Winamp

Winamp
Creator	Nullsoft, Inc.
Released	1997-04-21
Platform	Android, Macintosh, Windows
Website	winamp.com

Winamp is a plugin-based media player for Android, Macintosh, and Windows. It has a large library of 3rd party plugins, including enough to play almost all of the formats used by video games.

Winamp hasn't seen an official update in several years; the last official release was 5.666. At the end of 2013, AOL sold the rights to Winamp to Radionomy, who is currently in the process of revamping the website to resume development and distribution.

Audio Formats

The full free version of the program comes with the following plugins:

Nullsoft CD Plugin

Winamp can play standard Redbook Audio if the game disc is in the CD-ROM.

Nullsoft FLAC Decoder

Supports FLAC at all compression levels.

Nullsoft MIDI Player

Supports CMF, HMI, HMP, MIDI, MUS, RMI, and XMI. Playback of General MIDI works perfectly and custom MIDI instrument banks in DLS format are supported. The CMF playback does not properly support the AdLib samples. XMI playback does not support all of the XMI capabilities. MUS is turned off by default and must be activated.

Nullsoft Module Decoder

Supports the following formats:

Format	Player	Notes
669	Composer 669
AMF	Digital Sound and Music Interface
FAR	Farandole Composer
IT	Impulse Tracker	Doesn't support all features.
MOD	ProTracker	Supports various clones as well.
MOD (Soundtracker)	Soundtracker	Not 100% complete.
MOD (Ultimate Soundtracker)	The Ultimate Soundtracker	Not 100% complete.
MTM	Multitracker
OKT	Oktalyzer	Several songs fail to recognize.
PTM	PolyTracker
STM	Scream Tracker 2	Not 100% complete.
S3M	Scream Tracker 3
ULT	Ultra Tracker
XM	Fasttracker II

Nullsoft MPEG Audio Decoder

Support audio layers MP1, MP2, and MP3 from the MPEG standard.

Nullsoft MPEG-4 Audio Decoder

Supports M4A.

Nullsoft Vorbis Decoder

Supports OGG.

Nullsoft Waveform Decoder

Supports AIFF, AU, WAV, RAW, VOC

Nullsoft Windows Media Decoder

Supports ASF and WMA.

Plugins

While Winamp comes with plenty of built-in plugins, there is also a huge library of third-party plugins as well.

• 64th Note
• AdPlug
• Another Slight Atari Player
• AODSF
• AOSSF
• AUD Player
• Festalon
• Highly Advanced
• Highly Experimental
• Highly Quixotic
• Ken's Plugin
• MikAmp
• Modplug Sound System
• MSXplug
• NCSF Decoder
• NEZ Plug
• Nosefart
• Not So, Fatso!
• NSFPlay
• Oldsk00l MOD Player
• SIDPlay 2
• SNESamp
• VGM Input
• vgmstream
• VIO2SF
• VIOGSF
• WSP Module

Downloads

You can download the latest version of Winamp at their official download site.

Links

• winamp.com - Official page.