Nullsoft Winamp 5 is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music 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.

• Winamp 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.

• Winamp LITE version plays MP3s, AAC, WMA, and more. It is compatible with Winamp 2 Plug-ins and has full support for classic skins.

Winamp features: a playlist editor and a 10-band graphic equalizer with user-definable presets that can automatically load specific files. It also includes Windows Media Technology 4.0 input/output support and the industry-standard Fraunhofer MP3 decoder.

Changes in Winamp 5.572.2830 :

- Improved: [h264.w5s] H.264 decoder optimizations
- Improved: [in_avi/bmp.w5s] Support for RGB bitmap AVI
- Improved: [ml_disc] Support for Disc# in CD Ripping naming convention
- Fixed: Crash when using Alt+3 editor during mldb background scan
- Fixed: EasyMove for classic video window
- Fixed: Spectrum analyzer and beat vis for 32bit PCM files
- Fixed: [bmp.w5s] Memory leaks with BMP AVI codecs (tscc, rle, yuv, rgb)
- Fixed: [D3D] Crash when changing height but not width on back-to-back videos
- Fixed: [gen_tray] Compact mode in Win7 popout tray
- Fixed: [in_avi] Crash on files with missing RIFF header (including 0-byte files)
- Fixed: [in_avi] Crash when ix## seektables aren't where they are supposed to be...
- Fixed: [in_mod] Out of memory error with some older .mod files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] ADTS header unicode/ansi issues (for .aac files)
- Fixed: [ml_impex] UTF-8 writing
- Fixed: [ml_local] Info editor erasing mldb fields not supported by input plugin
- Misc: Further attempts to fix reported elevation/registration issues on Vista & Win7
- Misc: Installer: Only install Gracenote alongside dependent components
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: Various translation updates (note: French lang pack now updated to 5.57x)
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.7.3
- Updated: libpng 1.4.0
- Updated: libsndfile 1.0.21
- Fixed elevation/uac issues for standard users on win7 & vista
- Fixed not being able to unassociate extensions in Prefs -> File Types
- Fixed ghost 'Jump to File' dialog appearing when starting Winamp minimized
- Fixed all known installer issues (old files not being deleted when item unchecked causing nscrt.dll errors, etc)
- Changed minimum requirement for D3D video renderer from d3dx9_32.dll to d3dx9_42.dll
- Added 'Category' to ml_impex import/export functions (still need to add Director & Producer)
- Changed "bps" (bits per sample) to "bit" in in_dshow & in_midi file info areas
- All copyright notices updated to 2010 (with the exception of vis_avs)