Winamp 5.56 Released
 

Winamp 5.56, Build 2512 (5.5.6.2512)

Winamp 5.56 Full (US English version)
Winamp 5.56 Full (Multi-national installer)*
Winamp 5.56 Pro (Multi-national version, asks for key during install)*
Winamp 5.56 Lite (basic 2.x-style mp3/cd player)
More installers (mp3 bundle & other languages, etc)
* (French, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese & Romanian)

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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

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Notes:

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Reporting Bugs:

Please report all bugs in the Bug Reports forum!
Make sure your report is complete, according to the sticky threads in Bug Reports, i.e.
Clean install, no non-default/extra 3rd-party plugins, List of Plugins, full step-by-step method of reproduction, relevant system specs, exact error messages, screenshots, which skin (one of Classic, Modern, or Bento only, or all three), links to sample files, etc.
If error reports, screenshots, sample files, etc are smaller than 200kb, then please attach them to your post.
Otherwise, please upload to one of stashbox.org, mediafire.com, or sendspace.com and post the link/s (no rapidshare or imageshack or similar links please).
Note that incomplete/lame bug reports may be totally ignored.

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Known Bugs/Issues:

1. Some AVS presets may not work properly with AVS v2.82

2. Remove Missing Files broken for Local Media rescan (please use Library button menu item for now instead)

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Updates & Extras:

Winamp Essentials 5.55
* New: [ml_enqplay] 'ML Enqueue and Play' plug-in for media library
* New: [in_wv] WavPack decoder, a free lossless codec
* New: [f263.wbm] As part of new 5.55 WBM system for lazy-loading of *.w5s files
* Updated: [alac.w5s] ALAC Decoder (now with ReplayGain support)
* Updated: [in_wav] Nullsoft Waveform Wrapper to v1.0.3 (adds localization support)
* Removed: ML Database Import/Export plugin (now bundled with Winamp 5.55)
* Misc: Various UI tweaks & translation updates
* Full changelog
* More Info | 2

Color Editor for 5.55

Skinning Engine Changes

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Old Winamp 5.5 Released thread
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Old Winamp 5.5 Beta Preview 1 thread
Old Winamp 5.36 Beta Preview thread
Old Winamp 5.35 Released thread
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AWESOME! a new release! Thanks for all involved. But what happened? Usually we will get word in the forums before the website is updated.

Yay updates, thank you. :)

The whole 'Winamp Orgler plugin' sounds/looks far too like a last.fm clone, arses. :S

@Juanus
I'm not rightly sure.
I only just found out myself, heh.
At a guess, I think it's probably due to the couple of security fixes that we had to move the release forward a bit...

You should subscribe to the winamp twitter. It was announced there last night! ;)

Nice to see a new version. :)

That release was a surprise for all translators. :/

The German language pack in this build isn't complete or doesn't contain most of the tweaks I planned for it. Also it does not contain the Y/Z key change

Hopefully we get a silent update, which should contain a complete German language pack with the key ramapping.

The feedback for my changes were good, but sadly I had no chance to verify all parts, though.


I'm not able to compile the Essentials Pack in the next 2 days too, so we have to live with 5.55 for now, sorry.

AOL:

Please give us a quick note even 2 days, before you release a newer version. That we have no chance to update and verify all stuff is just a shame. All translators have a real life and it's impossible to provide daily updates for us. All other software translators have a few weeks to do their job, so give us at least a few days.

sigh. another company wasting internet bandwidth on the useless twitter fad

dont like twitter. another stupid messanger system with less letters.

thx for the new version. maybe i can get the german lanuage file on a rapidshare or other mirror without a new setup?

can anyone please tell my how to remove the brower and the video tab in the bento skin?

i dont use it and dont know which plugin this do. or is there no option to remove it.

I'll provide an external link to th German language pack on Saturday.

It's not possible to remove these tabs. I'd expect, that the video tab will be removed when no video plug-in is installed, like in Classic or Modern Skin, but Bento doesn't support this.

so much develop time for.... what?

Why is there no comments/info about Winamp Orgler, other than a tad of info on the Winamp blog mentioning how to set it up, slightly.
I've had it on, signed in, and been playin tunes all last night, and it says I haven't been listening to any music, when I go to the Winamp Charts section.
And there's no info on what kind of purpose/usefullness it serves.

Yeah, I agree. The Devs felt like they werent hearing enough complaints, so they released a new version.

How about showing a little appreciation for the hard work that STILL goes into this program.

Re: Winamp 5.56 Released
 

No Dutch? :(

just me?
 

dload not working for me in ie or firefox.
?

Thanks for the update.

Seems like the orgler is a secret though. Had to travel to the winamp blog to find any info. I'd think something big like that would have gotten more attention.

.:edited for horrible typo's:. :D

Guys, you have to fix this annoying bug with Babylon 8...

"Add file to Playlist" dialog pops up on doubleclick in playlist

Re: Orgler

Hmm, yeah, I was going to put something in the Notes section about it...
just haven't got round to doing it yet.


@stopasking
Fixed. Sorry.


@Saliman
What is Babylon 8 exactly?
Surely the Babylon 8 developers would need to fix a bug with Babylon 8?


@Cianca
Benski spent ~2months getting pmp_ipod to support iPhone/Touch
but then Apple released new firmware which totally broke it again :-(
Also, there's been quite a lot of optimizations/refactoring going on (ml_local/online/etc)

good ... fixed now.
maybe extremely busy server

I'm a spam twat

Spam removed by martin.deimos

well, honestly i found Orgler useless (sorry)
its kinda the History Plug but online based, so thanks for the work but i will not use it.
how about dropbox ? is it stoped ?
and ipod/iphone compatibility, as well as windows 7.
that would be much more apreciated

thanks!

I understand... but to me seems that winamp is a little dead in this year.... :(

German Language Pack v5.56

- should contain all 5.56 specific things (note, that Winamp Orgler isn't translatable yet)
- remapped Y/Z key & updated related documentaion for this - this should make all of these people happy, who use their normal keyboard to control Winamp
- tweaked some more dialogs a little bit, especially Windows Media Decoder preferences dialog
- updated JTFE translation based on latest version
- Fixed some smaller glitches, based on user feedback
- removed obsolete Dashboard translation file

Download: http://stashbox.org/559744/Winamp-de-de.wlz

i am having problems with it...

its not removing dead files automatically like it used to on scan, and it doesn't always show whats being scanned like it used to in the options pane where you set how metadata is handled, esp at startup.

edit1: don't know why it double posted, can't get it to delete either, (using winamp browser btw)

edit2: ...and i should add my appreciation for continuing development by the devs!

FYI - Pro version for US
http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/..._pro_en-us.exe.

The current link to winamp556_pro_all does not work.

@koopatropper

thx!

i want to add some more...

it doesn't seem to rescan automatically anymore on startup.

and it crashes when i go to winamp remote... i put login info in (not sure if it was correct or not) but it crashed and crashes everytime i try to go back to it.

i'm using vista sp2 if that matters to any of this.

can others reproduce / confirm what i am seeing?

Yes rescan also does not work for me, see :

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=307948

:eek:

I can reproduce it not automatically removing missing files on rescan.

I haven't been able to reproduce any of the other issues yet though...

Don't have alot of time to check it all out ATM.

I've always had some ongoing problems with the Album Art view, as opposed to the plain text album view.

The only new change I've noticed is in the 'Remove missing files' dialogue, it used to say 'compacting' or 'cleaning up' or somesuch in the final phase. Maybe something related.

UJ

We seem to have found the problem...

For now, use "Remove missing files" from the Library button menu.

it used to say "checking for file" on the "status line" on the metadata page in prefs which is when (i believe) it removed dead/missing files, but now it doesn't. after that it said "compacting" which it still does.

egg, when you first start winamp, sometimes (most of the time) it doesn't seem to be scanning at all automatically when you first start it.

however, sometimes it does, but the "status line" doesn't show ANY activity. the only way i can tell anything is happening is the button there changes from "stop scan" to "rescan now"

i am having a hard time reproducing that myself, partly b/c (i'm guessing) i am on my laptop (w/small ML) for the holiday. things might be different if i:

1. had a bigger library
and
2. hadn't manually removed all the dead files via ML command, which i've already done here.

as to winamp remote...

try putting the wrong login info in it, and see if it crashes. i'm on vista 32bit home ultimate. i open winamp, click "Remote Media" on the left, and click "Audio" under it, and the pgm crashes, everytime.

Thanks! Wow, I was expecting a new version, but this came as a surprise without a public beta. Keep it up dev team!!! :)

Hello Koopatrooper,
Thanx. You are awesome.


AND!!! Why can't integrate aol your work???

something else new thats wrong:

i get no "winamp charts" under online services. orgler says i am logged in, reporting my stats. and its already forgotten once the dir i told it to use for the "only use this dir" option for orgler.

in any case, shouldn't 'winamp charts' always be available under there?

http://blog.winamp.com/2009/07/02/wi...gler-tutorial/

Try going to Online Services (root view) -> Recently Added tab
Winamp Charts should be on page 1 there (if not, try page 2 etc)
Click it, then click the "Add to Winamp" button.

Re: Winamp Remote
Sorry, but I don't use it.
You'll need to post any problems with it in the Winamp Remote forum.

yes, i was able to add it. that wasn't clear, the video says you don't have to DL anything, but i just did, via your instruction. i think winamp should include that by default, very confusing.

still, nothing is tracking there for me. i've played tons of tracks, but its not showing anything for me, only worldwide, and those seem odd.

i assume if i specify a dir in orgler, it INCLUDES all sub dir's by default, yes?

as to winamp remote, i am talking about in the client, not the "orb" part, its the client, aka the winamp app itself that crashes. do i still need to report it there? (this issue has already been reported in the winamp forums besides me btw)

finally, what about automatically rescanning at startup being broken? can u reproduce that too?

I like the new version, but there is some lag present in album art as follows.

I'm using Bento skin with notifier set to show never. Now when a new track starts playing the GUI freezes for about 1-2 seconds, but the track starts playing immediately. For files which contain embedded album art, I don't see any such lag. Its a problem with the files which pickup their album art from images in the same folder. Another observation is that if I set the notifier to show always along with album art, the GUI freezes even more and the alpha fade is choppier. Also tried the Winamp Modern skin and same problem, so its not skin specific, but I guess album art related. I hope the dev team fixes this in the next version.

OMIGAWD! There is now a way to see all this data I've been collecting. I wonder if there are plans for an "All time" period selection.

[EDIT] Checkout the #12 song here: http://www.winamp.com/music/top-songs/all/last-month