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New Winamp Player Release Streams Media to Game Consoles

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 13, 2007 - 12:37pm.

Dulles, Va. - The developers of pioneering software media player Winamp on Thursday announced the beta release of the 10th anniversary edition of the application, which includes new features that allow remote access to media collections via the Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game consoles. The free Winamp 5.5 actually allows for streaming from a PC to any Web-connected device. Other features include a new user interface with album art support, recommendations and a tool that automatically playlists playable songs from any Web page.

tags: Games | Music | Xbox 360 | Wii | Winamp | PlayStation 3 |

AOL Releases New Version of Winamp Media Player

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 27, 2006 - 5:23am.
Dulles, Va. - AOL on Wednesday released a new version of its free Winamp media player, which was originally launched in 1998 and currently counts over 57 million monthly unique users. The new version features a Dashboard that can be customized to include any of 35 Web feeds from providers including Digg Nation, Slashdot and RollingStone.com, as well as a new Remote feature that allows users to access their personal music connections from any Internet-connected computer.
tags: Tech | Music | AOL | Software | PMP | Winamp |

Orb Networks Releases "Placeshifting" Plug-in for Winamp

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 31, 2006 - 1:00pm.
Emeryville, Calif. - Orb Networks, a developer of "placeshifting" technology that lets users access their live and recorded TV and digital media away from home, on Wednesday introduced a plug-in for Nullsoft Winamp users.
tags: Launches | Video | Tech | Audio | Music | Orb Networks | Placeshifting | Winamp | Plug-ins | Nullsoft |

Winamp Plug-in Allows Songs to be Offloaded from iPod Players

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 24, 2005 - 6:41am.
San Francisco -- A software program for Windows allows users to transfer songs off of their iPod portable music players, Wired News reported on Tuesday. In a bid to prevent piracy, Apple does not allow songs downloaded onto an iPod to then be transferred off of the device to any PC. The ml_iPod application -- initially developed by Justin Frankel, creator of the Winamp music player software, and later taken over by U.K. computer science student Will Fisher -- is a plug-in lets users manage their iPod songs in Winamp and also move them off of the device, if they so choose. "I firmly believe you should have the right to transfer your music with any application you like and if this requires software which circumvents DRM (digital rights management), then I don't believe this is ethically wrong," Fisher told Wired News. "I trust our users to use this freedom responsibly and to not steal music."
tags: iPod | Winamp | Musics | Offloads |