Winamp 5.8 Beta, Build 3660 (official)

[PeterK.]

@PeterK.

Which skin? Is there anything we can do to prevent that? Or is it something skinners will need to address?.

Hello DJ Egg and thanks for the update.

I just ran some tests with recent development files from my skin (see screenshot) and must admit that the culprit was hiding somewhere else.

In the upcoming version 2.3 of my skin there will be a new feature called Playlist Editor2, which will contain some useful options regarding editing playlists:



And within the script for that particular component I found a bug, which never made problems while running the skin. I just put a setDelay(); within a timer and hitting the OPTIMIZE button caused that whole mayhem. So we're good now.

[ReeferMan]

Just one Question!

Do all or most of the 3rd party addons/skins still work?


Greetings, ReeferMan

[PeterK.]

Just one Question!... skins still work?

Yes.

[ReeferMan]

Yes.

Cool, thx

[PeterK.]

May I share some improvements tips with the developer team from the "skinner-point-of-view" and if yes where should I post them?

[nospam]

hi
Windows 10 scaling does not work.
Screenshot https://i.imgur.com/NxshEhO.jpg

[PeterK.]

hi
Windows 10 scaling does not work.
Screenshot https://i.imgur.com/NxshEhO.jpg

Go to Options->Double Size. This is the only help here. Classic skin has a fixed size, which do not "respond" to Windows' scaling factor. The other idea would be to get a Modern Skin and apply Winamp's scaling option.

[zumer]

Great news! Checked, works fine!

[Donkey11]

What about language support?

Can be taken from the old version
I installed a package from version 5.64

[zepper]

Great to see Winamp back, we loyal users never gave up. Look forward to 5.81 or the official 5.80 if there is going to be one.

The option for Windows Media Foundation is nice but thankfully ffdshow still works, there's far more options with that and changing basics like like aspect ratio and cropping is limited with Windows Media Foundation so please don't consider removing the in_dshow.dll plugin if XP support ends.

[ryerman]

It seems that Winamp development was stalled because there was no lead developer:

http://forums.winamp.com/showpost.php?p=3055816&postcount=1483

http://forums.winamp.com/showpost.php?p=3055860&postcount=1494

http://forums.winamp.com/showpost.php?p=3141503&postcount=1999

The release of Winamp v5.8 Beta suggests that Radionomy finally found a suitable lead developer. And it took only 4 years!
There is a new lead developer, right? How else could a new version be released?

Who is the new lead developer for the desktop Winamp?
Will the desktop development team participate in this forum regarding bugs, wishes or suggestions?
Time will tell.
I'm not holding my breath.

[Greydaddy]

This is great news, ty you for keep on keepin on!

[porschedrifter]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOW THIS IS AMAZING!! Thanks for keeping it alive. Been using winamp since it first came out and it's a part of me.

[MrSinatra]

Ryerman asks pertinent questions.

meanwhile, here is my review so far of 5.8 3660

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=453692

[DJ Egg]

@Squashed
All Gracenote components were removed (cddb, playlist generator, etc.).
All "Licensed to AOL" 3rd-party components/services/features were removed (Gracenote, Sonic, Fraunhofer, etc.).
We still need to replace cd burning, cddb & autotag/acoustic-fingerprinting features -
which was one of the reasons why we didn't release 5.8 sooner (i.e. because it was missing features from 5.666).

@PeterK.
Yes. But where?

@ryerman

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?p=3162187#post3162187