The full suite contains all plug ins, that is why its bigger than the "normal" version... and really I never needed them to play my MP3s.
And you can download the plug ins on almost every side which offer winamp.

Morgwen

As nearly everyone seriously involved with the Winamp2.xx series can attest to, the vast majority of the 3rd party plug-ins were a disaster !!!
LOL
And, many plug-ins would work, but only ALONE ! Most did not deal too well with other plug-ins competing for resources... Ha Ha Ha !

Many of the plug-ins in the FS series of 'compilations are actually not so easy to find... All of them take hours and hours and hours to find, download, install and configure !
That does not include the even greater numbers of hours needed to test to see what actually works with what !

The Full Suite versions took out nearly all of the work for most users... Winamp was always a 'bit fiddly' (as the English say) to get it to work reliably and be able to use all of the great features it has...
I know many many people who just gave up and went back to Musicmatch Jukebox or whatever... And, that was back when the sound quality with MMJ was really bad !

Pity about the Winamp 5 series, but it was obvious what was coming by the rubbish of the 3 series and the crazy business games going on in the 'background' !