Winamp 5.9 RC1 Released

[DJ Egg]

Winamp 5.9 RC1 Build 9999

Winamp 5.9
* Improved: Windows 11 compatibility
* Improved: Playback of https:// streams
* Improved: Updated and tidier generate html playlist code
* Improved: [in_mkv] vp8 support
* Improved: [in_mod] Playback of .itz, .mdz, .s3z & .xmz compressed modules
* Improved: [ml_wire] New working Podcast Directory
* Improved: [out_ds] Display device information correctly in Unicode format
* Fixed: [in_midi/in_mkv/nu/pfc] memory leaks
* Fixed: [in_mp3] id3 empty genre displayed as Blues or Psychobilly
* Fixed: [jnetlib/ml_online/ml_wire] JSAPI2 JavaScript API
* Misc: lame_enc & libsndfile now static links instead of dynamic dll
* Misc: libmpg123, libflac & zlib now static links instead of dynamic dll
* Misc: libalac.dll added to Shared folder as part of alac update
* Misc: Major compiler refactoring work
* Misc: Many more general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Minimum required OS is now Windows 7 SP1
* Misc: New online Help section and articles
* Misc: SDK now compatible with VS2017 and newer
* Misc: Versioning syntax changed to v5.x.x
* Misc: Winamp\Microsoft.VC142.CRT runtimes now installed on Win7/8
* Removed: Bento Browser tab - So long, and thanks for all the fish!
* Updated: [alac/in_mp4] ALAC 2017-11-03-c38887c5
* Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.100.1
* Updated: [freetype.wac] freetype 2.12.1
* Updated: [gif] giflib 5.1.4
* Updated: [in_cdda] libdiscid 0.6.2
* Updated: [in_flac/enc_flac] libFLAC 1.3.4
* Updated: [in_mod] libopenmpt 0.7.0 & Portaudio 19.7.0
* Updated: [in_mp3] libmpg123 1.29.3
* Updated: [in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.5 & libvorbis 1.3.7
* Updated: [in_wave] libsndfile 1.1.0
* Updated: [OpenSSL] OpenSSL 3.0.3
* Updated: [png] libpng 1.6.37
* Updated: [vp8] WebM libvpx 1.11.0
* Updated: [zlib] zlib 1.2.12


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Info

This is the culmination of 4 years' work since the 5.8 release.
Two dev teams, and a pandemic-induced hiatus period inbetween.

To the end-user, it might not seem like there's a whole heap of changes,
but the largest and hardest part was actually migrating the entire project from VS2008 to VS2019
and getting it all to build successfully.

The groundwork has now been laid, and now we can concentrate more on features.
Whether fixing/replacing old ones or adding new.


The build # will stay as 9999 for this release, e.g. if/when there's an rc2 or final release
(builds can be identified by filename + timestamp).
We'll reset it for 5.9.1


Although extensive internal testing has already been carried out,
this is still marked as a Release Candidate build.

All features need testing.

If possible, please test installations on Windows 7 - 8.1
There's already been some reports of DLLs not loading,
including gen_ff.dll (Modern Skins support) :-(


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Known Issues

Earmarked for fixing in 5.9.1

About dialog => Credits
No longer supports unicode chars
Unicode support in Plush was broken during the migration to VS2019

AVS Editor
Main menu no longer localized
Will hopefully be fixed for 5.9.1

Milkdrop
Some presets produce errors (error in per-frame code, etc.)
Another ill-effect of the migration process.
For now, we've force-enabled the "suppress all warnings" setting,
removed the worst affected presets from the package,
and (on upgrades) we've renamed the 11 worst affected presets with the .off extension.
We hope to fix it fully for 5.9.1

NSV VP3 decoder = broken/missing

ml_wire Podcasts
omBrowser uses IE(10) engine, which some podcast sites no longer support.
We fixed https subscriptions in general,
but if manual https subscriptions don't work, try http instead.
For 5.9.1 and beyond, we can look at replacing the internal browser engine with e.g. Mozilla or Chromium.

Bento skin
"Options => Appearance => Show Artist Information Buttons"
is still in the menu, even though we've removed them.
Note, we've also disabled links in MCV (Artist, Album, etc. no longer clickable)

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Will be fixed for the next public build (e.g. 5.9 RC2 or 5.9 Final)

- Some gen & ml plugins show as "not loaded" on Windows 7-8.1, incl. Modern Skins Support (gen_ff.dll)

- Load EQ Presets dialog is in Chinese

- ReplayGain calculation broken for vorbis files (.ogg)
(This is also an issue in 5.8)

- Although not included with the Winamp distribution, some plug-ins with a dependency for msvcr90.dll are "not loaded", incl. JTFE.
The VS2008 Microsoft.VC90.CRT runtime is no longer shipped/required/auto-loaded with Winamp 5.9
(VC142 runtime is now installed on Win7-8.1).
If you see runtime errors on Winamp load, it will be because said plug-ins are present
and msvcp90.dll / msvcr90.dll exists in your Windows\SysWow64 folder

EDIT: This was a manifest related issue and will be fixed for the next build. Sorry!

The Shoutcast DSP plugin also had the same issue.
A new version of the DSP is also available (will only install on Winamp 5.9)

Shoutcast DSP v2.4.0 for Winamp 5.9

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ToDo for 5.9.0 final
- Update OpenSSL to 3.0.5 (vcpkg currently errors out)
- Address issues brought to our attention here (bugs, libopenmpt version, etc.)
- Fix some gen & ml plugins not loading under Windows 7 - 8.1 (see above)


Still ToDo (5.9.1 and beyond)
- Add native support for more formats (e.g. opus, ogv/ogm, TS, H.265, HLS, VP9, etc.)
- Replace old Gracenote features (CDDB, Autotag, etc) with e.g. MusicBrainz or MusicStory
- Maybe restore a working NowPlaying service ?
- Add more default services to ml_online view (Lyrics, Jamendo, Hotmix, etc.) ?
- More multithreading e.g. for Format Converter / Send To, etc.
- Config for in_mod & out_wasapi
- View File Info dialog for in_mod
- Tons more :-)


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Language Packs

An installer is also available for all Language Packs.
You can select which pack(s) to install before installation.

Note that some of the packs are up-to-date,
whereas others are not...

Winamp Language Packs v1.2


Changes from v1.1
- Updated Spanish lang pack
- Removed Polish lang pack (Pawel will be providing a separate installer)
- Installer/Uninstaller fixes


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Your feedback, reports and thoughts are welcome.

Thanks!

Winamp Team

[DJ Egg]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[Mikey7]

Uhm. WOW. I'm sure myself and others will report back our experiences. Many thanks to the Winamp team.

[Simazine]

Whaaaaaaat

Top job lads!

[evil_pro]

With the transition of the codebase to more modern standards, can we expect 64-Bit builds in the future?

[kadavrul]

Originally Posted by DJ Egg

Winamp 5.9
* Improved: [in_mod] Playback of .itz, .mdz, .s3z & .xmz compressed modules

"View file info..." still not working. Why???

For this reason I'm forced to use 5.666 to see the modules info.

[marcgm]

It works for me modern skin.

[kadavrul]

marcgm, maybe you tried mp3s.

Compressed modules no!

[apsoul]

- virustotal returns 7/66
- forum doesn't use https

possibly i test .exe during weekend and reply. cheers and keep up the good work. respect! :-)

[M.D-78 Odysséus]

I installed here and some things stopped responding, appear as not loaded, they are in_wv.dll, gen_classicart.dll, gen_jumpex.dll and pmp_activesync.dll.
Also some freezes, the loading of more than one instance even with this option disabled, the icon packs that don't work anymore and I think just for now.
Has this happened to anyone else?

[DJ Egg]

Originally Posted by M.D-78 Odysséus

I installed here and some things stopped responding, appear as not loaded, they are in_wv.dll, gen_classicart.dll, gen_jumpex.dll and pmp_activesync.dll.
Also some freezes, the loading of more than one instance even with this option disabled, the icon packs that don't work anymore and I think just for now.
Has this happened to anyone else?

Hi

Please refer to the notes in the first post about JTFE (gen_jumpex.dll) and other plugins by DrO not loading in Winamp 5.9 due to a built-in dependency for msvcr90/msvcp90.dll

We've got the source code for gen_classicart and in_wv so those two can probably be fixed.
But we've not got the source code for gen_jumpex.dll. Sorry :-(

Do you use pmp_activesync?
We were contemplating just removing it.
But afaik, it requires MS ActiveSync to be installed.

[DJ Egg]

Originally Posted by apsoul

- virustotal returns 7/66
- forum doesn't use https

possibly i test .exe during weekend and reply. cheers and keep up the good work. respect! :-)

Thanks.

I've reported false positive detections to 4 of them.

[DJ Egg]

Originally Posted by kadavrul

"View file info..." still not working. Why???

For this reason I'm forced to use 5.666 to see the modules info.

Sorry :-(


Yes. New in_mod needs View File Info & Config dialogs implementing.
It's on the ToDo list.

[EXPERIMENTONGOD]

Great work on this update guys. I've been using Winamp non-stop since 1997.

Shame about JTFE, hope you can implement some alternative in the future.

Regards.

[knipjo]

Happy to have you folks back to work!

Please test this with a computer that has a high resolution screen. I have a Dell XPS13 for example.


It looks like that:

Keep up the good work.

John

[knipjo]

Sorry, let's try again with the screenshot:

[gulbis37]

Are song titles and artist displayed when CD played from disc drive ?

[synthetiq]

yep! bring it, team! =)

[devil123]

Bitdefender detected one of your setup files as a virus .

C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Plugins\in_avi.dll is infected with Gen:Variant.Lazy.151343

any explanation?

[gulbis37]

I went back because there isn't Shoutcast DSP plugin included. When I downloaded Shoutcast DSP plugin and start Winamp,plugin doesn't display in prefences DSP/ Effect area.

[zumer]

Temporary solution. Indeed there is a problem with plugins using vc90crt. I took gen_jumpex.dll (JTFE v1.2.3) from Winamp 5.621 and it worked.

[zumer]

I think that everything can be taken from Winamp 5.621 and below. Of course this is a regression, but as a temporary solution works, until the release of Winamp 5.9.1 and later.

[manxorist]

Originally Posted by DJ Egg

Winamp 5.9 RC1 Build 9999

Winamp 5.9
* Updated: [in_mod] libopenmpt 0.7.0 & Portaudio 19.7.0

Yeah, uhm, what is this libopenmpt 0.7.0 version that you claim to include?

While I am glad to see libopenmpt being used for module playback, libopenmpt 0.7.0 has not been released yet, and any current 0.7.* version is a development version that should not be shipped to users as part of a release or release candidate.

Can you please switch to a stable release version (the latest one currently is 0.6.4 (https://lib.openmpt.org/libopenmpt/2...release-0.6.4/)), or at the very least clarify which exact development snapshot version you are using, and why? "0.7.0" for sure is not specific enough, the current (as of right now) full version string for a 0.7.* version would be 0.7.0-pre.10+r17672 (see https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

Also, what's the point of mentioning PortAudio? PortAudio is a sound output library and not used/depended-on by libopenmpt itself.

manx (libopenmpt maintainer)

[DJ Egg]

Originally Posted by gulbis37

I went back because there isn't Shoutcast DSP plugin included. When I downloaded Shoutcast DSP plugin and start Winamp,plugin doesn't display in prefences DSP/ Effect area.

Please refer to the first post.

There's a download link for Shoutcast DSP v2.4.0 for Winamp 5.9

[DJ Egg]

Originally Posted by devil123

Bitdefender detected one of your setup files as a virus .

C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Plugins\in_avi.dll is infected with Gen:Variant.Lazy.151343

any explanation?

Please report this to BitDefender as a false positive.

[gulbis37]

Originally Posted by DJ Egg

Please refer to the first post.

There's a download link for Shoutcast DSP v2.4.0 for Winamp 5.9

Thank you!

[DJ Egg]

Originally Posted by manxorist

Yeah, uhm, what is this libopenmpt 0.7.0 version that you claim to include?

While I am glad to see libopenmpt being used for module playback, libopenmpt 0.7.0 has not been released yet, and any current 0.7.* version is a development version that should not be shipped to users as part of a release or release candidate.

Can you please switch to a stable release version (the latest one currently is 0.6.4 (https://lib.openmpt.org/libopenmpt/2...release-0.6.4/)), or at the very least clarify which exact development snapshot version you are using, and why? "0.7.0" for sure is not specific enough, the current (as of right now) full version string for a 0.7.* version would be 0.7.0-pre.10+r17672 (see https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

Also, what's the point of mentioning PortAudio? PortAudio is a sound output library and not used/depended-on by libopenmpt itself.

manx (libopenmpt maintainer)

Hi manx,

We're looking into this right now.

I can't get hold of the relevant dev at the moment.
Where exactly in the project is the full version string specified?

I'm waiting to get clarification of exactly where we got the update from and if it is actually 0.6.4 and not 0.7.0-{string}.


Mentioning "PortAudio" is probably my fault.
I just copied it from this line in our dev changelog:

Update 'portaudio' from 19.5.1 to 19.7.0

[zumer]

there is a solution for vc90crt. Edit manifest in winamp.exe resources

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns:asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<assemblyIdentity version="5.9.0.9999" processorArchitecture="x86" name="Radionomy.Winamp.Winamp for Windows" type="win32">
</assemblyIdentity>
<description>Winamp 5.9</description>
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.2600.0" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" language="*">
</assemblyIdentity>
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC90.CRT" version="9.0.30729.6161" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b">
</assemblyIdentity>
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2"><security><requestedPrivileges>
<requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" xmlns:ms_asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3" ms_asmv3:uiAccess="false">
</requestedExecutionLevel>
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
<asmv3:application>
<asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">
<dpiAware>true</dpiAware>
</asmv3:windowsSettings></asmv3:application>
<ms_compatibility:compatibility xmlns:ms_compatibility="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1">
<ms_compatibility:application xmlns:ms_compatibility="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1">
<ms_compatibility:supportedOS xmlns:ms_compatibility="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1" Id="{8e0f7a12-bfb3-4fe8-b9a5-48fd50a15a9a}">
</ms_compatibility:supportedOS>
<ms_compatibility:supportedOS xmlns:ms_compatibility="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1" Id="{1f676c76-80e1-4239-95bb-83d0f6d0da78}">
</ms_compatibility:supportedOS>
<ms_compatibility:supportedOS xmlns:ms_compatibility="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1" Id="{4a2f28e3-53b9-4441-ba9c-d69d4a4a6e38}">
</ms_compatibility:supportedOS>
<ms_compatibility:supportedOS xmlns:ms_compatibility="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1" Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}">
</ms_compatibility:supportedOS>
</ms_compatibility:application></ms_compatibility:compatibility>
</assembly>

[zumer]

the development team can use this solution to fix it.

[DJ Egg]

Very interesting, zumer.
Trying it now. Watch this space...


(if it works... so much for me saying "can't be fixed (by us)", heh)

[onestar]

Just downloaded and installed. Tried to right-click on a song in my library to queue it, and Winamp crashed.

I'm excited for the update, but for the moment, I'll roll back to the old version and keep an eye out for 5.9.1. Good luck finding the bugs!

P.S. What about using Discogs as well as Musicbrainz?

[NJK]

Originally Posted by onestar

Just downloaded and installed. Tried to right-click on a song in my library to queue it, and Winamp crashed.

I'm excited for the update, but for the moment, I'll roll back to the old version and keep an eye out for 5.9.1. Good luck finding the bugs!

P.S. What about using Discogs as well as Musicbrainz?

first welcome back after all these years, i had a simular issue with the player
when i tried to add music to the library.

Did you do a clean install or installed it over the old Winamp?

don't forget to secure your plugin etc out of the winampfolder , uninstall, remove winampfolder from the program files and install again.

[highonsnow]

I cannot believe the news, this is fantastic! I'll get some testing done on Windows 7 and 10!

[manxorist]

Hi DJ Egg,

thanks for looking into the libopenmpt version.

Originally Posted by DJ Egg

Where exactly in the project is the full version string specified?

I'm waiting to get clarification of exactly where we got the update from and if it is actually 0.6.4 and not 0.7.0-{string}.

You can find the libopenmpt version in "libopenmpt/libopenmpt_version.h" right at the top (see https://github.com/OpenMPT/openmpt/b..._version.h#L19 for 0.6.4 or https://github.com/OpenMPT/openmpt/b..._version.h#L19 for current 0.7.* development version). If you are using a packaged source archive, the precise revision would be in the filename of the zip archive, as well as in "build/svn_version/svn_version.h". With a svn or git checkout, our build system would pull the revision out of the VCS directly, so you would need to track that yourself if you are using your own build system. The revision would frankly only be relevant if you would be sticking with a 0.7.* development version in order to further disambiguate the version, because we do not increment the -pre.NUMBER part for every change.

Originally Posted by DJ Egg

Mentioning "PortAudio" is probably my fault.
I just copied it from this line in our dev changelog:

Update 'portaudio' from 19.5.1 to 19.7.0

I mean, the libopenmpt source package (or VCS checkout) comes bundled with PortAudio (and all our other dependencies), so maybe that's where the confusion started. PortAudio however is not used by the libopenmpt library itself, but only by our stand-alone terminal player openmpt123, and by the examples.

manx

[DJ Egg]

Originally Posted by onestar

Just downloaded and installed. Tried to right-click on a song in my library to queue it, and Winamp crashed.

I'm excited for the update, but for the moment, I'll roll back to the old version and keep an eye out for 5.9.1. Good luck finding the bugs!

P.S. What about using Discogs as well as Musicbrainz?

Originally Posted by NJK

first welcome back after all these years, i had a simular issue with the player
when i tried to add music to the library.

Did you do a clean install or installed it over the old Winamp?

don't forget to secure your plugin etc out of the winampfolder , uninstall, remove winampfolder from the program files and install again.

I can't reproduce the crash.

By "right-click => queue", did you mean "Enqueue selection"?

[Fernando Villarroel]

So nice to see Winamp back!, already installed onto my job's laptop, but eager to get home later today in order to install it in my personal PC and fiddle with my FLAC music collection.

[niwrad777]

Cool

Updating Spanish Language Pack...

will be available soon ...

[cybercuate]

Now make shoutcast DSP ARM64 compatible. Oracle VPS and (soon) google vps will use Arm Ampere and is so fast and so cheap icecast is the way to go for now. Please make shoutcast DSP for ARM64 ASAP

[cybercuate]

Originally Posted by cybercuate

Now make shoutcast DSP ARM64 compatible. Oracle VPS and (soon) google vps will use Arm Ampere and is so fast and so cheap icecast is the way to go for now. Please make shoutcast DSP for ARM64 ASAP

sorry, I mean DNAS shoutcast

[highonsnow]

I have experienced three full exe crashes since my earlier message. Getting the following in the windows event log:

winamp.exe
5.9.0.9999
62e16f6c
ntdll.dll
10.0.19041.1806
39cccd9d
c0000374
000e6fe3
aaf0
01d8a35373ea3046
H:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\winamp.exe
C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
94217761-f911-4435-aa66-46437a61ad89

Is there a dedicated place for reporting crashes/errors or what is the best procedure to follow? Thanks again guys, great work, delighted to see Winamp firing up dev again.