Software Update: Winamp 5.02

The makers of Winamp have version 5.02 released† This new release is available in four different versions and comes with many improvements. Winamp was originally developed to play MP3 files in a decent way, but in the meantime the program has grown into an all-round media player. In addition to the well-known sound formats, movie files can also be played. The 5.02 changelog looks like this:

Winamp 5.02:

• added a couple of gen_ml APIs
• fixed gen_ml radio/tv cache clearing after viewing prefs bug
• made gen_ml radio/tv keep old data when updating fails, made it not update when no internet is available
• made gen_ml support some new quicksearch syntaxes: “
• beck radiohead” will list all things matching beck OR radiohead, and: radiohead ” [3 days ago]>” will show all things matching radiohead played in the last 3 days…
• gen_ml option for any/all guess modes
• made SPS support 24 bit samples
• added priority setting for CD ripping
• made CD ripping only support one rip at time
• added send to -> add to library for playlist (and other) send to menus.
• better media library audio view support for no artist/no album
• fixed enter after info box and popup menus in library
• moved litestep options to be in classic skin prefs
• fixed playlist editor classic redraw bug, made playlist handle mousewheel scrolling while moving items better.
• made “EXE” filetype extension non registerable
• cleaned up “disable screensaver when video is playing” option
• latest SDKs available (AVS, Media library, new Winamp IPC calls, etc…)
• upgraded to Gracenote CDDB v2 DLLs
• improvements in gen_hotkeys
• upgraded MP3 encoding to LAME v3.95.1
• out_ds now uses winamp.ini instead of registry for settings
• new fix for upside down videos in in_dshow
• added OGM as supported extension in in_dshow
• modern skins updates :
  • optimized region a bit
  • fixed handling of global alpha for unparented layouts
  • fixed tiny bug in keypress flow
  • fixed potential layer capture cancellation issue
  • fixed crash when quickly alternating alt+g and alt+w
  • fixed player not coming up to front when playing a video via external URL click
  • fixed assertion when arial.ttf (or whatever fallback font has been set) is not present in the font directory
  • fixed faulty skin font unmapping sometimes conflicting with fallback to os default gui font
  • added date and version functions to maki
  • added added timerhours=”1″ to text object to show 1:00:00 instead of 60:00
  • added timeroffstyle 3 and 4 to text object to display “0:00:00″ and ” : : ”
  • upped skin version to 1.1 – you MUST use 1.1 if you recompile your scripts
  • updated maki compiler ( :
    • added stack protection to maki binaries – upped the binaries version header
    • added self version check in maki binaries
    • non-existing (future) maki functions will not crash the maki runtime anymore, YAY
    • fixed unknown maki functions return values
  • fixed winamp appearing on secondary taskbar with ultramon regardless of true position
  • fixed extraneous invalidations
• new extended jump file dialog (thanks to Darren Owen)
• added basic MP4 AAC encoding/decoding (thanks to Menno Bakker for the help)
• fixed unicode metadata in in_vorbis
• fixed crash in installer code
• removed generation of “badframes.stt” files in VP6 decoder
• <3 farewell Justin <3

[break]Winamp 5.02 Lite
Winamp 5.02 Full
Winamp 5.02 Pro
Winamp 5.02 Bundle ‘Spitting Games’