Winamp Media Player Archive
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Last and latest download. Winamp 5.666 Build 3516, (5.6.6.3516) - Dec 12 2013
* Improved: Added a Reset button to clear history in the Open/Add URL dialog
* Improved: Added an option to disable the mouse wheel from altering the volume
* Improved: Added more commandline switches (run: winamp.exe /? to see full list)
* Improved: All menus now use the skinned style when option is enabled in ML settings
* Improved: Disable all online features when no internet connection selected in Prefs
* Improved: High DPI & text scaling compatibility fixes for dialogs & library views
* Improved: Increased notification area tooltips up to 128 chars (instead of 64)
* Improved: Library views now optionally group the 'Play' and 'Enqueue' buttons
* Improved: Mass metadata editor from library now also available in Playlist Editor
* Improved: Retry UAC prompt if user previously selected "No" (for relevant settings)
* Improved: Speed-up of Winamp shutdown process
* Improved: [gen_ff] Added a setting to control show/hide time for docked toolbars
* Improved: [gen_ml] Drag & drop handling tweaks
* Improved: [ml_downloads] Added 'Size' column
* Improved: [ml_history] New options for resuming playback (for podcasts or all files)
* Improved: [ml_history] Added a 'Play Offset' column with right-click option to clear
* Improved: [ml_local] Added Podcast, BPM & Rating fields to Ctrl+E metadata editor
* Improved: [ml_nowplaying/wire] Added support to use alternative services
* Improved: [ml_playlists] Option to use source file instead of database-managed copy
* Improved: [ml_pmp] Added a simple view to match Local library support
* Improved: [pmp_android/usb] Added support to File Name Formatting
* Fixed: Agent not using Winamp window if a clone is already running (eg. KMPlayer)
* Fixed: Fallback issue with lang packs when loading accelerator tables
* Fixed: Length not being read when set to read titles on load
* Fixed: Ratings-related freeze on right-clicking large selections in playlist editor
* Fixed: Saving to wrong extension for the 'Save As' action in the Alt+3 Artwork tab
* Fixed: Unicode characters not displaying in taskbar when some old plugins are present
* Fixed: Various issues with aero-peek and docking of freeform skins as an appbar
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Docking to bottom/right when windowframe scale is anything but 1.0
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] 'Jump to File' window not always visible when pressing 'J' or 'F3'
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Broken 'Add to Library' shell menu item
* Fixed: [gen_tray] Lockup/double-start issues when using the 'Prev' action
* Fixed: [in_flac] Removal of embedded artwork
* Fixed: [in_midi] Memory comparison crash with badly formed .kar files
* Fixed: [libmp4v2] Crash due to invalid pointer check on corrupt files
* Fixed: [ml_local] Search filters with unicode characters not being remembered
* Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Crash on bad path
* Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Use filename if no metadata available to generate filepath
* Misc: [installer] Added a "Winamp (Safe Mode)" option to start menu icons
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations (lots of them!)
* Updated: [enc_fhgaac] Fraunhofer AAC Encoder v3.02.16
* Updated: [enc/in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.1 v * Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.31
* Updated: [in_wave] libsndfile 1.0.25
* Improved: Added an option to disable the mouse wheel from altering the volume
* Improved: Added more commandline switches (run: winamp.exe /? to see full list)
* Improved: All menus now use the skinned style when option is enabled in ML settings
* Improved: Disable all online features when no internet connection selected in Prefs
* Improved: High DPI & text scaling compatibility fixes for dialogs & library views
* Improved: Increased notification area tooltips up to 128 chars (instead of 64)
* Improved: Library views now optionally group the 'Play' and 'Enqueue' buttons
* Improved: Mass metadata editor from library now also available in Playlist Editor
* Improved: Retry UAC prompt if user previously selected "No" (for relevant settings)
* Improved: Speed-up of Winamp shutdown process
* Improved: [gen_ff] Added a setting to control show/hide time for docked toolbars
* Improved: [gen_ml] Drag & drop handling tweaks
* Improved: [ml_downloads] Added 'Size' column
* Improved: [ml_history] New options for resuming playback (for podcasts or all files)
* Improved: [ml_history] Added a 'Play Offset' column with right-click option to clear
* Improved: [ml_local] Added Podcast, BPM & Rating fields to Ctrl+E metadata editor
* Improved: [ml_nowplaying/wire] Added support to use alternative services
* Improved: [ml_playlists] Option to use source file instead of database-managed copy
* Improved: [ml_pmp] Added a simple view to match Local library support
* Improved: [pmp_android/usb] Added
* Fixed: Agent not using Winamp window if a clone is already running (eg. KMPlayer)
* Fixed: Fallback issue with lang packs when loading accelerator tables
* Fixed: Length not being read when set to read titles on load
* Fixed: Ratings-related freeze on right-clicking large selections in playlist editor
* Fixed: Saving to wrong extension for the 'Save As' action in the Alt+3 Artwork tab
* Fixed: Unicode characters not displaying in taskbar when some old plugins are present
* Fixed: Various issues with aero-peek and docking of freeform skins as an appbar
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Docking to bottom/right when windowframe scale is anything but 1.0
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] 'Jump to File' window not always visible when pressing 'J' or 'F3'
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Broken 'Add to Library' shell menu item
* Fixed: [gen_tray] Lockup/double-start issues when using the 'Prev' action
* Fixed: [in_flac] Removal of embedded artwork
* Fixed: [in_midi] Memory comparison crash with badly formed .kar files
* Fixed: [libmp4v2] Crash due to invalid pointer check on corrupt files
* Fixed: [ml_local] Search filters with unicode characters not being remembered
* Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Crash on bad path
* Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Use filename if no metadata available to generate filepath
* Misc: [installer] Added a "Winamp (Safe Mode)" option to start menu icons
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations (lots of them!)
* Updated: [enc_fhgaac] Fraunhofer AAC Encoder v3.02.16
* Updated: [enc/in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.1 v * Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.31
* Updated: [in_wave] libsndfile 1.0.25
Winamp 5.65
- Improved: Memory allocation optimizations & fixes
- Improved: [ml_playlists] Show currently playing song
- Fixed: Some radio streams no longer playing as a result of the Icecast fix in 5.64
- Fixed: Crash when pasting artwork into File Info dialog in 5.64
- Fixed: [in_mp3] PIC frame rendering in ID3v2.2 tags
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Enter key not working correctly for ml views
- Fixed: [ml_local] Sporadic crashes when importing library in 5.64
- Fixed: [ml_plg] Broken 'View tracks similar to' menu item in main window songticker
- Fixed: [npwachk] Winamp Detector plugin not working with latest Firefox
- Fixed: [wasabi] Quirks with color theme list handling
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Updated: [enc_fhgaac] Fraunhofer AAC Encoder v3.02.15
- Updated: [png] libpng v1.5.17
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.7
Winamp 5.64
- New: Option to run Winamp in Safe Mode (also via /SAFE=1 commandline switch)
- New: XSPF playlist support (read only support, write support to follow)
- Improved: Added tooltips for truncated text in Media Library listviews
- Improved: Added 'Explore item folder' to context menu in playlists
- Improved: Bookmark menu handling now follows Winamp's Play/Enqueue setting
- Improved: D3D vsync mode (should fix reported video tearing issues)
- Improved: Display album art source info in Artwork tab of File Info dialog
- Improved: Remember last position of dialogs
- Improved: Show rating from tags if file is not in Local Media Library
- Improved: Use new style dialog for folder browser
- Improved: Windows 8 filetype association compatibility
- Improved: [gen_ff] Multi-monitor support for Bento/Modern skin notifier
- Improved: [gen_ff] Windows 8 multi-monitor/taskbar mode compatibility
- Improved: [in_flac] FLAC streaming support
- Improved: [in_mp3] Shoutcast v2 in-stream artwork support (and other misc fixes)
- Improved: [in_mp3] Use MIME to determine decoder before assuming ext. is correct
- Improved: [in_mp4] Native ALAC playback support
- Improved: [in_mp4] Optimize MP4 Raw Reader by using chunks instead of samples
- Improved: [in_mp4] Write ratings to tags (using the "rate" atom)
- Improved: [ml_local/history] Friendlier error message if nde/database fails to load
- Improved: [ml_local] New 'Date Added' column (smart views adjusted accordingly)
- Improved: [ml_playlists] Now with Generate HTML Playlist support
- Improved: [ml_playlists] Save playlists to custom m3udir, if specified in paths.ini
- Improved: [ml_wire] Save (and backup) database files on updates instead of on exit
- Improved: [pmp_ipod] Added BPM, TotalTracks, Disc# & TotalDiscs metadata support
- Improved: [pmp_wifi] SSDP support and other optimizations
- Fixed: Failing to load on some Windows 8 (and earlier) installs (thanks Nanner)
- Fixed: Not playing the first song next when clearing then adding items to playlist
- Fixed: Bento/Modern skin notifier sometimes no longer appearing (thanks pjn123)
- Fixed: Deletion of 0-byte wdl*.tmp & wht*.tmp files
- Fixed: Issues with re-embedding of vis plug-ins in Bento skin when exiting fullscreen
- Fixed: Issues with some Icecast servers providing invalid stream links (v2.x bug!)
- Fixed: Potential crashes when rapidly switching between DSP plug-ins
- Fixed: [Bento Browser] Potential security vulnerabilities (thanks Julien Ahrens, inshell.net)
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Potential security vulnerabilities (thanks Julien Ahrens, inshell.net)
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Mapping of POPM ratings scale
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Bug where too-small passed-in buffer size resulted in loss of data
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Seeking files/podcasts which use a single video frame as artwork
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] Not reading Disc# (plus other general Vorbis Comments fixes)
- Fixed: [in_wave] mldb info for .wav files being wiped after viewing Alt+3 dialog
- Fixed: [ml_disc] Blocking of context menu items in ml tree for History & Bookmarks
- Fixed: [ml_disc] Creation of 0-byte trk*.tmp files & associated crash on some systems
- Fixed: [ml_impex] UI lockups on import/export of large databases
- Fixed: [ml_wire] Subscriptions to podcast channels with the same name
- Fixed: [ombrowser] Alt Gr keys broken in Online Services text input fields
- Fixed: [pmp_android] Albumart-related crash when transferring ogg files
- Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Transfers fail if <Albumartist> contains illegal characters
- Fixed: [pmp_p4s] Crash/hang on exit after transferring files to MTP/P4S devices
- Misc: All default plug-ins now include file description & version info properties
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Removed: [gen_orgler] The end of Winamp Charts & Music Usage Database
- Updated: [libFLAC] FLAC 1.3.0
- Updated: [png] libpng v1.5.16
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.6
- Updated: [zlib.dll] zlib 1.2.8
Winamp 5.63
- New: Hungarian and Indonesian installer translations and language packs
- New: [enc_vorbis] Ogg Vorbis Encoder (based on aoTuV)
- Improved: Shift+F10 app key support in the Media Library
- Improved: [enc_fhgaac] Added VBR mode 6, plus other minor quality improvements
- Improved: [in_flac] Producer metadata support
- Improved: [in_mod] Refactored, simplified and threadsafe memory allocation
- Improved: [ml_history] Save playcounts when updated instead of only on exit
- Improved: [ml_local] Increased search query buffers from 512 or 1024 to 2048 bytes
- Improved: [gen_hotkeys] Added manual advance and visualization specific actions
- Fixed: Embedded album art not working in some scenarios
- Fixed: Video window reopening after being closed when editing mp4 tags
- Fixed: [aacdec] Memory leak when re-syncing to AAC stream
- Fixed: [bmp] Bounds checking in TSCC decoder
- Fixed: [bmp] Heap overflow issues (thanks: Secunia)
- Fixed: [in_avi] Divide-by-zero and NULL pointer issues (thanks: FuzzMyApp)
- Fixed: [in_mod] .IT memory & heap corruption issues (thanks: Jeremy Brown, MSVR)
- Fixed: [ml_local] Crash in MLDBAPI::SetField cache
- Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Genre and Year metadata edits writing to Disc# field
- Fixed: [vis_milk2] Presets not reacting to music in localized installs (Milkdrop v2.25)
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Updated: [aacdec] Fraunhofer AAC Decoder v1.762.208
- Updated: [in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.0 & libvorbis 1.3.3
- Updated: [lame_enc] LAME 3.99.5
- Updated: [png] libpng v1.5.10
- Updated: [vp8] libvpx v1.1.0
- Updated: [xml] expat v2.1.0
- Updated: [zlib.dll] zlib 1.2.7
Winamp 5.623
- Fixed: mp3 decoding errors at end of file (should fix reported CD burning errors)
- Fixed: [aacdec] Detection of parametric stereo for AAC files made with older encoders
- Fixed: [enc_fhgaac] MP4 encoder not always closing on errors or aborted transfers
- Fixed: [in_avi] Crashing with certain malformed AVI files
- Fixed: [in_flac & in_mp4] Memory leaks
- Fixed: [in_mod] Bounds check for comments parsing
- Fixed: [pmp] Multithreaded race condition (now supports thread-safe transfers)
- Fixed: [pmp_android] Embedded album art being deleted on transfers
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Updated: [enc_fhgaac] Fraunhofer AAC Encoder v3.2.4
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.5
Winamp 5.622
- Improved: [in_mp3] Support TXXX/Band as an alternative id3v2 frame for Album Artist
- Fixed: [bmp/in_avi] Integer overflow issues in TSCC, RGB & YUV decoders
- Fixed: [enc_fhgaac] High bitrate upsampling bug
- Fixed: [in_midi] Underrun in CMF files when music offset is greater than the filesize
- Fixed: [in_mod] Made sure AMF is limited to maximum of 32 channels
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on hitting Alt+3 for currently playing file with an APEv2 tag
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Reading of id3v2.4-only TDRC (Year) frame
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Don't delete TCMP & PRIV id3v2 frames when updating tags
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Gapless playback
- Fixed: [in_nsv] Potential integer overflow issue
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: [ml_local] Added an explanatory error page if database gets corrupted
- Updated: [enc_fhgaac] Fraunhofer AAC Encoder v3.2.3
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.4
- Updated: [lame_enc] LAME 3.99
Winamp 5.621
- Improved: [in_nsv] New API to allow video decoder to signal codec width & height
- Fixed: [enc_fhgaac] Default ADTS bitrate; Writing of gapless data
- Fixed: [enc_fhgaac] HE-AAC compatibility with iTunes
- Fixed: [in_midi] Various integer overflow issues (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
- Fixed: [libsndfile] PAF integer heap-overflow bug (thanks: Hossein Lotfi/Secunia)
- Fixed: [ml_local] Illegal instruction crash on non-SSE machines
- Fixed: [ml_rg] Some files incorrectly returning 0 gain values
- Fixed: [nsvdec_vp3, nsvdec_vp5, vp6] Rescaling buffer overflow vulnerabilities
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
Winamp 5.62
- New: Fraunhofer AAC Codec with VBR encoding support
- New: [theora.w5s] Theora decoder for MKV
- Improved: [ml_local] New extra large albumart and option to hide album title
- Improved: [in_mp3/jnetlib/ml_wire] http status code 303 & 307 redirection support
- Fixed: [in_midi] Add buffer overflow check for malformed Controller Change messages
- Fixed: [in_midi] Sys.Ex message processing integer underflow vulnerability
- Fixed: [in_mod] Crash on .IT files with 0 channels (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Crash on truncated files
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Distortion on MP4 files with malformed stts data
- Fixed: [jnetlib] Memory leak when connecting to https streams
- Fixed: [ml_impex] Importing playcount data
- Fixed: [ml_local] Advanced Query Builder
- Fixed: [nsvdec_vp5] Integer underrun (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
- Fixed: [pmp_wifi] Playlist syncing
- Fixed: [vis_milk2] Some presets not reacting to music (Milkdrop v2.24)
- Fixed: [vp6] Crash on rescaling with irregular video sizes (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
- Fixed: [vp6] Integer underrun in Deblocking filter when picture size is 0,0
- Misc: Default "Restore file associations at Winamp start" setting to "off" on Vista+
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: Redesigned SHOUTcast Radio online service view (new school & classic options)
- Misc: Replaced CT aacPlusDecoder.w5s with new FhG aacdec.w5s
- Misc: Replaced CT enc_aacplus.dll with new FhG enc_fhgaac.dll
- Misc: Toolbar now compatible with Firefox 5
Winamp 5.61
- Improved: [ml_local] Search & View load speed optimizations (~20% faster!)
- Improved: [ml_impex] Date parsing on import
- Improved: [ml_plg] Direct mouse wheel support for generated playlist view
- Improved: [ml_plg/gracenote] Database query, backup & recovery enhancements
- Improved: [ml_rg] Raised maximum sample rate from 96000 to 192000
- Improved: [nsutil] Added 64bit float IIR support
- Improved: [Installer] Launch Winamp as regular user from elevated installer
- Improved: Support for freely-rotating wheel mouse
- Fixed: Added parameters sanity check to prevent JSAPI2 from crashing
- Fixed: Known IE9 compatibility issues
- Fixed: [Bento browser] Freeze when search string is all spaces
- Fixed: [Bento/Modern skins] Crash when clicking Notifier if ml_nowplaying missing
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Album art view and scrollbar listview UI issues
- Fixed: [in_flac] Crash when trying to write metadata to non-existent files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] APEv2 memory leak
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Wrong bitmask for calculating AAC framelength
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Incorrectly reported approximate frames
- Fixed: [jnetlib] Potential integer overflow in http header parsing code
- Fixed: [ml_local] Category not being written to file when editing metadata
- Fixed: [ml_plg] Force rebuild logic for non-English locales
- Fixed: [nde] Saving the mldb up to 3 times on Winamp exit (v2.95/5.0x bug)
- Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Use <Artist> for folder name if <Albumartist> missing
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Database corruption on Eject with some iPod models
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Nano & Shuffle 4G sync issues
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: Online Help Docs moved to AOL Help site
- Misc: SHOUTcast2 support tweaks for in_mp3 & Bento file info
- Misc: [in_flac/in_vorbis] Changed internal rating scale from 0-5 to 0-100
- Misc: [ml_local] Right-click menu tweaks (Display tracks in this view)
- Reverted: Milkdrop from v2.23 to v2.2 and AVS from v2.83 to v2.81d (for now)
- Updated: Sonic PrimoSDK Burning Engine v4.28.06.0
- Updated: [installer] OpenCandy SDK (fixes some AV’s reporting it as malware)
- Updated: [libpng] libpng v1.5.1
Winamp 5.601
- Improved: [in_wave/libsndfile] Added AIF to default extension list
- Improved: [ml_plg] Localization of playlist names & various other tweaks
- Fixed: Win2k compatibility (caused by 5.6-specific DLL load vuln fix)
- Fixed: [in_midi] Security vulnerability (thanks: Morten @ kryptoslogic)
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Querying endoffset metadata for iTunes gapless playback
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Sync and Eject issues
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Compilation flag when Album Artist is "Various Artists"
- Fixed: [pmp_wifi] Crash when devices.w5s missing
- Misc: Made installer disable incompatible 3rd-party gen_lyrics plugin
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
Winamp 5.6
- New: [pmp_wifi] Android Wi-Fi support
- New: Direct mouse wheel support
- New: Option to write ratings to tags (for mp3, wma/wmv, ogg & flac)
- Improved: Redesigned Devices/Portables view in Media Library
- Improved: New on-the-fly "Vertically flip (Shift+F)" option in Video context menu
- Improved: [dlmgr/jnetlib] Handling of http status codes 100 & 201-206
- Improved: [ml_plg] Playlist Generator: context menu dialog & other features
- Improved: [ml_pmp] More user-friendly Transcoding options for portable devices
- Improved: [ml_transcode] Added support for <disc> & <discs> in naming scheme
- Improved: [nsutil] Optimized video flip modes
- Improved: [pmp_android/ipod] Added encoder blacklist
- Improved: [ReplayGainAnalysis] Support for more sample rates
- Fixed: DLL load security vulnerability
- Fixed: [enc_lame] Memory leak
- Fixed: [gen_ff] Bookmark corruption via Send To menu in main window songticker
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Empty/Grey ML when restarting Winamp from a minimized state
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Scrolling lag in nav panel with large amount of items
- Fixed: [in_midi] Buffer/Integer overflow issues (thanks: Joakim @ nsense)
- Fixed: [in_mod] Buffer overflow in comment box (MTM security vulnerability)
- Fixed: [in_mkv] Crash when reading a string that was exactly SIZE_MAX bytes
- Fixed: [in_mp3] ID3v1 UI glitch, APEv2 + Lyrics3 tag combo bug, APEv2 tag removal
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Potential crash on getting metadata/albumart from invalid MP4 files
- Fixed: [in_nsv] Integer overflow in allocating memory for metadata
- Fixed: [in_nsv] Integer overflow when parsing TOC (thanks to: C. Eiram, Secunia)
- Fixed: [in_nsv] Video flip mode detection quirks
- Fixed: [ml_local] Arrow direction and sort inconsistencies in 3-pane views
- Fixed: [ml_plg] Playlist Generator crashes and database corruption issues
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Autofill crash on empty libraries
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Crash on drag+drop items from one playlist to another
- Fixed: [ml_transcode] Freeze transcoding .cda when using <filename> in scheme
- Fixed: [playlist] Relative pathnames when filename is already relative
- Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Playlist sync & loading issues
- Fixed: [pmp_android/ipod/usb] Issue with forward slashes in playlist paths
- Fixed: [pmp_usb] Bug when multiple usb devices are connected
- Fixed: [vis_milk2] Unicode issues with fonts & presets editor (5.58-specific)
- Fixed: [vis_milk2] sprites.ini file lookup
- Fixed: [vp6.w5s] Buffer overflow issue
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: Portables/Devices support now also adds ml_devices.dll & devices.w5s
- Misc: Prompt user whether to move skins/langpacks when changing location
- Misc: Removed Winamp Remote from installer
- Misc: [ml_pmp] Moved 'Podcast Sync' to new tab in portable device options
- Misc: [out_ds] Config now displays 7.1 speakers as '7.1' instead of 'Unknown'
- Updated: Gracenote CDDB/MusicID v2.6.206
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.3
- Updated: [in_vorbis] libogg v1.2.1 & libvorbis v1.3.2
- Updated: [vp8] libvpx v0.9.5
Winamp 5.581
- Improved: [pmp_android/usb] Disk-performance of metadata cache
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Minor resource leak fix, plus other optimizations
- Fixed: [gen_ff] Tooltip issue causing dialog windows to vanish underneath Winamp
- Fixed: [ml_disc] CD drives not appearing in ML tree when ML starts not-visible
- Fixed: [ml_wire] Sort by date before auto-downloading podcasts
- Fixed: [pmp_android] Settings not being saved
- Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Manage with Winamp prompt always reappearing
- Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Transcoding on USB and Android devices
- Misc: Lang Pack updates (de, ro, tr, fr, ru, se, ja)
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.1.1
Winamp 5.58
- New: 7digital mp3 store in Online Services
- New: WebM Video support for in_mkv & vp8 decoder for in_nsv
- New: [ml_downloads] Improved download manager for Podcasts and Online Services
- New: [pmp_android] Android device support
- Improved: New 256x256 icons for Win7/Vista (with filetypes support via gen_jumpex)
- Improved: New Previous/Play/Pause/Stop/Next toolbar buttons for Win7 taskbar
- Improved: New 'Vertically flip videos' option for compatibility with old drivers
- Improved: Video OSD positioning & design improvements
- Improved: [D3D video renderer] Overlay support for Win7
- Improved: [in_flv] StreamTitle metadata support
- Improved: [in_avi/in_mp3] Support for MPEG Layer 2 (mp2) audio in AVI
- Improved: [in_mp4] MP4 http streaming improvements
- Improved: [ml_bookmarks] Unicode bookmarks support (winamp.bm8)
- Improved: [ml_history] Added option for resume playback position of podcasts
- Improved: [ml_impex] Import/Export 'Publisher', 'Producer' & 'Director' fields
- Improved: [ml_local/in_mp3] Write ratings to POPM frame in id3v2 tags (w.i.p.)
- Improved: [ml_wire] Various tweaks to Subscriptions view
- Improved: [pmp_ipod] Support for newer gen Classic models
- Fixed: External language folder always looking in a 'en-US' folder
- Fixed: Handling of global keyboard accelerator table (fixes: Ctrl+Alt+N, Ctrl+T, etc)
- Fixed: Scrolling issues with high resolution mice
- Fixed: Stackoverflow issue when loading a malformed whatsnew.txt
- Fixed: [enc_flac] Compression Factor config setting (always outputting at level 5)
- Fixed: [gen_ff] Default fallback font always same as TTF replacement font in Prefs
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Elevation on Win7/Vista for Shell Options
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Tree not focused when opening ML in modern skins
- Fixed: [in_cdda] CD info edits not being remembered
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Integer type coercion bug which caused certain MP4 files to crash
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Playback of video-only files
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Some vis plugins/presets not working with mp4
- Fixed: [libmp4v2] Lockup when attempting to play malformed iTMS M4V videos
- Fixed: [ml_local] Rating lost when updating mp3 file info (5.57-specific)
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] pmp_*.dll plugins not being removed via: Prefs -> Uninstall
- Fixed: [pmp_usb] No disk in drive error with card readers
- Fixed: [pmp_usb] xml cache losing metadata (now using NDE instead)
- Fixed: [vis_milk2] Some presets not loading under locales other than English
- Fixed: [vp6] stack overflow with malformed codec data (thanks Nicolas Joly, VUPEN)
- Misc: Added more genres to File Info dialog
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: More translation fixes, localization updates & unicode support improvements
- Misc: Moved ml_rg config settings to Prefs -> Playback -> Replay Gain
- Misc: Improved uninstaller with options to remove bundled apps and user settings
- Misc: Redesigned "Winamp Pro" prefs page
- Updated: Gracenote CDDB/MusicID v2.6.205
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.1
- Updated: [in_vorbis] libogg 1.2.0 & libvorbis 1.3.1
- Updated: [lame_enc] LAME 3.98.4
Winamp 5.572
- Improved: [h264.w5s] H.264 decoder optimizations
- Improved: [in_avi/bmp.w5s] Support for RGB bitmap AVI
- Improved: [ml_disc] Support for Disc# in CD Ripping naming convention
- Fixed: Crash when using Alt+3 editor during mldb background scan
- Fixed: EasyMove for classic video window
- Fixed: Spectrum analyzer and beat vis for 32bit PCM files
- Fixed: [bmp.w5s] Memory leaks with BMP AVI codecs (tscc, rle, yuv, rgb)
- Fixed: [D3D] Crash when changing height but not width on back-to-back videos
- Fixed: [gen_tray] Compact mode in Win7 popout tray
- Fixed: [in_avi] Crash on files with missing RIFF header (including 0-byte files)
- Fixed: [in_avi] Crash when ix## seektables aren't where they are supposed to be...
- Fixed: [in_mod] Out of memory error with some older .mod files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] ADTS header unicode/ansi issues (for .aac files)
- Fixed: [ml_impex] UTF-8 writing
- Fixed: [ml_local] Info editor erasing mldb fields not supported by input plugin
- Misc: Further attempts to fix reported elevation/registration issues on Vista & Win7
- Misc: Installer: Only install Gracenote alongside dependent components
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: Various translation updates (note: French lang pack now updated to 5.57x)
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.7.3
- Updated: libpng 1.4.0
- Updated: libsndfile 1.0.21
Winamp 5.571
- New: MPEG-4 video support for in_mp4 & in_flv (Winamp Pro only)
- New: [in_avi] Native AVI video support (MPEG-4 = Winamp Pro only)
- New: [in_mkv] Matroska MKV video support (MPEG-4 = Winamp Pro only)
- New: [ml_addons] Browser for discovering new skins & plugins
- New: Winamp detection browser plugins for IE & Firefox
- Improved: Direct3D video rendering
- Improved: Filetype association handling on Vista & Windows 7
- Improved: New fullscreen video OSD
- Improved: Added ReplayGain Preamp control to Prefs (previously .ini only)
- Improved: VU meter (beat vis) optimizations
- Improved: [gen_ff] Multithreaded <AlbumArt/> object
- Improved: [in_flac/in_vorbis] Tag support for Organization field as Publisher
- Improved: [in_flv] AAC, aacPlus & ADPCM audio support in FLV files
- Improved: [in_mp4] Support for aacPlus parametric stereo in mp4 container
- Improved: [in_nsv] Native h.264 decoding (Winamp Pro only)
- Improved: [in_wave] Unicode filename handling
- Improved: [ml_history] Play Offset feature for resuming playback of podcasts
- Improved: [ml_local] Director & Producer fields & columns for videos
- Improved: [ml_local] Row cache for NDE to vastly speed up queries
- Improved: [ml_online] Right-click option to open service in new window
- Improved: [ml_wire] feed:// pcast:// and winamp:// protocol support
- Improved: [ml_wire] Option to automatically download 'x' most recent episodes
- Improved: [ml_wire] Redesigned Podcast Directory view
- Improved: [pmp_usb] Option to set paths in saved playlists
- Improved: [vis_milk2] Milkdrop2 updated to use ns-eel2 (thanks Justin)
- Fixed: Custom mldb info reverts to filename on Alt+3 for in_dshow, flv & swf
- Fixed: Elevator installation and Aero compatibility issues in 5.57 on Windows Vista
- Fixed: HeapSetInformation not located in kernel32 error under Win2k
- Fixed: Shuffle feature broken under limited user profiles
- Fixed: Various other reported issues/bugs/crashes with 5.57
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Bold text in Local Media views on some systems
- Fixed: [gen_tray] Compact mode not working on 64-bit OS
- Fixed: [in_flac] Playback freezing before end of some corrupted files
- Fixed: [in_flv] Sync issue where video lags behind audio on some flv files
- Fixed: [in_flv] Various h.263-related crash issues
- Fixed: [in_mod] Heap overflow security vulnerability (thanks Dyon Balding, Secunia)
- Fixed: [in_mod] Some s3m files crashing on load
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Various transcoding issues
- Fixed: [in_wm] Main window & taskbar menu blocked after closing DRM browser
- Fixed: [jpeg.w5s/png.w5s] Security vulnerability fixes (thanks Nicolas Joly, VUPEN)
- Fixed: [ml_local] Remove missing files broken in full rescan
- Fixed: [ml_wire] feeds.xml sometimes being destroyed
- Fixed: [pmp_p4s] Crashing with certain devices
- Fixed: [vis_avs] Compile issues causing some presets to not load properly or crash
- Misc: Improved Windows 7 compatibility, incl. aero thumbnail & taskbar integration
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: New info page for lang pack developers in About Winamp dialog
- Misc: New MPEG-4 video support adds h264.w5s & mp4v.w5s
- Misc: Renamed nsvdec_vp6.dll to vp6.w5s
- Misc: Removed gen_dropbox from the installer, for now...
- Misc: Right-click to close Notifier in Bento skin
- Misc: Some keyboard accelerator fixes (new Ctrl+Alt+B for Add current to bookmarks)
- Misc: Various installer improvements (including new DirectX version checker)
- Updated: aacPlus decoder 8.2.2, encoder 8.2.0
- Updated: Gracenote CDDB/MusicID v2.6.101
- Updated: libpng 1.2.40
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.7.1
- Updated: [in_vorbis] libvorbis 1.2.3 & libogg 1.1.4
Winamp 5.56
- New: Winamp Orgler plugin - Let's you track, chart & share your listening history
- Improved: [jnetlib] New SSL support for playback of https:// streams
- Improved: [ml_autotag] Fuzzy matches now unchecked by default & marked 'Unsure'
- Improved: [ml_local] New background scanner
- Improved: [ml_online] Various tweaks, fixes & enhancements
- Improved: [ml_pmp] Added support for drag+drop from Explorer to device playlists
- Fixed: iexplore process not ending when browser closed after opened via Winamp
- Fixed: Save EQ preset name duplication bug
- Fixed: [Bento skin] SHOUTcast homepage url's redirecting to Winamp search
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Up/down buttons reversed, 'stop after current' & other issues
- Fixed: [in_mod] Crash on some .s3m modules (w.i.p.)
- Fixed: [in_mod] Playback glitch during background transcoding
- Fixed: [in_wm] Decimal point issues in Alt+3 format info
- Fixed: [in_wm] Embedded IE browser for DRM license acquisition
- Fixed: [in_wm] Loading of URLs in WPL playlist files
- Fixed: [in_mp4/libmp4v2] Integer overflow bug with MP4 sample size
- Fixed: [libsndfile] VOC buffer overflow vulnerability
- Fixed: [ml_impex] Read "has video" field from iTunes XML (and write on export)
- Fixed: [tagz.w5s] Hang with $right function in ATF when specified field is empty
- Fixed: [vis_avs] msvcp71.dll dependency
- Misc: Added front.jpg/gif/etc to album art criteria
- Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: New omBrowser.w5s shared component for ml_nowplaying, wire & online
- Misc: Removed dashboard (ml_dash) from distribution
- Misc: ml_orb now only installed as part of separate Winamp Remote package
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.5
- Updated: libsndfile 1.0.20
Winamp 5.552
- Fixed: [gen_ff] memcpy integer overflow vulnerability in maki script loading
Winamp 5.551
- Fixed: [libsndfile] CAF Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
- Updated: libsndfile 1.0.19
Winamp 5.55
- New: Turkish, Portuguese-BR & Romanian installer translations and language packs
- New: WBM system for lazy-loading of *.w5s files
- New: [Bento skin] Playlist tab (optional)
- New: [ml_impex] iTunes-compatible Media Library database import/export plugin
- Improved: [gen_ff] Faster & no flicker when loading/switching skins
- Improved: [gen_jumpex] New 'Add to Library' shell menu item & other tweaks
- Improved: [gen_jumpex] True unicode search support
- Improved: [gen_ml] Optional alternating row colors for list views
- Improved: [gen_ml] Optional skinned menus
- Improved: [in_mod] Experimental ExtendedRead support (transcoding, burning, etc)
- Improved: [in_mod] Now uses global Playback config for thread priority
- Improved: [in_mp3] APEv2 tag editing/creating tweaks
- Improved: [in_mp3] Show instantaneous bitrates for AAC VBR
- Improved: [ml_local] Media Library searches now ignore diacritics
- Improved: [ml_local] New 'Category' and 'Lossless' database fields
- Improved: [ml_local] New playcount Tracking Control options
- Improved: [ml_local] New 'Play/Enqueue random' item for top level filters
- Improved: [ml_online] New toolbar and various other tweaks & optimizations
- Improved: [ml_online] Support for 3rd-party Services
- Improved: [vis_milk2] Pixel Shader 2.0 & 3.0 support tweaks
- Improved: [vis_nsfs] Unicode title display for currently playing track
- Improved: [Winamp Agent] Localization support
- Improved: [Winamp Modern skin] New spectrum vis options
- Fixed: Accessibility fixup for Format Info string in Alt+3 dialog
- Fixed: Genre not being saved with Autotag feature in Alt+3 dialog
- Fixed: Memory leaks in in_mp3, in_wm, gen_dropbox, ml_local, ml_pmp & tagz.w5s
- Fixed: New version check can't be disabled when anon statistics is enabled
- Fixed: Rare crash when closing vis window
- Fixed: Various issues when starting/stopping/switching vis plugins
- Fixed: [Agent] Systray icon not showing if 'Play in Winamp' removed in Shell Options
- Fixed: [enc_flac] 24-bit FLAC encoding
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Shell Options, B Hotkey, Send To menus & other misc bugs
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Library button resize glitch
- Fixed: [in_cdda] Potential cddb Disc null pointer crash
- Fixed: [in_flac] Albumartist & Ensemble fields not cleared when deleting Album Artist
- Fixed: [in_flac] Track restarts when updating metadata
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Potential ID3v2.0/2.1 crash issue
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Empty genre metadata field (eg. when transcoding from flac to m4a)
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Long hangs on slow network drives
- Fixed: [libsndfile] AIFF buffer overflow vulnerability (thanks milw0rm/secunia)
- Fixed: [ml_disc] Potential crash on exit
- Fixed: [ml_disc] 'Use uppercase file extensions' ripping option not being respected
- Fixed: [ml_history] Tracking still updates if playback stopped before specified time
- Fixed: [ml_local] Broken 'Create Playlist' button functionality in local media
- Fixed: [ml_local] Remove missing files broken with some older/corrupt databases
- Fixed: [ml_wire] Columns sometimes hidden in Downloads view
- Fixed: [ml_plg] Multiple 'Failed to initialize' error messages
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Crash when deleting playlists/files from a P4S portable device
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Metadata hooking, transcoder, autofill and other bug fixes
- Fixed: [nde] Albums with % in title not displaying tracklist in local media views
- Fixed: [out_ds] Logarithmic volume control dB display glitch
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Deletion of non-existent files from database
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Reading of Play Count statistics
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Various database, albumart, playback & disconnection issues
- Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: New "Send Feedback" item in the Help menu
- Misc: Note that changes made to the ml database are not backwards compatible!
- Misc: Removed some older Milkdrop presets and added some newer ones
- Misc: Separated vlb.w5s and nsvdec_vp3.dll decoders from in_mp3 and in_nsv
- Misc: Separated timer from gen_ff into timer.w5s
- Updated: Gracenote CDDB/MusicID v2.6.0.6
- Updated: libpng 1.2.35
- Updated: Sonic Burning Engine v4.10.32.502
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.4
- Updated: [in_mp3] Fraunhofer Decoder v4.3
- Updated: [lame_enc] LAME 3.98.2
- Updated: [vis_avs] AVS v2.82
Winamp 5.541
- Improved: [pmp_ipod] Better auto-detection of newer iPod models
- Fixed: Filetype icons in Windows Explorer not updating when changed in Prefs
- Fixed: ML & Vis appear under other overlapping modern skin windows
- Fixed: No error message when trying to edit metadata for Read-Only files
- Fixed: Potential security vulnerability in NowPlaying
- Fixed: [gen_ff] Keyboard shortcuts in modern skin playlist windowshade mode
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Scrolling to bottom of AlbumArt pane & other misc scrollbar issues
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Broken '307 - Temporary Redirect' url's
- Fixed: [ml_local] AlbumArt icon selection glitch
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Play and Enqueue actions reversed if Enqueue is set as default
- Fixed: [ml_rg] ReplayGain analysis of 20bit files
- Misc: Double-click Modern pledit songticker now toggles windowshade mode again
- Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
Winamp 5.54
- New: Chinese, Japanese & Korean installer translations and language packs
- New: [in_swf] Adobe Shockwave Flash (SWF, RTMP) playback support
- New: [gen_dropbox] Winamp DropBox alpha (use: Ctrl-Shift-D)
- New: [Online Services] AOL Radio featuring CBS Radio (requires in_flv)
- Improved: Background reading option for playlist metadata
- Improved: Classic songticker scrolling for Winamp Modern skin pledit winshade
- Improved: Vista elevation (fixes: installing skins, filetype reg, Pro reg)
- Improved: Zero padding option for playlist item numbers
- Improved: [in_flv] Better streaming support and other improvements
- Improved: [in_mp3] Added APEv2 tag options to configuration
- Improved: [in_mp3] Optional retention of existing APEv2 headers
- Improved: [ml_disc] Artwork support for Data CD Reader
- Improved: [ml_disc] Better detection of any copy operations in progress
- Improved: [ml_disc] Improved start times if ml_disc view is active
- Improved: [ml_local] Redesigned 'Show Info' panel
- Improved: [ml_nowplaying] Redesigned 'Now Playing' artist experience
- Improved: [ml_playlists] Right-click option to sort list of playlists alphabetically
- Improved: [pmp_usb] Connect/Disconnect/Blacklist config options
- Fixed: Alt+F4 closing Winamp instead of individual dialogs
- Fixed: Bento browser redirecting network drive url's to Winamp Search
- Fixed: Blank playlist when in docked toolbar mode and Winamp is minimized
- Fixed: Modern skin component windows appearing individually in Alt+Tab
- Fixed: Multi-flashing on startup when previously closed whilst minimized to systray
- Fixed: Pure Virtual Function Call runtime crash errors
- Fixed: Redraw issue when built-in classic vis is disabled
- Fixed: Various multi-monitor docking issues
- Fixed: Various other 5.53-specific keyboard accelerator issues
- Fixed: [Bento] Drag+Drop into Playlist from Open Files dialog
- Fixed: [burnlib] 'CD Drive locked by another Winamp process' on 2nd burn attempt
- Fixed: [burnlib] 'Burner releasing failed' error
- Fixed: [dsp_sps] Crash on close when config Help dialog is still open
- Fixed: [enc_flac] MD5 checksum generation
- Fixed: [gen_ff] Attached vis plugin crash on winshade to normal mode in Modern skin
- Fixed: [gen_hotkeys] Assigning Winkey with already used Ctrl combinations
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Enter/Shift+Enter broken for ML treeview items (5.53-specific)
- Fixed: [in_cdda] Composer/Conductor logic bug when saving CDDB data to database
- Fixed: [in_flac] Minor metadata writing bugs
- Fixed: [in_midi] Seeking with 'DM/MS Synth' device in Streamed playback mode
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on files with invalid/corrupt gapless data
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Create new ID3v1/v2 tags configuration setting
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] Huge lag on files with large embedded cover art
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] Metadata & Format Info display for streams in View File Info
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] Potential unicode-related crash on open/close issue
- Fixed: [jpeg.w5s] Saving corrupt album art
- Fixed: [ml_autotag] Results dialog hidden under Winamp when AOT is enabled
- Fixed: [ml_disc] Small resource leak
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Autoscroll broken when dragging items in large playlists
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Enter/Shift+Enter broken for selected ML Playlist items
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Not respecting overlapping external windows on item drag+drop
- Fixed: [ml_playlists / ml_transcode] Sending playlists from ML tree to Transcoder
- Fixed: [ml_wire] 404/timeout with valid rss feeds on Vista
- Misc: Miscellaneous localization tweaks, fixes & updates
- Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: Setup fixes (Agent not always starting, WLZ filetype not registering, etc)
- Misc: Various other 'Winamp Modern' & 'Bento' skin updates
- Misc: [enc_flac] Now encodes using libFLAC instead of Flake
- Updated: Bento skin v1.2
- Updated: freetype 2.3.7
- Updated: libpng 1.2.28
- Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.98
Winamp 5.531
- Fixed: Bento browser redirecting some url's to Winamp Search
- Fixed: Bento collapse/expand button bug
- Fixed: Recent URL's not saving (5.53-specific)
- Fixed: Total time display of selected tracks in Classic playlist (5.53-specific)
- Fixed: [jnetlib] AOL Radio skipping/buffer issue
- Fixed: [ml_local] Right-click Play/Enqueue all items issue in 3-pane views
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Broken right-click context menu items (5.53-specific)
Winamp 5.53
- Improved: Different shell descriptions for different associated filetypes
- Improved: New 'Refine Search' feature in Cover Art Downloader dialog
- Improved: Unicode support for Language Packs incompatible with system locale
- Improved: [in_cdda] Now reads & writes CD data to an NDE database
- Improved: [in_cdda/ml_disc] Reimplementation of simple offline CD Info Editor
- Improved: [in_flac] Faster FLAC metadata gathering
- Improved: [in_mp3] More accurate .AAC length calculation
- Improved: [in_wav/in_mp4] Support for http streaming of files larger than 2GB
- Improved: [ml_disc] Added support for Data CD reading (w.i.p.)
- Improved: [ml_local/nde] Background scanning & database optimizations
- Improved: [ml_local] Unicode compliant filename-based metadata guessing
- Improved: [ml_transcode] Remove trailing periods from destination filepath
- Improved: [pmp_usb] Added AlbumArtist support to Naming Convention
- Fixed: Classic EQ appearing with Modern skins after switch->minimize->restore
- Fixed: Various miscellaneous Album Art related issues
- Fixed: [enc_lame] Now rejects multi-channel and above 48KHz source files
- Fixed: [gen_ff] Translated skin image loading
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Header sort arrow and Rating column display under Windows 2000
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Various drawing glitches when changing views
- Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash under limited connectivity conditions
- Fixed: [in_cdda] Spectrum vis in analog MCI playback mode
- Fixed: [in_flac] Small memory leak when writing FLAC metadata
- Fixed: [in_flv] Last two seconds of flv videos being cut off
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on encountering a bad ID3v2 version (e.g. ID3v2.F)
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Crash on file-not-found during background decode
- Fixed: [in_wave] Infinite loop on attempted repeat playback of dead files
- Fixed: [in_wm] ASX v2 loading
- Fixed: [in_wm] Crash on files & streams with a huge discontinuity jump
- Fixed: [in_wm / out_ds] Copy 'Status' to clipboard Unicode bug
- Fixed: [ml_autotag] Crash with certain tracks
- Fixed: [ml_history] Crash on drag+drop all history items to playlist
- Fixed: [ml_local] Rating of items with Unicode filenames
- Fixed: [ml_online/orb] Nodes dropping to bottom of ML tree on Lang Pack change
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Play playlist from Media Library main menu item
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Filename length incompatibility with iPod Music Quiz v2
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Missing 'Advanced' button in Edit Query dialog
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Physical deletion of playing file
- Misc: Added Russian installer translation and language pack
- Misc: In2TV removed from Online Services
- Misc: Installer now built with NSIS Unicode version [thanks Jim Park]
- Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements and optimizations
- Misc: Moved shared zlib.dll compression library out of winamp.exe
- Updated: Bento skin v1.1 #120
Winamp 5.52
- Improved: Better Unicode filename support for enc_*.dll audio encoders
- Improved: [ml_transcode] Unicode filename support
- Improved: [in_mp3] APEv2 tag support
- Improved: [in_flac] Support for reading/writing BPM metadata
- Improved: [nde] Optimized for faster mldb query results
- Improved: [vis_milk2] Pixel shaders now work on onboard Intel graphics chips
- Fixed: Comment field character limitation in Basic Info tab of File Editor
- Fixed: Playback Thread Priority middle setting resets to Lowest
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Ultravox streaming metadata stack overflow (Thanks: Secunia)
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Crash when attempting to play non-existent files
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] Crash when clearing existing metadata fields in File Info
- Fixed: [in_wave] Transcoding of floating point WAV files
- Fixed: [ml_transcode] Memory leaks
- Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks and improvements
- Updated: Bento skin #118
Winamp 5.51
- New: Autoplay Handlers for Audio, MP3 and Video CD's on WinXP & Vista
- New: Default Programs registration for installations on Windows Vista
- New: Optional Constant-Q Equalizer and optional ISO Standard frequency bands
- New: [in_flv] Flash Video decoder (vp6 only, not h.263)
- Improved: Browser download manager now uses CD Ripping destination folder
- Improved: Deletion of embedded album art via Artwork tab in File Info
- Improved: More accurately translated Language Packs
- Improved: More miscellaneous UI/dialog tweaks & improvements
- Improved: Option to set the number of pixels to scroll for modern songticker
- Improved: [Gracenote/MusicID] Better error checking & memory cache optimizations
- Improved: [gen_ff] More miscellaneous freeform skinning engine optimizations
- Improved: [gen_hotkeys] Added optional WM_APPCOMMAND support for media keys
- Improved: [gen_hotkeys] Added increase + decrease rating on current track
- Improved: [in_dshow] Reading of length and bitrate for non-default video formats
- Improved: [in_flac] Optimized disk caching for increased performance
- Improved: [in_mp3] Better optimization for older Pentium Pro/2/3 cpu's
- Improved: [in_mp3] Support for reading ALBUM ARTIST field if TPE2 not present
- Improved: [in_mp4] Better Unicode support and metadata read optimizations
- Improved: [in_mp4] Optimized disk caching/reading
- Improved: [in_vorbis] Support for reading YEAR field if DATE not present
- Improved: [ml_disc/in_cdda] Disc reading tweaks and other general optimizations
- Improved: [ml_history] New tracking control options
- Improved: [ml_local] Added column for BPM
- Improved: [ml_local] Album column sorting order logic
- Improved: [ml_local] Better playlist handling
- Improved: [ml_local] Bumped track# metadata guessing limit from 130 to 999
- Improved: [ml_local] Database query and memory optimizations
- Improved: [ml_pmp] Support for drag&drop from Explorer into portable device view
- Improved: [ml_transcode] Prompt to delete aborted transcodes
- Fixed: Artwork not found if .nfo filename contains a period
- Fixed: ASX Parser converting all stream links in .asx playlists to upper case
- Fixed: Classic songticker wraparound glitchiness
- Fixed: Dragging/scrolling of songticker text after resize
- Fixed: Global Hotkeys list destroyed when changing language packs
- Fixed: Gracenote CDDB Editor genre selection glitches
- Fixed: Gracenote/MusicID not using Winamp's proxy setting
- Fixed: Parsing of ansi ASX playlists containing non-standard characters
- Fixed: Restore from System Tray if previously closed in a minimized state
- Fixed: Setup resetting desktop icons :-o
- Fixed: Spectrum vis incompatibility crash with some 3rd-party input plugins
- Fixed: Truetype replacement font alignment in Winamp Modern winshade songticker
- Fixed: Various miscellaneous keyboard shortcut issues
- Fixed: Winamp Agent registry entry typo (wianmpa.exe)
- Fixed: [Bento] Collapse/Expand Playlist not respecting 'Show Album Art' setting
- Fixed: [gen_ff] Potential high CPU usage of songticker object
- Fixed: [gen_ff] TrueType replacement font change not updating in real-time
- Fixed: [gen_hotkeys] Restore from minimized state whilst About dialog is open
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Blank ML when restarting Winamp from a minimized state
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Cancelling Online Media password prompt clears password & filters
- Fixed: [in_dshow] Miscalculation of some mpeg video lengths
- Fixed: [in_flac] Divide-by-zero crash on corrupt files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Deleting Lyrics3 tag in Alt+3 Editor also deletes ID3v1 tag
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Handling of ID3v2 with bad version/revision #'s
- Fixed: [in_mp3] ID3v2 parsing crash with some mp3's
- Fixed: [in_mp3] ID3v2 tag not showing when ID3v1 tag reading is disabled in config
- Fixed: [in_mp3] MPEG Info not showing in Alt+3 for files with large ID3v2 tags
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Now only reads first ID3v2 tag if more than one is present
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Winamp UI freezes when loading certain corrupt mp3's
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Playback of mp3 in mp4 container
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Seeking when paused
- Fixed: [in_mp4/jpeg.w5s] Crash when Art field is in metadata with no embedded art
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] UTF8->UTF16 optimized (fixes File Info delay bug)
- Fixed: [libmp4v2] Corrupt m4a's not playing, better handling of ones beyond repair
- Fixed: [ml_autotag] Crash when track isn't part of a disc, eg. internet-only releases
- Fixed: [ml_autotag] Stops processing when switching to another ml view
- Fixed: [ml_disc] CD view/titles not refreshing when ejecting old/inserting new CD
- Fixed: [ml_disc] Crash when using invalid strings in playlist filename generation
- Fixed: [ml_disc] No Burn button under some system configurations
- Fixed: [ml_disc/ml_pmp/ml_transcode] Processing of # in Destination Folder path
- Fixed: [ml_local] Artist column in descending order when sorting by Year
- Fixed: [ml_local] Down key in Search field not focusing the Simple View list
- Fixed: [ml_local] Last Updated, Album Gain & Podcast column sorting orders
- Fixed: [ml_local] Two filters always checkmarked in Edit View for Simple views
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Shift+Enter hotkey to Enqueue playlist
- Fixed: [ml_plg] Crash when stopping Playlist Generator scan or resetting database
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Column sorting orders
- Fixed: [ml_rg] Restore from minimized state whilst rg results dialog is open
- Fixed: [ml_transcode] Restore from minimized state whilst config dialog is open
- Fixed: [ml_wire] Podcasts not being downloaded if <title> includes carriage returns
- Fixed: [ml_wire] Lockup when encountering scripts in <description> field
- Fixed: [out_disk] Output folder always resetting to My Documents\My Music
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] 'Add album art' option always checkmarked
- Fixed: [tataki] Potential crash when encountering an invalid/superficial error
- Fixed: [vis_milk2] Crash when exiting fullscreen back to attached Modern skin window
- Misc: Alt+3 Auto-Tag now saves Gracenote FileId and ExtData fields
- Misc: Double-click Stereo indicator to open Playback prefs (Bento & Modern skins)
- Misc: Installation is now prevented on Win9x
- Misc: Made Milkdrop2 the default vis plugin
- Misc: Split the Playback prefs into 3 tabs: Playback, Equalizer & Replay Gain
- Misc: Various installer setup & localization translation tweaks
- Misc: Various Bento skin fixes, tweaks and improvements
- Misc: Various Winamp Modern skin 5.5-related updates
- Misc: [ml_local] Removed deprecated 'Show album gain values' option in Prefs
- Updated: Bento skin #117
- Updated: Gracenote MusicID/CDDB v2.5.1
- Updated: libpng 1.2.22
- Updated: [vis_milk2] MilkDrop 2.0c
Winamp 5.5
- New: Bento SingleUI Skin
- New: Auto-Tagger in File Info dialog (powered by Gracenote)
- New: Album Art support, including new window for Winamp Modern skin
- New: Fully translatable Localization support
- New: WLZ (Winamp Language Zip) filetype support
- New: Global 'playback thread priority' setting for decoders
- New: Media Monitor and MP3 Blog site scraper (in Bento browser)
- New: Option to set the number of lines to scroll in the Playlist
- New: Option to not show playlist item number in classic songticker
- New: Option to not show the playlist number in the Windows taskbar
- New: Redesigned Installer
- New: Run Setup switch, winamp.exe /REG=S
- New: Unified File Editor, with Artwork tab (for mp3, m4a, wma, ogg, flac)
- New: Version History drop-down selector and Search (in About dialog)
- New: Winamp Toolbar for Internet Explorer (optional)
- New: %family% ATF string for identifying filetypes
- New: $split() ATF function for splitting x/y disc & track strings
- New: [in_mp3] Multi-channel mp3surround support
- New: [gen_ml] Tree Options tab in Media Library Preferences
- New: [ml_autotag] Mass Auto-Tagger in Send-To menu (powered by Gracenote)
- New: [ml_local] 3 pane view options in 'Add/Edit View' dialog
- New: [ml_local] Smart View Presets
- New: [ml_local] Album Art support/pane and retrieval service
- New: [ml_local] Toolbar buttons to control view options
- New: [ml_plg] Winamp Playlist Generator (powered by Gracenote MusicID)
- New: [ml_pmp] New fields, configurable filter panes & columns, 3 pane view
- New: [ml_pmp] Album Art view & support for iPod and P4S Devices
- New: [ml_pmp] Separate view for video files
- New: [vis_milk2] Milkdrop2 Visualizer
- Improved: General misc UI/Dialog tweaks & improvements
- Improved: Re-tuned and optimized classic Spectrum Analyzer
- Improved: Surround indicator in Winamp Modern skin for multi-channel files
- Improved: Classic Songticker option for Winamp Modern skin (via Config drawer)
- Improved: [in_cdda] Conductor metadata support
- Improved: [in_cdda] Handling of multiple discs
- Improved: [in_flac/in_vorbis] ALBUM ARTIST & ENSEMBLE read support
- Improved: [in_flac] Advanced Editor mode
- Improved: [in_mod] Added support for more than 256 samples
- Improved: [in_mp3] Faster metadata gathering (also speeds up ReplayGain scan)
- Improved: [in_mp4] Smoother data sent to vis & other minor tweaks
- Improved: [in_wm] Faster WMA/WMV metadata gathering
- Improved: [gen_ff] General freeform skinning engine optimizations
- Improved: [gen_ml] Collapsed/expanded state of treeview items now remembered
- Improved: [gen_ml] Skinned scrollbars in Media Library for newer Modern skins
- Improved: [gen_ml] Reordering of treeview items (via drag+drop)
- Improved: [ml_disc] Better Unicode support & other misc tweaks
- Improved: [ml_history] Unicode support
- Improved: [ml_local] Customize Columns menu for top filter panes
- Improved: [ml_local] Option to show horizontal scrollbar for top panes
- Improved: [ml_local] New 'Podcasts' view (appears after downloading a podcast)
- Improved: [ml_local] Added ISPODCAST and PODCASTCHANNEL field names
- Improved: [ml_local] Added BEGINSLIKE comparison operator
- Improved: [ml_local] Dragging of headers to sort column order
- Improved: [ml_local] Redesigned Smart View Editor
- Improved: [ml_local] Star Rating display and selection
- Improved: [ml_pmp] 'Copy to Local Media' config separated from CD Ripping settings
- Improved: [ml_pmp] Portables "Sync" can now keep podcasts updated
- Improved: [ml_rg] ReplayGain calculation support for 64, 88.2 & 96 KHz samplerates
- Improved: [ml_wire] Optional automatic downloading of new podcast episodes
- Improved: [ml_wire] Multi-select, 'Send To' menu and other general enhancements
- Improved: [ml_wire] Podcast downloads now saved in channel subfolders
- Improved: [ml_wire] Updated podcast directory
- Improved: [pmp_ipod] Now uses the iPod's podcast menu for podcasts
- Fixed: 'All supported files' showing all filetypes in Open Files dialog
- Fixed: Esc key not working in Credits & Winamp tabs of About Box
- Fixed: Long filepaths corrupted when opening Winamp via Explorer context menu
- Fixed: Oversized preference pages with large DPI setting
- Fixed: Recurrence of multiple instances bug (previously fixed in 5.3)
- Fixed: Selecting 'No' for 'Physically Remove' prompt removes playlist/mldb item
- Fixed: TV button in video window not working
- Fixed: Windows showing if switching from modern to classic skin in minimized state
- Fixed: [ASX Loader] Recursive playlist loading & case-insensitive element matching
- Fixed: [ASX Loader] Handling of entries embedded within a REPEAT tag
- Fixed: [dsp_sps] DEP incompatibility
- Fixed: [gen_ff] "Can't unload script while in script" error when switching skins
- Fixed: [gen_ff] Remember ML size when switching between Modern & Classic skins
- Fixed: [gen_ff] Transparent docked toolbars for skins using alpha-blending
- Fixed: [gen_ff] 10% opacity not applying on skins that add items to rt-click menu
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Crash when loading multiple files via Explorer context menu
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Remove Duplicate Entries action broken in pledit
- Fixed: [gen_ml] %playcount% returning Comment on drag+drop from ML to pledit
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Shift+Insert (New Playlist) and F1 (Help) keyboard shortcuts
- Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash when attempting to rip a CD in a 2nd instance of Winamp
- Fixed: [in_flac] General FLAC Editor quirks (Comments field, Enter key, etc)
- Fixed: [in_flac] 24bit files don't play when 'Allow 24bit' setting is disabled
- Fixed: [in_mod] Fadeout value goes below 0.0 sec in in_mod config
- Fixed: [in_mod] Interpolator 'division by zero' crash bug
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on some mp3's with corrupt ID3v2 extended headers (rare)
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on loading corrupt id3v2.3 tags of a later revision
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Negative bitrate in File Info for long mp3's
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Glitch when modifying metadata on playing track
- Fixed: [in_mp4/libmp4v2] Memory leaks
- Fixed: [in_wave/libsndfile] Crash on invalid .au files
- Fixed: [in_wm] Garbage characters when editing filetypes in config
- Fixed: [in_wm] Potential DRM lockup issue
- Fixed: [ml_disc] 0 byte temp files not deleted after ripping
- Fixed: [ml_disc] Double-click drive icon in Rip & Burn not selecting tree item
- Fixed: [ml_disc] Crash when using <trackartist> in playlist filename generation
- Fixed: [ml_disc] Drag+drop from Audio CD view to Playlist Editor
- Fixed: [ml_local] (no album) items adding to Album count in Artist pane
- Fixed: [ml_local] isempty and =0 queries now return same results
- Fixed: [ml_local] Add dir to 'Watch Folders' path truncated to 64 characters
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Inserting extra period in filename when transcoding to mp4/aac
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Sending ansi-converted titles instead of Unicode
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Transfer caption building when Artist metadata is empty
- Fixed: [ml_wire] Subscription Updates setting always resets to 'Never'
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Potential incompatability issues with latest version of iTunes
- Fixed: [pmp_p4s] 'Error In Insert' when transferring to some P4S devices
- Fixed: [pmp_usb] Slow Winamp startup when external usb drive connected
- Fixed: [vis_milk] Milkdrop DEP incompatibility
- Misc: Winamp Remote is now an installer option (ml_orb.dll)
- Misc: Moved drawing engine out of gen_ff to tataki.dll
- Misc: Moved freetype font renderer out of gen_ff to freetype.wac
- Misc: Removed deprecated .LNG Language file support
- Misc: Removed db.w5s (replaced by new Gracenote database system)
- Misc: Removed Station Info window and Prefs page
- Misc: Removed unicows.lib/dll as we have officially dropped support for Win9x
- Updated: Gracenote MusicID/CDDB v2.5
- Updated: libpng 1.2.20
- Updated: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus Encoder v8.1.0
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v0.99.2
- Updated: [in_flac] FLAC 1.2.1
- Updated: [in_mp3] FhG Decoder v4.10
- Updated: [in_vorbis] libvorbis 1.2.0
Winamp 5.35
- Improved: Current translation support of core strings and dialogs
- Improved: Correct theming of tabbed dialogs on WinXP+
- Improved: Various misc tweaks/improvements
- Fixed: More tabbing fixes in UI and Preferences
- Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash with non-English characters in user path
- Fixed: [in_cdda] Gapless playback of mix CDs with Sonic Engine
- Fixed: [in_flac] Genre field truncated in Flac Editor
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Incompatibility with musicbrainz tags
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Long stream urls truncated in Alt+3 dialog
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Tracklength not showing for mp3's with large embedded coverart
- Fixed: [in_mp4] MP4 file parsing buffer overflow vulnerability
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] Cancel button in Vorbis Editor
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] Tabbing in Vorbis Editor
- Fixed: [in_wm] Artist and Title fields reversed in WMA Editor
- Fixed: [in_wm] Crash when attempting to play malformed ASX playlists
- Fixed: [ml_local] NOTHAS and != with empty fields
- Fixed: [ml_wire] (4294967295%) in sc wire downloads
- Fixed: [ml_wire] Podcast downloading bug (uninitialized variable error)
- Fixed: [pmp_p4s] Crash on sync/transfers
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] Jump To File Extra v0.99.1b
Winamp 5.34
- New: IPv6 support
- Improved: Made installer delete in_mp3pro :/
- Improved: Embedded IE pages now run in a separate thread
- Improved: General speed and performance optimizations
- Improved: Various Media Library resize flicker fixes
- Improved: GDI+ video rendering for Windows Vista
- Improved: IPC_CONVERTFILE now uses api_decodefile (for ripping & transcoding)
- Improved: [in_wave] Added ATF support for %bitrate%
- Improved: [gen_ff] Better handling of invalid XML during skin load
- Improved: [gen_jumpex] JTFE Unicode support
- Improved: [ml_local] Composer / Album view (in Edit View, Filters tab)
- Improved: [ml_local] Unicode drag&drop and send-to support
- Improved: [ml_local] Added option for using Artist as Album Artist
- Improved: [ml_pmp] PMP Unicode support
- Fixed: ???? in the taskbar & system tray with Unicode titles (note that many third party plugins will cause this to revert back to ????)
- Fixed: CD Burning on Windows Vista
- Fixed: Classic skin scrollbar overlap display glitch with 'smooth resize' enabled
- Fixed: Crash on exit with docked playlist toolbar (ml_local/ml_playlists bug)
- Fixed: DirectDraw video rendering (non-overlay mode) constant redraw/flicker
- Fixed: Folder locking bug after using Open Files/Folder dialog
- Fixed: Installation of Sonic Engine on systems with other Sonic/Roxio products
- Fixed: Installer resets cwd= to the install dir
- Fixed: Redraw bug when moving external windows over Pledit
- Fixed: Tab orders in Preferences
- Fixed: Various media library accessibility/focus issues
- Fixed: Video crash when using WinKey+L
- Fixed: [enc_lame] Better output samplerate selection for transcoding
- Fixed: [enc_wav] WAVs missing first 11 samples
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Stability issues and key reported plugin bugs
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Keyboard focus issue
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Node alignment bug
- Fixed: [in_cdda] Long artist/albumartist CD Info bug
- Fixed: [in_cdda] Crash on Winamp exit after playing Audio CD
- Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash-on-close bug
- Fixed: [in_cdda] CD-Text adds to end of cddb fields instead of clearing first
- Fixed: [in_dshow] Potential crash on corrupt/malformed media files
- Fixed: [in_dshow] Crash scanning ml folders containing videos on a network drive
- Fixed: [in_mod] .s3m and .it memory corruption bug
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Memory leak when retrieving info for .aac files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] .aac / out_wave playback glitches
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] Album tag removed when using ml 'edit selected items'
- Fixed: [in_wm] Crash when trying to burn WMA files
- Fixed: [libsndfile] matlab (.mat) memory corruption bug
- Fixed: [ml_local] Composer tag not saving with 'Edit Info'
- Fixed: [ml_local] Total size not showing up in local media views
- Fixed: [ml_local] Possible duplicate entries on upgrades after rescanning folders
- Fixed: [ml_local] (No Album Artist) & (No Publisher) sometimes displays no results
- Fixed: [ml_local] Sorting Album pane by Year
- Fixed: [ml_local] isempty/isnotempty for querying empty/populated fields
- Fixed: [ml_local] Search broken in simple views (Win2k-specific)
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Drag+Drop playlists to pmp devices broken
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Possible crash when deleting a group of songs containing non-sequential duplicates
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] "haven't" typo in prefs :-D
- Fixed: [ml_rg] ReplayGain analysis failing on mono mp3's
- Fixed: [ml_rg] Now skips over DRM WMA files instead of applying -24601 dB gain
- Fixed: [ml_transcode] Now prevents same source and destination filename
- Fixed: [ml_wire] Crash when encountering certain non-xml feeds
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Incompatibility with iTunes 7.1
- Fixed: [pmp_p4s] Launching Winamp on device insertion not working
- Fixed: [pmp_p4s] No longer creates .alb files on devices that don't support it
- Updated: in_vorbis to libvorbis 1.1.2 and libogg 1.1.3
- Updated: in_flac 2.0 (based on FLAC 1.1.4)
- Updated: MusicIP Mix (formerly Predixis MusicMagic) v1.1
- Updated: Sonic Ripping/Burning Engine v3.6.36.500
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] Jump To File Extra v0.99.1a
Winamp 5.33
- Improved: [gen_ml] unicode tree item title support
- Improved: [NDE] speed optimizations
- Improved: [ml_history] localized dates
- Improved: [ml_local] Unicode media library support
- Improved: [ml_playlists] now uses m3u8 to retain unicode file info
- Improved: [ml_playlists] playlists in send-to submenu
- Improved: [ml_pmp] playback-from-device of unicode filenames
- Improved: [ml_wire] moved discover page to main page
- Improved: [pmp_p4s] auto-detection of supported file formats
- Fixed: winamp agent multi-user issue
- Fixed: playlist directory loading fix (again)
- Fixed: recursive playlist loading
- Fixed: video lockup when switching video display settings
- Fixed: HTML playlist generation
- Fixed: temp file cleanup after burning
- Fixed: Alt+L from video window
- Fixed: fullscreen video display drawing glitch
- Fixed: recursive shortcut loading
- Fixed: ASX Loader not reading local relative paths correctly
- Fixed: [gen_ml] & needs expanding to && for any menu entries showing filenames
- Fixed: [in_cdda] crash on exit when ejecting CD
- Fixed: [in_flac] not saving genres.txt in multiuser directory
- Fixed: [in_mp3] create id3v2 tag when writing album artist
- Fixed: [in_mp3] workaround for id3v2.4 tags with badly formatted frame sizes
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] writing blank metadata instead of erasing
- Fixed: [in_wave] sometimes not remembering custom extensions
- Fixed: [in_wm] stack overflow on hi-def multichannel audio with replaygain enabled
- Fixed: [in_wm] File Info editor album artist not saving
- Fixed: [ml_local] Modern skin pledit winshade 'Manage Playlist' button bug
- Fixed: [ml_local] ignoring files with ellipsis (...)
- Fixed: [ml_local] editing disc via 'edit selected items'
- Fixed: [ml_local] sorting fix
- Fixed: [ml_local] ratings menu
- Fixed: [ml_local] crash when sorting by replaygain
- Fixed: [ml_local] deadlock when retrieving title to guess metadata
- Fixed: [ml_local] no longer causes unicode files in playlist to display ?????
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] time column and 'status' in statusbar
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] send-to another playlist lists playlist file instead of contents
- Fixed: [ml_pmp]
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Metadata showing as -1
- Fixed: [ml_rg] multi-channel files being calculated incorrectly
- Fixed: [ml_transcode] bad/missing metadata on transcoded files
- Fixed: [ml_transcode] error on overly long filenames ("can't open destination file")
- Fixed: [ml_wire] podcasts that change titles not updating properly
- Fixed: [pmp_p4s] mass storage devices showing as Plays For Sure devices in Vista
- Fixed: [vis_milk] multi-user issues
- Updated: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus encoder 8.0.3
- Updated: [enc_flac] Flake r117
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] Jump To File Extra v0.97.11 (build 109)
Winamp 5.32
- New: [ml_local] new filters for three pane view (album artist, genre, publisher)
- New: [ml_local] option to rescan metadata for selected files
- New: [ml_transcode] Transcoding tool. Convert your files from one format to another.
- New: [pmp_activesync] Support for Windows Mobile devices
- Improved: send-to in songticker right-click menu
- Improved: [ml_local] album artist, disc, replaygain, composer, full path columns
- Improved: [ml_local] localized dates
- Improved: [ml_local] folder browsing dialog
- Improved: [ml_rg] lower thread priority to prevent system slowdowns
- Fixed: classic skin playlist time drawing glitch
- Fixed: slow load-time with playlist of network share files
- Fixed: CD burning with Windows 98/ME
- Fixed: flickering with non-overlay video display
- Fixed: [gen_ml] treeview icons on Windows 98/ME
- Fixed: [gen_ml] modern skin docked toolbar mode not remembered
- Fixed: [gen_ml] listview flicker reduction
- Fixed: [in_flac] crash when viewing info (alt+3) on non-existent files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect length reported with Easy CDDA Extractor encodes
- Fixed: [in_mp4] unable to play truncated M4A files
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] crash with very short files
- Fixed: [jnetlib] HTTP timeouts on streams with character 255 in HTTP headers
- Fixed: [ml_disc] CD View sometimes causing flickering of all open windows
- Fixed: [ml_history] crash when disabling & re-enabling view
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] corrupt display when scrolling
- Fixed: [ml_wire] crash when parsing podcasts with badly formed dates
Winamp 5.31
- New: [in_cdda] CD Text reading support (with sonic engine enabled)
- New: [in_flac] Nullsoft FLAC Decoder
- New: [enc_flac] Nullsoft FLAC Encoder
- Improved: [ml_disc] Smarter tagging when ripping tracks
- Improved: [in_cdda] Better CD metadata
- Improved: [in_mp3] support for reading ID3v2.4 per-frame unsynchronization
- Improved: [in_mp4] HTTP streaming support
- Improved: [in_wave] HTTP streaming support
- Improved: [in_wm] follows 24bit/mono/surround playback setting
- Fixed: loading folders via playlists
- Fixed: Shortcut icons for multi-user installations
- Fixed: Thinger icons for old wa3 skins (filereader.w5s missing)
- Fixed: truncated text in version history
- Fixed: handling of shortcuts in folders
- Fixed: [dsp_sps] simple pitch and tempo preset (thanks ujay)
- Fixed: [gen_ff] System.playFile not working on URLs
- Fixed: [in_mp3] seek from end of file
- Fixed: [in_mp3] quality issue
- Fixed: [in_mp3] random crash when writing ID3v2 tag
- Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect track length on concatenated MP3 files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] gapless glitch
- Fixed: [in_mp3] maximum number of redirects raised to 3 to allow playback on some podcasts with crazy php scripts
- Fixed: [in_mp3] lyrics3 security vulnerability (thanks iDefense)
- Fixed: [in_mp3] ultravox security vulnerability (thanks iDefense)
- Fixed: [in_mp3] seek problems on files with multiple id3v2 tags
- Fixed: [ml_disc] ripping discs with international titles
- Fixed: [ml_local] breaks 'always on top' for other programs
- Fixed: [ml_local] 'Use Library title information for Playlist Item Formatting' not being followed
- Fixed: [ml_local] track number showing as 4294967295 in title
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] memory leak
- Fixed: [ml_pmp/pmp_ipod/pmp_usb] 'no disc in drive' error message
- Fixed: [out_ds] logarithmic/hybrid volume control
- Fixed: [pmp_p4s] crash on 0-length tracks
- Fixed: [pmp_usb] bad xml writing
Winamp 5.3
- New: Unicode filename and title support
- New: M3U8 (Unicode) playlist support
- New: optional 24bit playback for many codecs (turn it on in Preferences->Playback)
- New: Replaygain support for MP3, AAC, Vorbis, M4A and WMA
- New: added ml views & playlists to Play-> submenu of right click popup menu
- New: added interface/x-winamp3-skin mimetype for WAL skins
- New: [ml_dash] Personalized content portal
- New: [ml_disc] optional replaygain scanning after rip (turn it on in cd ripping prefs)
- New: [ml_pmp] Transcoding. Converts incompatible files on-the-fly for your portable device.
- New: [ml_pmp] Playback now works for playsForSure and Creative NJB devices
- New: [ml_pmp] "Copy to Library" - transfer songs from any device to your local library (uses CD rip settings)
- New: [ml_pmp] Video sync support for portables
- New: [ml_rg] replaygain scanner (access via Send To menu)
- New: [pmp_ipod] gapless playback support on newer models
- New: [pmp_usb] USB drive support. Now all those thumbdrive MP3 players can work with Winamp.
- Improved: fullscreen video seekbar
- Improved: ATF updates
- Improved: DC filter on spectral visualization, to remove bass bias
- Improved: preference cleanups
- Improved: faster PLS writing
- Improved: 24bit EQ support
- Improved: "Close Winamp" option after installation (after clicking 'Send')
- Improved: [enc_aacplus] Improved AAC and aacPlus encoding!
- Improved: [enc_aacplus] saves itunes/ipod-compatible gapless information
- Improved: [enc_lame] added preset medium and fast medium
- Improved: [enc_wma] VBR and lossless modes
- Improved: [gen_ff] better sample rate display
- Improved: [in_cdda] faster ripping speeds through improved buffering and multithreading
- Improved: [in_dshow] AVI metadata reading
- Improved: [in_dshow] better WAV support
- Improved: [in_mp3] 24bit MP3 playback, 64bit internal precision
- Improved: [in_mp3] streaming id3v2 support
- Improved: [in_mp3] replaygain support for MP3 playback
- Improved: [in_mp3/in_mp4] 24bit AAC playback
- Improved: [in_mp3/in_mp4] itunes-compatible gapless playback
- Improved: [in_mp3/in_mp4] mp3-in-mp4 container support
- Improved: [in_mp4] FAAC-compatible (mostly) gapless playback
- Improved: [in_wave] better outputs bits-per-sample choosing
- Improved: [ml_playlists] added missing entries from pledit context menus
- Improved: [ml_playlists] option to not show playlists in send-to menu
- Improved: [ml_pmp] Only relevant columns shown in song views
- Improved: [ml_pmp] "Getting Metadata" now much faster
- Improved: [ml_pmp] devices can now be renamed
- Improved: [ml_pmp] added progress to portables tree item (no more switching views)
- Improved: [ml_pmp] metadata guessing based on filename
- Improved: [ml_pmp] improved GUI performance
- Improved: [pmp_ipod] support for iTunesLock
- Fixed: Burning files that require resampling
- Fixed: multiple copies of Winamp when opening too many files/folders from explorer
- Fixed: freeze when exiting Winamp while minimized
- Fixed: Delay/hang when loading dead stream url's
- Fixed: crash when directdraw fails to create primary surface
- Fixed: 4x burn speed limit with Pro
- Fixed: registry handling when disassociating filetypes
- Fixed: better detection of video input plugins
- Fixed: [dsp_sps] 24 bit fix
- Fixed: [enc_aacplus] more compatible HE AAC MP4 file creation
- Fixed: [enc_lame] broken vbr presets
- Fixed: [enc_lame] 24bit input support
- Fixed: [enc_lame] bitrate lower bound on alt-presets
- Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB lookups clearing the ENTIRE playlist cache
- Fixed: [gen_ff] layerfx not being redrawn on colortheme change
- Fixed: [gen_ff] gradient drawing glitch and crash
- Fixed: [gen_ff] custom color themes bug
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] hang when suspending or hibernating
- Fixed: [gen_ml] tree icon fixup (divide by zero crash in ICM32.dll)
- Fixed: [in_cdda] cutoff of last few sectors
- Fixed: [in_dshow] crash when using DSP/EQ on anything bigger than 16bit stereo
- Fixed: [in_dshow] seek to key frame
- Fixed: [in_midi] truncated playback of some MIDI files
- Fixed: [in_mod] title display bug for module streams with no title
- Fixed: [in_mp3] crash when editing ID3 tags
- Fixed: [in_mp3] ID3v2 and ID3v1 Comment & Genre tags shared
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Inaccurate Time Remaining display for AAC files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] do Viz after DSP
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Icecast stream title UTF-8 support
- Fixed: [in_mp4] detection of HE AAC in file info box (Alt+3)
- Fixed: [in_wm] DRM Video playback on certain hardware
- Fixed: [in_wm] freezeup when seeking a paused wma
- Fixed: [in_wm] Hang with dead WMV link in pledit in Repeat mode
- Fixed: [in_wm] freeze when stopping streams that have rebuffered
- Fixed: [in_wm] small memory leak on each track play
- Fixed: [in_wm] Windows Media Screen Codec not playing properly
- Fixed: [ml_disc] CD ripping / playlist generation bug
- Fixed: [ml_disc] CD Ripping view showing up when clicking on other ml views
- Fixed: [ml_history] Ctrl+H shortcut
- Fixed: [ml_local] fixed crash when trying to create a new view before mldb has loaded
- Fixed: [ml_local] background scan crash when media library DB isn't loaded
- Fixed: [ml_local] scheduled background scan always starting at startup
- Fixed: [ml_online] Online Media bugfix (don't try to play NULL streams)
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] losing stream titles
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] sort by title
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Send To from local media to ml playlist replaces instead of enqueues
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Enqueue as default broken in left pane
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Playlist title > rt-click > New Playlist = broken
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] tracklength bug
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] playlist paths issue
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Transfers stalling after encountering a dupe
- Fixed: [out_ds] volume not hitting 0dB when using log or hybrid volume control
- Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Artist list on iPod not sorting "The" correctly
- Updated: Coding Technology aacPlus Encoder 8.0.0
- Updated: [gen_ff] Freetype 2.2.1
- Updated: [gen_ff] libpng 1.2.12
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] Jump-to-File 0.97.7
- Updated: [in_wave] libsndfile 1.0.16
- Updated: [libmp4v2] MPEG4IP mp4v2 1.5
- Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.97 Final
- Updated: Sonic Engine 3.2.40.500
Winamp 5.24
- Fixed: [in_midi] crash bug & potential security vulnerability
Winamp 5.23
- Improved: [gen_jumpex] jump-to-file speed improvements
- Fixed: playlist saving with network share files
- Fixed: Media Library preferences not loading in correct order
- Fixed: main window not hilited when restoring from minimized state in classic skin.
- Fixed: slow loading of playlists with URLs
- Fixed: CD burning using third party input plugins
- Fixed: [gen_ff] Wasabi XML font-related fixes from Martin Poehlmann
- Fixed: [gen_ff] Map.getHeight() maki script function returning width instead
- Fixed: [gen_ff] winshade global hotkeys broken w/ modern skins
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] 'Add to Queue' issues
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] NT4 incompatability
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] misc bug fixes
- Fixed: [gen_ml] icon changes on drag+drop items
- Fixed: [in_mp3] playback of AAC streams
- Fixed: [in_mp4] seek bug when using right arrow key
- Fixed: [in_wm] Playback restarts from beginning when editing tags of a currently playing .wma file
- Fixed: [in_wm] protocol/extension reversed in config > filetype > edit
- Fixed: [in_wm] 'Audio only' always checked for ASF/WMV in config
- Fixed: [in_wm] seek bug when using right arrow key
- Fixed: [ml_bookmarks] 'Edit Bookmarks' menu item not working when Media Library is hidden
- Fixed: [ml_local] crash while rearranging media library views
- Fixed: [ml_local] crash on close
- Fixed: [ml_local] sort arrow reversed in some columns
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Import Playlists uses containing dir for title instead of filename
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] No "Recurse" checkbox in Import Playlists From Folder
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Add Dir adds all filetypes (not just all-supported)
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] rt-click enqueue not working & other issues
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] Not saving playlists in some situations
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] crash when loading badly formed WPL playlists
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] drag&drop into playlist not adding to correct position
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] root playlist screen not updating when adding new playlist
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] reverting changes on send-to: playlist
- Fixed: [ml_wire] some podcasts only display one item
- Fixed: [out_ds] stop with fade (shift+v) issue
- Updated: [in_cdda] CDDB 2.0.1.25
Winamp 5.22
- New: loading of additional playlist formats: ASX/WAX/WMX/WVX, WPL, B4S
- New: [gen_ff] modern skin unicode support
- New: [in_wm] burning of DRM protected files (if allowed by content provider)
- New: [ml_pmp] transfer of playlists to portable devices
- Improved: More informative CD burning status window
- Improved: [gen_ff] modern skinning engine speed optimizations
- Improved: [in_wm] seeking improvements
- Improved: [in_wm] gapless WMA support
- Improved: [ml_nowplaying] Redesigned 'Now Playing' media library view (it actually works now)
- Improved: [pmp_ipod] Loading times for iPods reduced
- Fixed: Winamp won't restore after being minimized with a dialog box open
- Fixed: $abbr() title formatting lockup
- Fixed: Add Folder adds tracks BEFORE the last track
- Fixed: Clicking 'Next' in Fullscreen video OSD acts like clicking it twice
- Fixed: Rating in pledit right-click context menu always shows "No Rating"
- Fixed: Stop with fadeout (Shift+V) just stops playback, no fadeout
- Fixed: CD burning bugs and crashes
- Fixed: Delete key not working in Online Services or SC Wire search
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] modern skin pledit docked toolbar mode not remembered
- Fixed: [gen_jumpex] ML size/position not remembered when switching from Classic to Modern and back to Classic skin
- Fixed: [gen_ml] playlists root view slowness bug
- Fixed: [gen_ml] Modern skin: Media Library > View (menu) > Devices
- Fixed: [in_midi] corrupt header crash
- Fixed: [in_mp4] metadata writing crash
- Fixed: [in_mp4] seek bug when using right arrow key
- Fixed: [in_mp3] MPEG-2 and MPEG-2.5 Layer 3 playback crash
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Winamp crashes when trying to play any wrongly named .aac file
- Fixed: [in_wave] WAV burning fix
- Fixed: [in_wave] Locking files (wav's can't be renamed/deleted)
- Fixed: [in_wm] lockup on wma with expired/unrenewable drm license
- Fixed: [in_wm] out of sync audio/video on some WMV streams
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] fullpath shown in playlist for tagless files with atf disabled
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Duplicates being synchronized
- Fixed: [ml_pmp] Several crashes during transfers
- Fixed: [out_ds] Can't select different Output Device with two active instances of out_ds
- Fixed: [out_ds] incorrect enumeration of stereo outputs for two of same pro soundcard
- Updated: [gen_tray] Tray Control 2.0 (thanks DrO)
Winamp 5.21
- New: [jnetlib] HTTP compression support
- Improved: [installer] multi-user profile migration
- Fixed: [ml_ipod] and [pmp_ipod] conflict
- 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
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: [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
Winamp 5.13
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Critical security flaw fixed.
Winamp 5.12
- New: [in_wm] Windows Media Video support (with DRM)
- New: [in_mp4] Support for HE-AAC MP4/M4A files
- Improved: lots of minor plugin improvements
- Improved: Visualization data calculations
- Improved: Significantly less playlist memory usage
- Improved: more multi-user improvements (almost there!)
- Improved: [installer] setup options, saved settings, codec downloading
- Improved: [gen_ff] optimized skinning engine
- Improved: [out_disk] new features
- Improved: [in_cdda] playback/ripping with sonic engine
- Fixed: freezing when cancelling cd burn
- Fixed: video scaling bug (with modern skin scaling < 100%)
- Fixed: minor installer bugs
- Fixed: freeze when loading classic skin with main window hidden
- Fixed: Visualizations for 24bit and 32bit songs
- Fixed: Advanced Title Formatting with Japanese, Chinese and Korean metadata (thanks mrym)
- Fixed: [in_mp3] raw AAC VBR file seeking and bitrate reporting
- Fixed: [in_mp4] unicode metadata writing
- Fixed: [in_wm/in_dshow] mms:// streaming video playback
- Fixed: [in_cdda] audio cd bitrate display
- Fixed: [in_cdda] Sonic engine on 64bit windows (thanks STanger)
- Fixed: lots of small bugs ...
- Updated: Sonic CD Engine 2.2.50
- Updated: libmp4v2 1.4.1
- Updated: Coding Technology AAC+ Decoder 7.2.0
Winamp 5.112
- Fixed: burning crash with EQ enabled
- Fixed: [in_mp3] id3v1->id3v2 copy glitch
Winamp 5.111
- Fixed: works with internet explorer 3.0 again (old win95/nt3.51)
- Fixed: Auto-Preset EQ crash (non-mp3 files)
- Fixed: $upper, $caps, $caps2 crash with foreign characters
- Fixed: Station Info crash (with http filtering program)
- Fixed: empty playlist bugs
- Fixed: [in_mp3] proxy ignored when 'only port 80' was checked
- Fixed: [in_midi] lyrics not working
Winamp 5.11
- Updated: LAME 3.96.1
- Fixed: playlist focus issue after adding files to playlist
- Fixed: crash on multichannel songs with EQ enabled
- Fixed: internet connection detection not working when set to "dial-up"
- Fixed: manual playlist advance with winamp videos
- Fixed: EQ text display glitch
- Fixed: video not filling up video window
- Fixed: black bars in fullscreen video
- Fixed: [gen_ml] crash with no write access
- Fixed: [gen_ml] CDDB Dialog Media Library drawing glitch
- Fixed: [in_dshow] seeking on files with no video or no audio
- Fixed: [in_cdda] aspi ripping crash
- Fixed: [ml_wire] "my music" folder creation
- Fixed: [ml_wire] Podcasts with dates before 1970 handled properly
- Fixed: [ml_wire] Downloading of podcasts with parameters in URL
- Fixed: [out_ds] fade-on-seek settings
- Fixed: [in_wm] pause glitch
- Fixed: [in_mp4] view-file-info filename not scrolling
- Coming Soon: Multi-user profile support (preliminary support enabled)
Winamp 5.1 Surround Edition
- New: CodingTechnologies AACPlus encoder!
- Awesome at low bitrates too!
- New: Grand Prize Winner of the Internet Surround Music Project!
- KAJE - Hey Buddy (featuring Afrika Bambaataa)
- New: SHOUTcast Wire - A Media RSS Browser and Subscription Service
- New: Predixis Smart Playlist Generator
- (Mix your tracks based on what they sound like!)
- New: AOL Radio featuring (((XM))) Free Sampler!
- New: CD Ripping now available at 8x in free version!
- New: Microsoft WMA encoder
- New: Over 200 new Milkdrop presets!
- Update: in_vorbis now returns bitrate in getextendedfileinfo
- Fixed: WMA stuttery playback
- Fixed: out_ds copy button on status tab now works all the time
- Fixed: Much improved ripping and playback with Sonic engine
- Fixed: Video window now resizable regardless of Sidecar
- Fixed: Length of long mp3's now reported properly
- Fixed: Silent install switch now works properly
- Fixed: Simultaneous CD Playback and Ripping
Winamp 5.094
- Fixed: Security vulnerability in id3v2 tags
- Updated: new libmp4v2.dll
- New: New random number generation for playlist shuffle
- Fixed: Winamp now shuffles playlists larger than 32,768 songs
- Fixed: Fade on start now behaves properly
- Fixed: separate directsound settings with multiple instances
- Fixed: Winamp now supports adding URLs longer than 260 characters.
- Fixed: Editing files created in iTunes no longer causes corruption.
- Fixed: Length of long mp3's now reported properly
- Fixed: gen_jumpex no longer crashes when DEP is enabled
- Fixed: Sort selections in media library are now remembered.
- Fixed: Album names with non-alphanumeric character behave better
- Fixed: Fixed intermittent crash on seeking for some users
- New: in_wm now handles bitrate and length extended infov
Winamp 5.093
- Fixed: OSD stays onscreen in DirectDraw Mode
- Fixed: Fullscreen video OSD doesn't reappear after using Pause
- Fixed: ML Playlist > Select all (no delete key)
- Fixed: Vis data for in_mod (and possibly other input plugins)
- Fixed: msvcp60.dll now linked static
- Fixed: Small intermittent bugs in gen_ml and gen_ff
- Fixed: Greater than 2 channel vis data now works
- Fixed: Media Library problems with parentheses/brackets in artist or album names
- Fixed: Ripping CDs with trailing ellipses (...) in artist or album name
- Fixed: Better video flipping for YUV colorspace videos
- Fixed: Saved mute settings with modern skin.
- Fixed: Drag and Drop from external applications
- Fixed: Open File Dialog always-on-top
- Fixed: Crossfade on start
- Fixed: Freeze when switching audio tracks in a multi-audio stream.
- Fixed: Fullscreen switching with scaled video window.
- Update: Dynamic Online Media can now alert users to live events(can disable).
Winamp 5.091
- New: DRM WMA Playback supports out_wave
- New: Non-DRM WMA Playback allows any output plugin
- New: Community Picks AVS Preset Pack
- New: Deletes in the Media Library now move files to the Recycle Bin
- New: NSV Subtitles can be disabled on the fly
- Fixed: gen_ml shutdown bug
- Fixed: Easy Move of video window back to normal
- Fixed: Pause in WMA playback memory leak
- Fixed: Multi-monitor full screen video
- Fixed: Drag and Drop in playlist editor
- Fixed: Drag and Drop on Winamp
- Fixed: Now Playing update on song change
- Fixed: Media Library/Windows Media scanning errors
- Fixed: Stay in fullscreen/Config mismatch
- Fixed: Ctrl-B Crash
- Fixed: Authentication for OGG/Vorbis streams
- Fixed: Drag and Drop strange behavior in open file dialogs
- Fixed: Stuttering WMA On Start and Seek
- Fixed: NSV Video stall during buffering
- Fixed: Autosize of video to be accurate to the Video size not snap size
- Fixed: Short NSV Clips audio cutout
- Update: Online Media tree is now dynamic (Checking can now be disabled)
- Update: Sonic Install/Config flag mismatch
- Update: CD Ripping/Burning Library (possible cause of msvcrt.dll errors
Winamp 5.09
- New: By popular demand all "hTtP force to 'Now Playing'" support has been removed
- New: Deletes in the Media Library now move files to the Recycle Bin
- New: WMA Playback now works with WaveOut plugin
- New: NSV Subtitles can be disabled on the fly
- Fixed: Authentication for OGG/Vorbis streams
- Fixed: Drag and Drop strange behavior in open file dialogs
- Fixed: Stuttering WMA On Start and Seek
- Fixed: NSV Video stall during buffering
- Fixed: Autosize of video to be accurate to the Video size not snap size
- Fixed: Short NSV Clips audio cutout
- Update: CD Ripping Library
- Update: Online Media tree is now dynamic (More free videos on the way!)
- Update: Sonic Install / Config flag mismatch
Winamp 5.08e
- Updated Windows Media DRM License
Winamp 5.08d
- Fixed playFile function in gen_ff.dll (Allows Modern skins to launch
playback)
Winamp 5.08c
- Created new eMusic bundles
- Critical Security bug fixed in in_mp4.dll and enc_mp4.dll and libmp4v2.dll
- HTTP Seeking corrected for webservers that refuse to return Accept-Range
- Critical Security buffer overflow fixed in in_cdda.dll
Winamp 5.07
- Critical Security bug fixed in in_cdda.dll and .m3u handler
- in_mp3 & in_nsv should work on Win95 again
- Proxy settings work again
- Installer fixed so that read_file.dll is installed always with mod support
- Version number should be properly reported by IPC_GETVERSION for this build
Winamp 5.06
- Fixed crashbug when clearing the playlist and then right clicking on the songticker
- Security bug fixes
- Lots of small bugfixes
- JTFE v0.96ff
Winamp 5.05
- Security bug fix
- Fix for upside down videos through DirectShow
- JTFE v0.96c
- Added prompt when loading a skin for the first time
Winamp 5.04
- JTFE v0.96
- Added Coding Technologies' AACPlus decoder
- fixed deletion of temporary generated WAV files after a burning process on some computers
- fixed typo in some context menu shortcuts
- fixed slowness IPC bug caused by gen_hotkeys
- added "clear" button in internet radio/tv views
- added screenshots of classic/modern mode in installer
- fixed MP3 bitrate calculation (in_mp3 was reporting incorrect lengths on some MP3s)
- fixed incorrect length reporting on long WMA files
- better fix for pledit/video windows showing up at startup when minimized
- fixed db text bug when moving EQ sliders
- upgraded MP3 encoding to LAME v3.96
- fixed crash in WMA playback when using WMA v8 codecs
- updated default streaming values in in_nsv
- added Winamp.com Audio&Video views in the Media Library
- fixed tiny memory leak in in_cdda
- added right click context menu on "Now Playing" item in Media Library
- added script/ActiveX disabling for Media Library's minibrowser (on by default)
- fixed memory leak on MP3 files with messed up ID3v2 tags
- fixed visualization when playing CD tracks
- fixed proxy user:pass@server:port string getting cut when playing Shoutcast streams
- made in_dshow not to handle mms:// streams ending with .wma
- fixed %tracknumber% tag for CD tracks
- fixed some crash bugs in in_mp4
- fixed playlist generation when ripping full CDs
- added "import playlist from folder" in Media Library
- updated Media Library preferences screens
- added new SPS presets from Cockos, Inc. (pitch shifters, etc...)
- added basic streaming (download) support for M4A/MP4 HTTP streams
- added monitoring of fullscreen apps, disables always on top temporarilly
- added IPC_IS_WNDSHADE
- added gen_ml rating ipcs
- added ratings from playlist context menu (acts on selected entries)
- added ratings from song ticker context menu (acts on current track)
- added rating hotkeys in gen_hotkey
- fixed saving read-only playlists
- fixed double separator lines in gen_ml id3less item context menu
- fixed refresh of view losing query after removing dead files & background scan
- added escaping of ", ', [ and ] in ml queries : uses %HH where HH is the hex char code (uses %% for '%')
- added sdk support for multiple audio/video tracks in video input plugins (see wa_ipc.h for ITrackSelector class)
- added multiple audio avi support (right click video window, select "Audio Tracks")
- fixed multimonitor problem when toggling a windowshade on one monitor while playing a fullscreen video on the other
- added ML_IPC_EDITQUERY and ML_IPC_EDITVIEW
- fixed pledit drawing bug under winxp/cleartype
- fixed crash in id3 reading of zero byte files
- fixed crash in sps when exiting winamp before closing the open/save dialog
- added IPC_PUSH_DISABLE_EXIT, IPC_POP_DISABLE_EXIT and IPC_IS_EXIT_ENABLED
- fixed gen_ml crash when inserting item with length -1
- made gen_ml much more resistant to databases that have been corrupted
- fixed ml nuke
- added disabling of "keep on screen" option when going into a different resolution because of a fullscreen application (ie: a game)
- made ui:preferences global hotkey open the prefs to the previously opened page
- fixed a few preferences cosmetic 'bugs'
- modern skin updates :
- fixed windowshade repeat-track button state
- fixed scaling docked toolbars
- fixed 5.03 assert on deletion of newGroupAsLayout()
- fixed floating video windows coordinates dropping to 0,0
- fixed auto opaque when layouts are loaded already docked as toolbars
- fixed fadein/fadeout not used on notification window when linking all normal windows' alpha
- fixed docked toolbars moving when some other window docked to them switches to an alternative layout
- fixed silent crash on shutdown when pledit is docked as toolbar and gen_ml unloads before gen_ff (would not remember settings from session to session)
- fixed snap points
- fixed click on +12db / 0db / -12db
- optimized text scrolling (a lot)
- fixed content of pledit not painting in some instances
- gen_hotkeys are now routed thru System.onKeyDown(name), where name is the name of the hotkey prefixed by "HOTKEY: " (ie: "HOTKEY: Playback: Play"). You may issue a complete; statement to prevent gen_hotkey from handling the hotkey
- fixed horizontal resize of main window with video/vis drawer closed
- added auto-height for next drawer opening when resizing main window with video/vis drawer closed, this avoids having an unreasonably tall drawer open if you just watched a video in a big window and then only resized the player back to its horizontal minimum after the video had closed. auto-height resets to 4:3 proportions
- fixed docking bug when using snapadjustleft
- fixed buggy calculation of time display default width conflicting with right text alignment
- fixed windows moving after changing screen resolution
- fixed rare always on top desync with classic skins
Winamp 5.03
- added eMusic trial offer to installer. uninstaller included in Program Files\Winamp\eMusic
- fixed a crash bug when playing some AVI files in in_dshow
- added multimedia keyboard keys in global hotkeys default configuration
- added "Manual playlist advance" in Repeat button popup menu in Classic mode
- improvements in MP3 encoder configuration (added --alt-preset standard, etc...)
- made the tabs in the preferences XP correctly themed under Windows XP
- revamped the Media Library preferences a bit
- new experimental WMA9 input plugin
- gen_jumpex updates from DrO
- added "Nuke library" action in Media Library
- more upside down videos fixes
- fixed crash if a plugin generated a pledit wm_windowposchanged on shutdown
- fixed crash exploit in in_mod (thanks Peter Winter-Smith)
- fixed various crashes in in_midi when playing invalid files
- made in_midi store its settings in winamp.ini instead of the registry
- fixed error during installation on computers with chinese/oriental regional settings
- removed AOD from installer
- added Shift-R to toggle manual playlist advance
- updated VP6 video decoder to latest VP6.2 code
- fixed crash when launching winamp with very long filenames from explorer
- made registration dialog to appear in Explorer's taskbar when installing pro version
- fixed pledit/video windows showing up at startup when minimized
- modern skins updates :
- winamp modern skin now uses a 3 state repeat button: no repeat/repeat all/repeat track
- added appplication desktop toolbars capabilities for layouts, add appbar="left|top|right|bottom" to use them
- upped maki binary version, improved stack protection
- current skin version number is 1.2 (this should not change for a long while now, and of course we continue to support 0.8 to 1.1)
- (very) limited maki debugger (for now you can bring it up with invokeDebugger(); in a script then use 'x'
- to continue and 'i' to trace into)
- fixed obscure capture problem with dragging windows
- fixed rectrgn being forced to 1 in xml xuiobject buttons that are originally imageless
- fixed hilited state not on after clicking on buttons while the mouse stays in area
- fixed scripted onEnterArea/onLeaveArea not being always correctly called while mouse button stays down
- fixed getToken being passed NULL throwing guru
- fixed clipping of painting within the background's region of a group rather than within the composed region (the one you can change with sysregion)
- fixed image cache problem when using the same bitmap as a map and a button image parameter
Winamp 5.02
- added a couple of gen_ml APIs
- fixed gen_ml radio/tv cache clearing after viewing prefs bug
- made gen_ml radio/tv keep old data when updating fails, made it not update when no internet is available
- made gen_ml support some new quicksearch syntaxes: "* beck radiohead" will list all things matching beck OR
- radiohead, and: radiohead "<lastplay> [3 days ago]>" will show all things matching
- radiohead played in the last 3 days...
- gen_ml option for any/all guess modes
- made SPS support 24 bit samples
- added priority setting for CD ripping
- made CD ripping only support one rip at at time
- added send to -> add to library for playlist (and other) send to menus.
- better media library audio view support for no artist/no album
- fixed enter after info box and popup menus in library
- moved litestep options to be in classic skin prefs
- fixed playlist editor classic redraw bug, made playlist handle mousewheel scrolling while moving items better.
- made "EXE" filetype extension non registerable :)
- cleaned up "disable screensaver when video is playing" option
- latest SDKs available (AVS, Media library, new Winamp IPC calls, etc...)
- upgraded to Gracenote CDDB v2 DLLs
- improvements in gen_hotkeys
- upgraded MP3 encoding to LAME v3.95.1
- out_ds now uses winamp.ini instead of registry for settings
- new fix for upside down videos in in_dshow
- added OGM as supported extension in in_dshow
- modern skins updates :
- optimized region a bit
- fixed handling of global alpha for unparented layouts
- fixed tiny bug in keypress flow
- fixed potential layer capture cancellation issue
- fixed crash when quickly alternating alt+g and alt+w
- fixed player not coming up to front when playing a video via external URL click
- fixed assertion when arial.ttf (or whatever fallback font has been set) is not present in the font directory
- fixed faulty skin font unmapping sometimes conflicting with fallback to os default gui font
- added date and version functions to maki
- added added timerhours="1" to text object to show 1:00:00 instead of 60:00
- added timeroffstyle 3 and 4 to text object to display "0:00:00" and " : : "
- upped skin version to 1.1 - you MUST use 1.1 if you recompile your scripts
- updated maki compiler (http://bluemars.org/maki) :
- added stack protection to maki binaries - upped the binaries version header
- added self version check in maki binaries
- non-existing (future) maki functions will not crash the maki runtime anymore, YAY
- fixed unknown maki functions return values
- fixed winamp appearing on secondary taskbar with ultramon regardless of true position
- fixed extraneous invalidations
- new extended jump file dialog (thanks to Darren Owen)
- added basic MP4 AAC encoding/decoding (thanks to Menno Bakker for the help)
- fixed unicode metadata in in_vorbis
- fixed crash in installer code
- removed generation of "badframes.stt" files in VP6 decoder
- <3 farewell Justin <3
Winamp 5.01
- fixed gen_ml selection bug
- added gen_ml option for no guessing at all
- made AVS and SPS support loop() in user code
- made AVS support megabuf() in user code
- made pro installer not prompt for regkey if already valid
- improved font directory retrieval in gen_ff
- added content rating system in Internet TV's listing
- added bandwidth usage statistic in Internet Radio/TV listings
- made media library guess from filename only when NO metadata found
- added seperate recent items tracking options for files/streams
- made installer better handle installing wa5 directly over wa3.
- added milkdrop docs to installer
- made uninstaller not remove winamp directory if not empty (user is now required to do so manually to avoid people going "oops")
- made installer check sonic px.dll versions and prompt for reboot accordingly
- fixed nsv metadata querying bugs
- fixed gen_ml guessing bugs for files with metadata that are not in DB
Winamp 5.0
- Support for classic Winamp 1.x/2.x/2.9x skins and Winamp 3 ("Modern") skins
- Fancy new modern skin:
- Integrated video, AVS, and Milkdrop support
- Many built-in colorthemes
- Same ol' classic skin for people who want the Winamp 2 feel
- Vastly more powerful media library:
- Automatic background directory scanning options
- Customizable views and columns, graphical view editor
- Internet Radio (SHOUTcast) and TV listings
- Context-sensitive item info viewer
- CD ripping support (AAC@2x in free version, MP3 at unlimited speeds in pro)
- CD burning support (limited to 2x in free version)
- Advanced title formatting logic for file types that support it
- Huge AVS updates:
- New effects, bundled some popular 3rd party APEs
- A much better selection of default presets
- Experimental SMP support
- Full AVS preset subdirectory support
- Extensions and optimizations to the AVS evaluation library
- Support for playback of AAC and VP6 in NSV files/streams
- Global hotkey support
- new Signal Processing Studio DSP plug-in
- Options to disable plugin exception handling for developers
- A ton of new plug-in API calls (SDK forthcoming)
- fixed changing-systray options while minimized bug
- new Winamp icon
- added XP Manifest.xml to winamp.exe
- made agent icon use configured winamp system tray icon
- optimized winamp's load titles on demand logic, made faster
- made winamp's internal submenu management more reliable
- added skin font override preferences
- added spacebar shows current playlist item in playlist editor
- fixed manual playlist advance w/ repeat
- made winamp's open directory recurse checkbox nicer looking
- big prefs overhaul to make steve happy
- huge thanks to Amir Szekely and the rest of the NSIS developers for their help
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