Not sure when exactly it has been released, so this may be old news, but I just found out about it today. WinAmp has been the media player of my choice for years. WinAmp 3.0 was buggy and had diffent plug-in API than the previous versions, so I switched back to WinAmp 2.91. And now WinAmp 5.01 is out. Why 5? Well it's the sum of 2+3. It combines the best of both versions.

Here is why prefer WinAmp over other media players:

I love the sub-string incremental search in the Media Library.

Visualizer has the most number of visualizations than any other player I've seen. I like the automatic random transitions from one visualization to another.

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