Winamp5 5.05

Zardon · Aug 28, 2004, 11:46 AM

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.
http://www.winamp.com/

**dj_stick** · Aug 28, 2004, 01:11 PM

haven;t used winamp since ver 2… how is it?

Zardon · Aug 28, 2004, 01:34 PM

I like version 5 with DFX plugin, good sound quality.

**dj_stick** · Aug 28, 2004, 01:50 PM

i generally use WMP… no extra fx, flat EQ… so i hear the music as close to how it was recorded as possible… plus constantly swapping between PC music and portable audio you can really tell the differences in the FX, you can hardly recognise the intros to some songs

mkk · Aug 28, 2004, 03:44 PM

I found the latest "lite" packages of Winamp 5 to be really good as a resource effective mp3-only player. The installer has improved greatly over older versions so that one can choose not to install several parts of even this small version. The full v5 package has so much that I don't really want to have in a "mp3 player". I care not for skins either, but the Winamp plugin engine could be nice to have around for whatever reason.

Speaking of decoder/effect plugins, there is an old v2 plugin that I find interesting, MAD for Winamp. It doesn't add any effects but seem to simply be a wee bit better as a decoder than the standard Winamp MP3 engine, wich supposedly has not changed much since v2 either. Perhaps I'm just imagining it as the difference is minute, but i feel like the sound gets improved at least with some types of music. Being old it does not support newer ID3 tag standards, though that's another thing I never really cared all that much for.

http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plugin/
http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/

Dom · Aug 29, 2004, 12:59 AM

Five is a bit of a resource hog but I still use it. I like the ability to watch Internet TV and Internet radio.

Judas · Aug 29, 2004, 02:36 AM

V3 to V5 is pretty stunning... for resource and overall system resource usage... it's way better then v3... and just a smidge more then v2

V5 kicks ass

Shadow Lady · Aug 30, 2004, 07:15 PM

i wont update to this version, 5.04 is still very good, and the latest changes? not worth it

RIV@NVX · Aug 31, 2004, 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shadow Lady

i wont update to this version, 5.04 is still very good, and the latest changes? not worth it

There was a security fix, that's why they released it in first place.
I still like foobar2000 better, simply because of simpler interface, Unicode support, ReplayGain support, and native playback of more formats.

Aug 28, 2004, 11:46 AM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 177	Winamp5 5.05 Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning. http://www.winamp.com/

Aug 28, 2004, 03:44 PM	#5
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,383 Rep Power: 120 System Specs	I found the latest "lite" packages of Winamp 5 to be really good as a resource effective mp3-only player. The installer has improved greatly over older versions so that one can choose not to install several parts of even this small version. The full v5 package has so much that I don't really want to have in a "mp3 player". I care not for skins either, but the Winamp plugin engine could be nice to have around for whatever reason. Speaking of decoder/effect plugins, there is an old v2 plugin that I find interesting, MAD for Winamp. It doesn't add any effects but seem to simply be a wee bit better as a decoder than the standard Winamp MP3 engine, wich supposedly has not changed much since v2 either. Perhaps I'm just imagining it as the difference is minute, but i feel like the sound gets improved at least with some types of music. Being old it does not support newer ID3 tag standards, though that's another thing I never really cared all that much for. http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plugin/ http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ Last edited by mkk; Aug 28, 2004 at 03:55 PM.

Aug 30, 2004, 07:15 PM	#8
Shadow Lady Avril Fan Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: somewhere in colombia, okok, bogotá city :p Posts: 1,262 Rep Power: 0	i wont update to this version, 5.04 is still very good, and the latest changes? not worth it __________________ Oblivion ftw

Aug 28, 2004, 01:34 PM	Thread Starter #3
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 177	I like version 5 with DFX plugin, good sound quality.

Aug 29, 2004, 12:59 AM	#6
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Five is a bit of a resource hog but I still use it. I like the ability to watch Internet TV and Internet radio.