A glitch with the popular Winamp software for playing digital music files could allow an attacker to embed malicious code into an MP3 file, potentially damaging the user's PC and infecting other ...

Gadgets Winamp Is Back (Again) to Play all Those MP3s You Don’t Have One of the most popular media players of the late '90s and early aughts returns for those still hoarding MP3s.

To get around a security glitch in an older Winamp media player, users are being encouraged to upgrade--which could have hidden benefits for open-source MP3 rival Ogg Vorbis.

I prefer the mpg123 decoder, but the one included in winamp 2.7+ sounds pretty good to me, too.<P>I'd say go for whatever sounds best to you.

Winamp: Source code to become open-source Winamp could experience a revival: The company wants to make the source code publicly available and is looking for interested co-developers.