Winamp5 Beta 2

[Gordon Darling]

Winamp5 Beta 2
Beta Version
Author: AOL/Nullsoft
Program Type: Freeware

File Description:

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for
Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD,
XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom
appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and
Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins
(including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced
media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.

Note: This is a beta release of the next-generation Winamp and it may
contain bugs. Use at your own risk.

Changes in Current Version:
Modern skin updates
Made playlist showing deferred so startups looked cleaner with modern
skins Fixed crash on skindir change in prefs Added "adding to burner"
status window when using sendto/drag&drop to burner, for reassuring Added
rescan in background menu item to library menu Added "add folder in
background" checkbox to "add folder" in library Added scan on startup
library option
Fixed manual playlist advance w/ repeat Fixed CD burning view and skin
switching bug Fixed burning when WAV writer is configured to not write WAV
headers Better mini-info-viewer when no internet handling Added wait for
blank media dialogs for burning Cleaned up ML playlist editor buttons,
added burn button Made bookmarks support drag&drop more and sendto

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1066336873
http://www.winamp.com/

Release Date: October 28th, 2003
File Size: 4863 KB
Download Time: 11.9 min @ 56k/s
Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/XP/2000
License: Freeware

Regards
Gordon

 

[Jim Scott]

Gordon Darling wrote on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:13:56 GMT

Winamp5 Beta 2
Beta Version
Author: AOL/Nullsoft
Program Type: Freeware

File Description:

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for
Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV,
MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV),
custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp
1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and
audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating
visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio
and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.

Note: This is a beta release of the next-generation Winamp and it may
contain bugs. Use at your own risk.

Changes in Current Version:
Modern skin updates
Made playlist showing deferred so startups looked cleaner with modern
skins Fixed crash on skindir change in prefs Added "adding to burner"
status window when using sendto/drag&drop to burner, for reassuring
Added rescan in background menu item to library menu Added "add
folder in background" checkbox to "add folder" in library Added scan
on startup library option
Fixed manual playlist advance w/ repeat Fixed CD burning view and
skin switching bug Fixed burning when WAV writer is configured to not
write WAV headers Better mini-info-viewer when no internet handling
Added wait for blank media dialogs for burning Cleaned up ML playlist
editor buttons, added burn button Made bookmarks support drag&drop
more and sendto

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1066336873
http://www.winamp.com/

Release Date: October 28th, 2003
File Size: 4863 KB
Download Time: 11.9 min @ 56k/s
Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/XP/2000
License: Freeware

Regards
Gordon

Right. I could have done that - copy and paste - that is!
Is it better than Winamp Classic or not?
If you don't know or you have not tried it then a simple 'New Version of
Winamp is out' would have done us as much good!
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[Google's friend]

Gordon Darling wrote on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:13:56 GMT

Right. I could have done that - copy and paste - that is!
Is it better than Winamp Classic or not?
If you don't know or you have not tried it then a simple 'New Version of
Winamp is out' would have done us as much good!

Go easy there big Jim! Gordon contributes a great with respect to
letting us lazy ACFers know when new versions are around. It's widely
accepted as good practice within this group to include information
about what changes have taken place as sometimes they are minor and
not worth downloading. As far as which is better that is purely up to
the user... Gordon is doing us a huge favour here.

regards
Peter - Google's friend

 

[sabresonic]

Right. I could have done that - copy and paste - that is!
Is it better than Winamp Classic or not?
If you don't know or you have not tried it then a simple 'New Version of
Winamp is out' would have done us as much good!

I'm running the new beta winamp, and in my experience, nullsoft made a good
job. atleast on my p4 2.4 comp, it loads fast, stable, with lots of
features not available in 2.9x versions. forget winamp 3.x, version 5 is
well worth the download

 

[Jim Scott]

sabresonic wrote on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:58:03 GMT

I'm running the new beta winamp, and in my experience, nullsoft made
a good job. atleast on my p4 2.4 comp, it loads fast, stable, with
lots of features not available in 2.9x versions. forget winamp 3.x,
version 5 is well worth the download

Thank you )
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[Vic Dura]

On 28 Oct 2003 23:20:28 -0800, RE: Re: Winamp5 Beta 2

Go easy there big Jim! Gordon contributes a great with respect to
letting us lazy ACFers know when new versions are around. It's widely
accepted as good practice within this group to include information
about what changes have taken place as sometimes they are minor and
not worth downloading. As far as which is better that is purely up to
the user... Gordon is doing us a huge favour here.

Well said.

 

[Gordon Darling]

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Go easy there big Jim! Gordon contributes a great with respect to
letting us lazy ACFers know when new versions are around. It's widely
accepted as good practice within this group to include information about
what changes have taken place as sometimes they are minor and not worth
downloading. As far as which is better that is purely up to the user...
Gordon is doing us a huge favour here.

regards
Peter - Google's friend

Thanks Peter.
It's a balance. If you post too little people complain as well! Those on
dial up like download sizes, those on ADSL don't care. If the program is
new to you, you want all the info you can get so you don't waste time
downloading a program that doesn't fit your needs. If you've already got
the program you want to know the changes. As I said it's a balance.

Regards
Gordon

 

[Bebop & Rocksteady]

Thank you )

I personally think at the moment this version is still a system hogg, and is
to buggy and clumsy just as WinAMP 3 was... not much has changed from my
point a view... but thats just me I will be sticking with 2.9

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[Jim Scott]

Bebop & Rocksteady wrote on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:51:14 GMT

I personally think at the moment this version is still a system hogg,
and is to buggy and clumsy just as WinAMP 3 was... not much has
changed from my point a view... but thats just me I will be sticking
with 2.9

I suppose I should have waited for this instead of 'flaming' Gordon.
Sorry Gordon /
However I did download on it on dial-up and agree with B&R's paragraph
above.
2.9 suits me fine and I know it will go on suiting me fine, but that
won't stop me being tempted to download all manner of rubbish for no good
reason than freeware addiction.
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[Gordon Darling]

Bebop & Rocksteady wrote on Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:51:14 GMT

I suppose I should have waited for this instead of 'flaming' Gordon.
Sorry Gordon /

No problems <grin>

Regards
Gordon

 

[J44xm]

["Jim Scott"; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:21:25 GMT]

2.9 suits me fine and I know it will go on suiting me fine, but that
won't stop me being tempted to download all manner of rubbish for no
good reason than freeware addiction.

Well, it's good that you're willing to admit to your problem -- that's the
first step. ;-)

 

[Elmira]

I like 2.9 but for some reason it wont play ra or ram files using WinXP as
it did on my Win98se machine with Taras plugin.

["Jim Scott"; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:21:25 GMT]

2.9 suits me fine and I know it will go on suiting me fine, but that
won't stop me being tempted to download all manner of rubbish for no
good reason than freeware addiction.

Well, it's good that you're willing to admit to your problem -- that's the
first step. ;-)