Winamp 5.5 Beta Preview 3 (Build 1600)

[DrO]

the 'tabs' are just drawn buttons with fixed placement in the skin - they're really not even what a real tab is in the sense of other apps which use tabs in my opinion. i don't even know if something like that is currently possible with the modern skinning engine (all/any of it's component parts) as it stands. and really we've got more important issues related to the drawn buttons that will be seen with final to worry about

@Znyper2: the pro stuff doesn't really go towards development, is basically to cover licensing on a per user basis for things (and i remember when it was only $14.95, heh)

-daz

[elfin]

bug or feature?

i didn't install v5.5 at all, so i can't test it
but now i remember [bug?] that in v5.35 don't work Ctrl+B (end of list) hotkey when EQ is active in 'classic skin' mode. but Ctrl+Z work fine. i'm not sure this bug is present in 5.5

BIG THX 4 JOB TO DEV TEAM!

exuse me for bad english, plz

[Mecha25]

Originally posted by DrO
@Znyper2: the pro stuff doesn't really go towards development, is basically to cover licensing on a per user basis for things (and i remember when it was only $14.95, heh)

-daz

Then where can I send some money to pay the developers? You guys work hard and have to put up with all of us demanding crazy features all the time. I think you deserve some form of payment for that (btw, do you guys get paid for this stuff at all? Or is Winamp completely a volunteer project?

[elfin]

ha ha! i will never believe that hard work on Winamp is "volunteer project" (just devs hobby, which is unpayed at all). devs, plz, don't insult! coz anyway this team make great job! THX again!

and sorry for meddling in discussion

[Good_Bytes]

Waaait a second...

20$ US for Pro, but 27$ Canadian? Its supposed to be the same price The Canadian currency has equal value than the US $.

[Pyros9]

Questions & Praise

Question first....Installed ver 5.5 beta yeasterday and sometime during the install (I think) it moved about 10% of my music from the MyDocuments/MyMusic folder to C:\My Music. Anyone know why it did this?

Praise: Love the new look of the Bento skin. The operation of the program is much easier now.

Love the new way it searches for album art. Is there a way to have it search for ALL album art for every music file/album I have?

Another question: Some of the screen shots I saw over in the 5.5 colors thread show an "Album Art" selection in the Media Library section. Mine does not have this, is it a plugin? Or is it supposed to be part of 5.5?

[DJ Egg]

@Pyros9

Winamp doesn't move any files, so I'm not sure what caused that. Sorry.
It's usually one of Windows Media Player or iTunes that does sneaky things like that, not Winamp.

Right-click the Local media tree item, and select "Add smart view".
You can create an 'Abum Art' view there, either by selecting 'Simple Album' from the presets, or by choosing a 2 or 3 pane filter, and selecting 'Album Art' for one of the panes (usually the 2nd or 3rd one, where the first one is 'Artist' or 'Album Artist').

Re: search for all art in one
Not if it needs to download them from the online database server.
If your art is stored locally as eg. cover.jpg, folder.jpg, %album%.jpg in the same folder as the album, then the 'Album Art' view you create in the ml will show them all...

[Znyper2]

Originally posted by Mecha25:
Then where can I send some money to pay the developers? You guys work hard and have to put up with all of us demanding crazy features all the time. I think you deserve some form of payment for that (btw, do you guys get paid for this stuff at all? Or is Winamp completely a volunteer project?

I also want to know...

This is without a doubt a superb app to say the least. Not many other applications even have the possibility to request or even bug report and get the bugs fixed in a reasonable amount of time. I have tested numerous (yes, more than 10-15) applications to do the work I want done regarding finding/playing my music, and WinAmp has like 98% of those built-in!! I thought it was really cheap at $20, so I "bought" it. At least I thought so.

If I could send you (the Dev Team) a little something to make you happier, I would!

[Znyper2]

Re: Questions & Praise

Originally posted by Pyros9
Question first....Installed ver 5.5 beta yeasterday and sometime during the install (I think) it moved about 10% of my music from the MyDocuments/MyMusic folder to C:\My Music. Anyone know why it did this?

1. WinAmp doesn't move files, just as DJ Egg replied.
2. It does put things _by default_ in C:\My Music (if I remember correctly) if you either rip a CD or use the format converter. This output path is changable in the rip settings and the directory will contains the NEW files. The original file(s) are still where they are supposed to!

[wesderby]

Trouble With Winamp Pro Beta

Hi All.

First, thanks to DJ Egg for moving my last error reports to Stashbox...Couldn't quite make that site work with my screenreader.

Here's the new problem. To see if it would solve the crashing problems, I uninstalled and reinstalled Winamp. Oddly, even though I picked Pro, it didn't ask me for my key, though when I select "Winamp Pro" from "Preferences", it shows that I have a valid 5.0 key and all is well. However, when I get down to the CD Ripping settings, all my encoders, except for WAV and WMA are gone. I've even tried re-entering my registration key, and they're still gone from both the CD ripping options and the transcoder options.

So, what I'm wondering is, how do I restore all the codecs? In the old installer, it offered that as an option, saying it would download any encoders you didn't already have...I didn't hear/see this in the new installer, and am wondering if it was left out, or if my screenreader didn't "see" it, or what I need to do to get the various encoders restored so I can take full advantage of Pro.

Thanks.

[DJ Egg]

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And here ends the beta testing phase....

A big thank you to everyone who has contributed and helped us quash bugs.

Winamp 5.5 Final Released

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=278538

I suggest you go get a good dose of Milkdrop 2 :-)