lol! You are mistaken. Winamp has literally thousands of plugins. If you can't find a plugin to do what you need (doubtful), write one. We used winamp in several stage productions when we needed a quick reliable player and Ive NEVER had it let us down :). If its not playing loud enough (sounds more like a PEBKAC error to me) adjust your preamp level, its probably just shit levels in the rip (or set it to auto). From what Ive heard "popular" music is supposed to be clipping like all f@$k anyway so just crank the preamp right up.