Winamp Essentials Pack

Winamp Essentials Pack is a set of plugins aimed to improve the functionality of the popular player, with a minimal amount of effort.

Though the number of plugins that are added is quite large, you do not need to concern yourself with how to install them. As easy as it is to install Winamp the same level of difficulty applies to installing this pack.

After adding the plugins to the player, you benefit from new features that allow you to rip and convert music files to the OGG format, as well as play Apple lossless, RIFF-WAV, WavPack and AUD files.

Winamp Essentials Pack also helps you eliminate some features of the player that for various reasons remain unutilized. Such is the case of the “Lite-n Winamp Preferences” plugin that helps you hide the least used pages of the “Preferences” section.

Another plugin that is found in the pack is “Skin Manager,” which makes it possible to place your classic and modern skins into their own submenus that can be accessed from the main skins menu.

In addition to that, with Winamp Essentials Pack you get an undo feature for your playlist, the possibility to display album art in the classic skins and the option to find a file on the disk.

A noticeable playlist enhancement comes with the “Time Restore & Autoplay” plugin, as it enables you to automatically start listening to tracks from the playlist immediately after you logon to Windows. Moreover, if you close Winamp while a song is playing, when you restart it, it will resume from the exact second it left off.

Without a doubt, Winamp Essentials Pack is a useful software solution, seeing it offers a consistent and much needed amount of UI, playback, playlist, media library and system enhancements, as well as support for new file types. It does not put a strain on the computer’s performance and the response time is good.