Good news for music lovers using Microsoft Windows. I am one of them. At the end of July, NullSoft released a new version of WinAmp - 5.04. With this version they have included two additional choices in Streaming Media section of the Media Library. You now can stream a collection of songs and music video clips that are stored on the WinAmp servers. I think most artists in that collection are affiliated with Time Warner since NullSoft is owned by it. In any case, the collection is quite big. There are currently almost 1000 songs and more than 1700 videos. The cool thing is you can efficiently search for streaming songs and videos the same way as you can search for your local media stored on your hard disk. Meaning, you can filter by genre, an artist within that genre and by a keyword which is searched within the artist name and song name. Together with hundreds of streaming radio and TV stations which are also integrated into WinAmp, I hardly even need to listen to my own music collection.

Download the latest version of WinAmp here