Winamp Lite V5.571    Suggested by Andrew Lee - Updated by webfork on 16 Jan 2010 4MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (4300) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (40) - Post comment - Permalink

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 eeefresh: Audio worked fine, but would not play video. Anyone know why? [2006-06-09 21:43]

 DG: I've gotten Winamp to do a semi-portable install where video will work. Do it with the FULL version (the next step up from 'lite') the same way it's described here.

On the install computer it'll run fine. When I bring it to another computer I get an error message when it starts saying that it's missing a file, but it seems to play fine.

You can also try "cPicture" for a small audio/video player that's under 1 Meg. [2006-06-12 07:27]

 Jens: Is it possible to change skins? When I install a new skin, the skin manager recognizes the skin but will not allow me to select it. Thanks. [2006-09-29 15:07]

 TheZorch: Winamp's Video support requires that you have the codec on your system to play back different formats. By default it can play Cinepak .AVI files since that codec is a part of the Windows install. Look for the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack for all your video/audio codec needs. [2006-10-03 08:45]

 godsfilth: k-lite sucks installs a ton of stuff get the combined community codec pack (cccp-project.net) although for portable video i suggest VLC (videolan.org/vlc/) which has built in codecs for a ton of stuff [2006-10-03 12:41]

 noobie: @ jens, i can change the skin, no problem with it, just copy the skin u want to the skin folder and select it in preferrence [2006-10-03 22:42]

 Jens: Thanks for the reply noobie. I am running winamp from a thumb drive. The new skins are in the skins folder and I set the skin folder location but when I select a new skin it still doesnt change. Maybe it is just me...i will keep playing with it. [2006-10-04 19:55]

 kledia: Great tutorial! I just started creating portable aps, and Winamp was one of those I just needed to have. [2006-10-14 11:39]

 TavisJohn: If you get a "NSCRT.dll can not be found" error. Just make sure that the NSCRT.dll file is in BOTH the WinAmp dir AND the Plugins dir! (Yes you need 2 copies of the file)
That will fix the error! [2006-10-14 18:35]

 Razor: Hey guys sorry if this sounds stupid but i am just a bit confused i have been following the instructions on which files to delete after i have used uniextractor the only thing im confused about is the Plugins\$PLUGINSDIR directory does that mean that i delete the folder named $PLUGINSDIR and leave the rest of the plugins alone or do i delete them all. also there are 2 winamp icons do i leave them both or delete the one that isnt a .exe please help someone thankyou [2006-11-03 20:48]

 Andrew Lee: You should remove $PLUGINSDIR and leave the rest of the "Plugins" folder alone. You should also leave both Winamp "icons" (winamp.exe and winmapa.exe) alone. The former is the actual MP3 player, while the latter is an agent to help associate the file types to play with Winamp. [2006-11-04 05:27]

 Roland: If you want it to fire up an online radio station you can do this...

1) Use notepad and add the URL to the radio station (e.g. http://www.club977.com/CLUB977HI.pls) in the first line.
2) Save it as a .m3u file (e.g. Club977.m3u).
3) In the link from your USB Drive Menu program, the path with parameter would look something like this:

..\Portable\Winamp\Winamp.exe "Radio Stations\Club977.m3u" [2006-11-18 14:45]

 raphael emportu: MPlayer rules portable! Nuff said. [2006-11-22 04:06]

 guest: version 1.41 does not work,
it complains about an "autoit error"
when pointing to the file to be extracted [2006-11-22 05:44]

 Mike Romete: Like Jens, I can't get the portable Winamp Lite to recognize any skin other than Winamp Classic. I copied the skin (Winamp Modern) into the Skins directory under Winamp Lite, and set the Skins directory to that directory. Winamp Modern shows up under Installed Skins in the skins browser, but says "no info found" if I highlight it. Any ideas? [2006-11-28 12:44]

 Mike Romete: Hmmm.... Can Winamp Lite use a Modern Skin? Maybe not. That might be the problem. [2006-11-28 13:14]

 pjb: If you've extracted the Full Basic version to a directory, here's what I did to get the Modern Skin to show up:
- Create a "Skins" directory where you extracted winamp to.
- Cut/paste the "Winamp Modern" directory from "$R0" directory to the "Skins" directory.
- Cut/paste all the contents from "$_OUTDIR" directory to the "Skins" directory.
- You can delete the "$R0" and "$_OUTDIR" directories.
- I also deleted "$PLUGINSDIR" from the Plugins directory.
- I also deleted "$OUTDIR" (no underscore "_") since I think its related to the avs visuals which I do not plan to use.

With this setup from the Full Basic version, I can use Modern Skin, plus be able to use the online radio and video streams. I currently have it on my hard drive but will put it on a USB drive so I can test for portability. [2006-12-01 08:28]

 Dan: pjb: In addition, you can compress Winamp Modern's contents into a zip called "Winamp Modern.wal" and place it in skins to cut down on the file size. Don't compress the folder itself... this might not work, depending on your compression tool. Go into the folder and select skins.xml and all the folders therein for compression instead.

Also any folder called $PLUGINSDIR contains files used by the INSTALLER ONLY and can be safely deleted (one of them contains the Sonic CD Ripping engine drivers which aren't portable anyways).

I recommend you grab some files from Winamp Full, such as the input plugins Lite lacks. Also feel free to throw your favorite plugins into the mix as well.

All DLLs and EXEs and W5Ss can be compressed with UPX and Winamp will still work. I recommend the --lzma switch.

If you do a minimal Winamp a few of the DLLs in the root directory are not needed... experiment to see which ones can be removed with Winamp still running, I forget.

Of course before you deploy your Winamp Portable will want to go to the Winamp Preferences > File types, select None, and uncheck all the checkboxes on that page.

For the curious, paths.ini causes the winamp settings to be stored in the Application Data folder of the current user. Deleting it or (as I did) setting the value in the file to "." makes it portable.

Also, Winamp Full, with all the files compressed with UPX and no files removed is 13mb. Still quite portable, but I believe I was able to get it down to 2-3 mb with just basic feature plugins, no modern skin, all input plugins, and a few of my favorite extra plugins. [2007-04-12 09:08]

 PETE: THE BEST PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYER IS MPLAYER ( whith the smplayer gui )( full package ).EVEN REAL MEDIA,QUICK TIME, AND ALLMOST ALL CODECS ARE SUPPORTED [2007-06-30 13:00]

 Portable Paul: That's a bold statement Pete. I'm gonna have to check that out. I LOVE VLC player. Haven't found a format it doesn't play and it's opensource/free. [2007-07-02 19:13]

 manol: There is a problem with .wal skins.I created a folder named "skins" and copied some skins,but only .wsz skins working.Does need to create another folder named "Winamp modern" and where to place it? [2007-07-09 07:17]

 r: there is a problem with the setup of winamp lite to portability.

when you have an installed version of winamp and you are running the "portable" version, when you open up the Preferences in Winamp, it auto-detects the settings from the installed version.

Also, when the Playlist is minimized and you have selected "Use skin or language pack font" under the "Playlist" section in the Preferences panel, this doesn't use the skin's built-in font.

Still looking for a truly portable solution for winamp... [2007-08-05 10:49]

 Charlee: I haven't found any problems making it portable the "Installation" way, Install it, when done, go to program files, winamp and copy and the entire folder somewhere else. Then uninstall, go back to your copied winamp folder and voila! you got it portable, I've tried it and it seems to work for me =), I tried this with the latest version of winamp. [2007-10-22 02:06]

 dR: a search for "Winamp portable" got me this softpedia link -
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Multimedia/Audio/Windows-Portable-Applications-Portable-Winamp.shtml
...
I find absolutely no mention of such a project on the official winamp site, and no mention of it on the forums here. I'm confused... [2007-10-24 14:22]

 Joe: I remember getting the .wal skins to work with 5.5 portable but I'll have to look at it to see what I did. [2007-10-24 14:24]

 Jon Williams: MPlayer, CoolPlayer, and VLC are all cool free alternatives but Winamp is the only one that has BOTH the right click on a directory play as well as the snap into place playwindow. [2007-11-06 14:41]

 tiamat: it doesn't work with vs5.52
how can i update my portable 5.0-version??? [2008-03-02 07:35]

 Alexandre: I was unable to extract Winamp Lite version 5.5.3 (filename winamp553_lite_all.exe). I tried every way described here without success...
I had apparent success, however, with Softpedia's Portable Winamp 5.5 (http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Multimedia/Audio/Windows-Portable-Applications-Portable-Winamp.shtml). I do need to test it some more though. [2008-04-08 12:13]

 JCA: Cannot extract Winamp Lite 5.53, it looks like they have been changed the compression mode.
Any ideas? I would appreciate any help. [2008-05-31 13:18]

 NSIShater: the same applies for winamp5541_lite_en-us.exe [2008-09-20 07:00]

 chessyang: any update on this? can't seem to get Winamp 5.541 to go portable. [2008-10-22 05:42]

 Maja: Alexandre ! in my case it worked perfectly and I could hear it in my both ears and my both hands. I thank people for giving this good program. [2008-11-23 10:12]

 GIGrafx: Mike Romete & Jens (and others wishing for 'Modern Themes' support)...
For 'Modern Themes' support in WinAmp you must have the 'gen_ff.dll' present within the plugins directory. I hope that this helps those wanting support for the 'Modern Themes'. [2008-11-28 11:32]

 mastervol: installed on a clean xp + sp3 virtual box
uploaded the content here:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/almqhx5rx [2008-12-28 11:42]

 suneet: Thanks mastervol for the file dump. I was unable to extract the files using Universal Extractor and your dump helped a lot. [2009-03-28 05:48]

 th: Winamp 5.54 no extraction, download and run - http://yerdenizden.blogspot.com/search?q=winamp [2009-05-05 08:38]

 hi: I attempted to use UniExtract on winamp5552_lite_all.exe and it created 2 files that have corrupted my NTFS filesystem. They are on my desktop and their names are empty characters. It's a filesystem with NO filename. I can no longer CHKDSK the disk because it freezes when it finds those files. And for the past month, I have been unable to delete these files.

WARNING,
do NOT try to UniExtract winamp, you will be in for a lot of trouble. [2009-05-10 22:44]

 hi: trying to uniextract winamp corrupts the filesystem EVERY TIME, verified in VMWare on fresh installs of XP [2009-05-11 12:24]

 Blank File Fix: I tried uniextract on the newest version of Winamp, and it did not work...in fact I did get a number of useless file, one of which has no name. You can not delete this file through windows explorer, but it does NOT corrupt your filesystem!!

In case you happen to uniextract Winamp and run into issues with files with no names, open up a command window and go into the directory in which the blank file is located. type in "dir /x" (without quotations). You will now see that the file does in fact have a name as far as the system is concerned. (likely something like numbers followed by ~1)

You can now delete the file through the command prompt. [2009-07-21 17:33]

 Maave: There is a much better way, described on in the WinAMP forum. After installing it normally with as little or as much as you want, run it once (to create the winamp.ini) copy the WinAMP folder wherever you want. Add the following line to winamp.ini:
no_registry=1

Now you should be able to run WinAMP stand-alone, but cd burning/ripping and PRO functions WON'T work. For the most part it's made portable, but I wish somebody would make a PortableApps version. [2010-01-23 23:42]

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