Winamp.exe
Winamp by Nullsoft Inc. (Signed)
| Version: | 5,5,6,2512 |
| MD5: | e2430e58b19e599ae7a29a1b38509eb9 |
| SHA1: | bc6deb6cb627b57c0d7655d9840f2be80afd6967 |
| SHA256: | 84386d7164393b580abcb9b3c9c5af503e9dbf7e077d55e2666e32b931fff5ab |
What is Winamp.exe?
Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.
About Winamp.exe (from Nullsoft Inc.)
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Overview
winamp.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
sidebar.exe (Windows Desktop Gadgets by Microsoft). It configures an autoplay handler withing explorer.exe named WinampPlayMediaOnArrival that will launch the program automatically. It is installed with a couple of know programs including Winamp published by Nullsoft, Inc, ClassicPro© v1.13 from Skin Consortium and ClassicPro© v1.13 by Skin Consortium.
Details
| File name: | winamp.exe |
| Publisher: | Nullsoft |
| Product name: | Winamp |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\winamp\winamp.exe |
| File version: | 5,5,6,2512 |
| Product version: | 5.5.6.2512 |
| Size: | 1.41 MB (1,481,056 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Nullsoft Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | America Online Inc. |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, December 19, 2010 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“This plug-in allows to play native FLAC files with Winamp. It stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. It is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality: you get a perfect copy of your CD tracks, but with files significantly smaller than WAVs.”
Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features. Winamp supports music playback using MP3, MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV and WMA. Winamp was one of the first common mu...
“foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components. Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player. Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter compon...”
Behaviors
Autoplay handler
Runs under the registry key 'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\Handlers'
- Handler name 'WinampPlayMediaOnArrival'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00090251% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00046132% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00044119% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 182,989,173 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 35.99 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 44.45 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 20.41 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 35.99 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 158.61 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 164.49 MB | |
| Working set: | 29.87 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 45.88 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 16 | |
| Handles: | 297 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 965 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 989 | |
| GUI USER count: | 269 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 277 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
50.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
50.00% |
|
Distribution by country
RS installs about 33.33% of Winamp.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
66.67% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
33.33% |
|
