Winamp is dead

[BassPlayer]

I saw an article that AOL bought winamp and killed it. So I uninstalled winamp and went a looking for a new free player. I'm currently evaluating Zoom Player. Seems to have a number of cool features and supports MP3, WMA .APE and  .WV. I'll let you know how it works out. The other cool thing is the pro version will also do DRM.

The following list contains a description of the most well known and used file formats (or decoders) and the components required to play them using Zoom Player.

Media Formats:
3GP
DVD
Flash
Flash Video
Matroska
MPEG-2
MP4 (MPEG-4 Bitstream Format)
OGM (OGG Movie)
QuickTime
RealMedia

Video Decoders:
DIVX 3.11
DIVX 4 or newer
H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC / QuickTime-HD)
XVID

Audio Decoders:
AAC
AC3
DTS
FLAC
Monkey (APE)
MPEG Layer-3 (MP3)
MusePack (MPC)
OptimFROG
OGG Vorbis
Shorten (SHN)
SHOUTcast Streaming
True Audio (TTA)
WavPack

Disc Readers:
CD Audio
CDXA (SVCD Disc Images)

Additional Filters worth mentioning:
AVI Splitter (Helpful in playing incomplete AVI files)
FFDShow Multi-Format Decoder
DirectVobSub (Subtitle Display, VERY IMPORTANT!)

Rare or Obsolete formats:
FLIC Video
MO3/IT/XM/S3M/MTM/MOD/UMX Audio

[groverk]

Looking forward to your review Dave.

Ken

[wickerman]

Hey Bassplayer. Check out jet audio for their player...

http://www.jetaudio.com/

I've got it on my machine at home - plays just about every format out there. You can add verb, different skins and tons of other features. Also, the pro version has BBE you can add to any format you like.

Good luck!

Geoff

[BassPlayer]

Thanks wick but I'm really looking for something that does wavpack files becuase I like those better than ape.

Definately will check it out though.

      
Supports All Major File Formats
jetAudio supports all major digital audio/video file formats, and CD/DVD*/VideoCD.

Supported file formats are :

   Windows Sound Files (WAV)
   MPEG Audio files (MP1, MP2, MP3) including mp3PRO
   MPEG Audio Playlist Files (PLS, M3U)
   MPEG Video Files (MPG, MPEG)
   Windows Media Audio files (WMA)
   Windows Media Video Files (ASF, WMV)
   Windows Video Files (AVI)
   DivX Video Files (AVI, DIVX) *
   Ogg Vorbis Sound Files (OGG)
   Apple Audio files (AIF and AIFF)
   QuickTime files (QT, MOV and MP4) **
   SUN Audio files (AU and SND)
   RealMedia Files (RA, RAM, RM, RMM)
   MIDI files (MID, RMI and KAR)
   IMS file (IMS)
   Module files (MOD, S3M, XM, MTM, STM, IT, ULT, 669, FAIR, MED, MDL, MDL, NST, OKT and WOW)
   Monkey's Audio file format (APE)
   MPEG Plus Audio files (MPC)
   Free Lossless Audio Codec files (FLAC)
   Ogg Media Files (OGM) *
   MKV Video Files (MKV) *

   * Requires additional codec from third party
      For example, you should install DivX codec to play DivX format video files.

   ** Requires QuickTime 4 or higher

Supported disc formats are :

   Audio CD
   Video CD
   DVD

   (Note) DVD playback needs DVD decoder from third party.

[wickerman]

Thanks wick but I'm really looking for something that does wavpack files becuase I like those better than ape.

Definately will check it out though.

Oooops - missed that part...