What happened to the development of all the high quality input/output plugins for Winamp? Seems they're all dead. Trying to find some updated in/out plugins to use with my E-MU 0404 and external receiver. Currently using in_mad (0.15.1 beta) and out_asio (0.67 SSE2).

• MAD Plug-in for Winamp - hasn't been updated in years. still talks of only winamp 2.
• in_mad last updated Aug 22 2006.
• in_mad v2 last updated Jan 12 2008.
• in_!mpg123 last updated 2006/10/26
• out_asio last updated 2006/10/4

Are people just using the default in_mp3 and out_ds with Winamp 5.x now and calling it good? Other plugins out there I haven't heard of yet?

I am using default because it supports http file streaming playback

Whats wrong with default plugins?

Like others said, there isn't anymore a reason to not use the native in_mp3 plugin:

It supports 24bit output (mad's goal)
It supports Replaygain (in_mpg123 goal)
It supports gapless playback (in_mpg123 goal)
The decoder has been compliant for years. (Reason why the others where started)

The others do not offer much more nowadays, and have features missing (Media library, some problems with streams like the Zinch said, ...)


About the ASIO plugin, i guess it is because using ASIO was the wrong approach to a problem that is small and doesn't happen always.

A kernel streaming plugin was developed ( http://www.stevemonks.com/ksplugin/ ) which should fulfill the ASIO plugin role for XP based machines.

I've also seen a thread about a WASAPI winamp output plugin (Vista and 7), but i'm not sure if it has had more development.

ASIO is still useful today, but not so much for an audio player.