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Winamp was first released in 1997, when Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev, [6] [7] [8] formerly students at the University of Utah, integrated their Windows user interface with the Advanced Multimedia Products ("AMP") MP3 file playback engine. [55] The name Winamp (originally spelled WinAMP) was a portmanteau of "Windows" and "AMP". [56]
The following comparison of audio players compares general and technical information for a number of software media player programs. For the purpose of this comparison, "audio players" are defined as any media player explicitly designed to play audio files, with limited or no support for video playback.
foobar2000 supports Windows, though the support of older versions for Windows XP and Vista has been dropped as of version 1.6 (released 2020). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Windows 2000 support was dropped as of version 0.9.5 (released 2008) and Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT4 support was dropped as of version 0.9 (released 2006).
The original Media Player Classic was created and maintained by a programmer named "Gabest" [5] who also created PCSX2 graphics plugin GSDX. It was developed as a closed-source application, but later relicensed as free software under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license.
Winamp is a media player released by Nullsoft in April 1997. By 1999, it was downloaded by 15 million people. [1] The company released several new versions of the Winamp player and grew its monthly unique subscriber base to 60 million users by late 2004. [3] Winamp was discontinued by Nullsoft around 2013. [14]
The first, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, was intended for IA-64 systems; as IA-64 usage declined on workstations in favor of AMD's x86-64 architecture, the Itanium edition was discontinued in January 2005. [57] A new 64-bit edition supporting the x86-64 architecture, called Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, was released in April 2005. [58]
Winamp, BassBox, Windows Media Player and Sonique music visualizations; Web Browser: analyses web pages for MP3 files, presenting the results for user to playback/download. [3] Subsonic client [4] Additional audio tagging tools; MusicBee Remote plugin and corresponding app for Android devices [5]
Mpxplay is a 32-bit console audio player for MS-DOS and Windows. It supports a wide range of audio codecs, playlists, as well as containers for video formats. The MS-DOS version uses a 32-bit DOS extender (DOS/32 Advanced DOS Extender being the most up-to-date version compatible).