Download Winamp 5.2 beta build 427

There is a new beta version on the Winamp forum appeared of the 5.2 branch under development. The update can be recognized by build number 427 and can be downloaded in the versions Full, Standard and Lite. Winamp is able to play various media files. Originally the program was developed to play MP3 files, but over time support for more formats has been added. The full 5.2 branch changelog looks like this:

Current change log:

• New: [ml_pmp] Synchronization the Media Library with your portable media player Compatible with iPod, Creative, and Microsoft Plays For Sure devices
• New: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus High Bitrate encoder available in Winamp Pro
• New: [enc_aacplus] aacPlus (HE-AAC) in MP4 container
• New: [enc_aacplus] Using Coding Technologies encoder for LC-AAC
• New: [in_mp3] gapless MP3 playback
• New: [installer] multi user profile options
• New: [installer] remembers your previous installer settings
• New: [in_wave] in_wave 3.0
• New: right-to-left playlist display
• Improved: new ATF functions and tags
  $repeat(x, count) – creates a string with x repeated count times
  $lpad() – same as $pad, but adds padding to the left
  $decode(…) – switch/case function. example: $decode($fileext(%filename%),MP3,MPEG-1 Layer 3,MP4,MPEG-4 Container,Other)
  $IfStrEqual(string1,string2,result) – if string1 and string2 are equal, displays result. case insensitive
  $IfStrEqual2(string1,string2,result,else) – if string1 and string2 are equal, displays result, otherwise displays else. case insensitive
  %folder% – top level folder name of the file
• Improved: Stereo beat visualization for modern skins
• Improved: [in_midi] provides metadata to media library
• Improved: [in_mod] provides metadata to media library
• Improved: [in_mp3] unicode id3 tags
• Improved: [in_mp3] preliminary id3v2.4 support
• Fixed: broken playlist sorting
• Fixed: playlist problems with multi-line tags (eg %comment%)
• Fixed: shuffle with only one song in playlist
• Fixed: ghost seek slider appears if Winamp loses focus during seeking
• Fixed: video options from video window right-click context menu
• Fixed: playlist winshade international character support
• Fixed: full screen video display international character support
• Fixed: [enc_lame] bit reservoir
• Fixed: [enc_lame] cutoff or load frame
• Fixed: [gen_ff] playlist winshade memory leak
• Fixed: [gen_ff] GDI Object leak with Current Skin prefs page
• Fixed: [in_midi] not following winamp’s title formatting options
• Fixed: [in_midi] reset button blocks further access to config
• Fixed: [in_mod] not following winamp’s title formatting options
• Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect version identification (shown 5.18 in 5.12)
• Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect information shown for AAC+ files
• Fixed: [in_mp3] reading incorrect id3 comment tag
• Fixed: [in_mp3] sometimes failing to read last id3 frame
• Fixed: [in_mp4] loss of album art when modified metadata
• Fixed: [in_vorbis] not following winamp’s title formatting options
• Fixed: [in_vorbis] registry usage (now multi-user profile safe)
• Fixed: [in_wave] 32bit floating point WAV playback distortion
• Fixed: [in_wm] changes made with Attribute Editor not updating in ML/Playlist
• Fixed: [vis_milk] missing files from distro (you can stop bugging us now, Rovastar 🙂
• Fixed: [vis_milk] 100% cpu usage when paused
• updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.97b2
• updated: [gen_ff] FreeType 2.1.10
• updated: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus encoder v7.2.0a