WinAmp

Pros: Plays almost every music file, great interface, tons of customizable features
Cons: No MP3 recording or burning to CD's, can't play real audio files

As everyone probably knows, there are tons among tons of MP3 players out there pushing and shoving for your downloading time. There is Sonique, Windows Media Player 7 (which is really nice, but complicated), RealJukebox, and MusicMatch to name a few....

Pros: Small, easy to use without too many fancy features.
Cons: Cheesy mini-browser that obviously tracks your listening habits.

This opinion is based on Nullsoft Winamp v2.80 using Windows XP, 512 MB RAM, and onboard AC’97 audio.


Download and Install

WinAmp (WA) comes in three flavors, Lite, Standard, and Full. Obviously,...

Pros: Stable, easy to learn to use.
Cons: Not capable of editing music.

When I purchased my latest computer I noticed that it had an MP3 player installed on it. I downloaded a couple of songs and began to try this player. It was then that I realized why I had downloaded Winamp in the past.

What is Winamp?...

Pros: Free, has the ability to have many different looks, plays many audio formats...
Cons: Haven't found an Osmond skin yet (inside joke)...

When I was first introduced to Mp3’s* in early 1999, I only knew of one way to listen to the files. That was through Windows Media Player. Now, do not get me wrong, Windows Media Player is okay, but it is somewhat drab when it comes to...

Pros: fast, neat, and ready
Cons: music seems to lag a bit while scrolling pages on web sites.

Winamp is my favorite mp3 player. The reasons for this are that it is simple, it is easy to use, it is laid out well, and it isn't a resource hog.

A llama whipping player

Winamp has many features. It is an equalizer, a...

Pros: Excellent media player, and it's FREE!
Cons: None

When I first became familiar with the wonderful world of MP3s about 3 years ago, WinAmp was just about the only media player on the market that played MP3 files. These days, however, there are dozens of MP3 players out there -- some are programs that...

Pros: Great player, lots of cool features
Cons: hard to have two players on one computer

Introduction to Winamp
Winamp is a very nice mp3 player. It has been out for a couple years, and has remodeled a few times, updating the player. It was one of the very first mp3 players released to the public, and it was a big hit, especially...

Pros: Easy to use, good features
Cons: CD reading isn't great

Ease of use


Winamp is extremely easy to use and has all the features of a normal CD player, plus more. To operate your Winamp player just either put in a CD, set your music so it opens with Winamp, or add your music to Winamp's playlist...

Pros: Plays many different types of music. Very Helpful.
Cons: To sort your music alphabetically, you must press the button many times before your computer gets it in the right order.

Winamp, a program created by Nullsoft, is perfect for playing a numerous amount of audio files. In fact, in the last 533 days I have used Winamp 431 times (as well as playing 5951 tracks). It is a well designed tool to help organize, store, and play your...

Pros: Free, skinnable, commercial-free radio, overall solid mp3 player.
Cons: Only full version is available now; Takes control of playing windows media video formats.

Winamp. Its name is virtually synonymous with MP3s on the Windows platform. It is certainly one of the first, if not the first software MP3 players in existence today.

It is so popular that there is now an Alpha level version of Winamp...

Pros: Simple, Simple, Simple, good skins and plugins
Cons: Lack of shape changing, not great song filing technique

Winamp was one of the original MP3 players available to the public on the internet, and not only is it still around today, it is still the best MP3 player in my opinion today.

Sure there are the likes of MusicMatch Jukebox and Microsoft's...

Pros: Works great, easy to use, and it is free
Cons: I don't know what the point of the equalizer is

I started downloading music a long time ago. (When Napster first came out.) I spent a lot of time downloading MP3 (music) files, but I had no way of playing them. I wondered what the point to downloading music was if I couldn’t play my songs. One day I...

Pros: Sounds great...FREE
Cons: RAM hog

I have really enjoyed downloading MP3 files and playing them on Winamp. Winamp is a free download I got from MP3.com and it is awesome. It has a very good equalizer to tweak the tones to your liking, and you can set up your play lists any way you want....

Pros: Free, customizable, plug-ins and skins, lots of stuff at the winamp website
Cons: Can be a system hog, sometimes I wish it looked more like Sonique, etc

I have downloaded endless MP3's, and Winamp was the first audio player program that I used to play them with. Since then, I have always stayed with Winamp as my default music program. Winamp supports mp3’s or any other kind of audio file. The best...

Pros: Free, lots of supporting features
Cons: Cant go wrong for free

You certainly can’t go wrong for free and with Winamp you can do very well for free. Winamp is one of the premier MP3 players for the PC, it has everything you could want out of such a small program. There are 3 download options for you to consider the...