Winamp 3 FINAL

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Thanks everyone that let us know about this update. The winamp homepage has not been updated yet, but our l33t Neowinian has been able to get a hold of the download link. According to indian boy, Nullsoft Winamp team usually update their website on Thursday, which is tomorrow. If you want to wait for the official release, go ahead, but for some of you who can't take the waiting any longer, you can go ahead and download it ;)

Winamp 3.0 is built on top of an entirely new coding platform which gives developers unprecedented control and flexibility in their ability to customize the look and feel of the player, as well as its features and functionality. Every component of the Winamp player can be removed or replaced, enabling developers to create exactly what they want and integrate it quickly into Winamp. The "Wasabi" coding platform enables instant cross-platform functionality for supported platforms that will include Windows and Linux at launch. The Winamp player is the first full-featured application for this groundbreaking new coding platform.

"Winamp 3.0 takes customization to a completely new level," said Kevin Conroy, Head of AOL Music. "Winamp was originally designed to give third party developers and skin designers a great deal of flexibility, and this new version will provide an even richer system for developers to implement their creative vision. Our new coding platform provides developers with near complete freedom in their ability to create and customize applications."

With Winamp, third party developers and skin designers have a much richer system to work with and implement their creative images with version 3.0. The small, compact player will appeal in particular to developers who are looking for the ability to completely customize the look and feel, as well as target particular features and functionality to deploy.

Download: Winamp 3

View: Nullsoft Winamp

Title: Unchecked Buffer in Content Management Server Could Enable Server Compromise (Q326075)
Date: 07 August 2002
Software: Microsoft Content Management Server
Impact: Three vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could enable an attacker to run code of an attackers choice.
Max Risk: Critical
Bulletin: MS02-041

#1 occultist on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:10

At last.

#2 bigmoose on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:13

w00t

#3 King Mustard on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:25

Sweeeeeet

(5 replies) #4 boobless on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:25

Geez, this thing takes about 25% CPU usage and 11 megs or ram! Yikes....I'll stick to Winamp 2

EDIT: And now it froze my PC and gave me a blue screen. bahhh

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#4.1 zionath on 08 Aug 2002 - 08:01

heh must be a bug or something.......... cuz on mine... everytime i load up winamp 3 i get and error... something about common.dll error

but besides that it's ok wid me....... only use 4% cpu usage on me and thats an FTP server, ppl downloading of me aswell

#4.2 thancock on 08 Aug 2002 - 14:03

I have the same problem zionath, it brings up about 5 erros and then starts 100%

And yeah... mine was only takin' 1.1MB RAM... weird?! I like it... soo sleek... sooo sexy... 3.0 is here to stay!

#4.3 xStainDx on 08 Aug 2002 - 14:26

studio.exe took a fart on my pc. then it assssked me to send a report to nullsoft. bahhh! FINAL? i say, go back to the RC Count!

#4.4 zionath on 08 Aug 2002 - 16:08

u know this is just like windows 98.......... when windows 98 beta was out it was good. then windows 98 final came out............ it turns out the beta was more stable than the final YET the final supppose to have most of the bugs fixed from beta?!?!?!?!?!

#4.5 Chrissssssss on 12 Aug 2002 - 00:21

Have you installed Winamp over an older version of 3.0? When I installed new builds overs older ones I always used to get lots of errors when it tried starting up. Have to uninstall it first before installing the new one

(1 reply) #5 cidbit on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:27

So?

#5.1 brew crew on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:37

[quote]So?[/quote] 25% usage is a big deal if you are multitasking

#6 nomis_nehc on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:27

gonna test it out now, hopefully with satifisfying results... wtf?! I try to add files into playlist and it crashed.. already?!

#7 yusiye on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:29

what's new?

(3 replies) #8 mcb on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:37

here's my review: it wasnt worth the effort, the reprogramming from scratch of winamp, the umpteen betas and release candidates. and it certainly isnt worth the horrendous amount of ram. if i minimize it it only takes about 2megs, but if i, y'know, do anything with it, it spikes anywhere up to 30megs and theyve taken out a lot of thing from winamp2 that i liked, and now all new skins and plugins have to be made you wouldnt think that anyone would put that much effort into a free piece of software that was perfectly good to begin with, but hey, that's what AOL 0wnership will do to ya. think about it. AOL is crap, it is acceptable to assume that everything under AOL corntrol will equally suck. look how bad ICQ's gotten, just add sh1t to make it slower and resource-hungry. Netscape sucks even more than ever before. and (this will likely be terrible news) now Google has made some sort of unholy alliance with AOL..what's next? oh wait, thats all the good free software taken and raped in a corner by a company which is far more evil than Microsoft will ever be. AOL owns all the software that claim to be victims of Microsoft's monopoly. anyway, to sum up, winamp3 is sucky and AOL is an evil b@stard of craptitude, its too late at night for me to have tried this, oh well

#8.1 username on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:52

whatever, runs just fine here, oh wise one

#8.2 Y2kFox on 08 Aug 2002 - 06:01

Umm you can still use skins from Winamp 2.x And, FYI, it wasn't AOL who said Nullsoft had to re-write Winamp. Nullsoft is an independent software company who happens to be owned, but not controlled by AOL. Sounds like you need to get your act together and stop bitching about something when your arguments are unwarranted, mcb. And Winamp 3 works perfect on my system. I dunno what you've done to your system to make it not work good. Learn more about computers while you're at it too

#8.3 aalaap on 08 Aug 2002 - 09:20

dunno about the aol part but i agree that 3.x sux :-)

#9 computerchan on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:40

What I've been waiting for so long...

#10 Solarix on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:41

heh the splash screen looks like a crop circle, EHHHHHHHHHHH (tire skreech) WTF! where is the shoutcast icon on the thingiger, im dissapointed.....,but hehh over all , to me it doesnt matter if it takes up that much ram, games take up much morea dn so does aol n crap like that....

#11 asafdr on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:50

i like the the 2.x

(1 reply) #12 use_imagination on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:58

hard to believe this is the final but maybe it is...

#12.1 Y2kFox on 08 Aug 2002 - 06:03

Yes, it is the final. Remember, no piece of software is perfect upon release. Hell, Winamp 2 FINALLY stopped at version 2.80 The current version of Winamp 3 is 3.0. They've got room to improve and grow.

#13 sodapop on 08 Aug 2002 - 05:59

Yeah, I'll have a look but i'm stickin' to 2x.

(2 replies) #14 insanekiwi on 08 Aug 2002 - 06:09

uhm, it's not final. taken from winamp's homepage: NEW Nullsoft Winamp3! Release Candidate Sneak Preview! We've gone MAD with this special preview of Winamp3!

#14.1 nant on 08 Aug 2002 - 06:25

Winamp.com gets updated once a week, site is not updated yet, obviously. Typically, you weren't even supposed to see this file untill it would be officially released by Nullsoft, but it became a trend for people to poke around download servers and post the download URL's...

#14.2 Marshalus on 08 Aug 2002 - 06:35

And if you read the whole thing you'll notice that the release date is "6/26/2002" -- read it all

Anyways, the installer also says "Winamp3 1.0", the file name is winamp3_0-full.exe, and on top of that, NEOWIN SAID SO

#15 HariSeldon on 08 Aug 2002 - 06:13

http://www.deskmod.com/?show=news&nid=878

#16 A-star on 08 Aug 2002 - 06:31

Will try it this evening to see if its worth it.

#17 amdmstf on 08 Aug 2002 - 06:49

i was going to post the news

any way i download it and run it today and found it cool but the most bad thing is the id3 tag dont u think so GTM Cairo +2:00 Egypt

#18 A-star on 08 Aug 2002 - 07:01

I know with the 2.x client there was always a version without the AOL stuff in it. But I forgot the link to it. Does anyone has the link for both the 2.x and the 3.0 version?

#19 hunter1234 on 08 Aug 2002 - 07:06

yeppppeeiiiii!

#20 aco on 08 Aug 2002 - 07:11

Downloading now...been waiting for this one.

#21 zionath on 08 Aug 2002 - 07:45

FINALLY!!!

#22 Yazoo on 08 Aug 2002 - 08:24

gave up on Winamp years ago WMP8 is just fine for me, but I'll give WA3 a go anyway, haven't written it off just yet

#23 Hawk999 on 08 Aug 2002 - 08:26

I have tried it. I like the free form skins. But still, I like QCD 3 better

#24 Yazoo on 08 Aug 2002 - 08:45

AOL sucks anything AOL touches sucks, I will never use Winamp.

Winamp was sooo coool now it sucks big time. Skining it will not make it a better player. p.s check it for spyware and other sh*t.

#25 DWZ on 08 Aug 2002 - 09:01

can I hear w00t?

(1 reply) #26 aalaap on 08 Aug 2002 - 09:15

hmm .. i dont know .. winamp2.8 is just a whole lot faster .. and it does everything i want my mp3 player to do .. what can i say .. a round skin instead of a rectangular one doesn't make a world of difference to me .. :-P // to some who can relate, the difference between 2.8 and 3.0 is kind of line netscape4.7 and 6 .. yeah it was a whole lot better and stuff .. but there was something missing ! i can almost compare it to the diff between win and loonix .. yeh u can do a whole lot more with loonix but it just ain't windoze :-P

#26.1 Sticktron on 08 Aug 2002 - 12:10

What can you do with loonix that you can't do with Windows? I think you got that backwards.

#27 Neobond on 08 Aug 2002 - 10:08

In all fairness to Winamp3 you will find that visualation mode on both Winamp3 and WMP8/9 will cause in excess of 50% CPU usuage (I have a P4 1.6GHz) as for memory, on my system WMP is lighter by an average of 2 or 3 mb (even in visual mode) in taskbar mode it uses less than 10mb meaning I will stick with Windows Media Player as I am a multitask sort of person.

#28 WEST on 08 Aug 2002 - 10:09

Time to uninstall and delete my Winamp 2.80

#29 Jaguar645 on 08 Aug 2002 - 10:48

In the beginning Winamp was quite good but after a while a lot of stuff was added etc etc etc and i hate it now

i got Sonique and will stick to that

i'm waiting with patience till Sonique 2 final appears that will rock

(1 reply) #30 Troop101 on 08 Aug 2002 - 10:52

its a release candidate.... Its on the site...

#30.1 use_imagination on 08 Aug 2002 - 11:13

the site isn't updated yet

#31 Nxt_Gate on 08 Aug 2002 - 10:55

FIIINNAALL!!???????????.... it crashes a lot...... cant drag playlist to bookmarks, crashes on skin color changing, always begins with the first song even if you have shuffle turned on, the EQ crossfading bar doesn´t work... NNAAAAA..........!!!!!!!!!!!!

#32 rastachops on 08 Aug 2002 - 11:17

hope this is gonna be better than the RCs... winamp 2 did rock, now its dated.

#33 Xci7e on 08 Aug 2002 - 11:33

Using it next to Winamp2.77

CPU usage 5% and ram i dunno..too lazy to view for

but anyway it looks nice, but i miss some old options from winamp2.x..

#34 LiGhTfast on 08 Aug 2002 - 11:36

wmp9 is teh win

#35 mlbl on 08 Aug 2002 - 11:37

2.x is still better because it has more features, less buggy and also eats up less RAM & CPU. The only thing i can see nice about 3.x is the "thinger", the media library and the powerful playlist features...other than that, it sucks bigtime.

#36 NeoTrunks on 08 Aug 2002 - 11:43

I highly doubt this is final. It's not even in the Winamp 3 development journal. I think someone at nullsoft is pulling your legs.

(2 replies) #37 Germano on 08 Aug 2002 - 11:49

#37.1 kuruptnation on 08 Aug 2002 - 12:25

Well you guys may be mad, it only takes up on my system 25% CPU usage and 2.56 mb of memory. lol you guys may have just bum luck. That or its buggy on certain set-ups

#37.2 Mr. Black on 08 Aug 2002 - 12:55

You think it's ok it takes up 1/4 of your total CPU power? Um, no.

Winamp 2 took up 2-5%.

#38 PabUK on 08 Aug 2002 - 12:17

Perhaps this really is the final. The last one I had before this was RC4 which was build #483. This newer version is build #488. But we all know the Winamp team are frequent updaters - look how many versions there were from 2.00 to 2.80. Hopefully they will keep improving it with time and fix the problems some of you are having. 3.00 is not the end of WA3.

#39 me101 on 08 Aug 2002 - 13:52

Think I'll stick with v2.8 for the time being, cpu and memory usage is lower than wa3. When wa3 matures a little a few months down the line, I'll give it another test drive.

#40 axis on 08 Aug 2002 - 13:54

Jesus people quit bitching. If it crashes or takes up to much RAM or CPu or or or then quit using it and go back to 2.x. It crashed when I loaded some crappy plugin and thats the only problem I have had. Just like 2.x, they will update it constantly and have new builds just like they did when it was in beta. If you have a P2 and 32 megs of RAM yea you might not want this, other then that you people should not cry abuot it taking up resources. A little note from the Official Winamp3 F.A.Q... Will it take more system resources? Winamp3 is A LOT more powerful then Winamp2, so yes it will take more system resources. Also, yes Winamp3 may not work on some of the older systems that Winamp2 works on, but nobody is forcing you to upgrade to Winamp3. Winamp2 will still be available. Remember when Winamp 2.0 first came out it took a lot more resources on the systems of the day. Unfortunately you cannot make a Next Generation software product without raising system requirements. So there you go people, enough said.

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#41 confucius on 08 Aug 2002 - 14:14

Crash everytime I play wma! WMP9 is infinitely better. Gotta hand it to AOL :disappoin

(1 reply) #42 xStainDx on 08 Aug 2002 - 14:31

[quote]Thanks everyone that let us know about this update. The winamp homepage has not been updated yet, but our l33t Neowinian has been able to get a hold of the download link. According to indian boy, Nullsoft Winamp team usually update their website on Thursday, which is tomorrow. If you want to wait for the official release, go ahead, but for some of you who can't take the waiting any longer, you can go ahead and download it [/quote] TODAY IS THURSDAY

CHECK YOUR CALENDER

#42.1 Germano on 08 Aug 2002 - 19:00

Lol. Lets wait the end of the day, then...

#43 dacbo on 08 Aug 2002 - 14:52

just checkin but are you people with all these bugs uninstalling previous builds of WA3 before your are installing the new 1s, i know with the betas you had to remove previous builds or it wouldnt (and didnt) work properly

#44 CatZ on 08 Aug 2002 - 14:55

I completely love winamp 3, it takes around 1.5 megs of ram and 5% cpu usage on my computer..... maybe you should try and use all the new functions of winamp at once

#45 SinSee on 08 Aug 2002 - 15:03

I still say it sucks big time that during all those releases they weren't able to include a feature which makes so much sense and was requested by many users: that the stupid thingy would start with the song you played last and not with the first one! I have a 1100 file-playlist and just keep it running and running and ... well, you get it, like the Energizer-bunny. But now I either have to remember where I left of... Nah! Going back to 2.8. (And crossfading takes up too much time in 3.0, too...)

#46 jb10fan on 08 Aug 2002 - 15:25

you guys are whining about cpu usage...ok well first of all look at everything winamp 3 does, its interface, its better sound quality... yet you expect it to use less than wa2 which is basciyl a totally simple interface with no bells and whistles. if they released winamp 3 with the same interface that winamp 2 had..what would really change? you guys would be bitching that there is no change

who really cares how much cpu it uses..if u wanna go play quake or whatever then turn ur winamp3 off and boom you have no cpu usage...im on a pentium 3 700 and i multiask with this all the time, doesnt slow me down any, so why dont you guys realize that the people that help make this program that has taken so long to make probably view everything you guys are saying and you should have a little more respect for a group of guys that made a totally awesome mp3 player, yes the mp3 player that you all think is funny to be critical of.

#47 TrainerNIU on 08 Aug 2002 - 15:57

For all of you that claim it is taking 25% or more of your cpu power...what is your processor speed? I have a 1.2 ghz AMD Atholon and it only takes about 1%...but yes about 12 megs ram...which is ok to me since I have 384 megs ram. Plus do you have the AVS studio running? If so, then that could be why the % usage is so high. I don't think it is fair to blame Winamp 3 on AOL. Nullsoft is owned by AOLTW but I believe it is an independent portion of them. In my opinon Winamp 3 is the best to date. The final works great on my machine...no bugs...except for if I try to use an older skin...then it crashes...so I guess I will just use the default until the skins are updated.

#48 HackerSp0rtZ on 08 Aug 2002 - 16:15

they need to put the winamp 2 API back in

#49 frogworm on 08 Aug 2002 - 16:30

man, news sure is slow at neowin now a'days... i had this yesterday and might go to party in san fransico to talk to dev team about wizamp

#50 Nuphor on 08 Aug 2002 - 19:15

Neowin.net is closed apparently. Looks like somebody hacked in.

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