Winamp 5 in fact is quite similar to BSPlayer now:
*- Development now concentrates on supporting closed / protected formats and graphic interface (modern skins).
*- All the "Professional" functions can be done in other programs. The "professional" MP3 encoder is in fact free LAME encoder, audio CD reading can be done using CDex or EAC. Looks like the new development team just decided to cash-in on popular terms like "ripping" and "mp3".
*- Bundled commercial Gracenote CDDB and some also commercial eMusic stuff.
*- Foobar2000 emerged because of this crictism and supports everything a modern player should: floating point processing, high number of sound channels.
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