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Winamp 5.54

Demodave   on 10 July 2008 - 09:20 · 15 comments & 8559 views

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Update to 5.54 released July 9, 2008.

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Changes for version 5.54:

* New: Chinese, Japanese & Korean installer translations and language packs
* New: [in_swf] Adobe Shockwave Flash (SWF, RTMP) playback support
* New: [gen_dropbox] Winamp DropBox alpha (use: Ctrl-Shift-D)
* New: [Online Services] AOL Radio featuring CBS Radio (requires in_flv)
* Improved: Background reading option for playlist metadata
* Improved: Classic songticker scrolling for Winamp Modern skin pledit winshade
* Improved: Vista elevation (fixes: installing skins, filetype reg, Pro reg)
* Improved: Zero padding option for playlist item numbers
* Improved: [in_flv] Better streaming support and other improvements
* Improved: [in_mp3] Added APEv2 tag options to configuration
* Improved: [in_mp3] Optional retention of existing APEv2 headers
* Improved: [ml_disc] Artwork support for Data CD Reader
* Improved: [ml_disc] Better detection of any copy operations in progress
* Improved: [ml_disc] Improved start times if ml_disc view is active
* Improved: [ml_local] Redesigned 'Show Info' panel
* Improved: [ml_nowplaying] Redesigned 'Now Playing' artist experience
* Improved: [ml_playlists] Right-click option to sort list of playlists alphabetically
* Improved: [pmp_usb] Connect/Disconnect/Blacklist config options
* Fixed: Alt+F4 closing Winamp instead of individual dialogs
* Fixed: Bento browser redirecting network drive url's to Winamp Search
* Fixed: Blank playlist when in docked toolbar mode and Winamp is minimized
* Fixed: Modern skin component windows appearing individually in Alt+Tab
* Fixed: Multi-flashing on startup when previously closed whilst minimized to systray
* Fixed: Pure Virtual Function Call runtime crash errors
* Fixed: Redraw issue when built-in classic vis is disabled
* Fixed: Various multi-monitor docking issues
* Fixed: Various other 5.53-specific keyboard accelerator issues
* Fixed: [Bento] Drag+Drop into Playlist from Open Files dialog
* Fixed: [burnlib] 'CD Drive locked by another Winamp process' on 2nd burn attempt
* Fixed: [burnlib] 'Burner releasing failed' error
* Fixed: [dsp_sps] Crash on close when config Help dialog is still open
* Fixed: [enc_flac] MD5 checksum generation
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Attached vis plugin crash on winshade to normal mode in Modern skin
* Fixed: [gen_hotkeys] Assigning Winkey with already used Ctrl combinations
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Enter/Shift+Enter broken for ML treeview items (5.53-specific)
* Fixed: [in_cdda] Composer/Conductor logic bug when saving CDDB data to database
* Fixed: [in_flac] Minor metadata writing bugs
* Fixed: [in_midi] Seeking with 'DM/MS Synth' device in Streamed playback mode
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on files with invalid/corrupt gapless data
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Create new ID3v1/v2 tags configuration setting
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Huge lag on files with large embedded cover art
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Metadata & Format Info display for streams in View File Info
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Potential unicode-related crash on open/close issue
* Fixed: [jpeg.w5s] Saving corrupt album art
* Fixed: [ml_autotag] Results dialog hidden under Winamp when AOT is enabled
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Small resource leak
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Enter/Shift+Enter broken for selected ML Playlist items
* Fixed: [ml_playlists / ml_transcode] Sending playlists from ML tree to Transcoder
* Fixed: [ml_wire] 404/timeout with valid rss feeds on Vista
* Misc: Miscellaneous localization tweaks, fixes & updates
* Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Setup fixes (Agent not always starting, WLZ filetype not registering, etc)
* Misc: Various other 'Winamp Modern' & 'Bento' skin updates
* Misc: [enc_flac] Now encodes using libFLAC instead of Flake
* Updated: Bento skin v1.2
* Updated: freetype 2.3.7
* Updated: libpng 1.2.28
* Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.98

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(4 replies) #1 ThaCrip on 10 Jul 2008 - 09:40
still the best audio player (im talking about lite version)

although 7MB is a tad large considering it used to be like 1-2MB or so back in the day.
#1.1 th3rEsa on 10 Jul 2008 - 10:55
Winamp w/ Bento, however, is the best media library tool for me.
#1.2 ozzy76 on 10 Jul 2008 - 13:13
Because you are downloading the ALL languages version.

Here's the English version - 2.8MB
#1.3 Grandaevus on 11 Jul 2008 - 12:59
to bad Bento isn't included in Lite version, that's what make it rock!
#1.4 sycamore on 12 Jul 2008 - 15:21
(ThaCrip said @ #1)
still the best audio player


maybe so... I have moved to AIMP... given the new edition
grilled with memory leaks...
#2 th3rEsa on 10 Jul 2008 - 10:54
I posted that on the forums... no credits this time?
#3 Lord Leveau on 10 Jul 2008 - 11:14
cool. thanks for the heads up.
(1 reply) #4 hardgiant on 10 Jul 2008 - 15:12
I installed Winamp 2.8 lite only 540KB download.
#4.1 Kirkburn on 10 Jul 2008 - 16:05
(hardgiant said @ #4)
I installed Winamp 2.8 lite only 540KB download.

And? What's your point?

Of course older versions will be smaller.
(1 reply) #5 Grandaevus on 11 Jul 2008 - 13:07
Annoyed!

Why can't they fix the small preview in Vista, it looks so busted!
They also say in the change log that they "* Fixed: Modern skin component windows appearing individually in Alt+Tab"

Liar liar pants on fire....



#6 LinDog on 12 Jul 2008 - 05:00
Another quality release!!! AOL didn't do anything bad to it IMO it still functions as good as the older versions. This is the Firefox of media players to me, loaded with working functionality and extras to fit it to my need.
(1 reply) #7 +trag3dy on 13 Jul 2008 - 02:35
Looks good except for the two new buttons they added to the window shade mode using the Bento skin. They look completely out of place. Any way to get rid of them?
#7.1 Code.Red on 13 Jul 2008 - 05:37
Agreed. They look bad when the window is normal as well. Why can't they be the same style as the buttons right next to them?? It's not that big of a deal though.
#8 mancode20 on 14 Jul 2008 - 22:07
Where is the link to install it without the emusic crap?

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