Free Software Icon Winamp Upgrades to 5.54

If you've never had the pleasure of hosting Winamp on your desktop, now is the time to go to http://www.winamp.com and download it, especially if you have speakers. The 10-year-old audio/video program just gets better with age.

Or follow the links to the video online tutorials and see the new redesigned "Now Playing" experience. There's also videos on:

• making your own Winamp skin
• Winamp Remote on your mobile phone

and they're planning many more "how to" videos.

But back to the "Now Playing" experience. You use search and access artist biographies (complete with similar artists and discographies), songlists, photos, videos, and radio stations on the internet that play the searched artist. I put in "Sting" and saw 4 videos (also one movie trailer and a commercial). Most disappointing was the songlist - out of 74 listings, about 1/2 were "Best of Sting & the Police", and that was the listing. I saw other songs I'll go back for, though. The discography was missing many works, I hope that's not the case with all artists!

Besides audio and video, Winamp has a Podcast Directory, CD recorder and handles DVD Drives. It features playlists, bookmarks, SHOUTcast and can work in conjunction with your iPod or Creative Zen.

To read more about Winamp's newest version:
http://lognot.blogspot.com/2008/07/download-winamp-media-player-554-pro.html
http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/2685/206