Winamp 5.5 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1
[B]Screenshots of new Bento Skin:
What’s new:
* New: Winamp Bento (SingleUI Skin)
* New: Unified File Editor, with Album Art tab (for mp3, m4a, wma, ogg, flac)
* New: Album Art window for Winamp Modern skin
* New: Global 'playback thread priority' setting for decoders
* New: Option to not show playlist item number in classic songticker
* New: Version History drop-down selector and Search (in About dialog)
* New: [in_mp3] Multi-channel mp3surround support
* New: [gen_ml] Tree Options tab in Media Library Preferences
* 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
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New: [ml_pmp] Album Art view & support for iPod and P4S Devices
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New: [ml_pmp] Separate view for video files
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Improved: General misc dialog/ui tweaks & improvements
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Improved: Re-tuned and optimized classic Spectrum Analyzer
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Improved: Surround indicator in Winamp Modern skin for multi-channel files
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Improved: Classic Songticker option for Winamp Modern skin (via Config drawer)
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Improved: [in_cdda] Conductor metadata support
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Improved: [in_cdda] Handling of multiple discs
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Improved: [in_flac/in_vorbis] ALBUM ARTIST & ENSEMBLE read support
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Improved: [in_flac] Advanced Editor mode
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Improved: [in_mod] Added support for more than 256 samples
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Improved: [in_mp3] Faster metadata gathering (also improves ReplayGain scan speed)
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Improved: [in_wm] Faster WMA/WMV metadata gathering
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Improved: [gen_ff] General freeform skinning engine optimizations
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Improved: [gen_ml] Collapsed/expanded state of treeview items now remembered
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Improved: [gen_ml] Skinned scrollbars for Media Library with Modern skins
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Improved: [gen_ml] Reordering of treeview items (via drag+drop)
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Improved: [ml_disc] Better Unicode support & other misc tweaks
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Improved: [ml_history] Unicode support
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Improved: [ml_local] Customize Columns menu for top filter panes
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Improved: [ml_local] Option to show horizontal scrollbar for top panes
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Improved: [ml_local] New ‘Podcasts’ view (appears after downloading a podcast)
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Improved: [ml_local] Added ISPODCAST and PODCASTCHANNEL field names
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Improved: [ml_local] Added BEGINSLIKE comparison operator
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Improved: [ml_local] Dragging of headers to sort column order
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Improved: [ml_local] Redesigned Smart View Editor
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Improved: [ml_local] Star Rating display and selection
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Improved: [ml_pmp] ‘Copy to Local Media’ config separated from CD Ripping settings
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Improved: [ml_pmp] Portables “Sync” can now keep podcasts updated
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Improved: [ml_rg] ReplayGain calculation support for 64, 88.2 & 96 KHz samplerates
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Improved: [ml_wire] Optional automatic downloading of new podcast episodes
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Improved: [ml_wire] Multi-select, ‘Send To’ menu and other general enhancements
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Improved: [ml_wire] Podcast downloads now saved in channel subfolders
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Improved: [pmp_ipod] Now uses the iPod’s podcast menu for podcasts
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Fixed: DWM Thumbnails & Flip3D for Modern skins in Vista
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Fixed: Long filepaths corrupted when opening Winamp via Explorer context menu
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Fixed: Oversized preference pages with large DPI setting
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Fixed: Recurrence of multiple instances bug (previously fixed in 5.3)
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Fixed: Selecting ‘No’ for ‘Physically Remove’ prompt removes playlist/mldb item
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Fixed: TV button in video window not working
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Fixed: Windows showing if switching from modern to classic skin in minimized state
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Fixed: [ASX Loader] Recursive playlist loading & case-insensitive element matching
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Fixed: [ASX Loader] Handling of entries embedded within a REPEAT tag
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Fixed: [dsp_sps] DEP incompatibility
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Fixed: [gen_ff] “Can’t unload script while in script” error when switching skins
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Fixed: [gen_ff] Transparent docked toolbars for skins using alpha-blending
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Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Crash when loading multiple files via Explorer context menu
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Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Enter key not working when JTFE dialog is skinned*
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Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Remove Duplicate Entries action broken in pledit
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Fixed: [gen_ml] %playcount% returning Comment on drag+drop from ML to pledit
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Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash when attempting to rip a CD in a 2nd instance of Winamp
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Fixed: [in_flac] General FLAC Editor quirks (Comments field, Enter key, etc)
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Fixed: [in_flac] 24bit files don’t play when ‘Allow 24bit’ setting is disabled
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Fixed: [in_mod] Fadeout value goes below 0.0 sec in in_mod config
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Fixed: [in_mod] Interpolator ‘division by zero’ crash bug
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Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on some mp3’s with corrupt ID3v2 extended headers (rare)
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Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on loading corrupt id3v2.3 tags of a later revision
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Fixed: [in_mp3] Negative bitrate in File Info for long mp3’s
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Fixed: [in_wave/libsndfile] Crash on invalid .au files
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Fixed: [in_wm] Garbage characters when editing filetypes in config
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Fixed: [in_mp4/libmp4v2] Memory leaks
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Fixed: [ml_disc] 0 byte temp files not deleted after ripping
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Fixed: [ml_disc] Double-click drive icon in Rip & Burn not selecting tree item
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Fixed: [ml_disc] Crash when using in playlist filename generation
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Fixed: [ml_disc] Drag+drop from Audio CD view to Playlist Editor
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Fixed: [ml_local] (no album) items adding to Album count in Artist pane
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Fixed: [ml_local] isempty and =0 queries now return same results
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Fixed: [ml_local] Add dir to ‘Watch Folders’ path truncated to 64 characters
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Fixed: [ml_pmp] Inserting extra period in filename when transcoding to mp4/aac
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Fixed: [ml_wire] Subscription Updates setting always resets to ‘Never’
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Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Potential incompatability issue with latest version of iTunes
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Fixed: [pmp_p4s] ‘Error In Insert’ when transferring to some P4S devices
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Fixed: [vis_milk] Milkdrop DEP incompatibility
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Misc: Winamp Remote is now an installer option (ml_orb.dll)
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Misc: Moved drawing engine out of gen_ff to tataki.dll
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Misc: Moved freetype font renderer out of gen_ff to freetype.wac
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Misc: Removed db.w5s (replaced by new Gracenote database system)
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Misc: Removed unicows.lib/dll as we have officially dropped support for Win9x
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Updated: Gracenote MusicID CDDB v2.5
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Updated: libpng 1.2.20
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Updated: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus Encoder v8.1.0
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Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v0.99.1c b420 ‘dev’
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Updated: [in_flac] FLAC 1.2.0
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Updated: [in_mp3] FhG Decoder v4.10
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Updated: [in_vorbis] libvorbis 1.2.0
Download:
Winamp 5.5 Beta Pro (asks for key during install)
Winamp 5.5 Beta Lite (basic 2.x-style mp3/cd player)
Source: Winamp Forums
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