Won Over by Winamp
Thanks to the internet, an immense amount of perks and potential has been made available to all who frequent cyberspace. One can catch up and communicate with the rest of the world, do research, meet with friends despite long distances, even do business and go shopping! The countless possibilities offered by this worldwide network touches on the interests of almost everyone, the audio-philes in particular.
Through the internet, multimedia could be downloaded and played; making media players indispensable. These players, conveniently available on the net as well, come in huge numbers that suitably match the huge amount of media waiting to be enjoyed. Among the hundreds of players available online, no other application matches Nullsoft’s Winamp. In a span of one year, Winamp users grew from 33 million to over 57 million users all over the world.
The best thing about this application is that it is readily available online. Winamp’s official website offers several downloadable versions of the player for free while the more advanced versions are sold at reasonable prices. A quick visit to the site also provides opportunity for application updates.
The interface is user-friendly and the player is very reliable since it has the ability to recognize a big pool of media formats. Aside from MP3, Winamp supports music file formats including MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV and Windows Media Audio. It is also aesthetically superior, skinnable and the appearance is completely open to get pimped up.