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. Winamp was born as a very basic media player and has slowly but consistently improving for many years. Its main purpose was to be completely customizable and through the years, many people have contributed to a library that now consists of 20,000 skins and 461 plug-ins.

The player supports a wide range of file formats, and because the program is small and simple, it works quickly on almost all computers. Have a look through the available plug-ins and you will also find that you can hook up your iPod and manage its music library.

WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 5.572 Build 2830:

* Improved: [h264.w5s] H.264 decoder optimizations
* Improved: [in_avi/bmp.w5s] Support for RGB bitmap AVI
* Improved: [ml_disc] Support for Disc# in CD Ripping naming convention
* Fixed: Crash when using Alt 3 editor during mldb background scan
* Fixed: EasyMove for classic video window
* Fixed: Spectrum analyzer and beat vis for 32bit PCM files
* Fixed: [bmp.w5s] Memory leaks with BMP AVI codecs (tscc, rle, yuv, rgb)
* Fixed: [D3D] Crash when changing height but not width on back-to-back videos
* Fixed: [gen_tray] Compact mode in Win7 popout tray
* Fixed: [in_avi] Crash on files with missing RIFF header (including 0-byte files)
* Fixed: [in_avi] Crash when ix## seektables aren't where they are supposed to be...
* Fixed: [in_mod] Out of memory error with some older .mod files
* Fixed: [in_mp3] ADTS header unicode/ansi issues (for .aac files)
* Fixed: [ml_impex] UTF-8 writing
* Fixed: [ml_local] Info editor erasing mldb fields not supported by input plugin
* Misc: Further attempts to fix reported elevation/registration issues on Vista Win7
* Misc: Installer: Only install Gracenote alongside dependent components
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Various translation updates (note: French lang pack now updated to 5.57x)
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.7.3
* Updated: libpng 1.4.0
* Updated: libsndfile 1.0.21