I'm going nuts trying to figure this out. I want to play MP4s on Winamp. Their site SAYS they support MP4s, I've downloaded the latest Winamp, and I've downloaded the codec I supposedly need (in_mp4.dll), restarted the program, restarted the comp, and the file STILL won't play. Can someone help?

I'm trying to play the podcast below. Do a "save as" on the file to save it to your desktop. Or maybe it's just that this file isn't meant to be played in a separate program? It does play on iTunes no problem. And no, changing the file to ".mp4" doesn't work, either.

http://ia310124.us.archive.org/1/items/ … ast002.m4a

Couldn't get it to work, either, but this thread on the Winamp forums may be of use: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php … did=157572

And [winamp] doesn't support proprietry ALAC (Apple Lossless) aac/m4a files (but neither do any of the 3rd-party plugins).

But if the file extension is .m4a (not .m4p) then you shouldn't need either of the rarewares/audiocoding or ThomasW's plugins... as long as the files aren't ALAC. afaik, you can only play those with iTunes/QuickTime... though don't ever give up on support being added to Winamp someday.

Perhaps the podcast uses ALAC, then? Some people at the aforementioned thread did post a workaround that allowed them to play ALAC encoded files in Winamp. Haven't tried it myself, though.

My guess is Apple would sue.  Just like VirtualDub was forced by Microsoft to take wmv capability out.  It just isn't going to happen.  The video market is Apple's bread and butter.