Winamp News

[DrO]

we still get requests from people who bought the pre-AOL purchase shareware licenses expecting to get a pro key because they'd paid for the shareware version (was one only last week) so i'm expecting the negativity when things are released and more people find out.

it was never clear what would happen with a v6.x release when it came to licensing, though i suspect it would have been an option to upgrade for a small cost like a few $ for existing 5.x pro users.

one thing that will be interesting is seeing what happens to all of the "Winamp + crack" torrents and downloads floating about as there won't be a need for such things anymore (but i suspect they'll still be floating around as there's been 6.x version ones for well over a decade that i remember seeing).

[musicf8]

one thing that will be interesting is seeing what happens to all of the "Winamp + crack" torrents and downloads floating about as there won't be a need for such things anymore (but i suspect they'll still be floating around as there's been 6.x version ones for well over a decade that i remember seeing).

They will still float around, at least a little bit since people will want to install them for whatever reason like nostalgia. I remember winampheaven.net, when it was up and had an archive of all the old winamp versions, hosted a keygen for version 1.x for the versions of when winamp was shareware before the sale to AOL.

[DrO]

they'll probably just move onto trying to torrent "Winamp 7.x + Crack" instead

[Juanus]

Since we are on the subject...
I use Winamp for all of my RSS podcasts. But I have noticed that sometimes winamp doesn't pull over the metadata that is in the podcast. If I download that same podcast from Itunes, the file has metadata in it. (artist, title, notes etc.)
Currently I am at work so I don't have a specific example for you, but I will have one later if you need it. Plus I don't know if this is just me or everyone.

Here is an RSS example.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAdamCarollaPodcast

It just seems like winamp and itunes brings down different metadata.

That is all
Thanks

[DrO]

rightio, will try to have a look into things, though have you got a screenshot or something like that of what difference you're seeing please.

as from a quick look in the file, there's values in the feed i don't think we even attempt to look at (e.g. title vs itunes:title) which might explain the difference you're seeing, but a screenshot example would be helpful so i know what you're actually looking at.

[Juanus]

rightio, will try to have a look into things, though have you got a screenshot or something like that of what difference you're seeing please.

as from a quick look in the file, there's values in the feed i don't think we even attempt to look at (e.g. title vs itunes:title) which might explain the difference you're seeing, but a screenshot example would be helpful so i know what you're actually looking at.

Sorry for the delay. I had to take a quick business trip. I have attached a couple of screenshots. One set is the Winamp into dialogs for the same file from iTunes and Winamp and then the MP3Tag extended info for those same files. I hope that they help.

[UnknownMe]

Noooooo! Please continue some winamp version. winamp is my best player(sounds ,etc).

[DrO]

UnknownMe: please pay attention to what has been posted already in this thread as your post is nonsensical compared to what is actually happening.

Juanus: ok that helps. so it looks like it's probably using those extended itunes fields to fill out more of the metadata. though is that screenshot from a different feed as i'm not finding any of that information in the one you posted earlier (would be helpful if it's a different one to have a link to it as well so i can double-check i'm right).

[wojtek1986]

Will the new Winamp keep compatibility with v5.x skins, DSP plug-ins and visualizations?

[DrO]

skins: yes, 5.x (modern) and 2.x skins.

plug-ins: hopefully - as it depends completely upon what those plug-ins are doing and how well they cope with some of the required native plug-in changes which have to be made to improve the default Winamp experience (as most Winamp installs never see 3rd party plug-ins being installed anyway).

[Juanus]

Juanus: ok that helps. so it looks like it's probably using those extended itunes fields to fill out more of the metadata. though is that screenshot from a different feed as i'm not finding any of that information in the one you posted earlier (would be helpful if it's a different one to have a link to it as well so i can double-check i'm right).

It would really help if I would pay attention to what I am doing. The previous screenshots I referenced went with feed

http://www.podcastone.com/podcast?categoryID2=398

The screenshots attached to this thread reference feed

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAdamCarollaPodcast

Sorry and Thanks

[DrO]

not to worry, that helps with extra data to look at seems like i'll need to do some more research to determine what the expected set of metadata is for feeds (as most of what is in those i've not been aware off from the feeds i'm subscribed to).

[Juanus]

not to worry, that helps with extra data to look at seems like i'll need to do some more research to determine what the expected set of metadata is for feeds (as most of what is in those i've not been aware off from the feeds i'm subscribed to).

And just to add a little info. If you download the file directly from the website, not using the RSS feed, you get the metadata below. Which is exactly what you get from the Winamp RSS. So like you said, it seems like iTunes is adding information somehow.

[grahamvs]

Firstly, a BIG thank you to DrO and the team for keeping Winamp alive, even if there's no release date in sight... It's ready when it's ready :P

To those that keep complaining: Just be grateful that someone wanted to keep it alive... If they didn't, who would you whine to? lol

One of the things I felt that Winamp was missing (natively), was an option to organise your media based on a set of naming rules. I know there was a 3rd party plugin (Media Library Organizer) that I used, but there was a weird glitch that messed up the tags / naming when organising by album artist. Is this something that could be looked at in terms of native support?

Since it has already been touched on, and since there will no longer be a "Pro" version (and it’s no longer available), where do you guys stand in terms of people using keygens for the Satan (v5.666, I couldn't resist :P ) edition? I know you may not be able to say “sure, go for it” without someone whining that they had to pay for their key and therefore feel that everyone else must suffer, but you could always say something like “it would be very hard to tell if you did since we can no longer track who bought it and who didn’t…”

Lastly, if people are giving you a hard time about Pro versions for the next release, you can always offer to take their money and give them a "special" version which just has the word "Pro" in the title. That way, they can have something us mere mortals won’t have

[MarkRH]

skins: yes, 5.x (modern) and 2.x skins.

plug-ins: hopefully - as it depends completely upon what those plug-ins are doing and how well they cope with some of the required native plug-in changes which have to be made to improve the default Winamp experience (as most Winamp installs never see 3rd party plug-ins being installed anyway).

Yeah, I already have at least 1 (really old) plug-in that I have to rename the .dll file before I install a newer version as it either crashes the installer or the 1st-time run wizard. Well, last time I attempted an install without renaming it first was many versions ago. Not sure what it would do now. Anyway, the plug-in itself still works with Winamp so I've kept it around. It's like 9 years old at least. If it completely dies and becomes completely in-compatible then I'll cross that bridge when/if it happens. May just have two versions of Winamp if that time comes.

Keep up the good work.