What started off as a small plugin to play music files from an archive, ended up turning into something a little more useful.

I’ve used plugins in winamp before to accomplish this, but they all did the same thing, extract the archive to a temporary folder and then play the file, so it wasn’t really what I wanted, and there was always that delay in playing the track or displaying the track title as the files were getting extracted.

So I put together a small winamp plugin that tried to steam the files directly from the archive, titles listed and playback is almost instant!