Software update: Winamp 5.8 build 3660 beta

After years of silence, Radionomy plans to release a new version of the media player Winamp. The beta, which was “leaked” on the internet last week, is now also officially available from the developer’s website. Radionomy took over Winamp from Nullsoft in 2015, but despite some promises it did nothing with the software. At first glance, little has changed in the new version and therefore mainly offers bug fixes. The options for which payment has to be made, the so-called pro-features, have also been removed. The changelog for this release can be found below.

New:

• Windows Audio (WASAPI) Output plug-in (seesaw)

improved:

• Added an option to completely disable Winamp’s video support
• Added an auto-fullscreen option to video prefs
• Added /ENUMPLAYLISTS to the command-line support
• Windows 8.1 and 10 compatibility
• [in_mod] OpenMPT-based Module Player (replaces old MikMod player)
• [ml_playlists] Added browse path & edit title functions in Ctrl+E editor
• [Bento] Updated scrollbars and buttons and other tweaks (thanks Martin)
• [Bento & Modern skins] Added a Playlist Search feature (thanks Victor)

Fixed:

• New URLs not being remembered after using Reset history in Open URL dialog
• Various memory leaks
• [gen_tray] Not showing correct current icon pack in preferences
• [in_avi] Divide-by-zero crash with badly formed files (thanks ITDefensor)
• [in_mp3] Crashing with some ID3v2 tags
• [ml_wire] Slow loading issue
• [ssdp] Crash on load if jnetlib was not correctly initialized

Misc:

• Minimum required OS is now Win XP sp3 (Windows 7 or higher recommended)
• More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
• Moved shared DLLs to Winamp\Shared folder

Removed:

• All former “Pro” licensed functions (Winamp is now 100% freeware again)
• gen_jumpex & UnicodeTaskbarFix (making way for native implementations)
• ml_nowplaying
• [in_wm] DRM support

replaced:

• CD playback and ripping now using native Windows API (instead of Sonic)
• MP3 Decoder now mpg123 based (instead of Fraunhofer)
• AAC Decoder now using Media Foundation (Vista and higher)
• H.264 Decoder now using Media Foundation (Vista and higher)
• MPEG-4 Pt.2 Decoder now using Media Foundation (Vista and higher)

Updated:

• [in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.3 & libvorbis 1.3.6
• [libFLAC] FLAC 1.3.2
• [libyajl] libyajl v2.1.0
• [OpenSSL] OpenSSL v1.0.1i
• [png] libpng v1.5.24