Winamp is a growing media player primarily among heavy user computers. Why? Because early on Winamp managed to take advantage of the radio. Winamp holds all of the same basic Windows/Zune Media player features, excluding things like Album Art which come with the pro package. Now offering over 500 stations from Gospel to Metal, it's hard to not want to check it out. The feature is Shoutcast Radio, and with a click of a button you can sort through hundreds of interesting radio stations such as "The Buzz" to find your appropriate taste.
With "Shoutcast Radio" and AOL video and radio, the program has quickly become a mini entertainment center. CD Burning also comes with all versions of Winamp, contributing to the effort to close the gap between the titan media players. Depending on which version of Winamp you have, there are set restrictions on the non-pro versions. Winamp is becoming an ideal media player even with its basic free "full" version.
The design is somewhat cloudy, because at the start there are so many options one has to take a step back to figure out what the hell they are even looking at. There are tabs and links to multiple radios and your media library along with most played, never played and other somewhat useless clickables. Minor features include a browser with the newest version, and the common "visualizations" to take you on that psychedelic trip. The lite version is only about a total of 3 mb on average, with the pro scaling it up to 8 mb. A noticeably hefty upgrade, but the features in pro are simply just a gathering of features you can find for free all over the internet. Overall the full version is a great free radio player and has some sleek skins and features for all viewers. All at a nice small size with average weight on your computers memory. I recommend at least checking this media player out, it's small enough anyway ;).
Check out Winamp and all of its versions here.
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