Winamp 5.5 Full Beta 1568

Nullsoft - (Freeware)

The number of formats supported and its versatile and customizable interface made Winamp one of the most popular audio player.

Winamp is a popular software specially designed to play audio files. It is always capable of reading a plurality of audio and video formats. The program can extract and compress the CDs to AAC or WAV.

Winamp has a burning function too, so that user will be able to burn his playlists and create his own compilations.

The appearance of the interface is fully customizable with classic skins or with modern versions. Winamp also allows to discover radio and TV channels broadcast over the Internet through its built-in tuner.

The pioneer mp3 players continues to be of great interest for several reasons. It manages a large number of audio and video formats where most competitors are limited to. Winamp is also much easier to customize, thanks to hundreds of skins, visualizations or various and varied plugins.

The software acquires an Orb based on module to access its library remotely via a secure web page, and includes a browser in line with Songbird, allowing easy access to audio content such as web pages and audioblogs.

Winamp supports a wide range of players , starting with iPods to Creative or Archos players through the UMS readers.

The software offers the possibility to retrieve information about a song or an album cover on the Internet. This feature requires an Internet connection and makes it easy to manage.

Access to online radio is also on the program. Not less than 30,000 radio stations are accessible if the Internet connection allows it. Radios are categorized by genre, this way it is easier to find the one desired to listen .

Title:: Winamp 5.5 Full Beta 1568
File Size:: 7.3 MB
Requirements:: Windows 9x / 2000 / XP / Vista / Windows7 / Windows8
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 20 Sep 2007
Publisher:: Nullsoft
Homepage:: http://www.nullsoft.com
MD5 Checksum:: 16D3D1F1553454E1DAA851899442856E

-New: Auto-Tagger in File Info dialog (powered by Gracenote)

-New: Bento skin: Optional Album Art pane beneath enlarged Playlist (enable via: main menu > options > playlist)*

-New: [ml_autotag] Mass Auto-Tagger (powered by Gracenote)

-Improved: Various AlbumArt enhancements (eg. smarter refresh on update)*

-Improved: [in_cdda] %cdengine% ATF string now differentiates between Sonic, ASPI & SPTI modes

-Improved: [in_mp4] Smoother data sent to vis & other minor tweaks

-Improved: [ml_plg] Implemented extra options for Playlist Generator config (No. of results, include seed track, etc)*

-Improved: [ml_pmp] Added tooltips to new toolbar buttons (to match ml_local)*

-Improved: [pmp_ipod] Fixed for new ipods :-)

-Improved: [pmp_ipod] ipod model selection options

-Improved: [ml_wire] Updated podcast directory

-Fixed: Classic Spectrum Analyzer messing up when encountering/calculating silence blocks*

-Fixed: Drag+drop from Local Media views to pledit not respecting complex ATF syntax*

-Fixed: Esc key not working in Credits & Winamp tabs of About Box

-Fixed: File Editor bugs (genre defaulting to blues, track# discrepancies, handling of out of range values, etc)*

-Fixed: Crash when encountering CMYK colorspace jpeg's for albumart*

-Fixed: Songticker lag and other issues (Winamp Modern winshade: shadow on first & last chars & dbl-click not opening File Info)*

-Fixed: Songticker in Classic skin showing playlist entry number -1 (eg. if track 50 is playing, songticker displayed 49.)*

-Fixed: Thumbscroll button not auto-moving when using enhanced-mode mousewheel to scroll through albumart pane*

-Fixed: Scaling Bento skin to less than 100% crashes Winamp*

-Fixed: Timer/Songticker overlap in Bento skin*

-Fixed: Various other Winamp Bento skin bugs/issues*

-Fixed: [in_cdda] Stuttering CD playback with spti, crash with aspi (when no Sonic Engine installed)*

-Fixed: [in_midi] No longer tries to open files when being queried for "type"*

-Fixed: [in_mp3] Wrongly calculating length of mp3's with no lame headers (was multiplying by 1024 instead of 1000)*

-Fixed: [gen_ff] Not remembering size of Classic ML window when switching between Modern & Classic skins

-Fixed: [gen_ff] 10% opacity not applying with skins that add too many items to the right-click menu (eg. Bento)*

-Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Enter key not working when JTFE dialog is skinned*

-Fixed: [gen_ml] Using shift + cursor for albumart icon view*

-Fixed: [gen_ml] Rating auto-unhovering on small sizes*

-Fixed: [in_mp3] Orig. Artist field not updating in ID3v2 tag*

-Fixed: [in_mp4] Glitch when modifying metadata on playing track

-Fixed: [gen_ff/in_mp3] Rare NULL-pointer crashes based on info from crash reporter*

-Fixed: [gen_ml/ml_history] Blank entry in Prefs tree when History disabled*

-Fixed: [ml_history] 'playplays' and truncated text at bottom of History view*

-Fixed: [ml_disc] 'Unalbe' typo :-D*

-Fixed: [ml_local] Rescan Folders at startup/every x minutes*

-Fixed: [ml_pmp] ipod & usb play/enqueue actions sending an ansi converted title instead of unicode

-Fixed: [ml_pmp] Misc AlbumArt bugfixes*

-Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Various ipod crash & database writing fixes*

-Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Not creating .ithmb files

-Fixed: [ml_pmp] Transfer caption building when Artist metadata is empty

-Fixed: [ml_wire] 'Delete x downloads' prompt not filling out the number correctly (%d)*

-Misc: Fully removed all unicows.lib pointers, which finally kills all Win9x support for good

-Misc: Added a hidden winamp.ini option to show/hide playlist position in taskbar icon/tooltip: [Winamp] section: dotasknum=1/0 (will be added to prefs ui eventually)

-Misc: Moved Bento to top of Skins list (after Classic & Modern)*
(Note, Skins in Submenu plugin from Essentials Pack will need to be updated)

-Updated: Winamp Bento #096*

-Updated: Winamp Bento color themes (updated 'classic' & 'modern', added 'brighter' themes)*

-Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v0.99.1e b426 'dev' (was v0.99.1c b420 'dev' in last beta)

-Updated [in_flac] libflac 1.2.1 (was 1.2.0 in last beta)