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FAQ (including new Winamp Pro Section)
Changelog since last public release:
Winamp 5.0beta 10/13/03
* modern skin updates :
- fixed win98 crash with desktopalpha skins
- fixed pledit jumping on top of main window when docked and interacting with config drawer
- fixed avs hiding main window when docking to editor
- fixed vis gammagroup filtering
- fixed bgr color for pledit scrollbar background in v1.0 skins
- fixed rare crash on skinswitch
- added timers resolution autodetection
- added configuration of text scrolling speed
- added vis_cfg action to toggle vis cfg window via button
- fixed config drawer tabs moving the app when not selected
- added enable docking checkbox and docking distance editobox in prefs
- added tooltip checkbox in prefs
- fixed tooltip stealing focus from popup menus
- added support for noresize flag in embedwnd so that it spawns the right container
- added notransparency flag for embedwnd, made milkdrop use it
- fixed potential aot reset by embedwnd (ie, milkdrop)
- fixed slow text ticker, made it use timerclient_getSkipped to have consistent speed regardless of timer resolution
- added timer resolution in prefs page
- added link ratio & alpha in prefs page
- fixed empty popups in pledit menubar, commandbuttons and ml menubar when no playlist or devices are available
- fixed "mono" display when nothing playing, made songinfo update faster after clicking play
- separated link position & link width for main winshade window, changed default to link all
- removed move="1" for song title display on main window normal and shade modes
- fixed click on beatvis that would sometime fail to toggle active status
- added gammagroup xml param to vis objects
- made switching to windowshade open undocked video & vis when video is playing or vis is visible, docks back when coming back to normal mode
* made library able to update info on files that dont support tag writing when tag writing is checked
* fixed burning bug when using certain .WAV output settings
* enabled burning on multiple devices simultaneously
* made Winamp check to see if AVS or milkdrop is running fullscreen before starting video playback, and remove
fullscreen if necessary
* made AVS and Milkdrop check for video playback before going fullscreen (milkdrop uses fake mode, AVS complains)
(to avoid DirectDraw crash)
Winamp 5.a10 10/10/03:
* fixed library's playlist buttons
* cleaned up prefs for steve some
* fixed crash bugs in AVS, added new AVS effects from Unconed and Tom Holden
* made doubleclick in AVS go fullscreen
* made AVS autodetect video modes for fullscreen if necessary
* updated to latest veritas SDK (should prompt for reboot if necessary now)
* new milkdrop that integrates better, and fixes bugs, and is smaller
* fixed tagz '?' lameness
* modern skin updates :
- fixed aot changes not being detected
- fixed elapsed/remaining toggle not being forwarded
- fixed right key in menubar when menu item selected is a submenu, fixed left when in a submenu, fixed right after hovering on an submenu item, phew!
- fixed left/right keys seeking while in a menubar
- fixed guru due to custom checkbox accessing nonexisting layouts because they are now dynamic, made them use configattributes
- made vis & video open undocked when in windowshade mode
Winamp 5.0a9 10/08/03:
* modern skin updates :
- fixed starting modern skin when winamp is minimized (or reloading winamp with modern skin when it was minimized on exit)
- added Vis_FS action
- added menubar keyboard shortcuts
- made winamp ask the skin about *any* key it receives so that script can trap (and prevent) them
- added left/right keys for menubar navigation
- fixed avs flicker when spawning & closing via menu or keyboard shortcuts
- added guid for colorthemes pref page ({53DE6284-7E88-4c62-9F93-22ED68E6A024})
- fixed keyboard script hooks
- added "equalizer" to popups, automatically opens the drawer and switches to the tab
- added modern skin submenu to main popup menu/options
- added attrib page for adding items to View menu via script (also show up in main popup)
- fixed auto move of docked layouts when switching to windowshade when original layout has snapadjust values
- added action PE_ListOfLists for winshade playlist editors
- added about box guid for lightning bolt click ({8DDA9D48-B915-4320-A888-831A1D837516})
- added unlink="1" for layouts to remember their own position/size regardless of linkwidth/linkheight
- added windowshade for main & pledit, whoohoo Sven!
- fixed checkmark for container entries in menu
- added automatic discarding of unused bitmaps in memory, drops usage by 2 to 7mb (depending on skin) when not interacting with the ui
- fixed huge leak in ttf rendering, that one was leaking 300k/s when the song title was scrolling ! uh oh...
- fixed small leak in xmlparser
- fixed parsing of groupdefs in the middle of dynamic containers
- fixed small leak on skinswitch
- fixed small leak in gammamgr
- reduced memory usage by ~3mb when using winamp modern skin.
- fixed shutdown sequence
- fixed drawer locking up in closed position after detaching both windows via the menus
- fixed vis or video poping up when clicking detach menu option while wnd is hidden
- added option to bypass user defined drawer direction when window is going to get partially hidden after opening the drawer
- added ability to set cfgattribute value "-" to make a separator in the custom skin option menus
- added user option for drawer direction
- added reversed drawer, heehee
- added guiobject.reverseTarget() to move x/y values according to w/h values so that a drawer moves the opposite direction (ie, increase w/h in a targettimer, call reverseTarget and instead of growing to the right/bottom, the object will grow to the left/top - works on layouts!)
- fixed weakness in assessing visible states
- fixed drawer not remembering size after user resize
- added open from library in pledit lists submenu
- added "manage playlists" in pledit lists submenu
- fixed seek on doubleclick in openfile box
- fixed pledit disapearing on winamp startup
- fixed minivis stopping on desktopalpha toggle
- fixed some drawer issues
* cd burning view:
- added item moving stuff
- burners default to burning view when no cd present
- added burning view auto refresh
- added 44khz resampling
* made good generic title formatting system, that'll use library data, id3 tags, vorbis tags, cd info, etc.
* in_dshow: added buffering status when playing streams
* added skin rename/remove support
* made ripping to WAV file when using a ACM conversion to generate proper files
* in_nsv: added PCM support
* fixed random skin support
* fixed user info dialog multiinstance issue
* added gracenote tuid retrieval in library's mini infobrowser
Winamp 5.0a8 10/02/03:
* big modern skin updates (as usual)
- docking/undocking support and drawer fixes
* library has leet audio view searching now
* mucho bugfixes, yo
Winamp 5.0a7 9/29/03:
* big modern skin updates (woo!)
- fixed opacity related repaint flicker when hiding video
- added modernskin custom options preliminary submenu
- added smooth scroll of the video/avs drawer
- fixed modernskin videoavs.m bugs
- fixed focus problems with avs in the main window
- changed "Media Library" to "Library"
- changed "Freeform" to "Modern"
- fixed wndregion problems when heigth/width of a group is zero
- fixed wndregion problems when showing/hiding objects
- fixed repaint problems
- fixed bug with playlist editor background color
- added font size correction
- added lite bold (bold="2") which looks similar to old antialias="1" on non bold, so for skins backward compatibility, bold + old antialias = lite bold
- more color interpolation fixes
- made skin menus use win32 menus
- fixed autowidth/height from text with bold/italic attributes
- added system.getidealvideowidth/height();
- added colorthemes_next and previous actions
- added actions for pl/video/avs command buttons
- made video follow its rect without 250ms delays
- fixed checkmark for elapsed/remaining in options menu
- added lock in scaling menu
- added nohscroll="1" to themeslist object to hide the scrollbar
- fixed gammagroups for text widgets
* more prefs overhaul to make steve happy
* cd burning fixes
* cd ripping crash fix
* other fixes/etc
* gen_ff :
Winamp 5.0a6 9/25/03:
* followup to 5.0a5:
* modern skin fixes (yay francis rules):
- fixed HUGE doublesize by always resizing back the huge width or height to the screen max
- fixed safe transparency autoswitching
- fixed render ratio problems when opening embedded window in already scaled window
- added control menu to app context menu
- implemented ff control menu
- added layout snap adjustment
- added System.switchSkin script call
- fixed initial focus to main window
- added eq commands from menubar
- added radio/tv in menubar
- fixed pe menu / open from library only showing the playlist rather than playing it in the pe
- made PE_File context menu load playlists even if ml was never shown
- added context menus for the player controls
- added elapsed/remaining hook for time displays
- fixed ml/pl button not lightning up when ml/pl is showing
- added checkmark for "Main Window" when the main container is visible
- improved color interpolation for wa3 skins
* fix to ripping speed selection crash bug
* updated mp3 codec selection on unreg stuff (to revert back to old codec)
* burning ui fixes
* installer fixes [workarounds for now too]
Winamp 5.0a5 9/23/03:
* very alpha version of new modern skin, lots of gen_ff updates
* new install process (Thanks kichik for the help)
* cd burning
* better AAC time updating support
* mp3 ripping (with winamp pro regkey)
* sendto menu in library
* big AVS updates (2.7pre3 or so? forgot to update the ver#, but this one is newer than
anything other as of 9/23)
* directory autoscanning for library (woo)
* more! I forget it all...
Winamp 5.0a4:
a4: mostly cosmetic update:
a4: fixed library/pe in wa3 mode in 16bpp mode
a4: new splash screen
a4: updated credits/about box stuff
a4: added good in_nsv about box
* .wal support in winamp.exe
* changed ripping filename specifier to <artist> etc
* minibrowser moved to gen_ml
* made empty media view have some crappy text + add directory button
* down arrow in library search now go to results
* veritas SDK integration for CD ripping/playback
* huge preferences makeover
* mini-context-info stuff in gen_ml (complete with internet checking)
* made bitmapped font in winamp off by default for better int shit
* uninstall plug-in support
* changed allow multiple instances behavior to be better (always off
when playing/enqueuing files)
* made bookmarks viewer editor in library
* made library support drag&drop for adding directories
* made library have more options for adding files metadata
* made library metadata updating faster
* tons of wa3 skin love
* about box for AAC stuff
* made wa3 pledit use colors and better scrollbars
* bugfixes in gen_ff
* fixed little gfx bug in fullscreen video playback on multimon
* more!
Winamp 2.95 (never released):
* startup with hung winamp process in background fixed (opens new instance)
* CD ripping support in media library
* Preliminary AAC playback support added to in_mp3.dll
* ryan fixed shuffle again
* minibrowser ctrl+l fix
* media library: lots of bugfixes
* media library: listener count in internet tv/radio
* media library: query playback mode preferences
* media library: skinnable list/treeview selection colors
* nsv: subtitle bugfixes
* nsv: more buffering options
* nsv: shoutcast metadata support
* nsv: better invalid bitstream handling
* nsv: better display options
* nsv: new ASYN aux chunk handling.
* nsv: support for new extended TOC with frame-accurate seeking
* video: overlay fixes on 556 and other unusual modes
* video: drag&drop URL to video window now works.
* video: subtitle fixes.
* video: support for alt+enter and alt+f4 to leave fullscreen
* cdda: bugfixes
* avs: evallib | and & operator fixes
* in_vorbis fixes/updated libvorbis to post-1.0 cvs
* in_midi fixes
Winamp 5.0 upgrades and installs over Winamp 2.x
Do NOT install in the same dir as Winamp3 (this is a separate product/player)
Please read the following threads first:
Winamp 5 Wishlist forum
Sticky: Official Winamp 5.0 Wishlist
Winamp 2 Bug Reports forum
Sticky: Known Winamp 5.0 Beta Bugs
Sticky: Put ALL Winamp 5.0 Bugs in Here!
Winamp 2 Discussions forum
Sticky: The Winamp5 Development FAQ
Sticky: Winamp5 Beta 1
Winamp3 Discussions forum
Sticky: Winamp 2.9, Winamp3, and the future
Re: AAC/MP4/M4P (Winamp 5 vs iTunes)
search first
AAC/MP4
M4P
__________________________________________________________________
Betanews with download
FAQ (including new Winamp Pro Section)
Changelog since last public release:
Winamp 5.0beta 10/13/03
* modern skin updates :
- fixed win98 crash with desktopalpha skins
- fixed pledit jumping on top of main window when docked and interacting with config drawer
- fixed avs hiding main window when docking to editor
- fixed vis gammagroup filtering
- fixed bgr color for pledit scrollbar background in v1.0 skins
- fixed rare crash on skinswitch
- added timers resolution autodetection
- added configuration of text scrolling speed
- added vis_cfg action to toggle vis cfg window via button
- fixed config drawer tabs moving the app when not selected
- added enable docking checkbox and docking distance editobox in prefs
- added tooltip checkbox in prefs
- fixed tooltip stealing focus from popup menus
- added support for noresize flag in embedwnd so that it spawns the right container
- added notransparency flag for embedwnd, made milkdrop use it
- fixed potential aot reset by embedwnd (ie, milkdrop)
- fixed slow text ticker, made it use timerclient_getSkipped to have consistent speed regardless of timer resolution
- added timer resolution in prefs page
- added link ratio & alpha in prefs page
- fixed empty popups in pledit menubar, commandbuttons and ml menubar when no playlist or devices are available
- fixed "mono" display when nothing playing, made songinfo update faster after clicking play
- separated link position & link width for main winshade window, changed default to link all
- removed move="1" for song title display on main window normal and shade modes
- fixed click on beatvis that would sometime fail to toggle active status
- added gammagroup xml param to vis objects
- made switching to windowshade open undocked video & vis when video is playing or vis is visible, docks back when coming back to normal mode
* made library able to update info on files that dont support tag writing when tag writing is checked
* fixed burning bug when using certain .WAV output settings
* enabled burning on multiple devices simultaneously
* made Winamp check to see if AVS or milkdrop is running fullscreen before starting video playback, and remove
fullscreen if necessary
* made AVS and Milkdrop check for video playback before going fullscreen (milkdrop uses fake mode, AVS complains)
(to avoid DirectDraw crash)
Winamp 5.a10 10/10/03:
* fixed library's playlist buttons
* cleaned up prefs for steve some
* fixed crash bugs in AVS, added new AVS effects from Unconed and Tom Holden
* made doubleclick in AVS go fullscreen
* made AVS autodetect video modes for fullscreen if necessary
* updated to latest veritas SDK (should prompt for reboot if necessary now)
* new milkdrop that integrates better, and fixes bugs, and is smaller
* fixed tagz '?' lameness
* modern skin updates :
- fixed aot changes not being detected
- fixed elapsed/remaining toggle not being forwarded
- fixed right key in menubar when menu item selected is a submenu, fixed left when in a submenu, fixed right after hovering on an submenu item, phew!
- fixed left/right keys seeking while in a menubar
- fixed guru due to custom checkbox accessing nonexisting layouts because they are now dynamic, made them use configattributes
- made vis & video open undocked when in windowshade mode
Winamp 5.0a9 10/08/03:
* modern skin updates :
- fixed starting modern skin when winamp is minimized (or reloading winamp with modern skin when it was minimized on exit)
- added Vis_FS action
- added menubar keyboard shortcuts
- made winamp ask the skin about *any* key it receives so that script can trap (and prevent) them
- added left/right keys for menubar navigation
- fixed avs flicker when spawning & closing via menu or keyboard shortcuts
- added guid for colorthemes pref page ({53DE6284-7E88-4c62-9F93-22ED68E6A024})
- fixed keyboard script hooks
- added "equalizer" to popups, automatically opens the drawer and switches to the tab
- added modern skin submenu to main popup menu/options
- added attrib page for adding items to View menu via script (also show up in main popup)
- fixed auto move of docked layouts when switching to windowshade when original layout has snapadjust values
- added action PE_ListOfLists for winshade playlist editors
- added about box guid for lightning bolt click ({8DDA9D48-B915-4320-A888-831A1D837516})
- added unlink="1" for layouts to remember their own position/size regardless of linkwidth/linkheight
- added windowshade for main & pledit, whoohoo Sven!
- fixed checkmark for container entries in menu
- added automatic discarding of unused bitmaps in memory, drops usage by 2 to 7mb (depending on skin) when not interacting with the ui
- fixed huge leak in ttf rendering, that one was leaking 300k/s when the song title was scrolling ! uh oh...
- fixed small leak in xmlparser
- fixed parsing of groupdefs in the middle of dynamic containers
- fixed small leak on skinswitch
- fixed small leak in gammamgr
- reduced memory usage by ~3mb when using winamp modern skin.
- fixed shutdown sequence
- fixed drawer locking up in closed position after detaching both windows via the menus
- fixed vis or video poping up when clicking detach menu option while wnd is hidden
- added option to bypass user defined drawer direction when window is going to get partially hidden after opening the drawer
- added ability to set cfgattribute value "-" to make a separator in the custom skin option menus
- added user option for drawer direction
- added reversed drawer, heehee
- added guiobject.reverseTarget() to move x/y values according to w/h values so that a drawer moves the opposite direction (ie, increase w/h in a targettimer, call reverseTarget and instead of growing to the right/bottom, the object will grow to the left/top - works on layouts!)
- fixed weakness in assessing visible states
- fixed drawer not remembering size after user resize
- added open from library in pledit lists submenu
- added "manage playlists" in pledit lists submenu
- fixed seek on doubleclick in openfile box
- fixed pledit disapearing on winamp startup
- fixed minivis stopping on desktopalpha toggle
- fixed some drawer issues
* cd burning view:
- added item moving stuff
- burners default to burning view when no cd present
- added burning view auto refresh
- added 44khz resampling
* made good generic title formatting system, that'll use library data, id3 tags, vorbis tags, cd info, etc.
* in_dshow: added buffering status when playing streams
* added skin rename/remove support
* made ripping to WAV file when using a ACM conversion to generate proper files
* in_nsv: added PCM support
* fixed random skin support
* fixed user info dialog multiinstance issue
* added gracenote tuid retrieval in library's mini infobrowser
Winamp 5.0a8 10/02/03:
* big modern skin updates (as usual)
- docking/undocking support and drawer fixes
* library has leet audio view searching now
* mucho bugfixes, yo
Winamp 5.0a7 9/29/03:
* big modern skin updates (woo!)
- fixed opacity related repaint flicker when hiding video
- added modernskin custom options preliminary submenu
- added smooth scroll of the video/avs drawer
- fixed modernskin videoavs.m bugs
- fixed focus problems with avs in the main window
- changed "Media Library" to "Library"
- changed "Freeform" to "Modern"
- fixed wndregion problems when heigth/width of a group is zero
- fixed wndregion problems when showing/hiding objects
- fixed repaint problems
- fixed bug with playlist editor background color
- added font size correction
- added lite bold (bold="2") which looks similar to old antialias="1" on non bold, so for skins backward compatibility, bold + old antialias = lite bold
- more color interpolation fixes
- made skin menus use win32 menus
- fixed autowidth/height from text with bold/italic attributes
- added system.getidealvideowidth/height();
- added colorthemes_next and previous actions
- added actions for pl/video/avs command buttons
- made video follow its rect without 250ms delays
- fixed checkmark for elapsed/remaining in options menu
- added lock in scaling menu
- added nohscroll="1" to themeslist object to hide the scrollbar
- fixed gammagroups for text widgets
* more prefs overhaul to make steve happy
* cd burning fixes
* cd ripping crash fix
* other fixes/etc
* gen_ff :
Winamp 5.0a6 9/25/03:
* followup to 5.0a5:
* modern skin fixes (yay francis rules):
- fixed HUGE doublesize by always resizing back the huge width or height to the screen max
- fixed safe transparency autoswitching
- fixed render ratio problems when opening embedded window in already scaled window
- added control menu to app context menu
- implemented ff control menu
- added layout snap adjustment
- added System.switchSkin script call
- fixed initial focus to main window
- added eq commands from menubar
- added radio/tv in menubar
- fixed pe menu / open from library only showing the playlist rather than playing it in the pe
- made PE_File context menu load playlists even if ml was never shown
- added context menus for the player controls
- added elapsed/remaining hook for time displays
- fixed ml/pl button not lightning up when ml/pl is showing
- added checkmark for "Main Window" when the main container is visible
- improved color interpolation for wa3 skins
* fix to ripping speed selection crash bug
* updated mp3 codec selection on unreg stuff (to revert back to old codec)
* burning ui fixes
* installer fixes [workarounds for now too]
Winamp 5.0a5 9/23/03:
* very alpha version of new modern skin, lots of gen_ff updates
* new install process (Thanks kichik for the help)
* cd burning
* better AAC time updating support
* mp3 ripping (with winamp pro regkey)
* sendto menu in library
* big AVS updates (2.7pre3 or so? forgot to update the ver#, but this one is newer than
anything other as of 9/23)
* directory autoscanning for library (woo)
* more! I forget it all...
Winamp 5.0a4:
a4: mostly cosmetic update:
a4: fixed library/pe in wa3 mode in 16bpp mode
a4: new splash screen
a4: updated credits/about box stuff
a4: added good in_nsv about box
* .wal support in winamp.exe
* changed ripping filename specifier to <artist> etc
* minibrowser moved to gen_ml
* made empty media view have some crappy text + add directory button
* down arrow in library search now go to results
* veritas SDK integration for CD ripping/playback
* huge preferences makeover
* mini-context-info stuff in gen_ml (complete with internet checking)
* made bitmapped font in winamp off by default for better int shit
* uninstall plug-in support
* changed allow multiple instances behavior to be better (always off
when playing/enqueuing files)
* made bookmarks viewer editor in library
* made library support drag&drop for adding directories
* made library have more options for adding files metadata
* made library metadata updating faster
* tons of wa3 skin love
* about box for AAC stuff
* made wa3 pledit use colors and better scrollbars
* bugfixes in gen_ff
* fixed little gfx bug in fullscreen video playback on multimon
* more!
Winamp 2.95 (never released):
* startup with hung winamp process in background fixed (opens new instance)
* CD ripping support in media library
* Preliminary AAC playback support added to in_mp3.dll
* ryan fixed shuffle again
* minibrowser ctrl+l fix
* media library: lots of bugfixes
* media library: listener count in internet tv/radio
* media library: query playback mode preferences
* media library: skinnable list/treeview selection colors
* nsv: subtitle bugfixes
* nsv: more buffering options
* nsv: shoutcast metadata support
* nsv: better invalid bitstream handling
* nsv: better display options
* nsv: new ASYN aux chunk handling.
* nsv: support for new extended TOC with frame-accurate seeking
* video: overlay fixes on 556 and other unusual modes
* video: drag&drop URL to video window now works.
* video: subtitle fixes.
* video: support for alt+enter and alt+f4 to leave fullscreen
* cdda: bugfixes
* avs: evallib | and & operator fixes
* in_vorbis fixes/updated libvorbis to post-1.0 cvs
* in_midi fixes
Winamp 5.0 upgrades and installs over Winamp 2.x
Do NOT install in the same dir as Winamp3 (this is a separate product/player)
Please read the following threads first:
Winamp 5 Wishlist forum
Sticky: Official Winamp 5.0 Wishlist
Winamp 2 Bug Reports forum
Sticky: Known Winamp 5.0 Beta Bugs
Sticky: Put ALL Winamp 5.0 Bugs in Here!
Winamp 2 Discussions forum
Sticky: The Winamp5 Development FAQ
Sticky: Winamp5 Beta 1
Winamp3 Discussions forum
Sticky: Winamp 2.9, Winamp3, and the future
Re: AAC/MP4/M4P (Winamp 5 vs iTunes)
search first
AAC/MP4
M4P
hope to see another WA3/Linux release soon.
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