Winamp 5.5 Beta Preview 2 (Build 1568)

[DJ Egg]

Winamp 5.5 Beta Preview 3, Build 1600 now available

[plazzTT]

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?

[TheUniqueTiger]

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?

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.

[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?

[soulstace]

That makes a few of us now.

[MidnightLight]

I just got the following error dialog when quitting Winamp:

Assertion failed
Expression: hdc != NULL
File: .\canvas\win\win32_canvas.cpp
Line: 1029

When I clicked the dialog's OK button, another error followed:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error!
Program: C:\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe
R6025
- pure virtual function call

I'm using the Bento skin, and all I recall doing in this session was playing about 8-10 music files, changing their ratings, and resizing a few media library display columns. My system is Windows XP SP2.


Edit: I subsequently noticed that all but one of my changed ratings had been lost when I next started Winamp.

[soulstace]

Originally posted by Alpha2k6
This is getting too many pages to read through..

Then read the known bugs/issues section of the first post of this thread. The bug you just mentioned is already there, and has been, for some days now.

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=277645#known

[Alpha2k6]

This is getting too many pages to read through.. but there seems to be the wrong graphics when using alt+tab or alt+windows after having winamp minimized.

Winamp v5.5 build 1568 using Modern Skin.

This is on Windows Vista Ultimate 32 Bit on Athlon 64 X2 6000+ and 4 Gb RAM, Nvidia 8800 GTS.

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9913/winampalttabzg0.jpg

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9913/winampalttabzg0.jpg

[TheUniqueTiger]

Originally posted by TheUniqueTiger
I was just going about changing the notfound image for Bento... Looking at the window/notfound.png as well as xml/player-elements.xml, I see that the album art shown in the large space under the playlist is the same as the 84*84 album art shown along with file info in the Multi-content view at the top (both winamp.cover.notfound84x84). I would wish for another id of notfound image like winamp.cover.notfoundlarge which by default can be the same as current but would still allow for customization for those who would like to.
I tried a large image for notfound (200*200) which showed good in the large album art view, but seemed a little distorted in the 84*84 view due to understandable decrease in quality on resizing. So I created a 84*84 image and used it but found that now the larger image was too much of bad quality to tolerate. I don't think this would be much difficult, simply add another line for larger notfound image id to the player-elements.xml and change the reference for the large album art to show this image.

(The default llama image does not differ much when resized as it has coarse outlines, however if you have an image of a perfectly circular disc, the difference in quality on resizing can be seen easily.)

Has anything been done in this regard?

[neologix]

i extended the PL vertically. then, after reopening, the ML history window looks like below, but after dragging the resize bar it "fixes" itself again. there are 10 pages of posts and i don't know if it's been reported yet, but i'm not normally online that long anyways. don't know if it's a bento problem or not.

xp pro sp2 running on intel c2d.

[Serophos]

Originally posted by soulstace
What did Microsoft do so poorly with Windows Vista that allows a multimedia application to bring the whole system down?

They added the "Secure media path" which is another word for DRM (Digital Rights Management) or DCE (Digital Consumer Enablement, this is how the RIAA is referring to it nowadays). All praise the "Content-Industry" for their wise guidence and their slaves for their brainless implementation of commands ;-) *SCR*

sorry for being off topic.

[Dipso]

Originally posted by soulstace
Also crashes my laptop often.. It's a known issue and will probably be fixed in the next release.

What did Microsoft do so poorly with Windows Vista that allows a multimedia application to bring the whole system down?

I think i read somwhere that the flip3d/dwm-preview support was kinda hacked inn, or atleast not implemented in a good way and was casusing a lot of problems... So its not realy vistas fault.

Any good programer can write a program that brings an os to its knees if he realy sets his mind to it

EDIT: i see now that i am basicly repeating a lot of what has already been said in the previous posts. NOTE TO SELF: read throught _all_ posts before replying. Sorry guys.

[Dipso]

Originally posted by sypher_nl
Woah! This is the second time my PC (Core2Duo E6600, 4GB of RAM!, Vista Home Premium x64) hang when i gave the Beta the command to exit.

My whole screen freezes, i can't bring op the task manager and when i press ctrl+alt+delete i get the usual options, but as soon as i click Task Manager the buttons just disappear and my whole pc stops working!

This happened to me twice now. When it first happened, i just didn't suspect Bento BP2, but now i do.

It is REALLY annoying, as i have to restart my computer (when's the last time i had to do that?!) in order to get my control back.

I actually have the same problem. My hunch is that it has to do with some of the aero fixes, as it seems like its aero or the window manager that hangs, all other processes go on normaly, like audio playback. etc etc... The mouse cursor even changes over links and at the edge of windows.

[soulstace]

Also crashes my laptop often.. It's a known issue and will probably be fixed in the next release.

What did Microsoft do so poorly with Windows Vista that allows a multimedia application to bring the whole system down?

[Kn0tte]

Originally posted by sypher_nl
Woah! This is the second time my PC (Core2Duo E6600, 4GB of RAM!, Vista Home Premium x64) hang when i gave the Beta the command to exit.

My whole screen freezes, i can't bring op the task manager and when i press ctrl+alt+delete i get the usual options, but as soon as i click Task Manager the buttons just disappear and my whole pc stops working!

This happened to me twice now. When it first happened, i just didn't suspect Bento BP2, but now i do.

It is REALLY annoying, as i have to restart my computer (when's the last time i had to do that?!) in order to get my control back.

Hmn, weird... The beta is working like a charm for me..
Maybe you can try to reinstall Winamp?