شرکت Nullsoft اخیرآ ورژن جدید و نهایی 5.53 Build 1924 Final از نرم افزار قدرتمند و قديمى پخش صدا و تصاوير Winamp را عرضه كرده است.

شايد كمتر كسى باشد كه در چند سال اخير با برنامه هاى كامپيوترى "پخش فیلم و آهنگ" سر و كار داشته است اما نام پخش كننده معروف Winamp را نشنيده باشد. Winamp يک پخش کننده‌ سريع و انعطاف پذير صدا و تصوير مى باشد که کار خود را با بالاترين کيفيت انجام مى دهد. از قابليت هاى اين Player مى توان به موارد زير اشاره کرد:

- پشتيبانى از تعداد زيادى فرمت هاى صوتى و تصويرى
- پشتيبانى از پوسته هاى (Skin) مدرن و کلاسيک، امکان تغيير پوسته و دانلود آنها از ميان بيش از 10 هزار پوسته
- امکان تغيير رنگ پوسته ها (Color Themes) (که شامل بيش از 50 رنگ مى باشد)
- قابليت نمايش Visualization يا Advanced Visualization Studio v.2.81b (بيش از 300 Visualization)
- پشتيبانى از Effect Plugin-ins صوتى
- بهره بردن از يک Media Library پيشرفته
- پشتيبانى از راديو و تلويزيون اينترنتى
- امکان تبديل فرمت موسيقى (CD ripping)
- امکان کپى موسيقى به (CD CD burning)

با اين تفاسير حتماً راغب شده ايد که اين Media Player را دانلود کنيد.

در سايت رسمى Winamp امكان دانلود رايگان اين Player در سه ورژن Lite ، Full و Standard وجود دارد. علاوه بر اين سه ورژن، نسخه غير رايگان اين Player با عنوان Pro و همراه با امكانات اضافى ديگر علاوه بر موارد بالا موجود است. در زير به اين امكانات اشاره شده است:

- Rip موسيقى در بيشترين سرعت
- امكان تبديل موسيقى مورد نظر شما از CD به فرمت انتخابى با حداكثر سرعت (9 برابر سرعت Rip در ورژن 5) در ورژن Pro وجود دارد.
- Encode موسيقى به فرمت هاى aacPlus, WMA ,MP3 و يا AAC.
- كپى CD در بيشترين سرعت
- امكان كپى موسيقى با حداكثر سرعت (9 برابر سرعت Burn در ورژن 5) در ورژن Pro وجود دارد.

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.

• The Full version plays MP3s, AAC, WMA, and more; Compatible with Winamp 2 Plug-ins; Full Support for classic and modern skins; Plays Videos; has a Powerful Media Library; Browse Internet Radio & TV Stations; Integrated Internet Music Videos & Songs; Bundled Visualizations; and Burn & Rip CDs.
• The LITE version plays MP3s, AAC, WMA, and more. It is compatible with Winamp 2 Plug-ins and has full support for classic skins.

Changes in Winamp 5.53:
* Improved: Different shell descriptions for different associated filetypes
* Improved: New 'Refine Search' feature in Cover Art Downloader dialog
* Improved: Unicode support for Language Packs incompatible with system locale
* Improved: [in_cdda] Now reads & writes CD data to an NDE database
* Improved: [in_cdda/ml_disc] Reimplementation of simple offline CD Info Editor
* Improved: [in_flac] Faster FLAC metadata gathering
* Improved: [in_mp3] More accurate .AAC length calculation
* Improved: [in_wav/in_mp4] Support for http streaming of files larger than 2GB
* Improved: [ml_disc] Added support for Data CD reading (w.i.p.)
* Improved: [ml_local/nde] Background scanning & database optimizations
* Improved: [ml_local] Unicode compliant filename-based metadata guessing
* Improved: [ml_transcode] Remove trailing periods from destination filepath
* Improved: [pmp_usb] Added AlbumArtist support to Naming Convention
* Fixed: Classic EQ appearing with Modern skins after switch->minimize->restore
* Fixed: Various miscellaneous Album Art related issues
* Fixed: [enc_lame] Now rejects multi-channel and above 48KHz source files
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Translated skin image loading
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Header sort arrow and Rating column display under Windows 2000
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Various drawing glitches when changing views
* Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash under limited connectivity conditions
* Fixed: [in_cdda] Spectrum vis in analog MCI playback mode
* Fixed: [in_flac] Small memory leak when writing FLAC metadata
* Fixed: [in_flv] Last two seconds of flv videos being cut off
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on encountering a bad ID3v2 version (e.g. ID3v2.F)
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Crash on file-not-found during background decode
* Fixed: [in_wave] Infinite loop on attempted repeat playback of dead files
* Fixed: [in_wm] ASX v2 loading
* Fixed: [in_wm] Crash on files & streams with a huge discontinuity jump
* Fixed: [in_wm / out_ds] Copy 'Status' to clipboard Unicode bug
* Fixed: [ml_autotag] Crash with certain tracks
* Fixed: [ml_history] Crash on drag+drop all history items to playlist
* Fixed: [ml_local] Rating of items with Unicode filenames
* Fixed: [ml_online/orb] Nodes dropping to bottom of ML tree on Lang Pack change
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Play playlist from Media Library main menu item
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Filename length incompatibility with iPod Music Quiz v2
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Missing 'Advanced' button in Edit Query dialog
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Physical deletion of playing file
* Misc: Added Russian installer translation and language pack
* Misc: In2TV removed from Online Services
* Misc: Installer now built with NSIS Unicode version [thanks Jim Park]
* Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements and optimizations
* Misc: Moved shared zlib.dll compression library out of winamp.exe
* Updated: Bento skin v1.1 #120