When comparing Winamp vs WinX MediaTrans, the Slant community recommends Winamp for most people. In the question“What are the best alternatives to iTunes on Windows?” Winamp is ranked 5th while WinX MediaTrans is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose Winamp is:
Modern features are essential for power listeners nowadays, proving that Winamp (while an old app) still offers features users look for in a modern player.
Specs
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Pros
Pro RSS, Atom Podcasts, and Internet Radio streams (among other modern features) are available
Modern features are essential for power listeners nowadays, proving that Winamp (while an old app) still offers features users look for in a modern player.
Pro A huge selection of skins are available
Winamp allows skinning the interface and there are thousands of community created skins available.
Pro Functionality can be extended via plugins
A wide variety of DSP, input, and visualization plugins have been created by the community.
Pro Great search and Playlist functionality
Considerable functions to search and develop playlists.
Pro Good sound quality
The sound quality of Winamp is good, especially with DSP plugins like enhancer.
Pro HTTP streaming support
HTTP streaming is necessary for both live and on-demand content, which it can deliver without lengthy buffering or waiting periods. It is also less susceptible to network hiccups than other forms of streaming.
Pro Easy to use
WinX MediaTrans has an intuitive design with all features displayed on the interface in the form of icons. Users can easily learn how to get started with it. Only 2 steps, to select items > export, you can back up desired iOS files to PC. In turn, choose items from hard drive > add > sync and then you can get the content on your iOS devices for movable playback.
Pro Fast to transfer
No network needed, WinX MediaTrans completes sync mission via a USB cable which connects your iOS device and PC. Not affected by network condition or any other interruption, thousands of 4K and HD photos will be transferred to your PC within 1 minute.
Pro Automatic to transcode video
WinX MediaTrans is armed with a video transcoder helping change the video format from incompatible one to compatible MP4 (H.264) for iOS when adding a movie/video to iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch. The support of hardware acceleration greatly speeds up transcoding process so that you can quickly add a large video file to iOS devices at the shortest time.
Pro Turn iOS Devices as Flash Drive
All supported iOS devices can be taken as a flash drive to save different files, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, TXT etc.
Pro Powerful to handle iTunes purchases
DRM-ed movies, music, and audio books purchased from iTunes Store can be exported as MP4/MP3 files with DRM-free, which can be played on any device (Android, Windows Mobile), players besides authorized Apple gadgets and iTunes.
Pro Intelligent to manage music
You can modify meta data of every music on your iOS devices, like title, artist, album, year and more. You are allowed to create a playlist with a name and add song in the same genre into the playlist. You can also delete unwanted songs, playlist from iOS devices permanently.
Pro Flexible & stable to sync
Selective syncing is allowed. You can pick one photo, multiple songs, all e-books and more and back up to PC. Every item you select will be intactly transferring to computer. No missing data and no quality loss.
Cons
Con Relatively poor quality audio
Compared to other players, Winamp doesn't offer high quality audio.
Reason for Winamp's lesser audio quality compared to other modern audio players is that it uses deprecated audio output interfaces (APIs). In fact since Windows Vista onward, those APIs Winamp is using (such as DirectSound, WaveOut) are emulated in software mixer for compatibility purposes further distancing the audio path from the hardware.
Modern audio players support modern WASAPI audio output for direct access to the audio hardware (especially in WASAPI exclusive mode). For more info see Wikipedia's entry on DirectSound.
Con No Major updates
There are no major updates since version 5.
Con Heavy
At the beginning it was simple to download and install, now it has so many things it became very heavy to download.
Con Cluttered interface
With all controls, skins, and options it's hard to find the basic commands.
Con Limited free version
The maximum number of items you can transfer for free is 30 per day. You can't access DRM removal feature unless upgrading to full feature.