Winamp Speed Control



Speed up audio without making it sound funny! The algorithm behind audio speed changer uses time stretching to achieve a faster or slower playback without changing the pitch of the sound. This helps keep the key of the music even at double speed, allowing you to play along without re-tuning your instrument or transposing the piece.

  • Slow Me Down - DSP plugin for Winamp 2 (freeware) This plugin lets you slow down or even speed up the music by stretching it between -50% to 100%. Without changing the pitch! You can also fine-tune the pitch in cents (100ths of a semi-tone) to suit your instrument.
  • Winamp is a free multimedia player supports numerous audio and video formats. It also plays streamed video and audio content, both live and recorded, authored worldwide. It has an extremely customizable media library, and allows you to rip and burn your favorite music CDs.
  • PaceMaker is a plug-in for Winamp player enabling independent control of the sound tempo, pitch and playback rate: Tempo control speeds up or slows down the music tempo without altering the music pitch (key) Pitch control changes the music pitch (key) without affecting the tempo.

Winamp supports a wide variety of contemporary and specialized music file formats, including MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV, OGG Vorbis, and Windows Media Audio. It supports gapless playback for MP3 and AAC, and Replay Gain for volume leveling across tracks. In addition, Winamp can play and import music from audio CDs, optionally with CD-Text, and can also burn music to CDs. Winamp supports playback of Windows Media Video and Nullsoft Streaming Video, as well as most of the video formats supported by Windows Media Player. 5.1 Surround sound is supported where formats and decoders allow.

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Winamp supports many types of streaming media: Internet radio, Internet telelvision, XM Satellite Radio, AOL video, Singingfish content, podcasts, and RSS media feeds. It also has extendable support for portable media players, and users can access their media libraries anywhere via internet connections.

You can extend Winamp's functionality through the use of plug-ins, which are available on the Winamp site.

What's new in this version:

  • Improved: Added a Reset button to clear history in the Open/Add URL dialog
  • Improved: Added an option to disable the mouse wheel from altering the volume
  • Improved: Added more commandline switches (run: winamp.exe /? to see full list)
  • Improved: All menus now use the skinned style when option is enabled in ML settings
  • Improved: Disable all online features when no internet connection selected in Prefs
  • Improved: High DPI & text scaling compatibility fixes for dialogs & library views
  • Improved: Increased notification area tooltips up to 128 chars (instead of 64)
  • Improved: Library views now optionally group the 'Play' and 'Enqueue' buttons
  • Improved: Mass metadata editor from library now also available in Playlist Editor
  • Improved: Retry UAC prompt if user previously selected 'No' (for relevant settings)
  • Improved: Speed-up of Winamp shutdown process
  • Improved: [gen_ff] Added a setting to control show/hide time for docked toolbars
  • Improved: [gen_ml] Drag & drop handling tweaks
  • Improved: [ml_downloads] Added 'Size' column [full release notes]

Winamp shutting down on December 20, 2013:

According to Nullsoft website, over 15 years after its initial release, Winamp will shut down next month, on December 20:

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'Winamp.com and associated web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players will no longer be available for download. Please download the latest version before that date. See release notes for latest improvements to this last release.Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years.'

UPDATE 1:'Save Winamp' website and a petition asking AOL either to keep Winamp alive or to open source its code, are now online.

Winamp Speed Control

Download: Winamp 5.666 Build 3510 Full | 11.9 MB (US English version, Freeware)
Download: Winamp 5.666 Build 3510 Full | 16.6 MB (Multi-national installer, Freeware)
Download: Winamp 5.666 Build 3510 Lite | 4.0 MB (basic 2.x-style mp3/cd player, Freeware)
View: Winamp Home page

The Pro & Full installers are the same for this release (No OpenCandy/Emusic/AOLSearch/Toolbar).

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UPDATE 2: Winamp 5.666 Build 3512

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  • [in_mp3] adts (mpeg-2 aac) crash fix from crash reports
  • [Pt-Br.wlz] Updated Portuguese lang pack
  • [tagz] Fixed reported crash with some of the ATF methods (info)
  • [whatsnew.txt] 5.666 changelog properly alphabetized
  • [Winamp] Fixed classic vis oscilloscope line mode being incorrectly drawn in dot mode