Winamp 5.53 (1898) Beta

A new test version of the popular media player Winamp.

Unconditional leader among audio players, the program, whose name is synonymous with the word MP3 for many years. Excellent sound quality, support for all popular media formats (including video), Internet radio and TV, CD ripping and recording, plugins, skins…

There are 3 versions. Differences are: Lite - just a player; Full - writes and rips audio-only CDs at 8 speeds; Pro - writes and rips audio CD on the greatest possible speed.

Dwonload Lite(2.7 MB - Freeware)
Download Full (8.59 MB - Freeware)
Download Pro (8.59 MB - Shareware)

Improved:

- Different shell descriptions for different associated filetypes
- Unicode support for Language Packs incompatible with system locale
- [in_cdda] Now reads & writes CD data to an NDE database
- [in_cdda/ml_disc] Reimplementation of simple offline CD Info Editor
- [in_flac] Faster FLAC metadata gathering
- [in_mp3] More accurate .AAC length calculation
- [in_wav/in_mp4] Support for http streaming of files larger than 2GB
- [ml_disc] Added support for Data CD reading (w.i.p.)
- [ml_local/nde] Background scanning & database optimizations
- [ml_local] Unicode compliant filename-based metadata guessing
- [ml_transcode] Remove trailing periods from destination filepath
- [pmp_usb] Added AlbumArtist support to Naming Convention

Fixed:

- Classic EQ appearing with Modern skins after switch->minimize->restore
- Various miscellaneous Album Art related issues
- [enc_lame] Now rejects multi-channel and above 48KHz source files
- [gen_ml] Header sort arrow and Rating column display under Windows 2000
- [gen_ml] Various drawing glitches when changing views
- [in_cdda] CDDB crash under limited connectivity conditions
- [in_cdda] Spectrum vis in analog MCI playback mode
- [in_flac] Small memory leak when writing FLAC metadata
- [in_flv] Last two seconds of flv videos being cut off
- [in_mp4] Crash on file-not-found during background decode
- [in_wave] Infinite loop on attempted repeat playback of dead files
- [in_wm] ASX v2 loading
- [in_wm] Crash on files & streams with a huge discontinuity jump
- [ml_autotag] Crash with certain tracks
- [ml_history] Crash on drag+drop all history items to playlist
- [ml_local] Rating of items with Unicode filenames
- [ml_online/orb] Nodes dropping to bottom of ML tree on Lang Pack change
- [ml_playlists] Play playlist from Media Library main menu item
- [pmp_ipod] Filename length incompatibility with iPod Music Quiz v2
- [pmp_ipod] Missing ‘Advanced’ button in Edit Query dialog
- [pmp_ipod] Physical deletion of playing file

Misc:

- Added Russian installer translation and language pack
- In2TV removed from Online Services
- Installer now built with NSIS Unicode version [thanks Jim Park]
- More miscellaneous general tweaks and improvements
- Moved shared zlib.dll compression library out of winamp.exe

Updated:

- Bento skin v1.1 #120