Few days back, one of our users recommended us a quirky but very pertinent feature - ability to program Winamp to shut down ones computer when the songs on the play list finish being played. We must say, this comes from an ardent music lover who wants to listen to music while sleeping and who doesn't want the computer running all night.

Well, we in Winamp do that most of the time - believe me - sleep, music and work to bring you the best features to enjoy your music. Hence, our developers came out with this feature long back. All you have to do is right click on the stop button and choose your option -
  • * Close Winamp
  • * Standby/Hibernate
  • * Log Off
  • * Shutdown
  • * Restart
Sweet dreams then ... and remember to count Llamas and not those boring sheeps :)


If you haven't already heard about it, there's a very cool Winamp plug-in created by Sanchit Bhatnagar, called MiniTube. It let's you find and play music video's based off of music you're playing in Winamp. You can either use the audio from the video clip, or you can "lip-sync" the song's audio file from your library.





Download the Minitube Plug-in from Winamp.com.

Plug-in Description...


People nowadays live 99 lives and what is a life without music!

I have been following this new website, Secondlife which lets me live a different life on the internet. It lets me become a pilot, DJ, surfer - anything I want to be. Tinkering with it, I found that we can stream music into it. It lets you link up a server where from you can stream audio into the secondlife environment. Winamp provides a great platform of streaming through SHOUTcast and I thought 'Why not use SHOUTcast and stream some music and make my Secondlife more interesting? I even found a cool video uploaded by one of our esteemed users.


Now you can carry all your music and videos in your pocket. Yes! we have got Winamp Remote on mobile for you guys. Winamp Remote enables one to stream music from a computer to various devices - on another device connected through internet, on mobile phones, on TV with Wii, PS3 or Xbox360 etc. Winamp Remote in collaboration with Orb lets you stream your music and videos from your desktop/home computer seamlessly. Its quite fast too! and its very simple... Check this iPhone video from Youtube:



  • * Log on to http://winamp.orb.com and download the Winamp Remote client on your desktop/home computer.
  • * Sign up, set up, load your media and you are ready to go. From your iPhone/iPod Touch/Nokia N95 (or any other phone which can access internet), log on to http://winamp.orb.com and browse all the media you want - simple, fast and seamless.

Check out streaming videos through Winamp Remote on your Nokia N95:


There is more ....


Presenting the new spiced up and spunky Winamp 5.54 – Enjoy artist songs, videos, photos and radio streams with the completely redesigned Now Playing service; enjoy great online radio with the all-new AOL Radio Powered by CBS Radio; expanded Flash support, and much, much more! Download Winamp 5.54 Now or keep reading for more details.


One part genius. Three parts llama. And a sprinkling of corporate AOL. That's what Winamp is all about.