) skin. Winamp 5.0 has brought many new options for potential skin designers, including alpha channels and docked toolbar. ===Plugins=== Winamp has a comprehensive software development kit, which allows software developers to add small bits of their own software to the Winamp code. These plug-ins range from general plug-ins (for basic functionality) to visualizations (for sound activated graphics). Many [http://www.winamp.com/plugins/ plugins] are available on Winamp's web site. ==Features== The following are features of Winamp 5.0+: *MIDI, MOD (file format), MP1, MP2, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, WMA, and many other audio formats supported. *AVI support, which is played through the appropriate DirectShow filters installed on the user's system; MPEG; and Nullsoft Streaming Video (Nullsoft Streaming Video, a proprietary Winamp format). *Plugin support for additional input and output formats, sound effects (via Digital signal processing plugins), and visual effects (notably Advanced Visualization Studio, or AVS). Some of the plugins enable Winamp to play console emulator-related sound formats such as NES Sound Format, VGM, Gameboy Sound System, MOS Technology SID, HES (sound format), GYM, .SPC, PlayStation Sound Format (see also Video game music); many of which are available at the official Winamp web site. *Support for both Winamp 2's "classic" skins and Winamp3's more flexible "modern" skins (the latter via an official plugin provided with the "Full" install). *Media Library support for Internet radio (via the SHOUTcast technology), as well as Internet television channels listings. *Support for ripping data from audio CDs into MP3 or Advanced Audio Coding formats, a feature further improved in Winamp Pro. *Support for burning music to CDs, a feature also further improved in Winamp Pro. *True alpha channel (transparency) *Support for winshade mode, which allows Winamp to operate as an always on top media bar ==Derivative work== *Unagi (software), codename for the media playback engine derived from Winamp core technologies as distributed with the AOL software or as an ActiveX download. Powers many AOL media projects (i.e video@netscape, video@aol etc). ==References== *Winamp Forums (2003, December 20). Message posted to the thread [http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=160856 Winamp 5.01 with Internet TV Content Rating] by [http://forums.winamp.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=90134 Nunzio390]. ==See also== *Dosamp *List of audio players (software) *Comparison of media players ==External links== *[http://www.winamp.com/ Official Winamp site] *[http://www.winampheaven.net/ Winamp Heaven Version Archive] *[http://www.winampunlimited.com/ Winamp Unlimited news site] *[http://www.winampFR.com/ Third Party French Winamp community] *[http://www.winamp.com/player/version_history.php Winamp 5 Version History] Windows media players Windows software Runs_under_wine vi:Winamp
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== Features List == Hmmm, maybe it would be interesting to have a Winamp 5 vs. Winamp 2 comparison chart rather than only having the features list for Winamp 5. Or maybe just a separate Winamp 2 features list . . . or maybe not :) -User:Frazzydee 15:06, 24 Jan 2004 (UTC) Just a list of what is new or starring the new features in the listwould be fine. Unlike Winamp3, Winamp 5 is a direct continuation of the Winamp 2 line, albeit using 5.xx instead of 2.xx --User:Mikm 12:15, 19 May 2005 (UTC) == Winamp is not "windows amplifier" == I think Winamp's name comes not from "windows amplifier", but from a Windows version of AMP, an open-source MP3 decoding engine. AMP in turn stands for Advanced Multimedia Products, the company name of the original author of AMP. See [http://www.lugatgt.org/articles/multimedia/] User:Drew3D 01:56, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC) : Indeed it does, and that was why I added the part about AMP and its author to the introduction when I revised this article... I agree that I think Winamp started out as something like a Windows port of AMP, hence Winamp. User:Jugalator 18:48, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC) ==Rumors of demise== [http://www.winamp.com/about/article.php?aid=10627 This recent news posting] at winamp.com seems to say that rumors of Winamp's demise have been greatly exaggerated. ''"We're going to chalk this one off to one to a poorly-worded and vague news piece that got out of hand (No offense to Nate.). While yes, our team might be a bit lean at the moment, we aren't the starved, skeleton-thin relics we've been rumored to be."'' Okay if I remove the line that says that ''"In November 2004, the last members of the original Nullsoft development team resigned and no further improvements to Winamp are expected."''? --User:Arteitle 00:02, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC) Whoops. Sorry to jump the gun, but I didn't see this message and I've already removed it. User:64.230.144.132 18:57, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) :Well, while it is obviously clear that Winamp itself has not been axed, I think the first half of the sentence is actually accurate; perhaps we could mention something like "In Novermber 2004, during a restructuring of parent comapny AOL, the last members of the original development team resigned; the remaining Nullsoft team, though small, strongly denied rumours that Winamp was dead." Or perhaps we should only mention that in the Nullsoft article? I'm not sure. - User:IMSoP 22:50, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I've been going a bit mad with the corrections on both the Nullsoft and Winamp articles, basically all the original members have left over the past year/year and a half. AOL haven't actually layed any of them off, they just resigned. It's currently maintained by the previous Engineering Manager until replacement staff can be hired. User:Cf 16:44, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) ::Yes, fair enough. Is it not true, however, that AOL is doing some pretty major restructuring (including layoffs) ''in general'' at the moment; and doesn't this, in fact, contribute to the doubt over future development? Perhaps we could say something like "Because of this and restructuring within AOL as a whole future major releases of Winamp are in doubt, although..."? But I don't really know much about the situation, so I'll leave it as your call. - User:IMSoP 17:02, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) :::I agree, thats why I left in that particular line. I'm not about to pretend that its likely that one/two/three person(s) can continue the entire product line. It's all in doubt at the moment. So I'm trying to keep wikipedia as factually correct as I can at the current moment. User:Cf 20:12, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Popularity == I would like to see at least a few sentences on how winamp used to be the most popular windows mp3 player, and then how its popularity was slowly taken down by apple/real/microsoft/whatever. I think that would provide a good context to the history of winamp. I don't know enough about the history to add this, but I know it happened.
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