Winamp 5.9 Final Released

[Mikey7]

The issue where some 1st-party plugins (Modern Skins gen_ff, gen_tray, ml_bookmarks, ml_disc, ml_history, ml_rg, ml_impex, ml_transcode) are "not loaded" on Windows 7 to 8.1 is a separate issue that we are still investigating.

We hope to have it fixed asap so we can then release another public build...

Thanks for the clarification, DJ Egg. I often forget that some users are still running much older versions of Windows.

[DJ Egg]

No crashes, but completely unusable on my 32 inch 4K monitor. So tiny I can't see anything. Control to increase scaling is missing.

I can only get the "Classic" skin. Trying to use the Modern skin throws up an error message that I don't have Modern Skin support installed - but I made sure that it was checked during installation.

Oh well, back to 5.666.

Nice try but no banana.

What's your Windows OS?
If it's Win7 to 8.1, then gen_ff not loading is a known issue (see my post two above yours, and earlier posts).


Does 5.666 look any better on your monitor?

One of the disadvantages of skinned apps...
and certainly an area we need to improve upon in future releases.


You can increase the Playlist and Media Library text via Prefs => Playlist.

Double Size mode for Classic skins will increase the main window & EQ,
but probably doesn't look too good on today's large monitors.


We include our own Scaling feature for Modern/Freeform skins.
e.g. Bento skin => main menu (top left corner icon, or right-click anywhere on frame) => Windows Settings => Scaling...


Additionally, Modern skins main window font size can be increased via Prefs => Modern Skins => Font Rendering.

Big Bento skin is a bit trickier.
Main window songticker & MCV File Info area font can be increased via the Font Mapper (same tab as above).
e.g. Map from: Arial to Arial
Scale = increase to taste

But then, to fix the overlapping text in the info area, you've also got to manually modify:
Winamp\Skins\Big Bento\xml\player-normal-mcv.xml

Search for/scroll down to <groupdef id="bento.infodisplay.line" embed_xui="text" xuitag="Bento:InfoLine">
Change the y="-2" value under <Text id="label"> and <Text id="text"> sections to e.g. -4 or -6 or whatever works best.
Save the XML and hit F5 in Winamp to refresh the skin.


It's all good fun :-)

[Mikey7]

You can increase the Playlist and Media Library text via Prefs => Playlist.

Double Size mode for Classic skins will increase the main window & EQ,
but probably doesn't look too good on today's large monitors.

We include our own Scaling feature for Modern/Freeform skins.
e.g. Bento skin => main menu (top left corner icon, or right-click anywhere on frame) => Windows Settings => Scaling...

Additionally, Modern skins main window font size can be increased via Prefs => Modern Skins => Font Rendering.

To clarify, I think from what he wrote that Modern Skins work fine on his 4K monitor under 5.666 but aren't loading at all on 5.9. He can't find the scaling option in 5.9 because it doesn't exist if gen_ff doesn't load and all he has are Classic Skins, which can't be scaled, only double-sized as you pointed out.

[DJ Egg]

To clarify, I think from what he wrote that Modern Skins work fine on his 4K monitor under 5.666 but aren't loading at all on 5.9. He can't find the scaling option in 5.9 because it doesn't exist if gen_ff doesn't load and all he has are Classic Skins, which can't be scaled, only double-sized as you pointed out.

Yup. Though that's not necessarily a Winamp 5.9-specific issue on 4K monitors, it's just an issue that gen_ff isn't loading on Win7-8.1.

[Someautisticdude]

JoeSandbox classifies this as Suspicious. Any comments on the activities listed in this report? https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/676551/0/html

[Mikey7]

JoeSandbox classifies this as Suspicious. Any comments on the activities listed in this report? https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/676551/0/html

It's a false-positive. Other virus software gives it the thumbs up including Windows Defender. This, along with many other current issues has been discussed within this reasonably short thread.

[psyk2152]

Loading Equalizer Presets buggy

hi there,

when im trying to load a "preset" for the equalizer, i always got only chinese symbols in the Load Eq preset -menue which i cant read, so there is no way to select a preferred preset. (note = us-language pack is installed).

greetings from germany.
(and keep up the good work)

:-)

[NJK]

hi there,

when im trying to load a "preset" for the equalizer, i always got only chinese symbols in the Load Eq preset -menue which i cant read, so there is no way to select a preferred preset. (note = us-language pack is installed).

greetings from germany.
(and keep up the good work)

:-)

if you had taken the time to read the entire thread you would have found that it's a known issue. it's been mentioned several times before .

[psyk2152]

ok sry

ok sorry about that.


:-)

[DJ Egg]

JoeSandbox classifies this as Suspicious. Any comments on the activities listed in this report? https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/676551/0/html

It's a false-positive. Other virus software gives it the thumbs up including Windows Defender. This, along with many other current issues has been discussed within this reasonably short thread.

McAfee now says we're clean

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2dfd17ed43f638b60d97dac189a479ff8740234a3d170673730a196ca3a2385c

Just one false-positive remains (from VBA32)


JoeSandbox's report is poor :-(

There's one false-positive remaining.

Previously, 7 AV vendors reported false-positives, but have since corrected it after it was brought to their attention.

SHOUT, ICY, UVOX & SC are our proprietary URL protocols, not file extensions.
We have every right to register our own proprietary protocols.

We attempt to create a Windows firewall rule because Winamp requires internet access for many features to work, such as Online Services, Podcasts, Shoutcast... and previous features which might reappear in a forthcoming release, such as NowPlaying, Autotag/CDDB, etc.

There's no dodgy flash file included with the installation.
winampFLV.swf is part of the Shockwave Flash Support component and is installed alongside in_swf.dll, if selected.

The uninstaller might require a reboot if some components (such as Elevator.exe / elevatorps.dll) can't be uninstalled without one.

There's no "potential crypto function". We use OpenSSL/crypt32 for https:// protocol support.

There's an option to enable the Winamp Agent which used to be able to monitor the registry for file association changes. But iirc this only worked on OS prior to Windows Vista.

We need to query system specs to determine if selected features will work, such as Milkdrop vis (requires specific DirectX libs which might not be present by default), high quality video support, 24bit audio, Windows Media 9 support (not guaranteed to be present on all systems), etc.

Drops files with a non-matching file extension...?
W5S is a renamed DLL
We used w5s to specify it being a Winamp 5 System component.
We've been doing this for 15 years.

Creates files inside the user directory? Really?
Like thousands of other programs out there, we save settings in %AppData%

Reads ini files?
We need to check for paths.ini, install.ini, winamp.ini, gen_ml.ini & ml_online.ini
to determine if a previous installation exists with certain settings which need maintaining,
or if not, we then create them with default settings instead.

Creates temporary files?
This is how NSIS installers work.
NSIS has been doing this for 20 years.

And so on, etc.

[psyfer9983]

So far so good. But, I miss "Enhancer 017" DSP plug-in. Is there any way to get that to work with 5.9?

Enhancer 017 - https://winampheritage.com/plugin/enhancer-017/81361

[SumGuy9]

I'm really happy Winamp's finally coming back!



I found a minor bug with the system tray though -

"Window Settings" is missing from the system tray context menu unless you right-click the main GUI.
The scaling number in the tray also doesn't show the proper selection unless you right-click the main GUI again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7xDZ1SRZrg

[psyfer9983]

So far so good. But, I miss "Enhancer 017" DSP plug-in. Is there any way to get that to work with 5.9?

Enhancer 017 - https://winampheritage.com/plugin/enhancer-017/81361

I found the wrapper version of this plugin doesn't load in 5.8.

If anyone wants to use this plugin, install the non-wrapper version and do the following the get rid of the registry error. Run the installer as admin, run Winamp as admin then load/open the plugin. Next close Winamp and open regedit. Go to the following key below and give the user "everyone" full access to the key. Now you can run Winamp as normal and still be able to use the plugin without the registry error popup.

reg key to edit - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Ioscasoft

[DJ Egg]

I'm really happy Winamp's finally coming back!



I found a minor bug with the system tray though -

"Window Settings" is missing from the system tray context menu unless you right-click the main GUI.
The scaling number in the tray also doesn't show the proper selection unless you right-click the main GUI again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7xDZ1SRZrg

Yes, that is a strange one. Good catch.
It's the same if you Shift+right-click on the Taskbar icon => Winamp => menu...

I could well be a bug.
Though at a guess, it needs to be initialized first via the Winamp UI before it can appear in the system menu.

[yodaUT]

I tried to install this new winamp beta in Win11 sandbox and it immediately crashes on launch (after installation).

It's probably a weird directx require thing, but i still wanted to complain about it.

please let me know if you need tech details.