AOL Unveils New Winamp Version with Enhanced Dashboard and Remote Features.
Personalization and Remote Access Enable Winamp's Global Community to Experience, Access and Manage their Music, Videos and Pictures Anytime, Anywhere for Free
DULLES, Va. -- Building on the global popularity of Winamp, AOL today announced a new version of Winamp featuring enhanced media player capabilities, and 2 new major features - Winamp Dashboard and Winamp Remote. Winamp, the free media player, continues to offer users a full-featured media library, music and video playback, skins and plug-ins, SHOUTcast radio and TV, and integrated online services. With over 57 million monthly unique users, Winamp has one of the largest and most active global communities on the web for users who love all forms of digital media, including music, videos and photos.
Winamp[R] Dashboard enables users a unique ability to customize their experience within the media player, permitting each user to design a dashboard that best meets their needs. Users can pick and choose from a wide variety of widgets that contain both personalized feeds of their own top tracks and albums as well content about artists news and events, top shared playlists, top new albums, top stations, viral videos, and more. Users are able to choose from 35 web feeds they can add to their Dashboard, including Netflix[R] Top 100, RollingStone.com[R], Digg[TM] Nation, Slashdot[R], AOL[R] Music Now, Game Daily[TM], SHOUTcast[R] and many more. Combined with Winamp's ever-increasing libraries of plug-ins and skins, Winamp Dashboard delivers the most personalized media experience on the web.
Winamp[R] Remote is a new feature enabling Winamp users to turn their broadband-connected PC into their own personal media server. Winamp Remote gives users the ability to access their personal collection of music from any internet-connected computer. Support for video and photo sharing and access from internet-capable mobile phones is expected soon. Winamp Remote also contains powerful but easy-to-use tools that let users share listening and viewing experiences with friends. In addition, as part of Winamp's continued push to be the best catalog of music and video on the web, AOL[R] Radio is expanding its Winamp offering by adding 25 original music programmed stations to the hundreds of channels currently available. Both Winamp[R] Dashboard and Winamp[R] Remote are initially being released as beta versions.
