Winamp eyes big comeback in 2019 with podcast, streaming support October 17, 2018 https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/winamp-2019-update-streaming/
Weren't they supposed to have a comeback years ago? I still sometimes use an old version, it's still my favorite player.
Winamp 5.8beta (5.8 Build 3660) available Website Download: https://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp58_3660_beta_full_en-us.exe Spoiler: Changelog http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=453675 Winamp 5.8 Beta, Build 3660 * New: Windows Audio (WASAPI) Output plug-in (w.i.p.) * Improved: Added an option to completely disable Winamp's video support * Improved: Added an auto-fullscreen option to video prefs * Improved: Added /ENUMPLAYLISTS to the command-line support * Improved: Windows 8.1 and 10 compatibility * Improved: [in_mod] OpenMPT-based Module Player (replaces old MikMod player) * Improved: [ml_playlists] Added browse path & edit title functions in Ctrl+E editor * Improved: [Bento] Updated scrollbars and buttons and other tweaks (thanks Martin) * Improved: [Bento & Modern skins] Added a Playlist Search feature (thanks Victor) * Fixed: New URLs not being remembered after using Reset history in Open URL dialog * Fixed: Various memory leaks * Fixed: [gen_tray] Not showing correct current icon pack in preferences * Fixed: [in_avi] Divide-by-zero crash with badly formed files (thanks ITDefensor) * Fixed: [in_mp3] Crashing with some ID3v2 tags * Fixed: [ml_wire] Slow loading issue * Fixed: [ssdp] Crash on load if jnetlib was not correctly initialized * Misc: Minimum required OS is now Win XP sp3 (Windows 7 or higher recommended) * Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations * Misc: Moved shared DLLs to Winamp\Shared folder * Removed: All former "Pro" licensed functions (Winamp is now 100% freeware again) * Removed: gen_jumpex & UnicodeTaskbarFix (making way for native implementations) * Removed: ml_nowplaying * Removed: [in_wm] DRM support * Replaced: CD playback and ripping now using native Windows API (instead of Sonic) * Replaced: MP3 Decoder now mpg123 based (instead of Fraunhofer) * Replaced: AAC Decoder now using Media Foundation (Vista and higher) * Replaced: H.264 Decoder now using Media Foundation (Vista and higher) * Replaced: MPEG-4 Pt.2 Decoder now using Media Foundation (Vista and higher) * Updated: [in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.3 & libvorbis 1.3.6 * Updated: [libFLAC] FLAC 1.3.2 * Updated: [libyajl] libyajl v2.1.0 * Updated: [OpenSSL] OpenSSL v1.0.1i * Updated: [png] libpng v1.5.24 ____________________________________________________________ Notes: Some features are works-in-progress, e.g. new in_mod & out_wasapi plugins Sorry, no CD burning, autotag or cddb features yet. No multinational version with lang packs yet either. Changes since unofficial build 3563 Removed ml_nowplaying; updated libogg, libvorbis, libflac & libopenmpt; copyright updates; added more genres to file info dialog; new digital cert; various other general tweaks, fixes and prep work.... More to follow.
Winamp Community Update Project releases first Winamp Preview January 3, 2019 https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/03/winamp-community-update-project-releases-first-winamp-preview/
New Preview Released (v1.0.6.4234) Download Spoiler: Changes Preview 1.0.6.4234 Preview Version: 1.0.6.4234 Released: 16 September 2019 Changed the default custom global hotkeys list to no longer include multimedia keys (the default handling options of the global hotkeys plug-in along with the addition of the win10shell plug-in can otherwise conflict e.g. stop or play/pause doesn't appear to do anything as the two plug-ins can counteract each other) Changed the Library History plug-in to not try to update main playlist items as this is causing issues with the Yule Log plug-in (will provide a better solution to achieve the desired aim at a later time) Changed the new to build 4220 failed memory allocation handler to allow a workaround for in_mp3 tag related issues to keep working instead of it triggering the crash reporter (in_mp3 is a plug-in that badly needs to be replaced but it's somewhat important to normal playback, etc) Fixed syntax errors in some ATF formatting strings causing a crash due to a localisation error Fixed trying to turn off custom hotkeys not working correctly (build 4220 specific issue) Fixed HTTP POST actions via Yule Log not working due to a libcurl behavioural change (specifically it needed CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE setting to zero for CURLOPT_POST actions even though there was no body data being sent in our mrthod of usage along with a decision to make it work in HTTP/1.1 mode instead of also attempting to use a HTTP/2 mode) Fixed the Undo plug-in crashing due to an annoyingly old bug (which pre-dates WACUP) when loading the prior undo list information as a request of an integrity check failing if square brackets were found elsewhere in the file (that'll teach past me to optimise loading an ini-style file) Fixed titles not being correctly shown when starting playback of supported files from an archive Fixed RAR playback not working correctly (there's still issues with this that will be resolved later) Fixed a hang or crash on close (varies by setup) when having played supported files from an archive Other small adjustments based on some of the quirks seen from the crash reports received & how those crashes cou ld interact with other parts of the code Updated cacert.pem to latest (28 Aug 2019) Updated libexpat (xml.w5s) to 2.2.8 (13 Sep 2019) Updated OpenSSL (libcurl.dll) to 1.1.1d (10 Sep 2019) Updated pugixml to 1.10 (15 Sep 2019)
WACUP (WinAmp Community Update Project) 1.0.7.4264 Preview Website Download Spoiler: Changes Preview 1.0.7.4264 Preview Version: 1.0.7.4264 Released: 24 September 2019 Changed how opening of the preferences window is handled to remove a lot of duplicate processing that was going on such as having it achieve the better sectioning of preference options (this was needed for the preference related fixes noted below & turned into an optimisation exercise) Changed all of the visualisation preference page handling to now be WACUP managed (needed to be done related to the running visualisation related crash issue fixed below) Changed the global hotkeys preference page to prompt if the user wants to reset the custom hotkeys back to their defaults (also tweaked the page layout to better split the two modes of hotkeys based on feedback received) Changed how the loading of the BogProg LiveWire DSP is done to limit WACUP's hooking of the DSP (as it does to all loaded plug-ins) to resolve some stability issues with this DSP Changed the FLAC input plug-in to be built with VS2017 (more plug-ins will be moved over to the newer compiler over the coming builds - will hold off on VS2019 for the time being before anyone asks, heh) Changed the Milkdrop2 plug-in to ignore X3025 shader compiler errors as the shader is still compiling ok from tests & is causing user confusion Changed the in_vgmstream input plug-in to not attempt to take the .vgm file extension as this breaks the in_vgm input plug-in which has a legitimate need to handle .vgm files Changed the Discord & Twitter preference nodes to no longer break accessibility via the keyboard navigation as well as changing where the options tab are in relation to the modes Fixed a conflict between the normal handling of multimedia hotkeys via the Global Hotkeys plug-in & the SMTC / Win10Shell integration (this should now resolve the main issues reported e.g. stop not working) Fixed trying to run the config action of visualisation plug-ins either not working or crashing (a certain developer hadn't finished replacing all of the handling needed - silly dev) Fixed a running visualisation or DSP plug-in possibly crashing when using the uninstall option if they're running at the time of the uninstall attempt (5.666 doesn't seem to do this) Fixed the FLAC input plug-in potentially leaking a small amount of memory on each file played Fixed a localisation crash when trying to add a password protected RAR archive into a playlist Fixed some issues with trying to select the Windows Classic Modern (WCM) skin during new WACUP installs Fixed some MP4 based files failing to end playback when reaching the end of the file either under normal playback (this was due to incorrect header information) or if doing fast seeking through the file Fixed opening the preferences window sometimes causing WACUP to lock-up due to a processing issue Fixed opening the preferences window not assigning items correctly to the parent nodes if the preferences window was opened whilst plug-ins were still being loaded Fixed the active Streaming Source preferences window now always being set as fully visible due to some loading order quirks Fixed the Stream Source Server config action not working as expected Fixed some of the flickering seen when using the skinned preferences mode (on opening & changing to some of the preference pages) Fixed the prompt to restart WACUP when disabling the skinned preferences option not being shown Fixed playing a separator double-jumping over the playlist entry after it Other related code changes to achieve more WACUP provided handling of the preferences window & associated code removal due to less handling being needed Updated libflac to version from the latest github commit (15 Sep 2019) Updated libopenmpt (in_mod.dll) to 0.4.7.12088 (23 Sep 2019) Updated zlib-ng (zlib.dll) to latest re-based update (18 Sep 2019)
WACUP (WinAmp Community Update Project) 1.0.8.4346 Preview - October 14 2019 https://getwacup.com/preview/ (Current Beta is also at the same version) https://getwacup.com/beta/
WACUP (WinAmp Community Update Project) 1.0.9.5118 Preview Website Download Spoiler: Changes Preview 1.0.9.5118 Preview Version: 1.0.9.5118 Released: 28 February 2020 Added an updated version of the SNESAmp Wrapper plug-in which allows the 3rd party SNESAmp plug-in to work with WACUP without crashing & some general integration improvements that the wrapper brings (this will be generically installed but it will only be loaded & used if a valid SNESAmp installation is detected i.e. it should just work without you needing to do anything if you use SNESAamp) Changed the configuration dialogs for the Not So Asio, Not So Direct & Not So Yasapi to now be done via native preference pages as a child of the Output plug-in preferences node (this is useful for allowing changing the configuration of the output plug-in without risking selecting a different output plug-in & filling your hard drive with a load of output as happens with inadvertently selecting out_disk) Fixed a possible cause of the settings cache causing a deadlock in some setups from the crash reports received Fixed a change in build 5090 to fix other issues with the settings cache that was preventing Milkdrop to load due to the formatting within milk2_msg.ini Fixed seeing the hung / crashed WACUP instance message on loading when using the self restart action (e.g. on disabling a plug-in) Fixed the build changelog not being shown in the on load / exit update dialog Fixed the inconsistent loading of the user provided winamp.ico for the notification area icon Fixed some actions causing winamp.exe to be started instead of wacup.exe if wacup.exe was the running instance (the joys of compatibility & trying to distinguish things going forward) Fixed the win7shell plug-in not correctly recognising if it's been running under wacup.exe or winamp.exe to ensure that the jump list will open the correct (especially if pinned to the taskbar) instance Fixed some issues with the recent & frequent items on the jump list actions provided by the win7shell plug-in when those options are enabled Fixed opening the playlist editor window after WACUP has started not always painting the inner contents of the window correctly (this was mostly resolved in an earlier beta build but this full fixes the issue reported) Fixed a drawing related issue when going from double-size to normal size with a classic skin (this has affected builds 4994/50xx for some users) Fixed restoring the JTFE playback queue between sessions causing the prior queue to be incorrectly added to the end of the playlist instead of re-using the existing playlist items Fixed a number of issues related to moving around main playlist items in the JTFE playback queue (note: there are still some quirks which will be resolved in a later build once more of the playlist handling from the Winamp core has been replaced with all WACUP provided handling) Fixed some quirks with the Waveform Wrapper plug-in loading validation (found whilst doing the SNESAmp Wrapper plug-in updates & integration) Other small changes to reduce some code duplication & how much code is run when starting up WACUP Updated libvorbis (libvorbis.dll) to the latest Git commit from 18 Jan 2020 Updated the Milkdrop2 presets by Fumbling_Foo for your visual enjoyment Updated vgmstream (in_vgmstream.dll) to the latest Git commit from 27 Feb 2020
Winamp, The Legend That Got Lost in the Modern World The legendary media player is almost dead for good June 5, 2020 https://news.softpedia.com/news/winamp-the-legend-that-got-lost-in-the-modern-world-530180.shtml
Winamp prepares a relaunch, new beta version almost ready November 18, 2021 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...res-a-relaunch-new-beta-version-almost-ready/
Winamp's revival includes platforms for musicians and fans The creator service makes it more than an MP3 player. August 16, 2022
