Winamp 5.5 Beta Preview 3 (Build 1600)

**DJ Egg** · 1 October 2007, 01:39

Winamp 5.5 Beta Preview 2 (1568) to Beta Preview 3 (1600) changelog

* = 5.36/5.5 Beta-specific changes

-New: Option to set the number of lines to scroll in the Playlist

-New: Redesigned Installer (incomplete)

-New: Run Setup switch, winamp.exe /REG=S

-New: Winamp Toolbar for Internet Explorer (optional)

-Improved: Made ATF %rating% changes update in the playlist for non-playing tracks

-Improved: AlbumArt now also finds 'scene' artwork by looking for an image with the same base filename as an .nfo file in the same directory*

-Improved: [gen_ff] Support for antialias fonts from Winamp3 skins

-Improved: [ml_autotag] Added AlbumArtist, Publisher, Composer & BPM fields to UI results*

-Improved: [ml_local] Added hover/click ratings setting to art details view*

-Improved: Bento skin - larger player, buttons & text; slightly lighter themes; player is now horizontally resizable; added beatvis for player when stretched; plus other tweaks/enhancements*

-Fixed: Bento skin / winamp.exe / gen_ff - detached ml window glitch when switching from another skin with ml & vid/vis windows open; ml sometimes not filling entire tab at startup; weird artefacts on desktop when moving or minimizing/restoring*

-Fixed 'Add Folder/URL' dialogs saying 'Open' instead of 'Add'*

-Fixed: 'All supported files' showing all filetypes in Open Files dialog

-Fixed: Crash when attempting to view some PNG/GIF coverart in Alt+3 Editor*

-Fixed: Crash when clicking the "Delete All" button in the Advanced tab of File Info for Vorbis files*

-Fixed: Custom Genre not being saved for MP3 when typed into ID3v2 tab of File Info*

-Fixed: 'Files of type' drop-down selection is broken in the Add/Open Files Dialog*

-Fixed: If Genre is empty, it remains empty after using File Info Auto-Tagger*

-Fixed: Ratings menu in the playlist editor not showing the current rating in localised versions*

-Fixed: Sidecar showing when going fullscreen (for online services video streams)

-Fixed: Winamp Modern songticker: padding issues & winshade shadow on first/last char*

-Fixed: Various crashes based on bug reports sent by Error Feedback (albumart cache, ml scrollbars, pmp directplayback server, ml_autotag, etc)*

-Fixed: [gen_ml] Random weird bold font glitch in Local Media views (if you still see this, then it is caused by a 3rd-party plugin, eg. in_zip)*

-Fixed: [gen_ml] Shift+Insert (New Playlist) and F1 (Help) keyboard shortcuts

-Fixed: [in_mp3] Handling of ID3v2.4 "Data length indicator" flag (resolves issue where embedded albumart wasn't showing due to notorious unsynchronisation issue with some other players)*

-Fixed: [in_mp3] Re-checking 'Use Lyrics3' in File Info also re-checks 'Use ID3v2' etc*

-Fixed: [in_wm] Can't delete wma file in Explorer after viewing File Info (Alt+3)*

-Fixed: [ml_local] Font not updating when disabling 'use same font as playlist' setting*

-Fixed: [ml_local] Column immediately to the left of Rating doesn't remember resize changes after switching views*

-Fixed: [ml_local] Tracks pane divider for Simple Album view not draggable*

-Fixed: [ml_autotag] Mass Auto-Tagger sometimes might come up with mismatched results (eg. titles are the same or mixed up for different tracks on same album)*

-Fixed: [ml_playlists] assign focus back to the media library treeview after the "delete playlist" popup*

-Fixed: [ml_plg] Playlist Generator config: 1) 'Playlist Length' field allows text input 2) 'Reset Database' confirmation dialog*

-Fixed: [ml_plg] Multiple "Playlist Generator failed to Initialize" error messages on Winamp startup, when Gracnote/plg database is corrupt*

-Fixed: [ml_wire] Fixed some minor reported bugs/issues*

-Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Creating artwork and device folders correctly, crash when disconnecting ipod during GetiPodInfo, crash when reading playcounts file*

-Fixed: [out_ds] Error messages not being generated correctly*

-Misc: Bento skin: Updated Winamp Classic & Winamp Modern themes (again). Fixed typos in About box. Fixed notifier end-parenthesis truncation*

-Misc: Bento skin: Added 'Go Pro' menu item (will be hidden for Pro reg'd users in 5.5 Final)*

-Misc: Added dlmgr.w5s to installer (Bento Browser/Media Monitor Download Manager)*

-Misc: Added 'for older skins' note to 'use internal freetype font renderer' setting (Prefs > Modern Skins > Font Rendering)

-Misc: Installer: Is now hard-coded to save settings to the User Profile %AppData%\Winamp folder on all clean installs, or if paths.ini already exists on upgrades. Otherwise, if no paths.ini exists, it will respect current settings on upgrades and still save settings to the %ProgramFiles%\Winamp folder (inidir = installdir), except for on Vista where settings are always stored in %AppData%. Naturally, if user has created their own custom paths.ini then this will also still be respected (eg. if existing paths.ini points to some custom user folder and includes other params). Also note that a create/merge multi-user type options tool is hopefully planned for 5.5 Final.

-Misc: Installer: out_ds is now default Output, out_wave made optional and in Full installers only (out_ds also made default in Winamp, eg. if deleting winamp.ini)

-Misc: [in_midi] Prefs cleanup & now remembers last selected tab

-Misc: [in_mp3] Tidied up prefs where deprecated 'priority' setting was removed, and now remembers last selected tab

-Misc: [in_vorbis] Removed deprecated settings from config, changed to single-page layout

-Misc: [in_wm] Added a small NULL check

-Misc: [ml_local] Made "Use Artist as Album Artist" option default to on

-Misc: [ml_local] Average album rating now rounds up/down based on .5 mark*

-Misc: [ml_wire] Renamed Podcasts root view to Podcast Directory

-Reverted: DWM Thumbnails & Flip3D support for Modern skins in Vista (disabled for now, as it was causing too many problems/crashes). We eventually hope to find a better solution*

-Updated: Winamp Bento v0.9 #105

-Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v0.99.1f b428 'dev' (was v0.99.1d b425 'dev' in last beta)

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Extra Notes

For the new installer, you can create skininfo.xml and put it inside Classic skins for preview images on the 'Choose Skin' page, eg.

code:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>



	<skininfo>

		<version>Version # here</version>

		<name>Skin Name here</name>

		<author>Author's Name here</author>

		<comment>Comments go here</comment>

		<email>optional email address</email>

		<homepage>optional homepage url</homepage>

		<screenshot>screenshot.png</screenshot>

	</skininfo>

Naturally, screenshot.png (178 x 75) also needs to be included inside the skin.

For Modern skins, refer to skin.xml in the Winamp Bento and Winamp Modern folders.

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Re: Player fonts looking different in some 3rd-party modern skins

Improved: [gen_ff] Support for antialias fonts from Winamp3 skins

This is actually by design. Skins can manually specify to not anti-alias fonts. Winamp3 supported this, but Winamp 5 has ignored this attribute until now. If it bothers you that much, extract the .wal file, and search the xml files for "antialias" and change the ="0" to ="1"

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**Kn0tte** · 2 October 2007, 19:34

Hey...
Nice build

I want to report two (possible) bugs here, both in the Bento skin.

1. There is a shadow for the timer in the Main Window... So I can see half of the timer numbers "under" the timer (if you understand me).. Maybe it should be like this (its cool though), but Ill post it anyway since it may be a bug...
Do you want a screenshot?

2. This may not be so important, but Ill post it anyway... Look at the songticker in the Bento skin (when using "Classic" scroller style)..
Sometimes, the text stops a half second - Something like a "kick"... (This is NOT the same issue as the lag in the Modern Skin earlier.. I repeat, NOT).
It just scrolls, and it stop in a half second (just "tick") and keep scrolling... Very difficult to explain..
It is not so easy to see it, but I do (and it is NOT the same problems as in the Modern skin in an earlier beta)..
What do you think?

As for other things, the installer looks nice (new and fresh) and the new features are cool..
Keep up the good work...

You are doing a great job

**DrO** · 2 October 2007, 19:37

for #1 there's an option in bento's appearance settings to enable/disable shadow on the timer (and vis as well)

-daz

**Serpher** · 2 October 2007, 19:42

Weeeeeeeee.... New Winamp

**Kn0tte** · 2 October 2007, 19:44

Originally posted by DrO
for #1 there's an option in bento's appearance settings to enable/disable shadow on the timer (and vis as well)

-daz

Hehe, ok.. Didnt know about that one

And for #2, I understand if you didnt understand what I meant... Heh..
If you remember the lag bug in the Modern Skin songticker earlier (not now anymore), it stopped and were pushed to the right side...
If you then look in Bento, it does the same thing WITHOUT being pushed to the right side... Maybe that was better?
Maybe there is some "padding" issues there too.. I dont know :P

Anyway, keep up the good work...
Im going to test more of the new features here...

**DrO** · 2 October 2007, 19:51

i never saw any lag issues with the songticker before so i'm not the best person to look into the issue (and also i need to finish off the work that i've still got outstanding for the client but i'm sure Egg will pester someone about this if he can repro it as well

)

hi ho hio it's off to code i go... *whistles*

-daz

**Hanschke** · 2 October 2007, 20:02

great new build but the remote icon is very ugly

**plazzTT** · 2 October 2007, 20:08

I'm using an iPod Classic 160GB.

Just installed Beta 3, the Auto-Tag works for single tracks when I do it through the File Info window, but Send To -> Auto-Tag never works when I right click on one or multiple tracks.

The menu disappears, but nothing comes up. :/

EDIT: Another more serious problem. When I went to Eject iPod from Winamp, it said: "Failed to eject iPod. Is something else using it?".

And nothing was. So I closed Winamp, and used Safely Remove Hardware in Windows, and then disconnected the iPod. (After Ejecting, Please Wait...) disappeared from the screen.

Now my iPod says it has No Music, 0 songs. (but I can still see them in Winamp).

Can I rebuild the iPod library somehow?

**Kn0tte** · 2 October 2007, 20:11

Originally posted by DrO
i never saw any lag issues with the songticker before so i'm not the best person to look into the issue (and also i need to finish off the work that i've still got outstanding for the client but i'm sure Egg will pester someone about this if he can repro it as well )

hi ho hio it's off to code i go... *whistles*

-daz

Hehe, ok...
Then im waiting for DJ Egg or someone else to reproduce it (and remember that this is the Bento skin - Im not talking about the Modern Skin)..
Im glad you told me about #1 though... Nice feature that we can turn it on/off...

**wdekler** · 2 October 2007, 20:15

From the previous version thread

Originally posted by wdekler
I've tried the autotag feature a couple of times but when using it for songs older than a couple of years it nearly always comes up with the "wrong" album.

These albums are hits compilations instead of the original album on which the song first appeared.

I hope that this behaviour will change in later version... or is this purely up to Gracenote?

Reply by TheUniqueTiger:

If you are talking about mismatched information retrieved by auto-tagger, then its already stated in the Known bugs/issues section at the start of this huge thread.

No, this is something different from the known bugs from the previous release (I think?).

For example: if I autotag Love's theme from Love unlimited autotag comes up with

Album: 70's ï¼»Disc 5ï¼½
Album artist: Various Artists
Track: 15
Disc: 5/6

While allmusic says:

Album: Rhapsody in White
Track: 8

I don't doubt that this track appears on this 70's compilation but I think that the allmusic information is much more accurate.

**Kn0tte** · 2 October 2007, 20:19

Hey, I found a new bug...

Reproduce:

1. Have Winamp open (with Main Window, Playlist and Equalizer)... (This is the Winamp Modern Skin).

2. Press the ML button in the Main Window (Media Library)..

3. When you press that ML button, the Media Library will appear BEHIND the other Winamp windows...
To show it, I have to click on the desktop (or another Winamp window) and then click on the Media Library (which is still behind the other windows). Then it will become over the other windows..
It should open over the other windows from the beginning.
Bug?

**Perseid** · 2 October 2007, 20:34

Install caused a blue screen:
Stop 000000F4
00000003 88C67788 88C678FC 805C75B8

On reboot the system would blue screen again until I went into safe mode and took OrbTray.exe out of the startup list.

AthlonXP 3700+, 2GB RAM, DFI Lanparty Ultra motherboard, XP SP2, GeForce 7900 GT KO.

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Analyzer coloring doesn't do anything for me. They're solid white no matter what I pick.

**jph6t** · 2 October 2007, 20:52

Confirmed. Font issue seems to be gone with the release of Build 1600!

*crossing fingers*

Just the previously documented issue holding me back now ...
with displaying the correct Album Art for Albums with the same title
(but that was to be expected as it was not in the change log).

Thank you DEV team!

**dkordik** · 2 October 2007, 21:17

Really missing the tight look of the old Bento.

Is there a way to install it over the new one?