Winamp 5.9 Final Released

[ECraig]

It is also working like a charm for me under Win11 x64, my only complain so far is that it still won't support Rich Presence with Discord.
And, to be honest, haven't even noticed the icons issue you mentioned, since I have zero icons on my desktop.

I made a full resolution standalone Winamp dark icon.
You can get it here:
https://www59.zippyshare.com/v/G32ezA89/file.html

[zumer]

Hello DJ Egg. Why the decision to abandon the build system? Previously, we could understand that 5.7.0.3444 is the old version and 5.6.0.3516 is the new version. How will version control work?

[zumer]

upd 5.6.6.3516 in a previous post. sorry.

[zumer]

I mean how are we going to distinguish 5.9 rc1 from 5.9 rc2 or 5.9 final by winamp.exe version?

[DJ Egg]

Hello DJ Egg. Why the decision to abandon the build system? Previously, we could understand that 5.7.0.3444 is the old version and 5.6.0.3516 is the new version. How will version control work?

I mean how are we going to distinguish 5.9 rc1 from 5.9 rc2 or 5.9 final by winamp.exe version?

It was the other way round. The build system abandoned us.
It was originally hosted on an AOL server, which ofc we lost access to back in 2013.
Then Benski wrote a new build script for Jenkins, but that machine died back in 2018 ish, just after we put out 5.8

Benski is currently unavailable :-( so now we just manually build straight from VS2019 and the NSIS script.

We'll reset and switch back to using build numbers for 5.9.1
e.g. 5.9.1.0001 or whatever

But for now, the build number will stay as 5.9.0.9999 for this release
and will only be identifiable by the beta1, rc1, final etc. part of the filename - and the timestamp.

[niwrad777]

WA 5.9 has a problem with the EQ presets, it is loaded in another language.
I already deleted the file in "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Winamp\Winamp.q1"
but it has not been solved.

[DJ Egg]

The EQ Presets issue is fixed for the next public release version.

[binary.rookie]

So for bugs????

Hi! First of all as a near 40 year old computer admin and using winamp with windows xp, I am extremely happy that a new release was created! Buuut I have a bug to report. I opened a flac file and it played perfectly fine. I opened an mp3 file and all I heard were weird noises... I can assume it migh be the lack of a CODEC on my machine
Machine specs:

11th Gen Intel i711800H
32 GB RAM
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Version: 21H2
OS Build: 19044.1826
Experience: WIndows Feature Pack 120.2212.4180.0


Thanks in advance!

[gelland]

I made a full resolution standalone Winamp dark icon.
You can get it here:
https://www59.zippyshare.com/v/G32ezA89/file.html

Thank you. I understand that you used a neural network to improve the picture. It needs some more work on it to make it look great, but anyway this one looks better than the pixelated one. So thanks.

[javierv14]

look, i gave it a try, since i use Winamp a while back but is not working i install it and since i use nothing but cover arts and i have well a lot of albums like 600 maybe 1000 albums when Winamp try to read all the covers it just plains becomes bunkers and it closes automatically
this is an img of the style i like to use on Winamp but from MusicBee https://ibb.co/7gv4R2L
putting Winamp that same way just goes bunkers and i am using Windows 11 latest build 22621.317

[owem]

I just installed and I realized that Queue Manager feature is missing. That one with the shortcut Q or Alt+Q. I often use this feature but now it's not there anymore. I was upgrading from version 5.666.

[cmountford]

I'll have to check it out when I get back from performing a festival...not trying to install a new version this second, but I downloaded it & I'm excited

[Mikey7]

look, i gave it a try, since i use Winamp a while back but is not working i install it and since i use nothing but cover arts and i have well a lot of albums like 600 maybe 1000 albums when Winamp try to read all the covers it just plains becomes bunkers and it closes automatically
this is an img of the style i like to use on Winamp but from MusicBee https://ibb.co/7gv4R2L
putting Winamp that same way just goes bunkers and i am using Windows 11 latest build 22621.317

I easily have a larger music library than you do, and I have no issue with album art processing and displaying in the Media Library.

Let me ask you this - did you install 5.9 RC1 over an existing Winamp installation? If so, I'd like to suggest removing the previous version and installing 5.9 RC1 fresh and then we can go from there.

The image you linked comes up as "Page Does Not Exist."

[Marz]

I have installed Winamp 5.9 on Windows 7 x64. When I try to select one of the standard modern skins (Winamp Modern or Bento) I get an error "You are attempting to use a Modern skin but have not installed the Modern skin support plug-in". And only the classic skin still works:



I also installed Winamp on a clean virtual windows 7 x64. But there is the same error.

Getting the same, looks like some plugins are causing problems\not compatible.

If you move out the following plugins from the plugin directory, modern skin support loads and works(mostly)
in_avi.dll
in_cdda.dll
in_dshow.dll
in_flac.dll
in_linein.dll
in_midi.dll
in_mkv.dll
in_mod.dll

In addition to modern skin support, gen_tray.dll plugin also fails to load because of further plugins
in_wave.dll
in_wm.dll

[ECraig]

Technical points aside, 5.9 is sounding extremely good. I believe it sounds even better than Signalyst HQPlayer 4 Desktop, priced 199€, which I have been using for years and considered it the second best in the world (after Bug Head Emperor).
Especially sonically improved is Nullsoft MPEG Audio Decoder v4.4. I did a blind A/B test comparison with the old Nullsoft MPEG Audio Decoder v4.103 and 4.4 shows considerably greater depth, better definition and particularly better transient response. But formats like FLAC or m4a also sound better than on Winamp 5.666.