Registered: May 2000
From: Hell

Thought this was worthy of its own thread, so anyway:

The latest build is available from Deskmod at:
http://www.deskmod.com/files/news/f...78_talkback.exe

It includes Talkback, which is a piece of software that allows you, the tester, to report crash data back to Nullsoft, (people who tried mozilla will probably be aware of this).
For more WA3 related Talkback news, check Aus' post here.

Deskmod's report of 478 being feature complete is misleading, im not saying its wrong, but, well, its wrong. Some components still arent there, configurification didnt make it into the build.
the crossfader defaults to the software one, rather than peters hardware one, possibly because config is lacking for peters components.

Peter is working on fixing config for his components, and was given a working config.wac to play with. Once he updates his plugins, an updated wa3plugz.exe will be available, until that time wa3plugz.exe is out of date

478 IS RC1, afaik there will be no OFFICIAL RC1, however, if RC1 is to go onto the front of winamp.com and replace beta3 (highly likely) AND there are big bugs in RC1 that get fixed before that time, it is likely that either:

1) There will be a build #479 RC1, or
2) A 478 RC1 that is updated, or possibly
3) A 478 RC2 (muhahaha).

Clearly the former would be the better plan, or even the latter

For those who want an SDK, I believe that at this time, you will have to wait until Thursday afternoon PST for nsdn to be updated, at which time you can expect both the build, AND the SDK to be uploaded.
For future reference, these should appear on NSDN, unless Aus slacks off, in which case you can bitch at him here (dont forget to abuse his canadian heritage).

I'll add more to this as I think of things, If anyone has any questions, just reply, and dont forget, keep tuned to your number one wa3 resource, the wa3disc forum!



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[edit]Nobody told me wa3plugz was delayed[/edit]

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Registered: Jun 2000
From: Melbourne, Australia

/me loves build 478
....btw winamp3 plugz hasn't been updated yet

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Registered: Dec 2000
From: Milwaukee, WI

And for all of you people who I'm sure will ask... the 2x Plugin Manager is being updated as we speak (with playlist functionality - hehe).

But don't expect it right away - there were a lot of SDK changes between Beta3 and RC1. The version that worked with Beta 3 WILL NOT work with RC1. Period.

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Registered: Mar 2001
From: Where Hell Froze Over

Wow I come back to the web site and 478 kicks ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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<Scar> a version of wa3, that the user can deside how meny bar he wished to use for sound output
<neko> would be a pain to code
<Scar> and if that make of winamp is made, theres gotta be a skin for that
<Scar> i know. but it'd be cool
<Scar> you think you could do it?
<Scar> mostly if your using a dll file made with C++ you'd use a select case statement to tell the skin script and waveout feaquency to change when case is Number
<neko> hm, it should work if you mess around
<neko> maybe rc1 will allow that]
<Scar> but, the only problem is i could do it, but not only that i dont have the info on what things are being used to call out for the wave out buffersm i dont really have C++
<Scar> but in any which way, do you think its a good idea?
<neko> yup
<Scar> esp, for low to high end computers
<Scar> shuch like yours
<Scar> such*
<Scar> see, everyone thinks my idea is a good idea
<Scar> but no one wants to code it
<neko> lol
<Scar>

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Registered: Jun 2001
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from a mathemetician's point of view...

(quoting radiskull)

VERY BAD

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because of the abundance of VBR mp3s, and what would be required to do an FFT on the output to allow this, anything over what is being done already in wa3, aside from them using hardware acceleration, increases the overhead at an exponential rate.

(besides, you SHOULD notice little to no difference by having 12 over 8 sliders anyways, unless you're on crappy speakers. If you're on good enough speakers to notice the difference, you probably sholud have purchased cheaper speakers and bought a real amp/tuner)

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Registered: May 2002
From: sydney

i got #478 rc1, and its cool. but when i try to load my playlist it frequently fucks up and only gets to song 900 or something.... comes up with an error msg saying
"error parsing xml layer (all.bpl)
not well formed at line 3693"

DAMN THAT LINE
it shits me so hard.

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Registered: Aug 2001
From: Perth, Australia MSN: mcbriar@ii.net Posts: All your posts are belong to me!!!!

i have found build 478 seems to use heaps of memory, after closing 478 and trying to play counter-strike, i was getting 4fps (usually 99). im not sure if this was winamp3 or just some other thing but it seems to load alot slower than 477.

configurifaction is gone too, i thinks maybe there will be a RC1-B.

i dunno if you have noticed this but when u load thousands of songs into playlist they seem to scroll down as they are added. when they are scrolling open like 'my computer' and slowly move it around over the lower part of the playlist. - nice effect.

oh and have a look at the 'rust' colour preset

oh and another thing, it doesnt remember some of the component windows postitions, and whether they were open on close or not. (playlist, media library, avs)

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Registered: Aug 2001
From: Perth, Australia MSN: mcbriar@ii.net Posts: All your posts are belong to me!!!!

oh and one FINAL thing (i hope), when updating id3 tags winamp3 should say 'temorarily stopping playback' in status bar so it stops the file - updates id3 - then resumes from where it left off.

ok another thing (this is like my fith 'edit post') avs presets change on random, but when i try turn it off they keep changing. it wont stay on one preset

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Registered: Jan 2002
From: .Belgium

Does the autoplay on start up feature work with anyone ? I'm not bitching it just doesn't seem to work except the first time after install.

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Registered: Jun 2001
From: Brussels, Belgium

Well this RC1 is great! Now the only thing that prevents me to migrate from 2.80 is the lack of a "Stop after current" functionnality...

Even if it is not available in the final release it could still be achieved using some timer plugin... but I think the new SDK is needed to do that

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Registered: May 2002
From: sydney

thanks N e m e s s i s, ill try that again, i thought i did that, but its entirely possible that i made an error along the way.... but yea, all in all it looks pretty cool.

thanks again

joe

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Registered: Mar 2001
From: Zeil, wo der Wein wächst und gesoffen wird wie Wasser ;) Ohweeeehhhh... Posts: overflowed

did anyone notice that the clutterbar is missing?
And easymove in components would be cool
and there's a bug with the opacity:
if i open the thinger and set the opacity to a value < 100% my cursor begins to stutter and moving the window is very slow. but when i resize the thinger window ( and back to the same size...) everything like moving the window and my cursor is very fast. did anyone notice?
this bug could only exist at systems with no graficcard accelerated alphablending like mine (e.g. kyro2). same thing with the splashscreen opacity effekt. it's _VERY_ slow and my cursor stutters.
too slow for an amd with 1200 mhz. (i have compared it with other programs...and my cursor doesn't stutter when i click through the start menu *G*)
sorry for bad english
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Registered: Aug 2000
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is anyone else having problems closing windows with the upper-LEFT hand corner button?

I think I can finally use WA3 full time - was always too buggy up until this build.

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Registered: Jun 2002
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Closing Windows with the upper-left hand corner button does not work ... it does not crash or anything else ... just do nothing
Same thing for Configufication ... when clicking on it does not appear
Then, in the preferences when i chose the media to play ... they aren't keep highlighted ... don't know if it's desired or not ...
Anyway i guess i will keep it as my full time mp3 player ... Winamp is great ... sigh ... it's just a Beta ... final will kick ass

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Registered: Nov 2000
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what the heck is up with options for scaling and transparent windows. they disappeared from the right click menu and appeared in the Thingers top left button drop down menu. If that was the way it was for all the windows then would rock the casbah... that'd be better then where it was; in the old right click menu. Anyway... ifthey keep it in only the Thinger, it might just hafta get physical up in here

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Registered: Mar 2001
From: Zeil, wo der Wein wächst und gesoffen wird wie Wasser ;) Ohweeeehhhh... Posts: overflowed

i have used the "O" in the clutterbar very often to go to the preferences but it would be very easy to skin/script it. but i'm to lazy to learn scripting

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Registered: Jan 2001
From: UK

Wow... it's really looking good now. My plugins won't be updated until there's a configurification again, so I'm sticking with 477 until then .

As for the scaling and transparency options, from what I gather they'll be in the corner menu on all the windows eventually (indeed, it is in the playlist editor window as well).

Talkback is a great idea, it saves everyones' time . How does it work on the developer side? Do you still need us to report bugs in Bugzilla (I've found a few )? Heheh we need an open-source alternative to talkback it's a great tool.

Update: 2 hours of my abuse and only one crash - I'm impressed

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Registered: Jul 2001
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Originally posted by Sawg 2.0
>> did anyone notice that the clutterbar is missing?

If I rememebr correctly it was hated in WA2. I doubt you will see it in WA3.

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hahahahaha, i remember that.

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Registered: Dec 2000
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To counteract the everyone-is-pro-clutterbar image: I hate it.

BTW: Scaling and Opaque are still there, just click on the + button of a window (this works not some like Main Window, Equalizer, ... in build 478).

BTW: Dunno but I don't think that Configurification will come back, but there might be an interface for setting up third party components in Perferences.

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Registered: Oct 2001
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is there any difference between the #478 in NSDN and the 1 on deskmod?

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Registered: Jan 2001
From: UK

I don't think so - if one 478 is different from another that would just be rediculously confusing .

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Registered: Jul 2001
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BTW: Scaling and Opaque are still there, just click on the + button of a window (this works not some like Main Window, Equalizer, ... in build 478).

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Registered: Mar 2001
From: Zeil, wo der Wein wächst und gesoffen wird wie Wasser ;) Ohweeeehhhh... Posts: overflowed

/me wants the clutterbar back, NOW!
they could implement it with a very cool (bloated?!) animation (some alpha blending or so..)

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Registered: Apr 2001
From: I H8 Mods

i know we're not suppose to post bug reports in here but b3 is still
the current one on main page and i could see how this one could go
MAJORILY over looked.

Goto the ID3 editor, and rename the Artist "M" without the quotes.
Now in the playlist it will show up as "My Documents"

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Registered: May 2000
From: Hell

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is there any difference between the #478 in NSDN and the 1 on deskmod?

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Registered: Jul 2001
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Originally posted by QHOBBES
i know we're not suppose to post bug reports in here but b3 is still
the current one on main page and i could see how this one could go
MAJORILY over looked.

Goto the ID3 editor, and rename the Artist "M" without the quotes.
Now in the playlist it will show up as "My Documents"

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hehe, cool...
that's not a bug, that's a FEATURE
or perhaps an easter egg

j/k

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it doesnt remember some of the component windows postitions, and whether they were open on close or not. (playlist, media library, avs)

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Registered: Apr 2001
From: I H8 Mods

bonj, that would work... in theory (communision)... if there was a
config in #478!

I consider it a bug because the for song "Pop Music" by M it displays
it as "My Documents - Pop Music" when it should display "M - Pop Music"

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hmmm... when i put in "M" it doesn't say "My Documents", it says "Music"...

Attachment: music.png
This has been downloaded 220 time(s).

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Interesting... I took a look at the image I uploaded above and realized I was keeping the song in a folder inside a folder called Music. SO I tried moving the file to the E: drive and as I guessed, it no longer said "Music" as the title. It just says "M", as it should. But then I moved the file back to the original folder and it some how returned the title (only in the scrolling display) back to the actual artists name even though it still said "M" in the ID3 tag. So I tried renaming the file and the scrolling display went back to displaying "Music". So I un-renamed the file so it was named what it used to be name, and the scrolling display showed the actual artists name again. Last but not least, I tried pressing the "Update" button in the info editor so that the ID3 tag would be re-written, and just like I suspected, now it said "Music" in the artist display again.

as you can see, I'm bored.

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Registered: Mar 2001
From: Zeil, wo der Wein wächst und gesoffen wird wie Wasser ;) Ohweeeehhhh... Posts: overflowed

for me it displays "Morpheus" for "M". My music is in the morpheus folder, yes

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bonj, that would work... in theory (communision)... if there was a
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Registered: Mar 2001
From: oregon

Holy crap! I've been laid up for the last couple of days well almost a week and look what happens. First my big thread gets bumped and the build #478 (RC1) comes out. Wow that's a lot of stuff to happen within one week!

478 (RC1) rocks

Way-to-go

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Holy crap! I've been laid up for the last couple of days well almost a week and look what happens. First my big thread gets bumped and the build #478 (RC1) comes out. Wow that's a lot of stuff to happen within one week!

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Registered: Mar 2001
From: oregon

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YOU SAID IT.

I lost everything but my MP3's and a clean install of XP.

Dont bother me, I'm listening.

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Lucky for me i have my Mp3's and other misc. syuff that i hold very highly on a secondary HD

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Registered: Mar 2001
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See I had backed everything up on CD's, so I'm set

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I have a hard time backing up shit on CD - not necessarily mp3s, but files and programs, considering by the time I burn something, a new version comes out...

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