Winamp 5.9.1 Released

[DJ Egg]

Winamp 5.9.1 Build 10029

Winamp 5.9.1
* Improved: [ml_local / nde] Memory footprint reduction
* Improved: [ml_local] Load time speedup and other optimizations
* Improved: [ml_online] Increased maximum bandwidth (from 350 to 3500)
* Improved: [playlist/ml_playlists/ml_pmp] Playlist loader/writer refactoring
* Improved: [dlmgr] Increased buffer size for faster podcast downloads
* Improved: [Bento skin] Increased menu & config widths to help with translations
* Improved: [Installer] VS2019 runtime checker script (thanks Pawel Porwisz)
* Fixed: Hang when reopening Winamp if previously placed on disconnected monitor
* Fixed: [Installer] Silent install switch blocked by external dependencies
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Windowshade and Docked Toolbar modes not remembered on restart
* Fixed: [gen_tray] Settings not being saved after Winamp restart
* Fixed: [in_mp4/libmp4v2] Overflow and seek issues with specific mp4 videos
* Fixed: [in_wave/libsndfile] Error parsing list subchunks with some riff headers
* Fixed: [ml_downloads] Cancelling multi-selection only cancelled first item
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Crash when editing playlist entry
* Fixed: [ml_wire/xml] Display of non-Latin characters in Podcasts
* Fixed: [out_ds] Crossfader broken in Bento/Modern skin EQ
* Fixed: [out_ds] Potential buffer overflow issues
* Fixed: [out_wasapi] Crash on opening flv videos (rendering still needs fixing)
* Fixed: [playlist/ml_playlists] Memory leaks
* Fixed: [playlist/ml_playlists] Reported issues with special/unicode characters
* Fixed: [vis_avs] AVS Editor menu not localized when lang pack applied
* Misc: Many more general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Replaced nu::PtrMap with std::map and nu::PtrList with std::vector
* Misc: [vcpkg] changed from manifest to classic mode
* Removed: [wbm] Lazy-loading wbm system files (no longer required)
* Updated: [in_flac/enc_flac] libFLAC 1.4.2
* Updated: [in_mod] libopenmpt 0.6.6
* Updated: [OpenSSL] OpenSSL 3.0.5
* Updated: [vpx] libvpx 1.12.0
* Updated: [xml] expat 2.4.9
* Updated: [zlib] zlib 1.2.13
* New/Improved: [ml_downloads/ml_playlists] Download context menu in ML
* New: [ml_nft] Import, play and download music from your NFT Library (optional)


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Info

On upgrades, and as a precautionary measure, it's recommended to make a backup
of your Winamp settings folder (media library database, playlists, etc) before installing.

Re: Updated: [in_flac/enc_flac] libFLAC 1.4.2

Unfortunately, this update alone wasn't enough to make FLAC streams work.
It requires additional implementation work - which is earmarked for 5.9.2 (or whatever version comes next).


Re: New: [ml_nft] Import, play and download music from your NFT Library (optional)
Re: New/Improved: [ml_downloads/ml_playlists] Download context menu in ML

ml_nft.dll adds an “NFT Library” view in the ML.

It’s currently an empty view with no content.
To display the necessary contents, it would require us to update the internal browser engine in Winamp to e.g. QtWeb/Chromium instead of IE10... which isn’t happening for 5.9.1

When clicked, it opens a page on winamp.com in your default external browser which includes all the instructions.

If you don’t have any music NFTs, and don’t ever intend getting any or using the feature, then you can deselect it in the installer options, or delete the DLL, or uninstall the plugin via Prefs, and that’s the end of it.

If you do have NFT music/videos and want to test the feature, then it supports exporting your NFT library to an m3u8 playlist, importing it into the Winamp ML, streaming playback and physical downloading of mp3, wav, ogg/vorbis, mp4, avi - and downloads of flac, mkv, and other supported formats.

Downloads are handled via dlmgr / ml_downloads, i.e. the same mechanism we use for Podcasts.

The “download” feature also supports any other remote links to files in ml playlists, but obviously not radio streams (although the “download” context menu item is currently not grayed-out for streams, which will be addressed at a later stage).


Please do not post any rants about NFTs in this thread.

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Ongoing Known Issues

Refer to section in 5.9 Released thread

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Changes from RC1 to RC2
Changes from RC2 to RC3
Changes from RC3 to RC4
Changes from RC4 to Final


Winamp 5.9.1 Update Patch available
Download | Info

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Extras

Shoutcast Source DSP v2.4.2 for Winamp 5.9.1

Changes since v2.4.1

- General cleanup and alignment with Winamp 5.9.1 code


Language Packs v1.7

Included:
Chinese (cn & tw), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

Note: Some packs might be out-of-date...

Changes since v1.4

- New: Czech lang pack (thanks: Trasak Jiri)
- Updated: Korean lang pack by VenusGirl
- Updated: Spanish lang pack
- Updated: Turkish lang pack

Polish Language Pack (separate installer)

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[niwrad777]

Great!

Spanish Language pack for Winamp 5.9.1 soon...

[Legendarion]

"Updated: [in_flac/enc_flac] libFLAC 1.4.2"

It still says libFLAC 1.3.4 in the Encoder section.

[DJ Egg]

"Updated: [in_flac/enc_flac] libFLAC 1.4.2"

It still says libFLAC 1.3.4 in the Encoder section.

Good catch. Thanks!

[Mikey7]

Once again, congratulations to DJ Egg and the development team.

[musicf8]

New: [ml_nft] Import, play and download music from your NFT Library (optional)

What strange times we live in

[Aminifu]

Hi DJ Egg,

I hope you're doing well.

I've been testing the new Winamp on Windows 11 (version listed in my signature below) with a few old 3rd party plug-ins. Winamp v5.9.0.9999 worked very well with occasional hangs during session shutdowns. I had no issues running modern skins and all the plug-ins I'm using also worked without any issues.

I have seen an issue with the current version 5.9.1,10021. I have my music files stored on the same drive as Winamp (C:\). When starting (and ending) a session the file folder locations were striped from the file names in the winamp.m3u and winamp.m3u8 files. This caused the songs listed in the Playlist Editor to not be found when starting a new session (with songs played in the previous session).

I copied my music files to another drive and rebuilt the media library. This allows the current version to work normally (with my modern skins and 3rd party plug-ins.)

I recall skimming a post from someone with an issue with the previous version when their media files were on the same drive as the app. I didn't have an issue with my music files on the same drive, so I didn't follow up on that post and the resolution, if any.

[Legendarion]

Winamp still have issues with the Metadata Reading by the time CD Ripping are being used.
It refreshes the playlist for no reason.

[thinktink]

Winamp still consistently crashing when trying to switch to any Modern skin. Clean install with no 3rd party plugins. Attaching crash dumps created by Windows 10 along with Winamp Info Tool report.

[circcc]

ml_playlists.dll is not loaded in windows 7.

[jpp20]

Hi. Winamp 5.9.1 is not playing Winamp Playlist File .M3U
The songs are in partition D:
And also the Winamp logo keeps appearing on top of the equalizer.
See screenshot:

[jpp20]

https://imgbox.com/QbbMK3nt

[Mikey7]

I've had the file info window set to equalizer for several minutes and have not seen the Winamp logo appear on it. Oddly, I also couldn't bring up any internet radio with either .m3u or .pls. I found my associations were borked and had to reset them. After that, they worked as expected.

[Mikey7]

Additionally, my playlists worked without any intervention and they are all .m3u8.

[DJ Egg]

Hi DJ Egg,

I hope you're doing well.

I've been testing the new Winamp on Windows 11 (version listed in my signature below) with a few old 3rd party plug-ins. Winamp v5.9.0.9999 worked very well with occasional hangs during session shutdowns. I had no issues running modern skins and all the plug-ins I'm using also worked without any issues.

I have seen an issue with the current version 5.9.1,10021. I have my music files stored on the same drive as Winamp (C:\). When starting (and ending) a session the file folder locations were striped from the file names in the winamp.m3u and winamp.m3u8 files. This caused the songs listed in the Playlist Editor to not be found when starting a new session (with songs played in the previous session).

I copied my music files to another drive and rebuilt the media library. This allows the current version to work normally (with my modern skins and 3rd party plug-ins.)

I recall skimming a post from someone with an issue with the previous version when their media files were on the same drive as the app. I didn't have an issue with my music files on the same drive, so I didn't follow up on that post and the resolution, if any.

The winamp.m3u(8) relative path issue was reported with an earlier internal beta build, and was supposed to be fixed.

We've just found some other occurences of that same code which could cause the issue, so all being well it will be fixed for RC2, coming soon.

Could you let me know which specific old plugin(s) might be calling/writing to legacy winamp.m3u, so I can confirm the fix?