WinAMP 2.90 Final Released

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Thanks to DiEMOS for the heads up on this

Nullsoft has secretly update its winamp v2 to v2.90.

Whats new:

hot new default skin, done by none other than the evil robot turned good, Steve Gedikian
added integrated full featured video support (NSV and DirectShow (AVI,ASf,MPEG,etc))
added library (complete with media database, shoutcast listing, playlist editing,
CD listing, mass tag editting, plugin API for portable devices, and more!)
updated Winamp's window docking code to be more robust/extensible
- made AVS dock use this new API
updated PCM equalizer with code from 4Front Technologies/George Yohng. Quality is a lot better.
updated equalizer default skin to show the true +12db/-12db range (the 20db was a veeery old typo)
a ton of new WM_WA_IPC API calls.
- general purpose plugin window support
- extended metadata system for getting more than just title/length of items.
- lots of exposed features via IPC
updated to PP's latest input and output plugins
focus/Z order change on window close related bugfixes
added track numbers and song lengths in HTML generated playlists
removed all ATL code, shoved EXE size by 20kb
added digital audio extraction in in_cdda.dll
(needs WNASPI32.DLL under Windows 9x/ME)
added Alt+M shortcut for minimizing Winamp
added Ctrl+(Keypad +)/Ctrl+(Keypad -) shortcuts in playlist editor for changing font size
fixed stop after current menu item trash related bug
added ultravox support for in_mp3
made in_mp3 not display 'unknown X' for empty id3 tags
installer uses leet new NSIS 2.0b3
improvements to the setup process
made the keep on screen code multimonitor smart and better
fixed & error in tooltips in winamp and winampa's systray icons
and TONS more! (new SDKs will be posted soon.)

Download: Download Winamp 2.90 Full

Download: Download Winamp 2.90 Standard

Download: Download Winamp 2.90 Lite

View: View Winamp Classic homepage

News source: In-House

Secret Weapons brings the total of playable vehicles in the game to 46. In addition to the 30 vehicles in the original game that includes jeeps, fighter planes, tanks and aircraft carriers, players can operate16 new vehicles including a Horton HO 229 fighter plane that is equipped with a 30 mm machine gun. Other vehicles include a US Sherman tank with a T-34 Calliope (rocket launcher), U.S. Super Heavy Tank, Sturmtiger, Goblin jetfighter, C-47 cargo plane, Armstrong Whitworth AW-52, the German Wasserfall guided anti-air missile and the German Natter rocket plane.

In addition to offering innovative weapons and vehicles, the game also improves on gameplay by adding an "objective based" mode. In this new mode, players will be tasked with a specific objective to win the battle (e.g. destroy a secret facility).

Key Features

Eight new battlefields that take players into combat in top secret locations in a variety of seasons and times of day.
Sixteen new vehicles to operate, seven of them prototypes which could have
changed the outcome of WWII.
Four new weapons including a one-shot kill knife that all Allied and Axis soldiers are issued.
Introduction of British Commando and German Elite troops
Top secret German prototype Rocket Pack which allows players to fly and
fight at the same time.
Wasserfall rockets will be launched, flown and directed by player in first person
The C-47 Cargo Plane will serve as a mobile spawn point
A new objective based gameplay mode

#1 cyb3rac1d on 02 Apr 2003 - 23:28

Nice nice, dloading full version now

#2 net-cruizer on 02 Apr 2003 - 23:31

Sweet!

#3 Cryptic_Night on 02 Apr 2003 - 23:42

Downloading Now (I have beta2 and it rules)

#4 Rev. Otto on 02 Apr 2003 - 23:43

yay.

#5 Apollo on 02 Apr 2003 - 23:45

n0ice

#6 nonick on 02 Apr 2003 - 23:49

not bad, but the default skin is kinda blurry...

(2 replies) #7 Cryptic_Night on 02 Apr 2003 - 23:54

Downloaded now......the defult skin doesn't look 'new' or 'hot' for that matter. Actually it looks the exact same.

#7.1 Deepu Sudhakar on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:12

actually i can notice the difference. the interface is so much more crisp. the difference is especially noticable if you go to winshade modes.

#7.2 net-cruizer on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:30

It's a lot different. I got the new default skin from the Winamp site around a week ago, and switched between it and the old default, back and forth, and it actually is quite a bit different. I can even notice some fixes to it since then.

#8 mcb on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:00

seems like a very solid build. im glad they didnt abandon v.2 completely

#9 uniacid on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:04

cool

(3 replies) #10 Kosh Naranek on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:04

Have you seen what they are showing on the channel named ... : What's currently playing on r0n r0n .. it's a new channel in this full build OMG !!!

#10.1 phobic on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:09

ROFL I was checking to see if the sound was fixed on the internet TV and well umm... HAHAHA!!!

#10.2 King Mustard on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:22

WOW! First I saw pr0n then that finished and I saw someone running through Windows XP Media Center Edition and choosing an episode of "That 70's Show!"

#10.3 Marduk on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:50

say what????

#11 altezza on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:12

It's good to hear they still making version 2.xx

I'm still using version 2.xx though

(1 reply) #12 jardragon901 on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:17

Wont use it until it gets winamp 3 skins support.

#12.1 TooPackShaker on 03 Apr 2003 - 17:09

[neoquote=#12.0 by jardragon901]Wont use it until it gets winamp 3 skins support.[/neoquote] I hope this never happens, that would just bloat it and slow it down and I like all the buttons being in the same place all the time Ive been using this thing for about 5 years. Long live winamp! Winamp3 is not winamp

#13 Digital Oracle on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:26

As for Winamp3, everyone I used is crap excepts Build 491, which will actually memorise the playlist. So I say bu bye 3 and hello 2.90. Hope it doesn't suck other wise its back to 2.81 again

#14 mrk on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:27

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELA!

#15 Dominik on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:45

cool,i like it! btw,anyone knows full list of command line parameters for winamp.exe ?

#16 bangbang023 on 03 Apr 2003 - 00:58

I'm using this for the simple fact that there have been no official releases of winamp3 and this is something new to play with.

#17 123_kid on 03 Apr 2003 - 01:06

It's nice and all but I still can't play .nsv videos from winamp.com....oh well, I can fire up winamp3 when I need to watch them. Besides that, it's all that it's cracked up to be (the library is sweet).

#18 kimme on 03 Apr 2003 - 01:13

[COLOR=gray]This[/COLOR] [COLOR=red]rocks[/COLOR]!

#19 Munki on 03 Apr 2003 - 01:46

Not bad.

#20 username on 03 Apr 2003 - 02:28

i wish the search worked like W3 with it also searching the albums as well as the single tracks... ohwell, 2.9 will rules

(1 reply) #21 paulhaskew on 03 Apr 2003 - 02:48

can someone post a screen shot of the new skin, don't wanna overwrite till i see a pic, thanx...

#21.1 net-cruizer on 03 Apr 2003 - 03:17

It's way better. Just back up the "winamp.exe" file in the Winamp folder. If you don't like the skin, you can reshack the old one out of the old exe.

(1 reply) #22 INFERNO2k on 03 Apr 2003 - 03:20

Does not support Winamp 3 skins. Back to 2.81.

#22.1 net-cruizer on 03 Apr 2003 - 03:37

lol!!! neither does WA 2.81. WA 2.9 is awsome, who cares if it doesn't support WA 3 skins, they all suck anyways.

#23 Solarix on 03 Apr 2003 - 03:33

imo winamp 3 skins blow , specially the huge blobby ones

#24 Hills420 on 03 Apr 2003 - 03:52

I'm using 3.0b ....

#25 Mystical112 on 03 Apr 2003 - 03:54

coo 2.xx rules

#26 memNOC on 03 Apr 2003 - 03:55

yea still no wa3 skin support, but im thinking it will be in WA5..

this is one stable release, and everyone using 2.81 should definitelly upgrade.. you have nothing to lose anyway.. im still not comfortable with it playing videos, its gonna take time for me to adjust.. the tv station feature rocks and i hope we'll be seeing more of it in the future.. i dont know what everyone is talking about with the new default skin.. it looks same old to me..

and btw that ron's channel is kickass.. check it out at http://205.188.234.33:8030/;stream.nsv

(1 reply) #27 INFERNO2k on 03 Apr 2003 - 03:55

Whats this streaming thing people are talking about thats now built into 2.9?

#27.1 net-cruizer on 03 Apr 2003 - 04:04

The SHOUTcast radio stations. Right there in the Media Library. Hundreds and hundreds of radio streams to choose. Before you had to go to the SHOUTcast site to see the list, now you don't.

#28 Robert McClelland on 03 Apr 2003 - 04:44

Should I throw winamp3 away get 2.90? is more sable on dailup or doesn't buff to much. Sometimes winamp3 buffs alot for me.

#29 DsnBehind on 03 Apr 2003 - 05:16

What happened to the "53 betas" before final release?

#30 CheeseCow on 03 Apr 2003 - 05:17

sweet!

I hope they scrap WA3 in favor of this baby.

(1 reply) #31 Toxicfume on 03 Apr 2003 - 05:26

Different skin?

I downloaded the standard version...I don't see any new skin, it's the original skin.

#31.1 net-cruizer on 03 Apr 2003 - 05:35

Maybe cuz you downloaded the Standard version, cuz I know Full has the new skin, and I know it's new cuz I compared both, by switching back and forth between the 2. The new one is a lot different. Same colors but still a lot different. Way nicer. Actually the old one was ugly, but I could handle using the new one as it is pretty nice. But I make my own skins anyways.

#32 guru on 03 Apr 2003 - 05:57

in the version history it says " updated to PP's latest input and output plugins" thought pp gave up on winamp

(1 reply) #33 pr0mpt on 03 Apr 2003 - 06:06

ehm, can anyone inform me on the changes yyou might see with the skin?! i just got the full version, but the skin is EXACTLY the same damned april fools crap

the rest is quite stable and everything...will keep running 2.x on work machines, but 3.x rules on my home PC [got enough ram, don't give a $hit about it there] but I hate it when they lie about the skin.... was looking forward to a new one

#33.1 net-cruizer on 03 Apr 2003 - 07:56

Well I noticed a big difference. The equalizer part is probably the most noticable, bucuz the biggest changes are the slider tracks, like balance, volume, and each eq slider. They are a lot nicer looking now. edit- Hmmm, well I just checked again. To tell you the truth, maybe it's not as different as I made it out to be. Right now I am comparing both Base Skins. There is still a significan difference, the slider tracks are nicer, and the skin is lighter than it used to be, but all the text is a bit darker than it used to be. Also the Winamp logo is different. Old version was just the lightning bolt, now it's the actual logo, like the Winamp icon. I'm going by 2 screenshots I just did from 2.9 beta2 and the 2.9 final.

Last edited by 8424 on 03 Apr 2003 - 08:21

#34 Jasco on 03 Apr 2003 - 06:15

woohoo! i liek!

(3 replies) #35 Schmoove on 03 Apr 2003 - 06:54

Awesome, even the videoplayer is better then WMP. With Winamp 2.90 I can actually 'scroll' through video's where it wasn't possible in WMP (both 6.4 and 9). Two thumbs up!! Easily the best you can get at the moment!!

#35.1 fubarshibby on 03 Apr 2003 - 07:04

the best you can get? try qcd... a new version was just released today and it's better than ever...

#35.2 Schmoove on 03 Apr 2003 - 07:09

I have QCD too, but I don't like it. Ugly interface.... that's what I like about Winamp 2.90, the interface... guess I'm just too used to it.

#35.3 fubarshibby on 03 Apr 2003 - 07:21

dl the skin "freeamp readable" it looks great and has all the features on it...

#36 riff on 03 Apr 2003 - 07:30

april joke????

#37 net-cruizer on 03 Apr 2003 - 09:37

I wonder if the Winamp site will start with the 2x series on the main page like before and set WA 3 on it's own. Now that would be cool.

#38 WishX on 03 Apr 2003 - 10:00

I replaced Winamp 2x and 3x with the latest version of JetAudio and I'm [I]still[/I] more pleased than I was with any build of Winamp.

#39 sengork on 03 Apr 2003 - 10:19

Finally they listened to users of winamp! This is MUCH better than winamp3

#40 mh508 on 03 Apr 2003 - 11:04

wohoooo ;-)

#41 sp0rk on 03 Apr 2003 - 11:10

I can't believe you guys can't tell the difference in the new skin. They smooth it down a WHOLE lot. It used to look like it was done in like 256 colors or something. http://sp0rk-tech.net/winamp2.jpg

#42 505 on 03 Apr 2003 - 11:54

They're airing movies on the IdealTest NSV. I'm watching About Schmidt now. Is this actually legal?

(1 reply) #43 Darrian on 03 Apr 2003 - 14:32

Sorry, but this is crap. The only thing I like about it at all is the video playback is more stable, but skins don't skin the video window. Call me when wa3 skinning is supported. Until then I'm sticking with winamp3. And the "new" default skin for wa 2.9 may be slightly different, but it still looks like complete crap. They should have just ported the wa3 default skin to wsz format.

#43.1 net-cruizer on 03 Apr 2003 - 15:31

Well you're right about that they should have ported the default WA 3 skin to WA 2, but as for skins not skinning all components, it's all up to the creator of the skin to do all components. Same as with WA 3, and from what I noticed is that WA 3 was definitely lacking at having all components skinned. Or the creator would make a nice lookin freeform skin, and then half @ss skin the components, so you were left with a mess of crap. WA 3 sucks.

#44 Toxikk on 03 Apr 2003 - 15:08

i like the new interface

#45 jb10fan on 03 Apr 2003 - 16:51

website hacked? access denied everywhere

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