MP3 player on your USB drive

The Winamp Media Player program is only 10.3MB, so it’s easily stored on a 4GB (or larger) Ontop USB flash drive. Winamp music doesn’t require a lot of memory and it plays all widely used audio and video file formats.

To install the Winamp Media Player on your Ontop USB flash drive, download the free software to the hard drive of your computer. I used Winamp Media Player version 5.47.

usb 3.0, usb 2.0, usb 1.1, power management in usb 3.0,hi-definition videos, usb, usb 3.0 pen drives, ontop usb 3.0 pen drives, usb 3.0 flash drive, portable apps,OpenOffice, portable media player, Portable Winamp, Winamp player,Media Player

Install to the default folder c:\Program Files\Winamp on the computer.

Plug your Ontop USB flash drive into the USB port of your computer.

Go to the c:\Program Files\Winamp location on your computer and copy the Winamp folder to USB flash drive.

Next you have to create a Winamp.cmd file inside the Winamp folder on the USB flash drive. To create a Winamp.cmd file, open a new Notepad file and type in the following text:

start Winamp.exe /inidir=ini

Make sure the file extension is .cmd as shown

In Notepad, select File > Save As and save the file using the name winamp.cmd. To do this you will need to change the default file extension .txt to .cmd. You can now close Notepad.

Now double-click on the winamp.cmd file you’ve just created. This will open the Winamp Setup window.

Double click on the winamp file

On the step 2 of the Winamp Setup window, uncheck all of the file types that can be associated with Winamp.

Uncheck all of the file types

In the last step of the Winamp Setup window make sure you uncheck the ‘Yes, allow anonymous usage statistics (recommended)’. If you leave it checked Winamp will be sending periodical reports of the application to you via email.

After you click Finish, the Winamp Portal pops up with a message at the centre Add Media to Library. You can close the message and then copy your Playlist from your personal computer to your USB flash drive.

Close the Add Media to Library window

After doing all of this, every time you want to listen to your favorite songs on different computers, go to your Winamp folder on your USB flash drive and double click the Winamp icon to open the Winamp portal.

Double click on the Winamp file

Go to File > Play File and then select or queue the media files on your portable Winamp player to play your music files.

Click Play file or press L on the keyboard

Select the audio files from the USB flash drive

Winamp’s interface show the song names, etc

By loading the portable version of Winamp Media Player with audio files onto an Ontop USB flash drives, you can carry your own music library with you and listen to them on any computer without having to worry about whether or not that computer has a media player installed.

The excellent read speed of Ontop TurboJet USB flash drives ensures that music playback is always smooth.