This is a review of winamp 5.You can dowload it from winamp.com
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Yes - that’s right, WinAmp 2 + WinAmp 3=WinAmp 5. (Incase if you were wondering what ever happened to WinAmp 4.) Nullsoft has great updated features from WinAmp 3.The most important of all, the swiftness of loading!WinAmp 3 was slow as a snail, and that contributed very much to the reduction in WinAmps share in MP3 player’s used world over.
Winamp 5 has got
• Snazzy new look!
• Groovy new features!
• Most things actually work!
• Hi quality ripping and burning with Winamp pro.(paid version)
This is the Nullsoft’s opinion.
Most of these are true.The new look is simply sizzling.There is a fully featured media library(better than WMP?).The integrated internet and radio are expected to offer WMP a competition.You can rip your files into mp3 format using winamp if you are using the paid version also you can burn it into a CD!With the exciting colours of Nullsoft’s best visualisations, you would want to put a song with plenty of bass and start spewing up blood!
Winamp 5 loads much faster than 3, and is quite up to expectation.There are loads of plugins in-built, so you wont have to add new pluggins now and then.The Library seems promising.
But everything is not so positive.
I once loved winamp for its lightness.Yes, winamp once was very light, had keys only for usefull things.Though there were modern skins, I continued with the classic, because iI felt that was quite okay, it suited my needs.
Winamp is no more that light.It seems NullSoft wants to make a WinAmp vs WMP competition for media players.Sometimes I feel the new winamp is a bit bloated, became a bit shoddy...etc.Yes, winamp has lost its lightness.
But that is just my opinion.I would love to hear your comments and opinions.
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