Please explain about Winamp?
Winamp is the most popular mp3 player, but the decoding engine was seriously flawed. Most versions of Winamp before 2.666 used an in-house decoder called “Nitrane”. It’s notoriously bad (see here and here), as confirmed by our test results. Winamp has finally been fixed, and our tests of version 2.7 showed that it now decodes mp3s perfectly. [ TOP ] • Have any decoders been improved as a result of your tests? Yes. • mp3towave was new when I first tested it, and the author happily ironed out the bugs I found. • Xaudio’s author contacted me, requesting a copy of the one lame encoded file that caused his decoder problems, and may fix the bug in a future release. • Windows Media Player 7 BETA has a problem with the last bit. I was amazed when Microsoft emailed me to find out what it was. As it seems to be the DirectSound processing, rather than a bug in WMP, I think they’re happy as it is. I couldn’t believe Microsoft were emailing me about a 1-bit error though! • Winamp used a notoriously
