  winamp is a media player for windows, android, and os x developed by justin frankel and dmitry boldyrev by their company nullsoft, which they later sold to aol, who sold to radionomy in january 2014. since version 2 it has been sold as freemium and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins, and features music visualization, playlist and a media library, supported by a large online community. version 1 of winamp was released in 1997, and grew quickly popular with over 3 million downloads, paralleling the developing trend of mp3 (music) file sharing. winamp 2.0 was released on september 8, 1998. the 2.x versions were widely used and made winamp one of the most downloaded windows applications. by 2000, winamp had over 25 million registered users. a poor reception to the 2002 rewrite, winamp 3, was followed by the release of winamp 5 in 2003, and a later release of version 5.5 in 2007. == features == ; playback formats: winamp supports music playback using mp3, midi, mod, mpeg-1 audio layers 1 and 2, aac, m4a, flac, wav and wma. winamp was one of the first common music players on windows to support playback of ogg vorbis by default. it supports gapless playback for mp3 and aac, and replaygain for volume leveling across tracks. cd support includes playing and importing music from audio cds, optionally with cd-text, and burning music to cds. the standard version limits maximum burn speed and datarate; the "pro" version removes these limitations. winamp supports playback of windows media video and nullsoft streaming video. for mpeg video, avi and other unsupported video types, winamp uses microsoft's directshow api for playback, allowing playback of most of the video formats supported by windows media player. 5.1 surround sound is supported where formats and decoders allow. ; media library: at installation, winamp
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