We all are familiar with media player Winamp. It comes in the list of most popular media players used on web. Winamp offers you a very versatile environment to play and manage your music files. There is a portable version of Winamp player which allow you to run that with minimum resource. Here portable stands for two things. A very small size player which is ready after few clicks on installation and another a usb version. In usb version you can simply carry the player with you any where you go. Insert the same and play your songs. Winamp supports a wide variety of audio and video file format. What I enjoy the most is visualization option in Winamp which gives very different look on your wide screen. In portable version you can enjoy almost all options of full version. The current version offer much better look and features. Anyhow Winamp is still competing in the list of media players with other. While VLC still rocks the chart. Now those who love to work on Winamp this article will be helpful for them. The article offers information on installing Winamp's portable version along with a number of configurations. The best thing about Winamp is customizable media library. VLC offers a very basic and Windows a bit better than basic. While Winamp has much better media library which you can customize as per your need.
Steps to Install Winamp Portable
First thing by using a exe file format. You can simply go on web and download a 6Mb of Winamps portable version for free. Winamp comes with a paid license copy also with full feature support. There are certain limitation in the portable version which can be ignored. Rightnow Winamp offers 5.6 version. You can read below about detail Winamp Edition Comparisons. Download Winamp Portable and run the exe file. Follow the on screen instructions and you are done. That is easiest way. There are certain limitation in the usb version of this player. In the usb version you can enjoy the library function. You can have your media player on the usb drive and play songs whenever needed.
- Download Winamp setup and put the same on your desktop.
- Run the setup. The setup will install all the files in Program Files. Go in that section and copy paste the Winamp folder to your usb.
- One you are done with that you have to create a executable shortcut to run it. For that lets begin with creating a Winamp cmd file.
- Open Notepad. Type the following : [Autorun] - Open=Winamp\winamp.exe - Action=Start Winamp Music Player. Add this lines one by one and save the file in form of .inf format. You can click on File > SaveAS > give a file and then type autorun.inf.
- So next time whenever you insert your usb drive you can see Winamp poping up on your screen.
Winamp Editions Comparision
Winamp Standard Edition : There are two editions of Winamp. First is Standard Edition which is for 15MB and free for download. The player is also available for Android and due to cross compatibility support you can simply sync your files. You can share a playlist or simply import the library file. Other than this the standard version allow you to have podcast support which is powered by MediaFly. So this not exactly fully supported by Winamp. If you install the new version on Windows 7 you can enjoy the controls in task bar for quick navigation. There are more enhancement done to the playlist this time. It can found more detailed and with random customization options. I can provide you a short description on number of features that are provided in the new version. First the skin is changed to give you a better look. The Media Library, Playlist Editor, Video and other stuff is on the main screen itself allowing you to access your content more easily. There are around 20 color themes added on it. Like other player Winamp too features a browser where you can surf your site. The customization option in this allow you to add favorite link and access the site whenever needed.
Winamp Pro Edition : This edition will cost you 19.95 USD dollars. All features of Standard Edition are included in Pro. What more it offers you is h264 video support which does not work in standard edition. Also you can rip and burn audio disc at a maximum speed of 48x. There is nothing much to talk about the pro-version. Winamp Standard Edition in itself is full of all features which you need.
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