The legendary music player Winamp arrives revamped after 4 years. Discover its new features.

Years ago it wasn't as easy to listen to music as it is now. You listened to it in the Music CDs, LPs, cassettes and in the computers if you had the application of Winamp. Then they appeared iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, the streamings and many other means of playing music.

Winamp It captivated a large number of users because it allowed convert all music from CDs to mp3 and store them on their computers. Thus, it became one of the most widely used media players among Windows users.

Since its inception, it has had a unique, customizable interface. With it, you could create playlists and quickly rip music from music CDs. But as time passed, and with the emergence of new applications in the tech world, many users thought Winamp was on its last legs.

Believe it or not, this isn't the case. It's true that they released their last version in 2013 and nothing more has been heard from them since. But last year, 2021, news broke that they were about to release a new version. This 2022, they released the version of Winamp 5.9 RC 1 and you can download it from the following link that takes you to the official page of the multimedia player.

What does this new version of Winamp?

This interface is known as Winamp 5.9 RC1 Build 9999 And its appearance hasn't changed much compared to the previous one, but for the more nostalgic, it's a plus. However, the developers indicated that it comes with several new features. Among them, we have the following:

1. Improved: Windows 11 support (will not work with operating systems lower than Windows 7 SP1)
2. Improved: Playback of https:// streams
3. New work podcast directory
4. Improved: vp8 support
5. Improved: Playback of compressed .itz, .mdz, .s3z and .xmz modules
6. Fixed: Memory leaks
7. Miscellaneous: Many more general tweaks, improvements, fixes, and optimizations
8. Miscellaneous: New online help section and articles
9. Misc: SDK now supports VS2017 and newer

A little history

This popular media player from Winamp It was created on April 21, 1997 by the developers Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev of the company NullsoftThen, in 1999, it became the property of AOL (America OnLine). Years later, in 2010, it was launched on the smartphone market. It started with Android and, a year later, the iOS version arrived.

Then, in 2013, they announced that starting in December of that year the media player Winamp would be discontinued in all its versions. Later, in 2014, AOL decided to sell the application to the Belgian online radio company RadionomyThis company is looking to breathe new life into a program that was widely used in the past due to its ease of use and low resource consumption. Let's hope Winamp has a long life.

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