Winamp Software

Technolofy Information

Created by :
Evan Abeiza & Bayu Imam

Structure of my presentation
Definition of Winamp Software

Winamps Histories
The Last Version

Winamps Features
Other Testy Flavors in Winamp Conclusion of My Presentation

Whats the meaning of Winamp?

Winamp is a media player for Windows based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietaryfreeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features. Winamp was developed by Justin Frankel, Dmitry Boldyrev, and Shiva Ayyadurai and its popularity grew quickly, along with the developing trend of MP3 file sharing.

Histories
Winamp was first released in 1997, when Justin Frankel, Dmitry Boldyrev, and Shiva Ayyadurai, formerly students at the University of Utah, integrated their Windows user interface with theAdvanced Multimedia Products "AMP (MP3 Technology)" MP3 file playback engine.[33] The minimalist WinAMP 0.20a was released as freeware on 21 April 1997.[34][35] Its windowless menubar-only interface showed only play (open), stop, pause, and unpause functions. A file specified on the command line or dropped onto its icon would be played. MP3 decoding was performed by the AMP decoding engine developed by Advanced Multimedia Products co-founder Tomislav Uzelac, which was free for noncommercial use.[36] WinAMP 0.92 was released as a freeware in May 1997. Within the standard Windows frame and menubar, it had the beginnings of the "classic" Winamp GUI: dark gray rectangle with silver 3D-effect transport buttons, a red/green volume slider, time displayed in a green LED font, with trackname, MP3 bitrate and "mixrate" in green. There was no position bar, and a blank space where thespectrum analyzer and waveform analyzer would later appear..

The Last Version

Winamp 1
Version 1.006 was released June 7, 1997 renamed "Winamp" (lower case). It showed a spectrum analyzer, and color changing volume slider, but no waveform display.

Winamp 2

Winamp 2.0 was released on September 8, 1998. The 2.x versions were widely used and made Winamp one of the most downloaded pieces of software for Windows.

Winamp 3

The next major Winamp version, Winamp3 (so spelled to include mp3 in the name and to mark its separation from the Winamp 2 codebase), was released on August 9, 2002.

Winamp 5

The Winamp 2 and Winamp3 branches were later fused into Winamp 5. Nullsoft joked that "nobody wants to see a Winamp 4 skin" ('4 skin' being a pun on foreskin).

Features
Playback Formats
Winamp supports music playback using MP3, MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV and WMA.

Media Library

At installation, Winamp scans the user's system for media files to add to the Media Library database.[5] It supports full Unicode filenames and Unicode metadata for media files.

Adding Albums art and track tags

image to the database.

Get Album Art permits retrieval of cover art, and confirmation before adding the

Podcatcher

Winamp can also be used as an RSS media feeds aggregator capable of displaying articles, downloading or playing that same content as streaming media.

Media Player Device Support

Winamp has extendable support for portable media players and Mass Storage Compliant devices, Microsoft PlaysForSure and ActiveSync, and syncs unprotected music to the iPod.

Features (Sub 2)
Media Monitor
Winamp Media Monitor allows web-based browsing and bookmarking music blog websites and automatically offering for streaming or downloading all MP3 files there. The Media Monitor is preloaded with music blog URLs. Winamp Remote

Winamp Remote allows remote playback (streaming) of unprotected media files

on the user's PC via the Internet. Plug-ins In February 1998, Winamp was rewritten as a "general purpose audio player"[9] with a plug-in architecture. This feature was received well by reviewers.

Skins Skins are bitmap files which alter the aesthetic design of the Winamp graphical user interface (GUI) and can add functionality, with scripting.

Other Testy Flavors in Winamp

Winamp is home to SHOUTcast Radio where you can choose from over 40,000 internet radio stations. If you don't find one you like, SHOUTcast provides the tools so you can create your own station.
The Now Playing experience presents contextual information around your music catalog. While listening to music, you will be offered artist biographies, photos, discographies, videos, news and recommendations. The Orgler Module is an embeddable widget that reads your playback history and lets you share your listening habits with friends online. Or you can choose to download the Winamp Toolbar which allows you to control Winamp directly from your web browser.

Our Conclusion
Winamp is a simple and quick way to tag music files, even if the track name and other details are unknown the Gracenote database may not cover every track ever released but it appears to retrieve even the most obscure tracks.

A few other programs e.g. iTunes also use Gracenote for music file identification but, in my experience, Winamp is small and lightweight with rock solid stability. Its also easy to install, upgrade and uninstall unlike certain competitors.

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