Winamp
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No matter how good it is, there is probably someone out there who has never heard of it. In that case, there is a good chance that person has never had a single Mp3-file on his/her computer either. So, to cut a long story you should already know short, Mp3 is a sound format and Winamp is the program a lot of people use to listen to the sound format.
However, Winamp can play more than just Mp3's. A lot more ... With the right plugin, and there are plenty of those available too, there are very few sound formats Winamp can't handle (although I'm still looking for a .med plugin ...). The greatest advantage of Winamp in front of lots of different sound players is the playlist functions. Now, I can put together playlists consisting of anything from wav to mod to CD music to Mp3, and that makes me listen a lot more to music in front of the computer than I would otherwise.
Winamp also delivers hours of fun with the possibility to create skins for it. A skin changes the graphical appearance of the program, and creating Winamp skins is basically the simple process of copying and redrawing the bmp-files that make up a skin. It gets a bit more complicated, of course, but it's stil about as simple as it can possibly get. Take a look at the downloads-page to get my home-made high-quality skins (cough, cough ;-). Speaking about finding out more, there's the official Winamp homesite too of course. More plugins and skins than you can shake two fairly large sticks at.
