Winamp ÿâëÿåòñÿ áåçîãîâîðî÷íûì ëèäåðîì ñðåäè àóäèî-ïëååðîâ, ïðîãðàììà, íàçâàíèå êîòîðîé ÿâëÿåòñÿ ñèíîíèìîì ñëîâà MP3 óæå ìíîãèå ãîäû. Îòëè÷íîå êà÷åñòâî çâó÷àíèÿ, ïîääåðæêà âñåõ ïîïóëÿðíûõ ìåäèà-ôîðìàòîâ (â òîì ÷èñëå è âèäåî), èíòåðíåò-ðàäèî è TV, ðèïïèíã è çàïèñü äèñêîâ, ìîùíàÿ ñèñòåìà ðàáîòû ñ ìåòà-äàííûìè, ñèíõðîíèçàöèÿ ñ âíåøíèìè óñòðîéñòâàìè (â òîì ÷èñëå è ñ iPod), ïîääåðæèâàþòñÿ ïëàãèíû è ñêèíû… È âñå-âñå-âñå òàêîå ïðî÷åå.
Ñóùåñòâóåò 3 âåðñèè. Êàðäèíàëüíûå îòëè÷èÿ: Lite — ïðîñòî ïëååð; Full — ïèøåò è ðèïïàåò àóäèî-CD òîëüêî íà 8-ìè ñêîðîñòÿõ; Pro — ïèøåò è ðèïïàåò àóäèî-CD íà ìàêñèìàëüíî âîçìîæíîé ñêîðîñòè. Âåðñèè Full è Pro — ìóëüòèÿçû÷íûå (ñ ïîääåðæêîé ðóññêîãî ÿçûêà).
- Different shell descriptions for different associated filetypes - New ‘Refine Search’ feature in Cover Art Downloader dialog - Unicode support for Language Packs incompatible with system locale - [in_cdda] Now reads & writes CD data to an NDE database - [in_cdda/ml_disc] Reimplementation of simple offline CD Info Editor - [in_flac] Faster FLAC metadata gathering - [in_mp3] More accurate .AAC length calculation - [in_wav/in_mp4] Support for http streaming of files larger than 2GB - [ml_disc] Added support for Data CD reading (w.i.p.) - [ml_local/nde] Background scanning & database optimizations - [ml_local] Unicode compliant filename-based metadata guessing - [ml_transcode] Remove trailing periods from destination filepath - [pmp_usb] Added AlbumArtist support to Naming Convention
Fixed:
- Classic EQ appearing with Modern skins after switch->minimize->restore - Various miscellaneous Album Art related issues - [enc_lame] Now rejects multi-channel and above 48KHz source files - [gen_ff] Translated skin image loading - [gen_ml] Header sort arrow and Rating column display under Windows 2000 - [gen_ml] Various drawing glitches when changing views - [in_cdda] CDDB crash under limited connectivity conditions - [in_cdda] Spectrum vis in analog MCI playback mode - [in_flac] Small memory leak when writing FLAC metadata - [in_flv] Last two seconds of flv videos being cut off - [in_mp3] Crash on encountering a bad ID3v2 version (e.g. ID3v2.F) - [in_mp4] Crash on file-not-found during background decode - [in_wave] Infinite loop on attempted repeat playback of dead files - [in_wm] ASX v2 loading - [in_wm] Crash on files & streams with a huge discontinuity jump - [in_wm / out_ds] Copy ‘Status’ to clipboard Unicode bug - [ml_autotag] Crash with certain tracks - [ml_history] Crash on drag+drop all history items to playlist - [ml_local] Rating of items with Unicode filenames - [ml_online/orb] Nodes dropping to bottom of ML tree on Lang Pack change - [ml_playlists] Play playlist from Media Library main menu item - [pmp_ipod] Filename length incompatibility with iPod Music Quiz v2 - [pmp_ipod] Missing ‘Advanced’ button in Edit Query dialog - [pmp_ipod] Physical deletion of playing file
Misc:
- Added Russian installer translation and language pack - In2TV removed from Online Services - Installer now built with NSIS Unicode version [thanks Jim Park] - More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements and optimizations - Moved shared zlib.dll compression library out of winamp.exe