Winamp5是一个非常著名的高保真的音乐播放软件, 支持 MP3、MP2、MOD、S3M、MTM、ULT、XM、IT、669、CD-Audio、Line-In、WAV、VOC、AVI、OGG、WMV、MPG 等多种音频和视频格式。可以定制界面 Skins, 支持增强音频视觉和音频效果的 Plug-ins 之外, 还通过一些非常实用的扩展插件来增强其功能。
Winamp大概是世界上最流行、最通用的音乐播放器。该程序也就等同于MP3，是由Nullsoft（现在的AOL）一群自称为“合法的无政府主义媒体恐怖分子”的人开发的，数字音乐从此开始。
Changes in Winamp 5.62:
* New: Fraunhofer AAC Codec with VBR encoding support
* New: [theora.w5s] Theora decoder for MKV
* Improved: [ml_local] New extra large albumart and option to hide album title
* Improved: [in_mp3/jnetlib/ml_wire] http status code 303 & 307 redirection support
* Fixed: [in_midi] Add buffer overflow check for malformed Controller Change messages
* Fixed: [in_midi] SysEx message processing integer underflow vulnerability
* Fixed: [in_mod] Crash on .IT files with 0 channels (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Crash on truncated files
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Distortion on MP4 files with malformed stts data
* Fixed: [jnetlib] Memory leak when connecting to https streams
* Fixed: [ml_impex] Importing playcount data
* Fixed: [ml_local] Advanced Query Builder
* Fixed: [nsvdec_vp5] Integer underrun (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
* Fixed: [pmp_wifi] Playlist syncing
* Fixed: [vis_milk2] Some presets not reacting to music (Milkdrop v2.24)
* Fixed: [vp6] Crash on rescaling with irregular video sizes (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
* Fixed: [vp6] Integer underrun in Deblocking filter when picture size is 0,0
* Misc: Default "Restore file associations at Winamp start" setting to "off" on Vista+
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Redesigned SHOUTcast Radio online service view (new school & classic options)
* Misc: Replaced CT aacPlusDecoder.w5s with new FhG aacdec.w5s
* Misc: Replaced CT enc_aacplus.dll with new FhG enc_fhgaac.dll
* Misc: Toolbar now compatible with Firefox 5.