Winamp 5 Beta

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

alpha blending and transparency has minimal cpu drain too,messing about with it right now :D

I also took off the file/options toolbar off the main/playslist window too as they just are not needed =)

[seethru]

an ass out of u and me!

[Bizkit]

Well, with everything I have open, and it is only using 7mbs? That is hogging SOOOO much of my 512mb or memory.

[freakyfriday]

Yeah! It's here! 1st Beta of Winamp 5!

grab it at: irc.xbetas.com #betas

A picture worths more than anything...

and yeah, that's the default skin.

i like the winamp 2.x skin better

[ericnmu]

I keep mine in minimized mode ontop of the taskbar and its sorta annoying to maximize it and have the window expand below the taskbar.

[preducer]

7mb is too much...

[seethru]

lol, out of 512?

[Trust]

7MB?... damn even winamp sux on this days...

[username]

i think they were being sarcastic about the 7mb guys

[+virtorio MVC]

Its only the first beta version of it, give them time. Besides 7 mb isn't bad - trying finding another program with similar skin suppoer that uses less.

[ericnmu]

7 out of 1000 hardly noticed

[Veedems Veteran]

you people are bitching about ram usage still?! holy crap! This isn't 1995 when we had 32mb of ram total in our systems, if we were lucky.

[draugluin]

http://s87166935.onlinehome.us/winamp.rar

theres a mirror.

[TooPackShaker]

they did discuss making a pay for version with ripping and burning a looooooooooong time ago. like back then 3 was in beta. but then 2.95 comes out with that stuff for free. good thing I use other software to rip and burn.

[username]

where is the info on the pay version? or is it all talk, i remember hearing about that a while back about 3x i think

anyways, i really like 5er

[rpeterclark]

When I first saw the skin I was in total awe, even though the buttons felt similar to the Media Player ones. After dl the beta and playing around with it the first thoughts I had were :

OMFG

did they sign on Bartibartman or what ?

or they have surely ripped his theme off

fonts

color theme styles

lol

its like mmd3

I just wanna know if they did, Coz no one has ever heard about Bartibartman after he designed the last version of Mmd3, if they havnt then the skin is a straight ripoff of the default MP button and the whole MMD3 style.

As far as the stability goes, the build is stable and isnt resource hungry either. I would say its good.

As far as the prospects of a pro version is concerned, I dont think its a good idea at all.

Thats all for now, see ya.

I can't imagine a ripper emulating his style so well and it would be in poor taste on Nullsoft's part. I think it's safe to assume that they brought on Sven to make the default "modern" skin for WA5. Good move I think, MMD3 was the only reason many people kept using WA3!

Personally I think the skin is damn sweet and has some really cool features.

[Ryne]

The designer of MMD3 made the default skin.

The pro version only has full speed ripping support, so you wouldn't lose much when going for standard.

[Trust]

interesting with the skin clasic only uses 800KB...

[Trust]

i think they were being sarcastic about the 7mb guys

sarcastic?? haha... May be you can spend 7MB of main memory because you are millionaire and can pay 512MB without troubles...

[lone]

OMFG

did they sign on Bartibartman or what ?

Yes, the skin is being made by Bartibartman.

lone.

[Endoscient]

damn... this or iTunes...

most likely iTunes

[username]

alright, found the pro info :dough:

nothing i would want, already have the best CD ripper/encoder/tagger EAC

THANK GOD the fixed the media libarary so it search like it did in winamp3x (Y)

[Ryne]

From http://members.cox.net/s1138/wa5.html (mirror; Sawg's page is currently down):

Winamp Pro

Why Pro?

In forthcoming versions of Winamp, new features are going to be optionally included which need to be paid for on a per copy basis. As Winamp gets a lot of downloads, it is not viable for Nullsoft to pay for this themselves.

What will I gain from getting Winamp Pro?

Currently you will be able to:

Encode MP3

Rip CDs at full speed

Burn CDs at full speed

Also, in the future other Pro features will be added, for which your Winamp Pro key will work. (Things like DVD Playback, hopefully )

What will I lose from sticking with regular Winamp?

Nothing!

Indeed, you will gain the ability to Rip and Burn CDs at slow speeds, as well as all the other new features in Winamp 5.

I already have a good free CD Ripper/Burner, do I have to have CD Ripping/Burning in Winamp?

No. In the installer, under Audio File Support you can uncheck what you don't want.

Why do I have to pay for MP3 encoding when it uses LAME which is free and open source?

Even though LAME is open source, Nullsoft has to pay per copy to Thompson for a licence to encode MP3. Thompson only offer MP3 encoding licences on a per-copy basis, so unfortunatly it has to be only included in the Pro version.

I paid for the shareware version of Winamp a while back before it went free, why do I have to pay again?

Because this is Winamp Pro. If you paid for the Winamp shareware you can still use Winamp, there is no pressure to upgrade.

Remember, it costs Nullsoft for every single Winamp Pro licence. If Nullsoft could do Winamp Pro for free, they would.

Winamp 2.92 and Winamp 2.95 had free, full speed CD Ripping, what gives?

They were leaked versions never intended for public consumption. This is the reason that they were illegal leaks.

[Endoscient]

the modenr skins reminds me a lot of mmd3. in its interface.

since no ripping, burning at high speeds. im sticking w/ iTunes.

[preducer]

how good is itunes? .... i've never use itunes before and maybe i will give it a try if you guys recommend it.