Full Version: Winamp 5.2: First Beta Version out!
Still very buggy I'm getting tired of Winamp now, I'm going back to Apollo.
QUOTE(hybridfan @ Feb 10 2006, 07:54 PM)
Still very buggy I'm getting tired of Winamp now, I'm going back to Apollo.
Winamp is pretty stable. If it's highly unstable for you it's likely theres something wrong with your installation.
the Winamp 5.2.0427 Beta build is out!
Changelog:
Fixed: [in_mp3] Lyrics3 tag support
Fixed: [in_mp3] Tracklength reported the same as currently playing track when drag+dropping/enqueuing mp3's
Fixed: Winamp.q1 not created for new users in multi-user setups
Fixed: msvcp71.dll dynamically linked in gen_ml
Fixed: IE7 beta incompatability issues
Fixed some gen_ff freeform skin engine bugs (ref)
Lots of ml_pmp bugfixes (more still to come)
Lots of other minor bugfixes that no-one can seem to remember at the moment
New: Online Services (ml_online.dll) - see main post for more info
Improved: Rip & Burn ui (new logo, icons can be dbl-clicked, etc)
Improved: ml tree icons, and fixed a few skin compatibility issues.
EDIT: DJ Egg elaborated on the new ml_online plugin in the WA forums:
Changelog:
Fixed: [in_mp3] Lyrics3 tag support
Fixed: [in_mp3] Tracklength reported the same as currently playing track when drag+dropping/enqueuing mp3's
Fixed: Winamp.q1 not created for new users in multi-user setups
Fixed: msvcp71.dll dynamically linked in gen_ml
Fixed: IE7 beta incompatability issues
Fixed some gen_ff freeform skin engine bugs (ref)
Lots of ml_pmp bugfixes (more still to come)
Lots of other minor bugfixes that no-one can seem to remember at the moment
New: Online Services (ml_online.dll) - see main post for more info
Improved: Rip & Burn ui (new logo, icons can be dbl-clicked, etc)
Improved: ml tree icons, and fixed a few skin compatibility issues.
EDIT: DJ Egg elaborated on the new ml_online plugin in the WA forums:
QUOTE
Online Services (ml_online.dll) - build 427 and later
Media Library > Online Services content is controlled serverside. Please don't report any intermittent bugs/issues (script errors, search not working, etc). Content is still being worked on (gui/features/etc) and should be classed as 'experimental' for now. Use left-click to Play a stream (replaces playlist) or right-click to Enqueue a stream, for now (context menus coming soon).
Note that the old "check for new channels on exit" thing is now gone! Yay!
Also note the known bug (build 427-specific) listed below.
Media Library > Online Services content is controlled serverside. Please don't report any intermittent bugs/issues (script errors, search not working, etc). Content is still being worked on (gui/features/etc) and should be classed as 'experimental' for now. Use left-click to Play a stream (replaces playlist) or right-click to Enqueue a stream, for now (context menus coming soon).
Note that the old "check for new channels on exit" thing is now gone! Yay!
Also note the known bug (build 427-specific) listed below.
hybridfan: if it's that buggy then why not provide relevant information about the crash, how to reproduce it, etc. No information means there's no chance to even attempt to try to fix the supposed issues you have with the player since funnily enough, developers aren't psychic when it comes to reproducing bugs they don't know about.
-daz
-daz
QUOTE(DrO @ Feb 10 2006, 04:11 PM)
hybridfan: if it's that buggy then why not provide relevant information about the crash, how to reproduce it, etc. No information means there's no chance to even attempt to try to fix the supposed issues you have with the player since funnily enough, developers aren't psychic when it comes to reproducing bugs they don't know about.
-daz
-daz
Fine here you go, and by the way when it crashes I opted for it to send a e-mail to Nullsoft with a report, so don't think I don't know what I'm doing.
Here is a portion of the dmp file.
Winamp client version: ⸵′畢汩㤳″敂慴
winamp caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005)
in module kernel32.dll at 001b:77e7a780.
Exception handler called in Winamp.
Error occurred at 2/9/2006 21:28:22.
C:\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe, run by COMPUTER HOUSE.
Operating system: Windows XP (5.1.2600).
1 processor(s), type 586.
26% memory in use.
1024 MBytes physical memory.
748 MBytes physical memory free.
2463 MBytes paging file.
2262 MBytes paging file free.
2048 MBytes user address space.
1943 MBytes user address space free.
Read from location 017f0000 caused an access violation.
@hybridfan: Why don't you search for Winamp support in the Winamp forums? This thread is related to WA 5.2 bugs and features ONLY.
Reinstalling your OS might be a step towards the right direction, since Winamp works for most of us. And since you told that you switched to Apollo, be happy with that. Discussing your problem (you told in your own "Winamp is buggy" thread that you used Winamp 5.13) in different threads in a forum that isn't really Winamp related is a sign that you - indeed - don't know, what you are doing.
Reinstalling your OS might be a step towards the right direction, since Winamp works for most of us. And since you told that you switched to Apollo, be happy with that. Discussing your problem (you told in your own "Winamp is buggy" thread that you used Winamp 5.13) in different threads in a forum that isn't really Winamp related is a sign that you - indeed - don't know, what you are doing.
Winamp 5.1x and the betas mentioned in this thread are pretty stable on both my PC's, even chock full of 3rd party plug-ins and visualizations.
Its got a beat, you can dance to it! 
Build 430 in
http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/beta/
http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/beta/
As it was already posted: Winamp 5.2.0430 out!
Here is the changelog:
* [pmp_ipod] Less crashing when transfers complete
* [ml_pmp] More general fixes
* [core] More general minor bugfixes
AND Winamp 5.2.0436 out!
*New: gen_tray v1.0 (thanks DrO)
*Fixed: id3v2 album art no longer removed when editing tags
*Fixed: video playback crash (bug in prior beta)
*Fixed: modern skin font size issues (bug in prior beta)
Here is the changelog:
* [pmp_ipod] Less crashing when transfers complete
* [ml_pmp] More general fixes
* [core] More general minor bugfixes
AND Winamp 5.2.0436 out!
*New: gen_tray v1.0 (thanks DrO)
*Fixed: id3v2 album art no longer removed when editing tags
*Fixed: video playback crash (bug in prior beta)
*Fixed: modern skin font size issues (bug in prior beta)
Build 440 already out lol
5.2.0440 Beta
* Fixed playlist loading bug (see above)
* Fixed reverse/randomize playlist focus bug
* Fixed blocking vorbis editor bugs
* Fixed crash when editing vorbis files in ml
* Fixed saving genre via drop-down menu in vorbis editor
* Fixed in_wave playback issues (pause at start etc)
* Other general minor bugfixes
5.2.0449 Beta
* Fixed id3v2 url tag writing bug
* Fixed filename display for mp3 with no tags if atf is disabled
* Fixed some Win98 bugs (????? in taskbar, crash on stop/close, etc)
* Other general minor bugfixes & optimizations
* New JTFE 0.97
* Fixed playlist loading bug (see above)
* Fixed reverse/randomize playlist focus bug
* Fixed blocking vorbis editor bugs
* Fixed crash when editing vorbis files in ml
* Fixed saving genre via drop-down menu in vorbis editor
* Fixed in_wave playback issues (pause at start etc)
* Other general minor bugfixes
5.2.0449 Beta
* Fixed id3v2 url tag writing bug
* Fixed filename display for mp3 with no tags if atf is disabled
* Fixed some Win98 bugs (????? in taskbar, crash on stop/close, etc)
* Other general minor bugfixes & optimizations
* New JTFE 0.97
several new build has been uploaded since 5.2 is released, current build is 473
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?po...667#post1872667
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?po...667#post1872667
QUOTE(empeethree @ Feb 24 2006, 12:11 AM)
several new build has been uploaded since 5.2 is released, current build is 473
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?po...667#post1872667
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?po...667#post1872667
You can check the date in the about screen:
feb 21 2006
feb 23 2006 << new release
Yeah, Build 473 is the updated one:
Winamp 5.2.0473
* Fixes the issue where unicows.dll wasn't being installed under Win9x
BTW, now the official changelog is:
Winamp 5.2.0473
* Fixes the issue where unicows.dll wasn't being installed under Win9x
BTW, now the official changelog is:
QUOTE
Winamp 5.2
* New: [ml_pmp] Synchronize your Media Library with your portable media player
Compatible with iPod, Creative, and Microsoft Plays For Sure devices
* New: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus High Bitrate encoder available in Winamp Pro
* New: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus (HE-AAC) in MP4 container
* New: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies LC-AAC encoder
* New: [gen_ml] icons in treeview
* New: [ml_online] Dynamic AJAX Internet Media Hub
* New: [in_nsv] Using Coding Technologies AAC playback within NSV container
* New: [in_mp3] gapless MP3 playback
* New: [installer] multi-user profile options
* New: [installer] remembers your previous installer settings
* New: [in_wave] in_wave 3.0
* New: right-to-left playlist display
* Improved: new ATF functions and tags, including:
$repeat(x, count) - creates a string with x repeated count times
$lpad() - same as $pad, but adds padding to the left
$decode(...) - switch/case function. example: $decode($fileext(%filename%),MP3,MPEG-1 Layer 3,MP4,MPEG-4 Container,Other)
$IfStrEqual(string1,string2,result) - if string1 and string2 are equal, displays result. case insensitive
$IfStrEqual2(string1,string2,result,else) - if string1 and string2 are equal, displays result, otherwise displays else. case insensitive
%folder% - top level folder name of the file
* Improved: Stereo beat visualization for modern skins
* Improved: [gen_ff] new vis modes available to skinners
* Improved: [gen_ml] CD drive info view (Rip & Burn)
* Improved: [gen_tray] gen_tray v1.0 (thanks DrO)
* Improved: [in_midi] provides metadata to media library
* Improved: [in_mod] provides metadata to media library
* Improved: [in_mp3] unicode id3 tags
* Improved: [in_mp3] preliminary id3v2.4 support
* Fixed: broken playlist sorting
* Fixed: playlist problems with multi-line tags (e.g. %comment%)
* Fixed: shuffle with only one song in playlist
* Fixed: ghost seek slider appears if Winamp loses focus during seeking
* Fixed: video options from video window right-click context menu
* Fixed: playlist winshade international character support
* Fixed: fullscreen video display international character support
* Fixed: m3u playlist handling security vulnerability (thanks to NSFOCUS and Information Risk Management Plc)
* Fixed: [enc_lame] bit reservoir
* Fixed: [enc_lame] cutoff of last frame
* Fixed: [gen_ff] regions on components don't work
* Fixed: [gen_ff] playlist & video focus bug
* Fixed: [gen_ff] playlist winshade memory leak
* Fixed: [gen_ff] GDI Object leak with Current Skin prefs page
* Fixed: [in_midi] not following winamp's title formatting options
* Fixed: [in_midi] reset button blocks further access to config
* Fixed: [in_mod] not following winamp's title formatting options
* Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect version identification (showed 5.18 in 5.12)
* Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect information shown for AAC+ files
* Fixed: [in_mp3] reading incorrect id3 comment tag
* Fixed: [in_mp3] sometimes failing to read last id3 frame
* Fixed: [in_mp3] id3v2 album art loss when editing tags
* Fixed: [in_mp4] loss of album art when modifying metadata
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] not following winamp's title formatting options
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] registry usage (now multi-user profile safe)
* Fixed: [in_wave] 32bit floating point WAV playback distortion
* Fixed: [in_wm] changes made with Attribute Editor not updating in ML/Playlist
* Fixed: [vis_milk] missing files from distro (you can stop bugging us now, Rovastar
* Fixed: [vis_milk] 100% cpu usage when paused
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] DrO's Jump To File Extension 0.97
* Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.97b2
* Updated: [gen_ff] libpng 1.2.8
* Updated: [gen_ff] FreeType 2.1.10
* Updated: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus encoder v7.2.0a
* New: [ml_pmp] Synchronize your Media Library with your portable media player
Compatible with iPod, Creative, and Microsoft Plays For Sure devices
* New: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus High Bitrate encoder available in Winamp Pro
* New: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus (HE-AAC) in MP4 container
* New: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies LC-AAC encoder
* New: [gen_ml] icons in treeview
* New: [ml_online] Dynamic AJAX Internet Media Hub
* New: [in_nsv] Using Coding Technologies AAC playback within NSV container
* New: [in_mp3] gapless MP3 playback
* New: [installer] multi-user profile options
* New: [installer] remembers your previous installer settings
* New: [in_wave] in_wave 3.0
* New: right-to-left playlist display
* Improved: new ATF functions and tags, including:
$repeat(x, count) - creates a string with x repeated count times
$lpad() - same as $pad, but adds padding to the left
$decode(...) - switch/case function. example: $decode($fileext(%filename%),MP3,MPEG-1 Layer 3,MP4,MPEG-4 Container,Other)
$IfStrEqual(string1,string2,result) - if string1 and string2 are equal, displays result. case insensitive
$IfStrEqual2(string1,string2,result,else) - if string1 and string2 are equal, displays result, otherwise displays else. case insensitive
%folder% - top level folder name of the file
* Improved: Stereo beat visualization for modern skins
* Improved: [gen_ff] new vis modes available to skinners
* Improved: [gen_ml] CD drive info view (Rip & Burn)
* Improved: [gen_tray] gen_tray v1.0 (thanks DrO)
* Improved: [in_midi] provides metadata to media library
* Improved: [in_mod] provides metadata to media library
* Improved: [in_mp3] unicode id3 tags
* Improved: [in_mp3] preliminary id3v2.4 support
* Fixed: broken playlist sorting
* Fixed: playlist problems with multi-line tags (e.g. %comment%)
* Fixed: shuffle with only one song in playlist
* Fixed: ghost seek slider appears if Winamp loses focus during seeking
* Fixed: video options from video window right-click context menu
* Fixed: playlist winshade international character support
* Fixed: fullscreen video display international character support
* Fixed: m3u playlist handling security vulnerability (thanks to NSFOCUS and Information Risk Management Plc)
* Fixed: [enc_lame] bit reservoir
* Fixed: [enc_lame] cutoff of last frame
* Fixed: [gen_ff] regions on components don't work
* Fixed: [gen_ff] playlist & video focus bug
* Fixed: [gen_ff] playlist winshade memory leak
* Fixed: [gen_ff] GDI Object leak with Current Skin prefs page
* Fixed: [in_midi] not following winamp's title formatting options
* Fixed: [in_midi] reset button blocks further access to config
* Fixed: [in_mod] not following winamp's title formatting options
* Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect version identification (showed 5.18 in 5.12)
* Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect information shown for AAC+ files
* Fixed: [in_mp3] reading incorrect id3 comment tag
* Fixed: [in_mp3] sometimes failing to read last id3 frame
* Fixed: [in_mp3] id3v2 album art loss when editing tags
* Fixed: [in_mp4] loss of album art when modifying metadata
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] not following winamp's title formatting options
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] registry usage (now multi-user profile safe)
* Fixed: [in_wave] 32bit floating point WAV playback distortion
* Fixed: [in_wm] changes made with Attribute Editor not updating in ML/Playlist
* Fixed: [vis_milk] missing files from distro (you can stop bugging us now, Rovastar
* Fixed: [vis_milk] 100% cpu usage when paused
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] DrO's Jump To File Extension 0.97
* Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.97b2
* Updated: [gen_ff] libpng 1.2.8
* Updated: [gen_ff] FreeType 2.1.10
* Updated: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus encoder v7.2.0a
Two aac coders from the newest Winamp 5.2 are under test at SoundExpert. The complete set of contenders is:
• aac CBR@320 Kbit/s (Winamp 5.2)
• aac+ CBR@320 Kbit/s (Winamp 5.2)
• mp3 CBR@320 Kbit/s (Lame 3.90.3)
• mp3 CBR@320 Kbit/s (Lame 3.97b2)
• SBC CBR@375 Kbit/s (Bluetooth)
• wma 9.1 CBR@320 Kbit/s
This test will last for about two weeks during which test files of the above contenders only will be available for downloading. Volunteers are invited.
• aac CBR@320 Kbit/s (Winamp 5.2)
• aac+ CBR@320 Kbit/s (Winamp 5.2)
• mp3 CBR@320 Kbit/s (Lame 3.90.3)
• mp3 CBR@320 Kbit/s (Lame 3.97b2)
• SBC CBR@375 Kbit/s (Bluetooth)
• wma 9.1 CBR@320 Kbit/s
This test will last for about two weeks during which test files of the above contenders only will be available for downloading. Volunteers are invited.
Wow. It wants me to reboot after I finish installing.
Not nice...
Not nice...
Then just do not do it.
It is because it needs that to install the Sonic extraction engine for reading CDs. You don't need to re-boot to just use winamp. I think that you can even rip if you choose not to use sonic but aspi instead.
It is because it needs that to install the Sonic extraction engine for reading CDs. You don't need to re-boot to just use winamp. I think that you can even rip if you choose not to use sonic but aspi instead.
Have they removed the ability to rip to aacPlus in Winamp 5.2?:
http://www.winamp.com/player/
"Rip/Encode Music into aacPlus, AAC, MP3, and WMA!"
is now only available in the Pro version.
http://www.winamp.com/player/
"Rip/Encode Music into aacPlus, AAC, MP3, and WMA!"
is now only available in the Pro version.
You only need PRO to rip to MP3(Lame) and High bitrate AAC/MP4.
You also need PRO to rip at full speed(otherwise 8x limit)
You can still use Diskwriter for ripping MP3 with ACM codecs, Fraunhofer is fine but Lame may be more of a problem, I find it will extract, but crashes on exit.
UJ
You also need PRO to rip at full speed(otherwise 8x limit)
You can still use Diskwriter for ripping MP3 with ACM codecs, Fraunhofer is fine but Lame may be more of a problem, I find it will extract, but crashes on exit.
UJ
QUOTE
* Improved: new ATF functions and tags, including:
$repeat(x, count) - creates a string with x repeated count times
$lpad() - same as $pad, but adds padding to the left
$decode(...) - switch/case function. example: $decode($fileext(%filename%),MP3,MPEG-1 Layer 3,MP4,MPEG-4 Container,Other)
$IfStrEqual(string1,string2,result) - if string1 and string2 are equal, displays result. case insensitive
$IfStrEqual2(string1,string2,result,else) - if string1 and string2 are equal, displays result, otherwise displays else. case insensitive
$repeat(x, count) - creates a string with x repeated count times
$lpad() - same as $pad, but adds padding to the left
$decode(...) - switch/case function. example: $decode($fileext(%filename%),MP3,MPEG-1 Layer 3,MP4,MPEG-4 Container,Other)
$IfStrEqual(string1,string2,result) - if string1 and string2 are equal, displays result. case insensitive
$IfStrEqual2(string1,string2,result,else) - if string1 and string2 are equal, displays result, otherwise displays else. case insensitive
...and the Winamp team continues to fork Tagz... If nothing else, their insistence on using their own function names bugs me. $decode, for example, is an exact clone of $replace, with a much more abstract name.
Come on guys. If you're going to keep replicating foobar2000's feature set, at least make it compatible.
What's up with all these build, going for the ffdshow daily build route? 
if you want to encode AAC+ using winAmp encoder try my command-line frontend
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=791123#post791123
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=791123#post791123
Winamp 5.21 released 3/10/06:
* New: [jnetlib] HTTP compression support
* Improved: [installer] multi-user profile migration
* Fixed: [ml_wire] memory leak
* Fixed: [pmp_p4s] DRMclien.dll error
* Fixed: [gen_ff] skin info display in preferences
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Wordwrap disabled in Info Editor Comments field
* Fixed: [in_wm] Minor bug fixes
* Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts don't work from video window
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] No Artist metadata in stream titles
* Fixed: [in_dshow] floating point audio
* Updated: Coding Technology AAC+ Decoder 7.2.5
* New: [jnetlib] HTTP compression support
* Improved: [installer] multi-user profile migration
* Fixed: [ml_wire] memory leak
* Fixed: [pmp_p4s] DRMclien.dll error
* Fixed: [gen_ff] skin info display in preferences
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Wordwrap disabled in Info Editor Comments field
* Fixed: [in_wm] Minor bug fixes
* Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts don't work from video window
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] No Artist metadata in stream titles
* Fixed: [in_dshow] floating point audio
* Updated: Coding Technology AAC+ Decoder 7.2.5
QUOTE(Canar @ Feb 25 2006, 20:08)
Come on guys. If you're going to keep replicating foobar2000's feature set, at least make it compatible.
The only reason Winamp has Tagz (or ATF as it is called) is because Peter Pawlowski (the FooBar2000 creator) previously worked close with Nullsoft developing many input and output plug-ins many of which are used by default in Winamp today. Just look at the in_mod, in_vorbis, out_ds plugins (and more).
After Peter got tired making Winamp plugins (because of the lackluster plugin API/SDK) he started on his own player making everything class based and decent. FooBar2000 therefore has a much more robust API.'
I just had to spit it out. I hate Winamp because of the obsolete Window Message based API which forces developers to devise hacks in order to get things done.
QUOTE(Canar @ Feb 25 2006, 20:08)
...and the Winamp team continues to fork Tagz... If nothing else, their insistence on using their own function names bugs me. $decode, for example, is an exact clone of $replace, with a much more abstract name.
Come on guys. If you're going to keep replicating foobar2000's feature set, at least make it compatible.
I'd agree that making the same functions with different names does make things more fiddly than it should be. But I would also say that I see DECODE as a popular standard from use in Oracle SQL scripting.
In saying that I have practically stopped using winamp in favour in foobar nowadays.
Wow saivert. Great job to resurrect plain old threads. Is that your reaction for having been banned in the Winamp forums? To bitch about Winamp everywhere?
But good to see that you found hydrogenaudio now, after all your years of Winamp plugin coding.
Well, the topic is that Winamp 5.20 beta is out?
I could bet that I saw already Winamp 5.24 around the corner.
But good to see that you found hydrogenaudio now, after all your years of Winamp plugin coding.
Well, the topic is that Winamp 5.20 beta is out?
I could bet that I saw already Winamp 5.24 around the corner.
QUOTE(saivert @ Jul 18 2006, 11:55)
I just had to spit it out. I hate Winamp because of the obsolete Window Message based API which forces developers to devise hacks in order to get things done.
Well, thanks for the history lesson, though I knew most of it. Sorry to hear things went bad at the Winamp forums. From what I saw, the ban seemed a little impulsive...
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But I would also say that I see DECODE as a popular standard from use in Oracle SQL scripting.
Interesting. I didn't know that. There are other examples though, that was just the first one I noticed.
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