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Winamp 5.9.2 Build 10042

Winamp 5.9.2
* New: [ml_fanzone] Connect to the online Winamp Fanzone
* New: [ml_hotmix] Connect to the Hotmix Radio service
* Improved: [gen_crasher] Added correct Windows 11 detection method
* Improved: [ml_wire] Replace internal IE engine with Qt v5.12 engine (w.i.p.)
* Fixed: Erroneous "URL: Winamp Command Handler" filetype association
* Fixed: [Big Bento] Drag titlebar issue
* Fixed: [Big Bento] Config overlap issue
* Fixed: [ml_local] Drag to rearrange smart view order causes corruption
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Memory leaks
* Misc: Added option for RC builds in Update notifications
* Misc: All DLLs are now digitally signed
* Misc: Many more general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Replaced: jnetlib.w5s functions moved to new wac_network.w5s component
* Replaced: dlmgr.w5s functions moved to new wac_downloads.w5s component
* Updated: [jpeg] ijg-libjpeg 9e​


Winamp 5.9.1 Build 10029

Winamp 5.9.1
* Improved: [ml_local / nde] Memory footprint reduction
* Improved: [ml_local] Load time speedup and other optimizations
* Improved: [ml_online] Increased maximum bandwidth (from 350 to 3500)
* Improved: [playlist/ml_playlists/ml_pmp] Playlist loader/writer refactoring
* Improved: [dlmgr] Increased buffer size for faster podcast downloads
* Improved: [Bento skin] Increased width of config to help with translations
* Improved: [Installer] VS2019 runtime checker script (thanks Pawel Porwisz)
* Fixed: Hang when reopening Winamp if previously placed on disconnected monitor
* Fixed: [Installer] Silent install switch blocked by external dependencies
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Windowshade and Docked Toolbar modes not remembered on restart
* Fixed: [gen_tray] Settings not being saved after Winamp restart
* Fixed: [in_mp4/libmp4v2] Overflow and seek issues with specific mp4 videos
* Fixed: [in_wave/libsndfile] Error parsing list subchunks with some riff headers
* Fixed: [ml_downloads] Cancelling multi-selection only cancelled first item
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Crash when editing playlist entry
* Fixed: [ml_wire/xml] Display of non-Latin characters in Podcasts
* Fixed: [out_ds] Crossfader broken in Bento/Modern skin EQ
* Fixed: [out_ds] Potential buffer overflow issues
* Fixed: [out_wasapi] Crash on opening flv videos (rendering still needs fixing)
* Fixed: [playlist/ml_playlists] Memory leaks
* Fixed: [playlist/ml_playlists] Reported issues with special/unicode characters
* Fixed: [vis_avs] AVS Editor menu not localized when lang pack applied
* Misc: Many more general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Replaced nu::PtrMap with std::map and nu::PtrList with std::vector
* Misc: [vcpkg] changed from manifest to classic mode
* Removed: [wbm] Lazy-loading wbm system files (no longer required)
* Updated: [in_flac/enc_flac] libFLAC 1.4.2
* Updated: [in_mod] libopenmpt 0.6.6
* Updated: [OpenSSL] OpenSSL 3.0.5
* Updated: [vpx] libvpx 1.12.0
* Updated: [xml] expat 2.4.9
* Updated: [zlib] zlib 1.2.13
* New/Improved: [ml_downloads/ml_playlists] Download context menu in ML
* New: [ml_nft] Import, play and download music from your NFT Library (optional)


Winamp 5.9 Final Build 9999

Winamp 5.9
* Improved: Windows 11 compatibility
* Improved: Playback of https:// streams
* Improved: Updated and tidier generate html playlist code
* Improved: [in_flac] Hi-res playback support (24bit/192kHz, etc.)
* Improved: [in_mkv] vp8 support
* Improved: [in_mod] Playback of .itz, .mdz, .s3z & .xmz compressed modules
* Improved: [ml_rg] Added message throttle and other optimizations
* Improved: [ml_wire] New working Podcast Directory
* Improved: [out_ds] Display device information correctly in Unicode format
* Fixed: [in_midi/in_mkv/nu/pfc] memory leaks
* Fixed: [in_mp3] id3 empty genre displayed as Blues or Psychobilly
* Fixed: [jnetlib/ml_online/ml_wire] JSAPI2 JavaScript API
* Fixed: [ml_rg] Calculate ReplayGain for Ogg Vorbis files
* Fixed: [out_wasapi] Volume resets to zero on track change
* Fixed: [out_wave] Crash when playing module/tracker formats
* Misc: lame_enc & libsndfile now static links instead of dynamic dll
* Misc: libmpg123, libflac & zlib now static links instead of dynamic dll
* Misc: Major compiler refactoring work
* Misc: Many more general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Minimum required OS is now Windows 7 SP1
* Misc: New online Help section and articles
* Misc: SDK now compatible with VS2017 and newer
* Misc: Versioning syntax changed to v5.x.x
* Misc: WinampMicrosoft.VC142.CRT runtimes now installed on Win7/8
* Misc: [dsp_sps] Improved, refactored and rebuilt!
* Removed: Bento Browser tab - So long, and thanks for all the fish!
* Removed: [read_file.dll] in_midi now using zlib & minizip for compressed midi
* Updated: [alac/in_mp4] ALAC 2017-11-03-c38887c5
* Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.100.1
* Updated: [freetype.wac] freetype 2.12.1
* Updated: [gif] giflib 5.1.4
* Updated: [in_cdda] libdiscid 0.6.2
* Updated: [in_flac/enc_flac] libFLAC 1.3.4
* Updated: [in_mod] libopenmpt 0.6.4
* Updated: [in_mp3] libmpg123 1.29.3
* Updated: [in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.5 & libvorbis 1.3.7
* Updated: [in_wave] libsndfile 1.1.0
* Updated: [OpenSSL] OpenSSL 3.0.3
* Updated: [png] libpng 1.6.37
* Updated: [vp8] WebM libvpx 1.11.0
* Updated: [zlib] zlib 1.2.12

from http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=458120


Winamp 5.8

* New: Windows Audio (WASAPI) Output plug-in (w.i.p.)

* Improved: Added an option to completely disable Winamp's video support

* Improved: Added an auto-fullscreen option to video prefs

* Improved: Added /ENUMPLAYLISTS to the command-line support

* Improved: Windows 8.1 and 10 compatibility

* Improved: [in_mod] OpenMPT-based Module Player (replaces old MikMod player)

* Improved: [ml_playlists] Added browse path & edit title functions in Ctrl+E editor

* Improved: [Bento] Updated scrollbars and buttons and other tweaks (thanks Martin)

* Improved: [Bento & Modern skins] Added a Playlist Search feature (thanks Victor)

* Fixed: New URLs not being remembered after using Reset history in Open URL dialog

* Fixed: Various memory leaks

* Fixed: [gen_tray] Not showing correct current icon pack in preferences

* Fixed: [in_avi] Divide-by-zero crash with badly formed files (thanks ITDefensor)

* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crashing with some ID3v2 tags

* Fixed: [ml_wire] Slow loading issue

* Fixed: [ssdp] Crash on load if jnetlib was not correctly initialized

* Misc: Minimum required OS is now Win XP sp3 (Windows 7 or higher recommended)

* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations

* Misc: Moved shared DLLs to WinampShared folder

* Removed: All former "Pro" licensed functions (Winamp is now 100% freeware again)

* Removed: gen_jumpex & UnicodeTaskbarFix (making way for native implementations)

* Removed: [in_wm] DRM support

* Replaced: CD playback and ripping now using native Windows API (instead of Sonic)

* Replaced: MP3 Decoder now mpg123 based (instead of Fraunhofer)

* Replaced: AAC Decoder now using Media Foundation (Vista and higher)

* Replaced: H.264 Decoder now using Media Foundation (Vista and higher)

* Replaced: MPEG-4 Pt.2 Decoder now using Media Foundation (Vista and higher)

* Updated: [in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.3 & libvorbis 1.3.6

* Updated: [libFLAC] FLAC 1.3.2

* Updated: [libyajl] libyajl v2.1.0

* Updated: [OpenSSL] OpenSSL v1.0.1i

* Updated: [png] libpng v1.5.24


Winamp 5.666 (Latest)

Improved: Added a Reset button to clear history in the Open/Add URL dialog
Improved: Added an option to disable the mouse wheel from altering the volume
Improved: Added more commandline switches (run: winamp.exe /? to see full list)
Improved: All menus now use the skinned style when option is enabled in ML settings
Improved: Disable all online features when no internet connection selected in Prefs
Improved: High DPI & text scaling compatibility fixes for dialogs & library views
Improved: Increased notification area tooltips up to 128 chars (instead of 64)
Improved: Library views now optionally group the 'Play' and 'Enqueue' buttons
Improved: Mass metadata editor from library now also available in Playlist Editor
Improved: Retry UAC prompt if user previously selected "No" (for relevant settings)
Improved: Speed-up of Winamp shutdown process
Improved: [gen_ff] Added a setting to control show/hide time for docked toolbars
Improved: [gen_ml] Drag & drop handling tweaks
Improved: [ml_downloads] Added 'Size' column
Improved: [ml_history] New options for resuming playback (for podcasts or all files)
Improved: [ml_history] Added a 'Play Offset' column with right-click option to clear
Improved: [ml_local] Added Podcast, BPM & Rating fields to Ctrl+E metadata editor
Improved: [ml_nowplaying/wire] Added support to use alternative services
Improved: [ml_playlists] Option to use source file instead of database-managed copy
Improved: [ml_pmp] Added a simple view to match Local library support
Improved: [pmp_android/usb] Added <disc> support to File Name Formatting
Fixed: Agent not using Winamp window if a clone is already running (eg. KMPlayer)
Fixed: Fallback issue with lang packs when loading accelerator tables
Fixed: Length not being read when set to read titles on load
Fixed: Ratings-related freeze on right-clicking large selections in playlist editor
Fixed: Saving to wrong extension for the 'Save As' action in the Alt+3 Artwork tab
Fixed: Unicode characters not displaying in taskbar when some old plugins are present
Fixed: Various issues with aero-peek and docking of freeform skins as an appbar
Fixed: [gen_ff] Docking to bottom/right when windowframe scale is anything but 1.0
Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Broken 'Add to Library' shell menu item
Fixed: [gen_jumpex] 'Jump to File' window not always visible when pressing 'J' or 'F3'
Fixed: [gen_tray] Lockup/double-start issues when using the 'Prev' action
Fixed: [in_flac] Removal of embedded artwork
Fixed: [in_midi] Memory comparison crash with badly formed .kar files
Fixed: [libmp4v2] Crash due to invalid pointer check on corrupt files
Fixed: [ml_local] Search filters with unicode characters not being remembered
Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Crash on bad path
Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Use filename if no metadata available to generate filepath
Misc: [installer] Added a "Winamp (Safe Mode)" option to start menu icons
Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations (lots of them!)
Updated: [enc_fhgaac] Fraunhofer AAC Encoder v3.02.16
Updated: [enc/in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.1
Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.31
Updated: [in_wave] libsndfile 1.0.25


Winamp 5.66 (Latest)

Improved: Added a Reset button to clear history in the Open/Add URL dialog
Improved: Added an option to disable the mouse wheel from altering the volume
Improved: Added more commandline switches (run: winamp.exe /? to see full list)
Improved: All menus now use the skinned style when option is enabled in ML settings
Improved: Disable all online features when no internet connection selected in Prefs
Improved: High DPI & text scaling compatibility fixes for dialogs & library views
Improved: Increased notification area tooltips up to 128 chars (instead of 64)
Improved: Library views now optionally group the 'Play' and 'Enqueue' buttons
Improved: Mass metadata editor from library now also available in Playlist Editor
Improved: Retry UAC prompt if user previously selected "No" (for relevant settings)
Improved: Speed-up of Winamp shutdown process
Improved: [gen_ff] Added a setting to control show/hide time for docked toolbars
Improved: [gen_ml] Drag & drop handling tweaks
Improved: [ml_downloads] Added 'Size' column
Improved: [ml_history] New options for resuming playback (for podcasts or all files)
Improved: [ml_history] Added a 'Play Offset' column with right-click option to clear
Improved: [ml_local] Added Podcast, BPM & Rating fields to Ctrl+E metadata editor
Improved: [ml_playlists] Option to use source file instead of database-managed copy
Improved: [ml_nowplaying/wire] Added support to use alternative services
Improved: [ml_pmp] Added a simple view to match Local library support
Improved: [pmp_android/usb] Added <disc> support to File Name Formatting
Fixed: Agent not using Winamp window if a clone is already running (eg. KMPlayer)
Fixed: Length not being read when set to read titles on load
Fixed: Ratings-related freeze on right-clicking large selections in playlist editor
Fixed: Saving to wrong extension for the 'Save As' action in the Alt+3 Artwork tab
Fixed: Unicode characters not displaying in taskbar when some old plugins are present
Fixed: Various issues with aero-peek and docking of freeform skins as an appbar
Fixed: [gen_jumpex] 'Jump to File' window not always visible when pressing 'J' or 'F3'
Fixed: [gen_ff] Docking to bottom/right when windowframe scale is anything but 1.0
Fixed: [gen_tray] Lockup/double-start issues when using the 'Prev' action
Fixed: [in_flac] Removal of embedded artwork
Fixed: [in_midi] Memory comparison crash with badly formed .kar files
Fixed: [libmp4v2] Crash due to invalid pointer check on corrupt files
Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Crash on bad path
Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Use filename if no metadata available to generate filepath
Misc: [installer] Added a "Winamp (Safe Mode)" option to start menu icons
Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations (lots of them!)
Updated: [enc_fhgaac] Fraunhofer AAC Encoder v3.02.16
Updated: [enc/in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.1
Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.3
Updated: [in_wave] libsndfile 1.0.25


Winamp 5.65 (Latest)

Improved: Memory allocation optimizations & fixes
Improved: [ml_playlists] Show currently playing song
Fixed: Some radio streams no longer playing as a result of the Icecast fix in 5.64
Fixed: Crash when pasting artwork into File Info dialog in 5.64
Fixed: [in_mp3] PIC frame rendering in ID3v2.2 tags
Fixed: [gen_ml] Enter key not working correctly for ml views
Fixed: [ml_local] Sporadic crashes when importing library in 5.64
Fixed: [ml_plg] Broken 'View tracks similar to' menu item in main window songticker
Fixed: [npwachk] Winamp Detector plugin not working with latest Firefox
Fixed: [wasabi] Quirks with color theme list handling
Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
Updated: [enc_fhgaac] Fraunhofer AAC Encoder v3.02.15
Updated: [png] libpng v1.5.17
Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.7


Winamp 5.64 (Latest)

New: Option to run Winamp in Safe Mode (also via /SAFE=1 commandline switch)
New: XSPF playlist support (read only support, write support to follow)
Improved: Added tooltips for truncated text in Media Library listviews
Improved: Added 'Explore item folder' to context menu in playlists
Improved: Bookmark menu handling now follows Winamp's Play/Enqueue setting
Improved: D3D vsync mode (should fix reported video tearing issues)
Improved: Display album art source info in Artwork tab of File Info dialog
Improved: Remember last position of dialogs
Improved: Show rating from tags if file is not in Local Media Library
Improved: Use new style dialog for folder browser
Improved: Windows 8 filetype association compatibility
Improved: [gen_ff] Multi-monitor support for Bento/Modern skin notifier
Improved: [gen_ff] Windows 8 multi-monitor/taskbar mode compatibility
Improved: [in_flac] FLAC streaming support
Improved: [in_mp3] Shoutcast v2 in-stream artwork support (and other misc fixes)
Improved: [in_mp3] Use MIME to determine decoder before assuming ext. is correct
Improved: [in_mp4] Native ALAC playback support
Improved: [in_mp4] Optimize MP4 Raw Reader by using chunks instead of samples
Improved: [in_mp4] Write ratings to tags (using the "rate" atom)
Improved: [ml_local/history] Friendlier error message if nde/database fails to load
Improved: [ml_local] New 'Date Added' column (smart views adjusted accordingly)
Improved: [ml_playlists] Now with Generate HTML Playlist support
Improved: [ml_playlists] Save playlists to custom m3udir, if specified in paths.ini
Improved: [ml_wire] Save (and backup) database files on updates instead of on exit
Improved: [pmp_ipod] Added BPM, TotalTracks, Disc# & TotalDiscs metadata support
Improved: [pmp_wifi] SSDP support and other optimizations
Fixed: Failing to load on some Windows 8 (and earlier) installs (thanks Nanner)
Fixed: Not playing the first song next when clearing then adding items to playlist
Fixed: Bento/Modern skin notifier sometimes no longer appearing (thanks pjn123)
Fixed: Deletion of 0-byte wdl*.tmp & wht*.tmp files
Fixed: Issues with re-embedding of vis plug-ins in Bento skin when exiting fullscreen
Fixed: Issues with some Icecast servers providing invalid stream links (v2.x bug!)
Fixed: Potential crashes when rapidly switching between DSP plug-ins
Fixed: [Bento Browser] Potential security vulnerabilities (thanks Julien Ahrens, inshell.net)
Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Potential security vulnerabilities (thanks Julien Ahrens, inshell.net)
Fixed: [in_mp3] Mapping of POPM ratings scale
Fixed: [in_mp4] Bug where too-small passed-in buffer size resulted in loss of data
Fixed: [in_mp4] Seeking files/podcasts which use a single video frame as artwork
Fixed: [in_vorbis] Not reading Disc# (plus other general Vorbis Comments fixes)
Fixed: [in_wave] mldb info for .wav files being wiped after viewing Alt+3 dialog
Fixed: [ml_disc] Blocking of context menu items in ml tree for History & Bookmarks
Fixed: [ml_disc] Creation of 0-byte trk*.tmp files & associated crash on some systems
Fixed: [ml_impex] UI lockups on import/export of large databases
Fixed: [ml_wire] Subscriptions to podcast channels with the same name
Fixed: [ombrowser] Alt Gr keys broken in Online Services text input fields
Fixed: [pmp_android] Albumart-related crash when transferring ogg files
Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Transfers fail if <Albumartist> contains illegal characters
Fixed: [pmp_p4s] Crash/hang on exit after transferring files to MTP/P4S devices
Misc: All default plug-ins now include file description & version info properties
Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
Removed: [gen_orgler] The end of Winamp Charts & Music Usage Database
Updated: [libFLAC] FLAC 1.3.0
Updated: [png] libpng v1.5.16
Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.6
Updated: [zlib.dll] zlib 1.2.8


Winamp 5.63 (Latest)

New: Hungarian and Indonesian installer translations and language packs
New: [enc_vorbis] Ogg Vorbis Encoder (based on aoTuV)
Improved: Shift+F10 app key support in the Media Library
Improved: [enc_fhgaac] Added VBR mode 6, plus other minor quality improvements
Improved: [in_flac] Producer metadata support
Improved: [in_mod] Refactored, simplified and threadsafe memory allocation
Improved: [ml_history] Save playcounts when updated instead of only on exit
Improved: [ml_local] Increased search query buffers from 512 or 1024 to 2048 bytes
Improved: [gen_hotkeys] Added manual advance and visualization specific actions
Fixed: Embedded album art not working in some scenarios
Fixed: Video window reopening after being closed when editing mp4 tags
Fixed: [aacdec] Memory leak when re-syncing to AAC stream
Fixed: [bmp] Bounds checking in TSCC decoder
Fixed: [bmp] Heap overflow issues (thanks: Secunia)
Fixed: [in_avi] Divide-by-zero and NULL pointer issues (thanks: FuzzMyApp)
Fixed: [in_mod] .IT memory & heap corruption issues (thanks: Jeremy Brown, MSVR)
Fixed: [ml_local] Crash in MLDBAPI::SetField cache
Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Genre and Year metadata edits writing to Disc# field
Fixed: [vis_milk2] Presets not reacting to music in localized installs (Milkdrop v2.25)
Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
Updated: [aacdec] Fraunhofer AAC Decoder v1.762.208
Updated: [in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.0 & libvorbis 1.3.3
Updated: [lame_enc] LAME 3.99.5
Updated: [png] libpng v1.5.10
Updated: [vp8] libvpx v1.1.0
Updated: [xml] expat v2.1.0
Updated: [zlib.dll] zlib 1.2.7


Winamp 5.623 (Latest)

Fixed: mp3 decoding errors at end of file (should fix reported CD burning errors)
Fixed: [aacdec] Detection of parametric stereo for AAC files made with older encoders
Fixed: [enc_fhgaac] MP4 encoder not always closing on errors or aborted transfers
Fixed: [in_avi] Crashing with certain malformed AVI files
Fixed: [in_flac & in_mp4] Memory leaks
Fixed: [in_mod] Bounds check for comments parsing
Fixed: [pmp] Multithreaded race condition (now supports thread-safe transfers)
Fixed: [pmp_android] Embedded album art being deleted on transfers
Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
Updated: [enc_fhgaac] Fraunhofer AAC Encoder v3.2.4
Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.5


Winamp 5.622 (Latest)

- Improved: [in_mp3] Support TXXX/Band as an alternative id3v2 frame for Album Artist
- Fixed: [bmp/in_avi] Integer overflow issues in TSCC, RGB & YUV decoders
- Fixed: [enc_fhgaac] High bitrate upsampling bug
- Fixed: [in_midi] Underrun in CMF files when music offset is greater than the filesize
- Fixed: [in_mod] Made sure AMF is limited to maximum of 32 channels
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on hitting Alt+3 for currently playing file with an APEv2 tag
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Reading of id3v2.4-only TDRC (Year) frame
- Fixed: [in_mp3] Don't delete TCMP & PRIV id3v2 frames when updating tags
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Gapless playback
- Fixed: [in_nsv] Potential integer overflow issue
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: [ml_local] Added an explanatory error page if database gets corrupted
- Updated: [enc_fhgaac] Fraunhofer AAC Encoder v3.2.3
- Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.4
- Updated: [lame_enc] LAME 3.99


Winamp 5.62 (Latest)

- New: Fraunhofer AAC Codec with VBR encoding support
- New: [theora.w5s] Theora decoder for MKV
- Improved: [ml_local] New extra large albumart and option to hide album title
- Improved: [in_mp3/jnetlib/ml_wire] http status code 303 & 307 redirection support
- Fixed: [in_midi] Added a buffer overflow check for malformed Controller Change messages
- Fixed: [in_midi] SysEx message processing integer underflow vulnerability
- Fixed: [in_mod] Crash on .IT files with 0 channels (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Crash on truncated files
- Fixed: [in_mp4] Distortion on MP4 files with malformed stts data
- Fixed: [jnetlib] Memory leak when connecting to https streams
- Fixed: [ml_impex] Importing playcount data
- Fixed: [nsvdec_vp5] Integer underrun (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
- Fixed: [pmp_wifi] Playlist syncing
- Fixed: [vis_milk2] Some presets not reacting to music (Milkdrop v2.24)
- Fixed: [vp6] Crash on rescaling with irregular video sizes (thanks: Luigi Auriemma)
- Fixed: [vp6] Integer underrun in Deblocking filter when picture size is 0,0
- Misc: Default "Restore file associations at Winamp start" setting to "off" on Vista+
- Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
- Misc: Redesigned SHOUTcast Radio online service view (new school & classic options)
- Misc: Replaced CT aacPlusDecoder.w5s with new FhG aacdec.w5s
- Misc: Replaced CT enc_aacplus.dll with new FhG enc_fhgaac.dll
- Misc: Toolbar now compatible with Firefox 5


Winamp 5.61 (Latest)

* Improved: [ml_local] Search & View load speed optimizations (~20% faster!)
* Improved: [ml_impex] Date parsing on import
* Improved: [ml_plg] Direct mouse wheel support for generated playlist view
* Improved: [ml_plg/gracenote] Database query, backup & recovery enhancements
* Improved: [ml_rg] Raised maximum sample rate from 96000 to 192000
* Improved: [nsutil] Added 64bit float IIR support
* Improved: [Installer] Launch Winamp as regular user from elevated installer
* Improved: Support for freely-rotating wheel mouse
* Fixed: Added parameters sanity check to prevent JSAPI2 from crashing
* Fixed: Known IE9 compatibility issues
* Fixed: [Bento browser] Freeze when search string is all spaces
* Fixed: [Bento/Modern skins] Crash when clicking Notifier if ml_nowplaying missing
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Album art view and scrollbar listview UI issues
* Fixed: [in_flac] Crash when trying to write metadata to non-existent files
* Fixed: [in_mp3] APEv2 memory leak
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Wrong bitmask for calculating AAC framelength
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Incorrectly reported approximate frames
* Fixed: [jnetlib] Potential integer overflow in http header parsing code
* Fixed: [ml_local] Category not being written to file when editing metadata
* Fixed: [ml_plg] Force rebuild logic for non-English locales
* Fixed: [nde] Saving the mldb up to 3 times on Winamp exit (v2.95/5.0x bug)
* Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Use <Artist> for folder name if <Albumartist> missing
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Database corruption on Eject with some iPod models
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Nano & Shuffle 4G sync issues
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Online Help Docs moved to AOL Help site
* Misc: SHOUTcast2 support tweaks for in_mp3 & Bento file info
* Misc: [in_flac/in_vorbis] Changed internal rating scale from 0-5 to 0-100
* Misc: [ml_local] Right-click menu tweaks (Display tracks in this view)
* Reverted: Milkdrop from v2.23 to v2.2 and AVS from v2.83 to v2.81d (for now)
* Updated: Sonic PrimoSDK Burning Engine v4.28.06.0
* Updated: [installer] OpenCandy SDK (fixes some AV’s reporting it as malware)
* Updated: [libpng] libpng v1.5.1


Winamp 5.601 (Latest)

* Improved: [in_wave/libsndfile] Added AIF to default extension list
* Improved: [ml_plg] Localization of playlist names & various other tweaks
* Fixed: Win2k compatibility (caused by 5.6-specific DLL load vuln fix)
* Fixed: [in_midi] Security vulnerability (thanks: Morten @ kryptoslogic)
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Querying endoffset metadata for iTunes gapless playback
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Sync and Eject issues
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Compilation flag when Album Artist is "Various Artists"
* Fixed: [pmp_wifi] Crash when devices.w5s missing
* Misc: Made installer disable incompatible 3rd-party gen_lyrics plugin
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations


Winamp 5.6

* New: [pmp_wifi] Android Wi-Fi support
* New: Direct mouse wheel support
* New: Option to write ratings to tags (for mp3, wma/wmv, ogg & flac)
* Improved: Redesigned Devices/Portables view in Media Library
* Improved: New on-the-fly "Vertically flip (Shift+F)" option in Video context menu
* Improved: [dlmgr/jnetlib] Handling of http status codes 100 & 201-206
* Improved: [ml_plg] Playlist Generator: context menu dialog & other features
* Improved: [ml_pmp] More user-friendly Transcoding options for portable devices
* Improved: [ml_transcode] Added support for <disc> & <discs> in naming scheme
* Improved: [nsutil] Optimized video flip modes
* Improved: [pmp_android/ipod] Added encoder blacklist
* Improved: [ReplayGainAnalysis] Support for more sample rates
* Fixed: DLL load security vulnerability
* Fixed: [enc_lame] Memory leak
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Bookmark corruption via Send To menu in main window songticker
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Empty/Grey ML when restarting Winamp from a minimized state
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Scrolling lag in nav panel with large amount of items
* Fixed: [in_midi] Buffer/Integer overflow issues (thanks: Joakim @ nsense)
* Fixed: [in_mod] Buffer overflow in comment box (MTM security vulnerability)
* Fixed: [in_mkv] Crash when reading a string that was exactly SIZE_MAX bytes
* Fixed: [in_mp3] ID3v1 UI glitch, APEv2 + Lyrics3 tag combo bug, APEv2 tag removal
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Potential crash on getting metadata/albumart from invalid MP4 files
* Fixed: [in_nsv] Integer overflow in allocating memory for metadata
* Fixed: [in_nsv] Integer overflow when parsing TOC (thanks to: C. Eiram, Secunia)
* Fixed: [in_nsv] Video flip mode detection quirks
* Fixed: [ml_local] Arrow direction and sort inconsistencies in 3-pane views
* Fixed: [ml_plg] Playlist Generator crashes and database corruption issues
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Autofill crash on empty libraries
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Crash on drag+drop items from one playlist to another
* Fixed: [ml_transcode] Freeze transcoding .cda when using <filename> in scheme
* Fixed: [playlist] Relative pathnames when filename is already relative
* Fixed: [pmp_android/usb] Playlist sync & loading issues
* Fixed: [pmp_android/ipod/usb] Issue with forward slashes in playlist paths
* Fixed: [pmp_usb] Bug when multiple usb devices are connected
* Fixed: [vis_milk2] Unicode issues with fonts & presets editor (5.58-specific)
* Fixed: [vis_milk2] sprites.ini file lookup
* Fixed: [vp6.w5s] Buffer overflow issue
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Portables/Devices support now also adds ml_devices.dll & devices.w5s
* Misc: Prompt user whether to move skins/langpacks when changing location
* Misc: Removed Winamp Remote from installer
* Misc: [ml_pmp] Moved 'Podcast Sync' to new tab in portable device options
* Misc: [out_ds] Config now displays 7.1 speakers as '7.1' instead of 'Unknown'
* Updated: Gracenote CDDB/MusicID v2.6.206
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.2.3
* Updated: [in_vorbis] libogg v1.2.1 & libvorbis v1.3.2
* Updated: [vp8] libvpx v0.9.5


What is New in Winamp 5.6?

* Wireless desktop sync with Winamp for Android™
* iTunes Library Import
* Major podcast overhaul including new directory powered by Mediafly
* New Windows 7 support including taskbar player controls
* Available in 16 languages including Turkish, Romanian & Brazilian Portuguese
* Improved playlist generator
* Add the Winamp Toolbar and control playback from your browser (optional)


What is New in Winamp 5.58?

* Major podcast overhaul including new directory powered by Mediafly
* Buy tickets, find lyrics & download music directly from your media player
* New Windows 7 support including taskbar player controls
* iTunes Library Import
* Find & manage Add-ons directly in your media player
* Available in 16 languages including Turkish, Romanian & Brazilian Portuguese


Winamp 5.572 (Latest)

* Improved: [h264.w5s] H.264 decoder optimizations
* Improved: [in_avi/bmp.w5s] Support for RGB bitmap AVI
* Improved: [ml_disc] Support for Disc# in CD Ripping naming convention
* Fixed: Crash when using Alt+3 editor during mldb background scan
* Fixed: EasyMove for classic video window
* Fixed: Spectrum analyzer and beat vis for 32bit PCM files
* Fixed: [bmp.w5s] Memory leaks with BMP AVI codecs (tscc, rle, yuv, rgb)
* Fixed: [D3D] Crash when changing height but not width on back-to-back videos
* Fixed: [gen_tray] Compact mode in Win7 popout tray
* Fixed: [in_avi] Crash on files with missing RIFF header (including 0-byte files)
* Fixed: [in_avi] Crash when ix## seektables aren't where they are supposed to be...
* Fixed: [in_mod] Out of memory error with some older .mod files
* Fixed: [in_mp3] ADTS header unicode/ansi issues (for .aac files)
* Fixed: [ml_impex] UTF-8 writing
* Fixed: [ml_local] Info editor erasing mldb fields not supported by input plugin
* Misc: Further attempts to fix reported elevation/registration issues on Vista & Win7
* Misc: Installer: Only install Gracenote alongside dependent components
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Various translation updates (note: French lang pack now updated to 5.57x)
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.7.3
* Updated: libpng 1.4.0
* Updated: libsndfile 1.0.21


Winamp 5.571 (Latest)

* New: MPEG-4 video support for in_mp4 & in_flv (Winamp Pro only)
* New: [in_avi] Native AVI video support (MPEG-4 = Winamp Pro only)
* New: [in_mkv] Matroska MKV video support (MPEG-4 = Winamp Pro only)
* New: [ml_addons] Browser for discovering new skins & plugins
* New: Winamp detection browser plugins for IE & Firefox
* Improved: Direct3D video rendering
* Improved: Filetype association handling on Vista & Windows 7
* Improved: New fullscreen video OSD
* Improved: Added ReplayGain Preamp control to Prefs (previously .ini only)
* Improved: VU meter (beat vis) optimizations
* Improved: [gen_ff] Multithreaded <AlbumArt/> object
* Improved: [in_flac/in_vorbis] Tag support for Organization field as Publisher
* Improved: [in_flv] AAC, aacPlus & ADPCM audio support in FLV files
* Improved: [in_mp4] Support for aacPlus parametric stereo in mp4 container
* Improved: [in_nsv] Native h.264 decoding (Winamp Pro only)
* Improved: [in_wave] Unicode filename handling
* Improved: [ml_history] Play Offset feature for resuming playback of podcasts
* Improved: [ml_local] Director & Producer fields & columns for videos
* Improved: [ml_local] Row cache for NDE to vastly speed up queries
* Improved: [ml_online] Right-click option to open service in new window
* Improved: [ml_wire] feed:// pcast:// and winamp:// protocol support
* Improved: [ml_wire] Option to automatically download 'x' most recent episodes
* Improved: [ml_wire] Redesigned Podcast Directory view
* Improved: [pmp_usb] Option to set paths in saved playlists
* Improved: [vis_milk2] Milkdrop2 updated to use ns-eel2 (thanks Justin)
* Fixed: Custom mldb info reverts to filename on Alt+3 for in_dshow, flv & swf
* Fixed: Elevator installation and Aero compatibility issues in 5.57 on Windows Vista
* Fixed: HeapSetInformation not located in kernel32 error under Win2k
* Fixed: Shuffle feature broken under limited user profiles
* Fixed: Various other reported issues/bugs/crashes with 5.57
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Bold text in Local Media views on some systems
* Fixed: [gen_tray] Compact mode not working on 64-bit OS
* Fixed: [in_flac] Playback freezing before end of some corrupted files
* Fixed: [in_flv] Sync issue where video lags behind audio on some flv files
* Fixed: [in_flv] Various h.263-related crash issues
* Fixed: [in_mod] Heap overflow security vulnerability (thanks Dyon Balding, Secunia)
* Fixed: [in_mod] Some s3m files crashing on load
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Various transcoding issues
* Fixed: [in_wm] Main window & taskbar menu blocked after closing DRM browser
* Fixed: [jpeg.w5s/png.w5s] Security vulnerability fixes (thanks Nicolas Joly, VUPEN)
* Fixed: [ml_local] Remove missing files broken in full rescan
* Fixed: [ml_wire] feeds.xml sometimes being destroyed
* Fixed: [pmp_p4s] Crashing with certain devices
* Fixed: [vis_avs] Compile issues causing some presets to not load properly or crash
* Misc: Improved Windows 7 compatibility, incl. aero thumbnail & taskbar integration
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: New info page for lang pack developers in About Winamp dialog
* Misc: New MPEG-4 video support adds h264.w5s & mp4v.w5s
* Misc: Renamed nsvdec_vp6.dll to vp6.w5s
* Misc: Removed gen_dropbox from the installer, for now...
* Misc: Right-click to close Notifier in Bento skin
* Misc: Some keyboard accelerator fixes (new Ctrl+Alt+B for Add current to bookmarks)
* Misc: Various installer improvements (including new DirectX version checker)
* Updated: aacPlus decoder 8.2.2, encoder 8.2.0
* Updated: Gracenote CDDB/MusicID v2.6.101
* Updated: libpng 1.2.40
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.7.1
* Updated: [in_vorbis] libvorbis 1.2.3 & libogg 1.1.4


Winamp 5.56 (Latest)

* New: Winamp Orgler plugin - Let's you track, chart & share your listening history
* Improved: [jnetlib] New SSL support for playback of https:// streams
* Improved: [ml_autotag] Fuzzy matches now unchecked by default & marked 'Unsure'
* Improved: [ml_local] New background scanner
* Improved: [ml_online] Various tweaks, fixes & enhancements
* Improved: [ml_pmp] Added support for drag+drop from Explorer to device playlists
* Fixed: iexplore process not ending when browser closed after opened via Winamp
* Fixed: Save EQ preset name duplication bug
* Fixed: [Bento skin] SHOUTcast homepage url's redirecting to Winamp search
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Up/down buttons reversed, 'stop after current' & other issues
* Fixed: [in_mod] Crash on some .s3m modules (w.i.p.)
* Fixed: [in_mod] Playback glitch during background transcoding
* Fixed: [in_wm] Decimal point issues in Alt+3 format info
* Fixed: [in_wm] Embedded IE browser for DRM license acquisition
* Fixed: [in_wm] Loading of URLs in WPL playlist files
* Fixed: [in_mp4/libmp4v2] Integer overflow bug with MP4 sample size
* Fixed: [libsndfile] VOC buffer overflow vulnerability
* Fixed: [ml_impex] Read "has video" field from iTunes XML (and write on export)
* Fixed: [tagz.w5s] Hang with $right function in ATF when specified field is empty
* Fixed: [vis_avs] msvcp71.dll dependency
* Misc: Added front.jpg/gif/etc to album art criteria
* Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: New omBrowser.w5s shared component for ml_nowplaying, wire & online
* Misc: Removed dashboard (ml_dash) from distribution
* Misc: ml_orb now only installed as part of separate Winamp Remote package
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.5
* Updated: libsndfile 1.0.20


Winamp 5.55 (Latest)

* New: Turkish, Portuguese-BR & Romanian installer translations and language packs
* New: WBM system for lazy-loading of *.w5s files
* New: [Bento skin] Playlist tab (optional)
* New: [ml_impex] iTunes-compatible Media Library database import/export plugin
* Improved: [gen_ff] Faster & no flicker when loading/switching skins
* Improved: [gen_jumpex] New 'Add to Library' shell menu item & other tweaks
* Improved: [gen_jumpex] True unicode search support
* Improved: [gen_ml] Optional alternating row colors for list views
* Improved: [gen_ml] Optional skinned menus
* Improved: [in_mod] Experimental ExtendedRead support (transcoding, burning, etc)
* Improved: [in_mod] Now uses global Playback config for thread priority
* Improved: [in_mp3] APEv2 tag editing/creating tweaks
* Improved: [in_mp3] Show instantaneous bitrates for AAC VBR
* Improved: [ml_local] Media Library searches now ignore diacritics
* Improved: [ml_local] New 'Category' and 'Lossless' database fields
* Improved: [ml_local] New playcount Tracking Control options
* Improved: [ml_local] New 'Play/Enqueue random' item for top level filters
* Improved: [ml_online] New toolbar and various other tweaks & optimizations
* Improved: [ml_online] Support for 3rd-party Services
* Improved: [vis_milk2] Pixel Shader 2.0 & 3.0 support tweaks
* Improved: [vis_nsfs] Unicode title display for currently playing track
* Improved: [Winamp Agent] Localization support
* Improved: [Winamp Modern skin] New spectrum vis options
* Fixed: Accessibility fixup for Format Info string in Alt+3 dialog
* Fixed: Genre not being saved with Autotag feature in Alt+3 dialog
* Fixed: Memory leaks in in_mp3, in_wm, gen_dropbox, ml_local, ml_pmp & tagz.w5s
* Fixed: New version check can't be disabled when anon statistics is enabled
* Fixed: Rare crash when closing vis window
* Fixed: Various issues when starting/stopping/switching vis plugins
* Fixed: [Agent] Systray icon not showing if 'Play in Winamp' removed in Shell Options
* Fixed: [enc_flac] 24-bit FLAC encoding
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Shell Options, B Hotkey, Send To menus & other misc bugs
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Library button resize glitch
* Fixed: [in_cdda] Potential cddb Disc null pointer crash
* Fixed: [in_flac] Albumartist & Ensemble fields not cleared when deleting Album Artist
* Fixed: [in_flac] Track restarts when updating metadata
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Potential ID3v2.0/2.1 crash issue
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Empty genre metadata field (eg. when transcoding from flac to m4a)
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Long hangs on slow network drives
* Fixed: [libsndfile] AIFF buffer overflow vulnerabilty (thanks milw0rm/secunia)
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Potential crash on exit
* Fixed: [ml_disc] 'Use uppercase file extensions' ripping option not being respected
* Fixed: [ml_history] Tracking still updates if playback stopped before specified time
* Fixed: [ml_local] Broken 'Create Playlist' button functionality in local media
* Fixed: [ml_local] Remove missing files broken with some older/corrupt databases
* Fixed: [ml_wire] Columns sometimes hidden in Downloads view
* Fixed: [ml_plg] Multiple 'Failed to initialize' error messages
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Crash when deleting playlists/files from a P4S portable device
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Metadata hooking, transcoder, autofill and other bug fixes
* Fixed: [nde] Albums with % in title not displaying tracklist in local media views
* Fixed: [out_ds] Logarithmic volume control dB display glitch
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Deletion of non-existent files from database
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Reading of Play Count statistics
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Various database, albumart, playback & disconnection issues
* Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: New "Send Feedback" item in the Help menu
* Misc: Note that changes made to the ml database are not backwards compatible!
* Misc: Removed some older Milkdrop presets and added some newer ones
* Misc: Separated vlb.w5s and nsvdec_vp3.dll decoders from in_mp3 and in_nsv
* Misc: Separated timer from gen_ff into timer.w5s
* Updated: Gracenote CDDB/MusicID v2.6.0.6
* Updated: libpng 1.2.35
* Updated: Sonic Burning Engine v4.10.32.502
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v1.0.4
* Updated: [in_mp3] Fraunhofer Decoder v4.3
* Updated: [lame_enc] LAME 3.98.2
* Updated: [vis_avs] AVS v2.82


Winamp 5.541 (Latest)

* Improved: [pmp_ipod] Better auto-detection of newer iPod models
* Fixed: Filetype icons in Windows Explorer not updating when changed in Prefs
* Fixed: ML & Vis appear under other overlapping modern skin windows
* Fixed: No error message when trying to edit metadata for Read-Only files
* Fixed: Potential security vulnerability in NowPlaying
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Keyboard shortcuts in modern skin playlist windowshade mode
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Scrolling to bottom of AlbumArt pane & other misc scrollbar issues
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Broken '307 - Temporary Redirect' url's
* Fixed: [ml_local] AlbumArt icon selection glitch
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Play and Enqueue actions reversed if Enqueue is set as default
* Fixed: [ml_rg] ReplayGain analysis of 20bit files
* Misc: Double-click Modern pledit songticker now toggles windowshade mode again
* Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations


Winamp 5.54 (Latest)
* New: Chinese, Japanese & Korean installer translations and language packs
* New: [in_swf] Adobe Shockwave Flash (SWF, RTMP) playback support
* New: [gen_dropbox] Winamp DropBox alpha (use: Ctrl-Shift-D)
* New: [Online Services] AOL Radio featuring CBS Radio (requires in_flv)
* Improved: Background reading option for playlist metadata
* Improved: Classic songticker scrolling for Winamp Modern skin pledit winshade
* Improved: Vista elevation (fixes: installing skins, filetype reg, Pro reg)
* Improved: Zero padding option for playlist item numbers
* Improved: [in_flv] Better streaming support and other improvements
* Improved: [in_mp3] Added APEv2 tag options to configuration
* Improved: [in_mp3] Optional retention of existing APEv2 headers
* Improved: [ml_disc] Artwork support for Data CD Reader
* Improved: [ml_disc] Better detection of any copy operations in progress
* Improved: [ml_disc] Improved start times if ml_disc view is active
* Improved: [ml_local] Redesigned 'Show Info' panel
* Improved: [ml_nowplaying] Redesigned 'Now Playing' artist experience
* Improved: [ml_playlists] Right-click option to sort list of playlists alphabetically
* Improved: [pmp_usb] Connect/Disconnect/Blacklist config options
* Fixed: Alt+F4 closing Winamp instead of individual dialogs
* Fixed: Bento browser redirecting network drive url's to Winamp Search
* Fixed: Blank playlist when in docked toolbar mode and Winamp is minimized
* Fixed: Modern skin component windows appearing individually in Alt+Tab
* Fixed: Multi-flashing on startup when previously closed whilst minimized to systray
* Fixed: Pure Virtual Function Call runtime crash errors
* Fixed: Redraw issue when built-in classic vis is disabled
* Fixed: Various multi-monitor docking issues
* Fixed: Various other 5.53-specific keyboard accelerator issues
* Fixed: [Bento] Drag+Drop into Playlist from Open Files dialog
* Fixed: [burnlib] 'CD Drive locked by another Winamp process' on 2nd burn attempt
* Fixed: [burnlib] 'Burner releasing failed' error
* Fixed: [dsp_sps] Crash on close when config Help dialog is still open
* Fixed: [enc_flac] MD5 checksum generation
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Attached vis plugin crash on winshade to normal mode in Modern skin
* Fixed: [gen_hotkeys] Assigning Winkey with already used Ctrl combinations
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Enter/Shift+Enter broken for ML treeview items (5.53-specific)
* Fixed: [in_cdda] Composer/Conductor logic bug when saving CDDB data to database
* Fixed: [in_flac] Minor metadata writing bugs
* Fixed: [in_midi] Seeking with 'DM/MS Synth' device in Streamed playback mode
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on files with invalid/corrupt gapless data
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Create new ID3v1/v2 tags configuration setting
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Huge lag on files with large embedded cover art
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Metadata & Format Info display for streams in View File Info
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Potential unicode-related crash on open/close issue
* Fixed: [jpeg.w5s] Saving corrupt album art
* Fixed: [ml_autotag] Results dialog hidden under Winamp when AOT is enabled
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Small resource leak
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Enter/Shift+Enter broken for selected ML Playlist items
* Fixed: [ml_playlists / ml_transcode] Sending playlists from ML tree to Transcoder
* Fixed: [ml_wire] 404/timeout with valid rss feeds on Vista
* Misc: Miscellaneous localization tweaks, fixes & updates
* Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Setup fixes (Agent not always starting, WLZ filetype not registering, etc)
* Misc: Various other 'Winamp Modern' & 'Bento' skin updates
* Misc: [enc_flac] Now encodes using libFLAC instead of Flake
* Updated: Bento skin v1.2
* Updated: freetype 2.3.7
* Updated: libpng 1.2.28
* Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.98


Winamp 5.531 (Latest)
* Fixed: Bento browser redirecting some url's to Winamp Search
* Fixed: Bento collapse/expand button bug
* Fixed: Recent URL's not saving (5.53-specific)
* Fixed: Total time display of selected tracks in Classic playlist (5.53-specific)
* Fixed: [jnetlib] AOL Radio skipping/buffer issue
* Fixed: [ml_local] Right-click Play/Enqueue all items issue in 3-pane views
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Broken right-click context menu items (5.53-specific)


Winamp 5.53 (Latest)
* Improved: Different shell descriptions for different associated filetypes
* Improved: New 'Refine Search' feature in Cover Art Downloader dialog
* Improved: Unicode support for Language Packs incompatible with system locale
* Improved: [in_cdda] Now reads & writes CD data to an NDE database
* Improved: [in_cdda/ml_disc] Reimplementation of simple offline CD Info Editor
* Improved: [in_flac] Faster FLAC metadata gathering
* Improved: [in_mp3] More accurate .AAC length calculation
* Improved: [in_wav/in_mp4] Support for http streaming of files larger than 2GB
* Improved: [ml_disc] Added support for Data CD reading (w.i.p.)
* Improved: [ml_local/nde] Background scanning & database optimizations
* Improved: [ml_local] Unicode compliant filename-based metadata guessing
* Improved: [ml_transcode] Remove trailing periods from destination filepath
* Improved: [pmp_usb] Added AlbumArtist support to Naming Convention
* Fixed: Classic EQ appearing with Modern skins after switch->minimize->restore
* Fixed: Various miscellaneous Album Art related issues
* Fixed: [enc_lame] Now rejects multi-channel and above 48KHz source files
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Translated skin image loading
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Header sort arrow and Rating column display under Windows 2000
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Various drawing glitches when changing views
* Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash under limited connectivity conditions
* Fixed: [in_cdda] Spectrum vis in analog MCI playback mode
* Fixed: [in_flac] Small memory leak when writing FLAC metadata
* Fixed: [in_flv] Last two seconds of flv videos being cut off
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on encountering a bad ID3v2 version (e.g. ID3v2.F)
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Crash on file-not-found during background decode
* Fixed: [in_wave] Infinite loop on attempted repeat playback of dead files
* Fixed: [in_wm] ASX v2 loading
* Fixed: [in_wm] Crash on files & streams with a huge discontinuity jump
* Fixed: [in_wm / out_ds] Copy 'Status' to clipboard Unicode bug
* Fixed: [ml_autotag] Crash with certain tracks
* Fixed: [ml_history] Crash on drag+drop all history items to playlist
* Fixed: [ml_local] Rating of items with Unicode filenames
* Fixed: [ml_online/orb] Nodes dropping to bottom of ML tree on Lang Pack change
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Play playlist from Media Library main menu item
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Filename length incompatibility with iPod Music Quiz v2
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Missing 'Advanced' button in Edit Query dialog
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Physical deletion of playing file
* Misc: Added Russian installer translation and language pack
* Misc: In2TV removed from Online Services
* Misc: Installer now built with NSIS Unicode version [thanks Jim Park]
* Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements and optimizations
* Misc: Moved shared zlib.dll compression library out of winamp.exe
* Updated: Bento skin v1.1 #120


Winamp 5.52 (Latest)
* Improved: Better Unicode filename support for enc_*.dll audio encoders
* Improved: [ml_transcode] Unicode filename support
* Improved: [in_mp3] APEv2 tag support
* Improved: [in_flac] Support for reading/writing BPM metadata
* Improved: [nde] Optimized for faster mldb query results
* Improved: [vis_milk2] Pixel shaders now work on onboard Intel graphics chips
* Fixed: Comment field character limitation in Basic Info tab of File Editor
* Fixed: Playback Thread Priority middle setting resets to Lowest
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Ultravox streaming metadata stack overflow
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Crash when attempting to play non-existent files
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Crash when clearing existing metadata fields in File Info
* Fixed: [in_wave] Transcoding of floating point WAV files
* Fixed: [ml_transcode] Memory leaks
* Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks and improvements
* Updated: Bento skin #118


Winamp 5.51 (Latest)
* New: Autoplay Handlers for Audio, MP3 and Video CD's on WinXP & Vista
* New: Default Programs registration for installations on Windows Vista
* New: Optional Constant-Q Equalizer and optional ISO Standard frequency bands
* New: [in_flv] Flash Video decoder (vp6 only, not h.263)
* Improved: Browser download manager now uses CD Ripping destination folder
* Improved: Deletion of embedded album art via Artwork tab in File Info
* Improved: More accurately translated Language Packs
* Improved: More miscellaneous UI/dialog tweaks & improvements
* Improved: Option to set the number of pixels to scroll for modern songticker
* Improved: [Gracenote/MusicID] Better error checking & memory cache optimizations
* Improved: [gen_ff] More miscellaneous freeform skinning engine optimizations
* Improved: [gen_hotkeys] Added optional WM_APPCOMMAND support for media keys
* Improved: [gen_hotkeys] Added increase + decrease rating on current track
* Improved: [in_dshow] Reading of length and bitrate for non-default video formats
* Improved: [in_flac] Optimized disk caching for increased performance
* Improved: [in_mp3] Better optimization for older Pentium Pro/2/3 cpu's
* Improved: [in_mp3] Support for reading ALBUM ARTIST field if TPE2 not present
* Improved: [in_mp4] Better Unicode support and metadata read optimizations
* Improved: [in_mp4] Optimized disk caching/reading
* Improved: [in_vorbis] Support for reading YEAR field if DATE not present
* Improved: [ml_disc/in_cdda] Disc reading tweaks and other general optimizations
* Improved: [ml_history] New tracking control options
* Improved: [ml_local] Added column for BPM
* Improved: [ml_local] Album column sorting order logic
* Improved: [ml_local] Better playlist handling
* Improved: [ml_local] Bumped track# metadata guessing limit from 130 to 999
* Improved: [ml_local] Database query and memory optimizations
* Improved: [ml_pmp] Support for drag&drop from Explorer into portable device view
* Improved: [ml_transcode] Prompt to delete aborted transcodes
* Fixed: Artwork not found if .nfo filename contains a period
* Fixed: ASX Parser converting all stream links in .asx playlists to upper case
* Fixed: Classic songticker wraparound glitchiness
* Fixed: Dragging/scrolling of songticker text after resize
* Fixed: Global Hotkeys list destroyed when changing language packs
* Fixed: Gracenote CDDB Editor genre selection glitches
* Fixed: Gracenote/MusicID not using Winamp's proxy setting
* Fixed: Parsing of ansi ASX playlists containing non-standard characters
* Fixed: Restore from System Tray if previously closed in a minimized state
* Fixed: Setup resetting desktop icons :-o
* Fixed: Spectrum vis incompatibility crash with some 3rd-party input plugins
* Fixed: Truetype replacement font alignment in Winamp Modern winshade songticker
* Fixed: Various miscellaneous keyboard shortcut issues
* Fixed: Winamp Agent registry entry typo (wianmpa.exe)
* Fixed: [Bento] Collapse/Expand Playlist not respecting 'Show Album Art' setting
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Potential high CPU usage of songticker object
* Fixed: [gen_ff] TrueType replacement font change not updating in real-time
* Fixed: [gen_hotkeys] Restore from minimized state whilst About dialog is open
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Blank ML when restarting Winamp from a minimized state
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Cancelling Online Media password prompt clears password & filters
* Fixed: [in_dshow] Miscalculation of some mpeg video lengths
* Fixed: [in_flac] Divide-by-zero crash on corrupt files
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Deleting Lyrics3 tag in Alt+3 Editor also deletes ID3v1 tag
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Handling of ID3v2 with bad version/revision #'s
* Fixed: [in_mp3] ID3v2 parsing crash with some mp3's
* Fixed: [in_mp3] ID3v2 tag not showing when ID3v1 tag reading is disabled in config
* Fixed: [in_mp3] MPEG Info not showing in Alt+3 for files with large ID3v2 tags
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Now only reads first ID3v2 tag if more than one is present
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Winamp UI freezes when loading certain corrupt mp3's
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Playback of mp3 in mp4 container
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Seeking when paused
* Fixed: [in_mp4/jpeg.w5s] Crash when Art field is in metadata with no embedded art
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] UTF8->UTF16 optimized (fixes File Info delay bug)
* Fixed: [libmp4v2] Corrupt m4a's not playing, better handling of ones beyond repair
* Fixed: [ml_autotag] Crash when track isn't part of a disc, eg. internet-only releases
* Fixed: [ml_autotag] Stops processing when switching to another ml view
* Fixed: [ml_disc] CD view/titles not refreshing when ejecting old/inserting new CD
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Crash when using invalid strings in playlist filename generation
* Fixed: [ml_disc] No Burn button under some system configurations
* Fixed: [ml_disc/ml_pmp/ml_transcode] Processing of # in Destination Folder path
* Fixed: [ml_local] Artist column in descending order when sorting by Year
* Fixed: [ml_local] Down key in Search field not focusing the Simple View list
* Fixed: [ml_local] Last Updated, Album Gain & Podcast column sorting orders
* Fixed: [ml_local] Two filters always checkmarked in Edit View for Simple views
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Shift+Enter hotkey to Enqueue playlist
* Fixed: [ml_plg] Crash when stopping Playlist Generator scan or resetting database
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Column sorting orders
* Fixed: [ml_rg] Restore from minimized state whilst rg results dialog is open
* Fixed: [ml_transcode] Restore from minimized state whilst config dialog is open
* Fixed: [ml_wire] Podcasts not being downloaded if <title> includes carriage returns
* Fixed: [ml_wire] Lockup when encountering scripts in <description> field
* Fixed: [out_disk] Output folder always resetting to My DocumentsMy Music
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] 'Add album art' option always checkmarked
* Fixed: [tataki] Potential crash when encountering an invalid/superficial error
* Fixed: [vis_milk2] Crash when exiting fullscreen back to attached Modern skin window
* Misc: Alt+3 Auto-Tag now saves Gracenote FileId and ExtData fields
* Misc: Double-click Stereo indicator to open Playback prefs (Bento & Modern skins)
* Misc: Installation is now prevented on Win9x
* Misc: Made Milkdrop2 the default vis plugin
* Misc: Split the Playback prefs into 3 tabs: Playback, Equalizer & Replay Gain
* Misc: Various installer setup & localization translation tweaks
* Misc: Various Bento skin fixes, tweaks and improvements
* Misc: Various Winamp Modern skin 5.5-related updates
* Misc: [ml_local] Removed deprecated 'Show album gain values' option in Prefs
* Updated: Bento skin #117
* Updated: Gracenote MusicID/CDDB v2.5.1
* Updated: libpng 1.2.22
* Updated: [vis_milk2] MilkDrop 2.0c


Winamp 5.5

* New: Bento SingleUI Skin
* New: Auto-Tagger in File Info dialog (powered by Gracenote)
* New: Album Art support, including new window for Winamp Modern skin
* New: Fully translatable Localization support
* New: WLZ (Winamp Language Zip) filetype support
* New: Global 'playback thread priority' setting for decoders
* New: Media Monitor and MP3 Blog site scraper (in Bento browser)
* New: Option to set the number of lines to scroll in the Playlist
* New: Option to not show playlist item number in classic songticker
* New: Option to not show the playlist number in the Windows taskbar
* New: Redesigned Installer
* New: Run Setup switch, winamp.exe /REG=S
* New: Unified File Editor, with Artwork tab (for mp3, m4a, wma, ogg, flac)
* New: Version History drop-down selector and Search (in About dialog)
* New: Winamp Toolbar for Internet Explorer (optional)
* New: %family% ATF string for identifying filetypes
* New: $split() ATF function for splitting x/y disc & track strings
* New: [in_mp3] Multi-channel mp3surround support
* New: [gen_ml] Tree Options tab in Media Library Preferences
* New: [ml_autotag] Mass Auto-Tagger in Send-To menu (powered by Gracenote)
* New: [ml_local] 3 pane view options in 'Add/Edit View' dialog
* New: [ml_local] Smart View Presets
* New: [ml_local] Album Art support/pane and retrieval service
* New: [ml_local] Toolbar buttons to control view options
* New: [ml_plg] Winamp Playlist Generator (powered by Gracenote MusicID)
* New: [ml_pmp] New fields, configurable filter panes & columns, 3 pane view
* New: [ml_pmp] Album Art view & support for iPod and P4S Devices
* New: [ml_pmp] Separate view for video files
* New: [vis_milk2] Milkdrop2 Visualizer
* Improved: General misc UI/Dialog tweaks & improvements
* Improved: Re-tuned and optimized classic Spectrum Analyzer
* Improved: Surround indicator in Winamp Modern skin for multi-channel files
* Improved: Classic Songticker option for Winamp Modern skin (via Config drawer)
* Improved: [in_cdda] Conductor metadata support
* Improved: [in_cdda] Handling of multiple discs
* Improved: [in_flac/in_vorbis] ALBUM ARTIST & ENSEMBLE read support
* Improved: [in_flac] Advanced Editor mode
* Improved: [in_mod] Added support for more than 256 samples
* Improved: [in_mp3] Faster metadata gathering (also speeds up ReplayGain scan)
* Improved: [in_mp4] Smoother data sent to vis & other minor tweaks
* Improved: [in_wm] Faster WMA/WMV metadata gathering
* Improved: [gen_ff] General freeform skinning engine optimizations
* Improved: [gen_ml] Collapsed/expanded state of treeview items now remembered
* Improved: [gen_ml] Skinned scrollbars in Media Library for newer Modern skins
* Improved: [gen_ml] Reordering of treeview items (via drag+drop)
* Improved: [ml_disc] Better Unicode support & other misc tweaks
* Improved: [ml_history] Unicode support
* Improved: [ml_local] Customize Columns menu for top filter panes
* Improved: [ml_local] Option to show horizontal scrollbar for top panes
* Improved: [ml_local] New 'Podcasts' view (appears after downloading a podcast)
* Improved: [ml_local] Added ISPODCAST and PODCASTCHANNEL field names
* Improved: [ml_local] Added BEGINSLIKE comparison operator
* Improved: [ml_local] Dragging of headers to sort column order
* Improved: [ml_local] Redesigned Smart View Editor
* Improved: [ml_local] Star Rating display and selection
* Improved: [ml_pmp] 'Copy to Local Media' config separated from CD Ripping settings
* Improved: [ml_pmp] Portables "Sync" can now keep podcasts updated
* Improved: [ml_rg] ReplayGain calculation support for 64, 88.2 & 96 KHz samplerates
* Improved: [ml_wire] Optional automatic downloading of new podcast episodes
* Improved: [ml_wire] Multi-select, 'Send To' menu and other general enhancements
* Improved: [ml_wire] Podcast downloads now saved in channel subfolders
* Improved: [ml_wire] Updated podcast directory
* Improved: [pmp_ipod] Now uses the iPod's podcast menu for podcasts
* Fixed: 'All supported files' showing all filetypes in Open Files dialog
* Fixed: Esc key not working in Credits & Winamp tabs of About Box
* Fixed: Long filepaths corrupted when opening Winamp via Explorer context menu
* Fixed: Oversized preference pages with large DPI setting
* Fixed: Recurrence of multiple instances bug (previously fixed in 5.3)
* Fixed: Selecting 'No' for 'Physically Remove' prompt removes playlist/mldb item
* Fixed: TV button in video window not working
* Fixed: Windows showing if switching from modern to classic skin in minimized state
* Fixed: [ASX Loader] Recursive playlist loading & case-insensitive element matching
* Fixed: [ASX Loader] Handling of entries embedded within a REPEAT tag
* Fixed: [dsp_sps] DEP incompatibility
* Fixed: [gen_ff] "Can't unload script while in script" error when switching skins
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Remember ML size when switching between Modern & Classic skins
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Transparent docked toolbars for skins using alpha-blending
* Fixed: [gen_ff] 10% opacity not applying on skins that add items to rt-click menu
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Crash when loading multiple files via Explorer context menu
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Remove Duplicate Entries action broken in pledit
* Fixed: [gen_ml] %playcount% returning Comment on drag+drop from ML to pledit
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Shift+Insert (New Playlist) and F1 (Help) keyboard shortcuts
* Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash when attempting to rip a CD in a 2nd instance of Winamp
* Fixed: [in_flac] General FLAC Editor quirks (Comments field, Enter key, etc)
* Fixed: [in_flac] 24bit files don't play when 'Allow 24bit' setting is disabled
* Fixed: [in_mod] Fadeout value goes below 0.0 sec in in_mod config
* Fixed: [in_mod] Interpolator 'division by zero' crash bug
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on some mp3's with corrupt ID3v2 extended headers (rare)
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on loading corrupt id3v2.3 tags of a later revision
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Negative bitrate in File Info for long mp3's
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Glitch when modifying metadata on playing track
* Fixed: [in_mp4/libmp4v2] Memory leaks
* Fixed: [in_wave/libsndfile] Crash on invalid .au files
* Fixed: [in_wm] Garbage characters when editing filetypes in config
* Fixed: [in_wm] Potential DRM lockup issue
* Fixed: [ml_disc] 0 byte temp files not deleted after ripping
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Double-click drive icon in Rip & Burn not selecting tree item
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Crash when usingin playlist filename generation
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Drag+drop from Audio CD view to Playlist Editor
* Fixed: [ml_local] (no album) items adding to Album count in Artist pane
* Fixed: [ml_local] isempty and =0 queries now return same results
* Fixed: [ml_local] Add dir to 'Watch Folders' path truncated to 64 characters
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Inserting extra period in filename when transcoding to mp4/aac
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Sending ansi-converted titles instead of Unicode
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Transfer caption building when Artist metadata is empty
* Fixed: [ml_wire] Subscription Updates setting always resets to 'Never'
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Potential incompatability issues with latest version of iTunes
* Fixed: [pmp_p4s] 'Error In Insert' when transferring to some P4S devices
* Fixed: [pmp_usb] Slow Winamp startup when external usb drive connected
* Fixed: [vis_milk] Milkdrop DEP incompatibility
* Misc: Winamp Remote is now an installer option (ml_orb.dll)
* Misc: Moved drawing engine out of gen_ff to tataki.dll
* Misc: Moved freetype font renderer out of gen_ff to freetype.wac
* Misc: Removed deprecated .LNG Language file support
* Misc: Removed db.w5s (replaced by new Gracenote database system)
* Misc: Removed Station Info window and Prefs page
* Misc: Removed unicows.lib/dll as we have officially dropped support for Win9x
* Updated: Gracenote MusicID/CDDB v2.5
* Updated: libpng 1.2.20
* Updated: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus Encoder v8.1.0
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v0.99.2
* Updated: [in_flac] FLAC 1.2.1
* Updated: [in_mp3] FhG Decoder v4.10
* Updated: [in_vorbis] libvorbis 1.2.0


Winamp 5.35:

* Improved: Current translation support of core strings and dialogs
* Improved: Correct theming of tabbed dialogs on WinXP+
* Improved: Various misc tweaks/improvements
* Fixed: More tabbing fixes in UI and Preferences
* Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash with non-English characters in user path
* Fixed: [in_cdda] Gapless playback of mix CDs with Sonic Engine
* Fixed: [in_flac] Genre field truncated in Flac Editor
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Incompatibility with musicbrainz tags
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Long stream urls truncated in Alt+3 dialog
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Tracklength not showing for mp3's with large embedded coverart
* Fixed: [in_mp4] MP4 file parsing buffer overflow vulnerability
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Cancel button in Vorbis Editor
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Tabbing in Vorbis Editor
* Fixed: [in_wm] Artist and Title fields reversed in WMA Editor
* Fixed: [in_wm] Crash when attempting to play malformed ASX playlists
* Fixed: [ml_local] NOTHAS and != with empty fields
* Fixed: [ml_wire] (4294967295%) in sc wire downloads
* Fixed: [ml_wire] Podcast downloading bug (uninitialized variable error)
* Fixed: [pmp_p4s] Crash on sync/transfers
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] Jump To File Extra v0.99.1b


Winamp 5.34:

*NEW! Winamp Dashboard beta
* NEW! Winamp Remote beta
* NEW! Unicode filename and track support
* IMPROVED! Sync capabilities for your device


Winamp 5.33:

* Improved: [gen_ml] unicode tree item title support
* Improved: [NDE] speed optimizations
* Improved: [ml_history] localized dates
* Improved: [ml_local] Unicode media library support
* Improved: [ml_playlists] now uses m3u8 to retain unicode file info
* Improved: [ml_playlists] playlists in send-to submenu
* Improved: [ml_pmp] playback-from-device of unicode filenames
* Improved: [ml_wire] moved discover page to main page
* Improved: [pmp_p4s] auto-detection of supported file formats
* Fixed: playlist directory loading fix (again)
* Fixed: recursive playlist loading
* Fixed: video lockup when switching video display settings
* Fixed: HTML playlist generation
* Fixed: temp file cleanup after burning
* Fixed: Alt+L from video window
* Fixed: fullscreen video display drawing glitch
* Fixed: recursive shortcut loading
* FixedASX Loader not reading local relative paths correctly
* Fixed: [gen_ml] & needs expanding to && for any menu entries showing filenames
* Fixed: [in_flac] not saving genres.txt in multiuser directory
* Fixed: [in_mp3] create id3v2 tag when writing album artist
* Fixed: [in_mp3] workaround for id3v2.4 tags with badly formatted frame sizes
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] writing blank metadata instead of erasing
* Fixed: [in_wave] sometimes not remembering custom extensions
* Fixed: [in_wm] stack overflow on hi-def multichannel audio with replaygain enabled
* Fixed: [in_wm] File Info editor album artist not saving
* Fixed: [ml_local] Modern skin pledit winshade 'Manage Playlist' button bug
* Fixed: [ml_local] ignoring files with ellipsis (...)
* Fixed: [ml_local] editing disc via 'edit selected items'
* Fixed: [ml_local] sorting fix
* Fixed: [ml_local] ratings menu
* Fixed: [ml_local] crash when sorting by replaygain
* Fixed: [ml_local] deadlock when retrieving title to guess metadata
* Fixed: [ml_local] no longer causes unicode files in playlist to display ?????
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] time column and 'status' in statusbar
* Fixed: [ml_pmp]
* Fixed: [ml_rg] multi-channel files being calculated incorrectly
* Fixed: [ml_transcode] bad/missing metadata on transcoded files
* Fixed: [ml_transcode] error on overly long filenames ("can't open destination file")
* Fixed: [ml_wire] podcasts that change titles not updating properly
* Updated: Coding Technologies aacPlus encoder 8.0.3


Winamp 5.32:

* New: [ml_local] new filters for three pane view (album artist, genre, publisher)
* New: [ml_local] option to rescan metadata for selected files
* New: [ml_transcode] Transcoding tool.Convert your files from one format to another.
* New: [pmp_activesync] Support for Windows Mobile devices
* Improved: send-to in songticker right-click menu
* Improved: [ml_local] album artist, disc, replaygain, composer, full path columns
* Improved: [ml_local] localized dates
* Fixed: classic skin playlist time drawing glitch
* Fixed: slow load-time with playlist of network share files
* Fixed: CD burning with Windows 98/ME
* Fixed: flickering with non-overlay video display
* Fixed: [gen_ml] treeview icons on Windows 98/ME
* Fixed: [gen_ml] modern skin docked toolbar mode not remembered
* Fixed: [gen_ml] listview flicker reduction
* Fixed: [in_flac] crash when viewing info (alt+3) on non-existent files
* Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect length reported with Easy CDDA Extractor encodes
* Fixed: [in_mp4] unable to play truncated M4A files
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] crash with very short files
* Fixed: [jnetlib] HTTP timeouts on streams with character 255 in HTTP headers
* Fixed: [ml_disc] CD View sometimes causing flickering of all open windows
* Fixed: [ml_history] crash when disabling & re-enabling view
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] corrupt display when scrolling


Winamp 5.31:

* New: [in_cdda] CD Text reading support (with sonic engine enabled)
* New: [in_flac] Nullsoft FLAC Decoder
* New: [enc_flac] Nullsoft FLAC Encoder
* Improved: [ml_disc] Smarter tagging when ripping tracks
* Improved: [in_cdda] Better CD metadata
* Improved: [in_mp3] support for reading ID3v2.4 per-frame unsynchronization
* Improved: [in_mp4] HTTP streaming support
* Improved: [in_wave] HTTP streaming support
* Improved: [in_wm] follows 24bit/mono/surround playback setting
* Fixed: loading folders via playlists
* Fixed: Shortcut icons for multi-user installations
* Fixed: Thinger icons for old wa3 skins (filereader.w5s missing)
* Fixed: truncated text in version history
* Fixed: handling of shortcuts in folders
* Fixed: [dsp_sps] simple pitch and tempo preset (thanks ujay)
* Fixed: [gen_ff] System.playFile not working on URLs
* Fixed: [in_mp3] seek from end of file
* Fixed: [in_mp3] quality issue
* Fixed: [in_mp3] random crash when writing ID3v2 tag
* Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect track length on concatenated MP3 files
* Fixed: [in_mp3] gapless glitch
* Fixed: [in_mp3] maximum number of redirects raised to 3 to allow playback on some podcasts with crazy php scripts
* Fixed: [in_mp3] lyrics3 security vulnerability (thanks iDefense)
* Fixed: [in_mp3] ultravox security vulnerability (thanks iDefense)
* Fixed: [in_mp3] seek problems on files with multiple id3v2 tags
* Fixed: [ml_disc] ripping discs with international titles
* Fixed: [ml_local] breaks 'always on top' for other programs
* Fixed: [ml_local] 'Use Library title information for Playlist Item Formatting' not being followed
* Fixed: [ml_local] track number showing as 4294967295 in title
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] memory leak
* Fixed: [ml_pmp/pmp_ipod/pmp_usb] 'no disc in drive' error message
* Fixed: [out_ds] logarithmic/hybrid volume control
* Fixed: [pmp_p4s] crash on 0-length tracks
* Fixed: [pmp_usb] bad xml writing


Winamp 5.3:

* New: Unicode filename and title support
* New: M3U8 (Unicode) playlist support
* New: optional 24bit playback for many codecs (turn it on in Preferences->Playback)
* New: Replaygain support for MP3, AAC, Vorbis, M4A and WMA
* New: added ml views & playlists to Play-> submenu of right click popup menu
* New: added interface/x-winamp3-skin mimetype for WAL skins
* New: [ml_dash] Personalized content portal
* New: [ml_disc] optional replaygain scanning after rip (turn it on in cd ripping prefs)
* New: [ml_pmp] Transcoding. Converts incompatible files on-the-fly for your portable device.
* New: [ml_pmp] Playback now works for playsForSure and Creative NJB devices
* New: [ml_pmp] "Copy to Library" - transfer songs from any device to your local library (uses CD rip settings)
* New: [ml_pmp] Video sync support for portables
* New: [ml_rg] replaygain scanner (access via Send To menu)
* New: [pmp_ipod] gapless playback support on newer models
* New: [pmp_usb] USB drive support. Now all those thumbdrive MP3 players can work with Winamp.
* Improved: fullscreen video seekbar
* Improved: ATF updates
* Improved: DC filter on spectral visualization, to remove bass bias
* Improved: preference cleanups
* Improved: faster PLS writing
* Improved: 24bit EQ support
* Improved: "Close Winamp" option after installation (after clicking 'Send')
* Improved: [enc_aacplus] Improved AAC and aacPlus encoding!
* Improved: [enc_aacplus] saves itunes/ipod-compatible gapless information
* Improved: [enc_lame] added preset medium and fast medium
* Improved: [enc_wma] VBR and lossless modes
* Improved: [gen_ff] better sample rate display
* Improved: [in_cdda] faster ripping speeds through improved buffering and multithreading
* Improved: [in_dshow] AVI metadata reading
* Improved: [in_dshow] better WAV support
* Improved: [in_mp3] 24bit MP3 playback, 64bit internal precision
* Improved: [in_mp3] streaming id3v2 support
* Improved: [in_mp3] replaygain support for MP3 playback
* Improved: [in_mp3/in_mp4] 24bit AAC playback
* Improved: [in_mp3/in_mp4] itunes-compatible gapless playback
* Improved: [in_mp3/in_mp4] mp3-in-mp4 container support
* Improved: [in_mp4] FAAC-compatible (mostly) gapless playback
* Improved: [in_wave] better outputs bits-per-sample choosing
* Improved: [ml_playlists] added missing entries from pledit context menus
* Improved: [ml_playlists] option to not show playlists in send-to menu
* Improved: [ml_pmp] Only relevant columns shown in song views
* Improved: [ml_pmp] "Getting Metadata" now much faster
* Improved: [ml_pmp] devices can now be renamed
* Improved: [ml_pmp] added progress to portables tree item (no more switching views)
* Improved: [ml_pmp] metadata guessing based on filename
* Improved: [ml_pmp] improved GUI performance
* Improved: [pmp_ipod] support for iTunesLock
* Fixed: Burning files that require resampling
* Fixed: multiple copies of Winamp when opening too many files/folders from explorer
* Fixed: freeze when exiting Winamp while minimized


* Fixed: Delay/hang when loading dead stream url's
* Fixed: crash when directdraw fails to create primary surface
* Fixed: 4x burn speed limit with Pro
* Fixed: registry handling when disassociating filetypes
* Fixed: better detection of video input plugins
* Fixed: [dsp_sps] 24 bit fix
* Fixed: [enc_aacplus] more compatible HE AAC MP4 file creation
* Fixed: [enc_lame] broken vbr presets
* Fixed: [enc_lame] 24bit input support
* Fixed: [enc_lame] bitrate lower bound on alt-presets
* Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB lookups clearing the ENTIRE playlist cache
* Fixed: [gen_ff] layerfx not being redrawn on colortheme change
* Fixed: [gen_ff] gradient drawing glitch and crash
* Fixed: [gen_ff] custom color themes bug
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] hang when suspending or hibernating
* Fixed: [gen_ml] tree icon fixup (divide by zero crash in ICM32.dll)
* Fixed: [in_cdda] cutoff of last few sectors
* Fixed: [in_dshow] crash when using DSP/EQ on anything bigger than 16bit stereo
* Fixed: [in_dshow] seek to key frame
* Fixed: [in_midi] truncated playback of some MIDI files
* Fixed: [in_mod] title display bug for module streams with no title
* Fixed: [in_mp3] crash when editing ID3 tags
* Fixed: [in_mp3] ID3v2 and ID3v1 Comment & Genre tags shared
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Inaccurate Time Remaining display for AAC files
* Fixed: [in_mp3] do Viz after DSP
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Icecast stream title UTF-8 support
* Fixed: [in_mp4] detection of HE AAC in file info box (Alt+3)
* Fixed: [in_wm] DRM Video playback on certain hardware
* Fixed: [in_wm] freezeup when seeking a paused wma
* Fixed: [in_wm] Hang with dead WMV link in pledit in Repeat mode
* Fixed: [in_wm] freeze when stopping streams that have rebuffered
* Fixed: [in_wm] small memory leak on each track play
* Fixed: [in_wm] Windows Media Screen Codec not playing properly
* Fixed: [ml_disc] CD ripping / playlist generation bug
* Fixed: [ml_disc] CD Ripping view showing up when clicking on other ml views
* Fixed: [ml_history] Ctrl+H shortcut
* Fixed: [ml_local] fixed crash when trying to create a new view before mldb has loaded
* Fixed: [ml_local] background scan crash when media library DB isn't loaded
* Fixed: [ml_local] scheduled background scan always starting at startup
* Fixed: [ml_online] Online Media bugfix (don't try to play NULL streams)
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] losing stream titles
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] sort by title
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Send To from local media to ml playlist replaces instead of enqueues
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Enqueue as default broken in left pane
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Playlist title > rt-click > New Playlist = broken
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] tracklength bug
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] playlist paths issue
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Transfers stalling after encountering a dupe
* Fixed: [out_ds] volume not hitting 0dB when using log or hybrid volume control
* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Artist list on iPod not sorting "The" correctly
* Updated: Coding Technology aacPlus Decoder 8.0.0
* Updated: [gen_ff] Freetype 2.2.1
* Updated: [gen_ff] libpng 1.2.12
* Updated: [gen_jumpex] Jump-to-File 0.97.7
* Updated: [in_wave] libsndfile 1.0.16
* Updated: [libmp4v2] MPEG4IP mp4v2 1.5
* Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.97b3
* Updated: Sonic Engine 3.2.40.500


Winamp 5.24:
* Fixed: [in_midi] crash bug & potential security vulnerability


Winamp 5.23:
* Improved: [gen_jumpex] jump-to-file speed improvements
* Fixed: playlist saving with network share files
* Fixed: Media Library preferences not loading in correct order
* Fixed: main window not hilited when restoring from minimized state in classic skin.
* Fixed: slow loading of playlists with URLs
* Fixed: CD burning using third party input plugins
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Wasabi XML font-related fixes from Martin Poehlmann
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Map.getHeight() maki script function returning width instead
* Fixed: [gen_ff] winshade global hotkeys broken w/ modern skins
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] 'Add to Queue' issues
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] NT4 incompatability
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] misc bug fixes
* Fixed: [gen_ml] icon changes on drag+drop items
* Fixed: [in_mp3] playback of AAC streams
* Fixed: [in_mp4] seek bug when using right arrow key
* Fixed: [in_wm] Playback restarts from beginning when editing tags of a currently playing .wma file
* Fixed: [in_wm] protocol/extension reversed in config > filetype > edit
* Fixed: [in_wm] 'Audio only' always checked for ASF/WMV in config
* Fixed: [in_wm] seek bug when using right arrow key
* Fixed: [ml_bookmarks] 'Edit Bookmarks' menu item not working when Media Library is hidden
* Fixed: [ml_local] crash while rearranging media library views
* Fixed: [ml_local] crash on close
* Fixed: [ml_local] sort arrow reversed in some columns
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Import Playlists uses containing dir for title instead of filename
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] No "Recurse" checkbox in Import Playlists From Folder
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Add Dir adds all filetypes (not just all-supported)
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] rt-click enqueue not working & other issues
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Not saving playlists in some situations
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] crash when loading badly formed WPL playlists
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] drag&drop into playlist not adding to correct position
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] root playlist screen not updating when adding new playlist
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] reverting changes on send-to: playlist
* Fixed: [ml_wire] some podcasts only display one item
* Fixed: [out_ds] stop with fade (shift+v) issue
* Updated: [in_cdda] CDDB 2.0.1.25


Winamp 5.22:
* New: loading of additional playlist formats: ASX/WAX/WMX/WVX, WPL, B4S
* New: [gen_ff] modern skin unicode support
* New: [in_wm] burning of DRM protected files (if allowed by content provider)
* New: [ml_pmp] transfer of playlists to portable devices
* Improved: More informative CD burning status window
* Improved: [gen_ff] modern skinning engine speed optimizations
* Improved: [in_wm] seeking improvements
* Improved: [in_wm] gapless WMA support
* Improved: [ml_nowplaying] Redesigned 'Now Playing' media library view (it actually works now)
* Improved: [pmp_ipod] Loading times for iPods reduced
* Fixed: Winamp won't restore after being minimized with a dialog box open
* Fixed: $abbr() title formatting lockup
* Fixed: Add Folder adds tracks BEFORE the last track
* Fixed: Clicking 'Next' in Fullscreen video OSD acts like clicking it twice
* Fixed: Rating in pledit right-click context menu always shows "No Rating"
* Fixed: Stop with fadeout (Shift+V) just stops playback, no fadeout
* Fixed: CD burning bugs and crashes
* Fixed: Delete key not working in Online Services or SC Wire search
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] modern skin pledit docked toolbar mode not remembered
* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] ML size/position not remembered when switching from Classic to Modern and back to Classic skin
* Fixed: [gen_ml] playlists root view slowness bug
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Modern skin: Media Library > View (menu) > Devices
* Fixed: [in_midi] corrupt header crash
* Fixed: [in_mp4] metadata writing crash
* Fixed: [in_mp4] seek bug when using right arrow key
* Fixed: [in_mp3] MPEG-2 and MPEG-2.5 Layer 3 playback crash
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Winamp crashes when trying to play any wrongly named .aac file
* Fixed: [in_wave] WAV burning fix
* Fixed: [in_wave] Locking files (wav's can't be renamed/deleted)
* Fixed: [in_wm] lockup on wma with expired/unrenewable drm license
* Fixed: [in_wm] out of sync audio/video on some WMV streams
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] fullpath shown in playlist for tagless files with atf disabled
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Duplicates being synchronized
* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Several crashes during transfers
* Fixed: [out_ds] Can't select different Output Device with two active instances of out_ds
* Fixed: [out_ds] incorrect enumeration of stereo outputs for two of same pro soundcard
* Updated: [gen_tray] Tray Control 2.0 (thanks DrO)


Winamp 5.21:
* New: [jnetlib] HTTP compression support
* Improved: [installer] multi-user profile migration
* Fixed: [ml_wire] memory leak
* Fixed: [pmp_p4s] DRMclien.dll error
* Fixed: [gen_ff] skin info display in preferences
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Wordwrap disabled in Info Editor Comments field
* Fixed: [in_wm] Minor bug fixes
* Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts don't work from video window
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] No Artist metadata in stream titles
* Fixed: [in_dshow] floating point audio
* Updated: Coding Technology AAC+ Decoder 7.2.5


Winamp 5.2:
* New: [ml_pmp] Synchronize your 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] Coding Technologies aacPlus (HE-AAC) in MP4 container
* New: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies LC-AAC encoder
* New: [gen_ml] icons in treeview
* New: [ml_online] Dynamic AJAX Internet Media Hub
* New: [in_nsv] Using Coding Technologies AAC playback within NSV container
* 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, including: $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: [gen_ff] new vis modes available to skinners
* Improved: [gen_ml] CD drive info view (Rip & Burn)
* Improved: [gen_tray] gen_tray v1.0 (thanks DrO)
* 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 (e.g. %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: fullscreen video display international character support
* Fixed: m3u playlist handling security vulnerability (thanks to NSFOCUS and Information Risk Management Plc)
* Fixed: [enc_lame] bit reservoir
* Fixed: [enc_lame] cutoff of last frame
* Fixed: [gen_ff] regions on components don't work
* Fixed: [gen_ff] playlist & video focus bug
* 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 (showed 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_mp3] id3v2 album art loss when editing tags
* Fixed: [in_mp4] loss of album art when modifying 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] libpng 1.2.8
* Updated: [gen_ff] FreeType 2.1.10
* Updated: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus encoder v7.2.0a


Winamp 5.13:
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Critical security flaw fixed.


Winamp 5.12:
* New: [in_wm] Windows Media Video support (with DRM)
* New: [in_mp4] Support for HE-AAC MP4/M4A files
* Improved: lots of minor plugin improvements
* Improved: Visualization data calculations
* Improved: Significantly less playlist memory usage
* Improved: more multi-user improvements (almost there!)
* Improved: [installer] setup options, saved settings, codec downloading
* Improved: [gen_ff] optimized skinning engine
* Improved: [out_disk] new features
* Improved: [in_cdda] playback/ripping with sonic engine
* Fixed: freezing when cancelling cd burn
* Fixed: video scaling bug (with modern skin scaling < 100%)
* Fixed: minor installer bugs
* Fixed: freeze when loading classic skin with main window hidden
* Fixed: Visualizations for 24bit and 32bit songs
* Fixed: Advanced Title Formatting with Japanese, Chinese and Korean metadata (thanks mrym)
* Fixed: [in_mp3] raw AAC VBR file seeking and bitrate reporting
* Fixed: [in_mp4] unicode metadata writing
* Fixed: [in_wm/in_dshow] mms:// streaming video playback
* Fixed: [in_cdda] audio cd bitrate display
* Fixed: [in_cdda] Sonic engine on 64bit windows (thanks STanger)
* Fixed: lots of small bugs ...
* Updated: Sonic CD Engine 2.2.50
* Updated: libmp4v2 1.4.1
* Updated: Coding Technology AAC+ Decoder 7.2.0


Winamp 5.112:
* Fixed: burning crash with EQ enabled
* Fixed: [in_mp3] id3v1->id3v2 copy glitch


Winamp 5.111:
* Fixed: works with internet explorer 3.0 again (old win95/nt3.51)
* Fixed: Auto-Preset EQ crash (non-mp3 files)
* Fixed: $upper, $caps, $caps2 crash with foreign characters
* Fixed: Station Info crash (with http filtering program)
* Fixed: empty playlist bugs
* Fixed: [in_mp3] proxy ignored when 'only port 80' was checked
* Fixed: [in_midi] lyrics not working


Winamp 5.11:
* Updated: LAME 3.96.1
* Fixed: playlist focus issue after adding files to playlist
* Fixed: crash on multichannel songs with EQ enabled
* Fixed: internet connection detection not working when set to "dial-up"
* Fixed: manual playlist advance with winamp videos
* Fixed: EQ text display glitch
* Fixed: video not filling up video window
* Fixed: black bars in fullscreen video
* Fixed: [gen_ml] crash with no write access
* Fixed: [gen_ml] CDDB Dialog Media Library drawing glitch
* Fixed: [in_dshow] seeking on files with no video or no audio
* Fixed: [in_cdda] aspi ripping crash
* Fixed: [ml_wire] "my music" folder creation
* Fixed: [ml_wire] Podcasts with dates before 1970 handled properly
* Fixed: [ml_wire] Downloading of podcasts with parameters in URL
* Fixed: [out_ds] fade-on-seek settings
* Fixed: [in_wm] pause glitch
* Fixed: [in_mp4] view-file-info filename not scrolling
* Coming Soon: Multi-user profile support (preliminary support enabled)


Winamp 5.1 Surround Edition:
* New: CodingTechnologies AACPlus encoder!
Awesome at low bitrates too!
* New: Grand Prize Winner of the Internet Surround Music Project!
KAJE - Hey Buddy (featuring Afrika Bambaataa)
* New: SHOUTcast Wire - A Media RSS Browser and Subscription Service
* New: Predixis Smart Playlist Generator
(Mix your tracks based on what they sound like!)
* New: AOL Radio featuring (((XM))) Free Sampler!
* New: CD Ripping now available at 8x in free version!
* New: Microsoft WMA encoder
* New: Over 200 new Milkdrop presets!
* Update: in_vorbis now returns bitrate in getextendedfileinfo
* Fixed: WMA stuttery playback
* Fixed: out_ds copy button on status tab now works all the time
* Fixed: Much improved ripping and playback with Sonic engine
* Fixed: Video window now resizable regardless of Sidecar
* Fixed: Length of long mp3's now reported properly
* Fixed: Silent install switch now works properly
* Fixed: Simultaneous CD Playback and Ripping


Winamp 5.094:
* Fixed: Security vulnerability in id3v2 tags
* Updated: new libmp4v2.dll
* New: New random number generation for playlist shuffle
* Fixed: Winamp now shuffles playlists larger than 32,768 songs
* Fixed: Fade on start now behaves properly
* Fixed: separate directsound settings with multiple instances
* Fixed: Winamp now supports adding URLs longer than 260 characters.
* Fixed: Editing files created in iTunes no longer causes corruption.
* Fixed: Length of long mp3's now reported properly

* Fixed: gen_jumpex no longer crashes when DEP is enabled
* Fixed: Sort selections in media library are now remembered.
* Fixed: Album names with non-alphanumeric character behave better
* Fixed: Fixed intermittent crash on seeking for some users
* New: in_wm now handles bitrate and length extended infov


Winamp 5.093:
* Fixed: OSD stays onscreen in DirectDraw Mode
* Fixed: Fullscreen video OSD doesn't reappear after using Pause
* Fixed: ML Playlist > Select all (no delete key)
* Fixed: Vis data for in_mod (and possibly other input plugins)
* Fixed: msvcp60.dll now linked static
* Fixed: Small intermittent bugs in gen_ml and gen_ff
* Fixed: Greater than 2 channel vis data now works
* Fixed: Media Library problems with parentheses/brackets in artist or album names
* Fixed: Ripping CDs with trailing ellipses (...) in artist or album name
* Fixed: Better video flipping for YUV colorspace videos
* Fixed: Saved mute settings with modern skin.
* Fixed: Drag and Drop from external applications
* Fixed: Open File Dialog always-on-top
* Fixed: Crossfade on start
* Fixed: Freeze when switching audio tracks in a multi-audio stream.
* Fixed: Fullscreen switching with scaled video window.
* Update: Dynamic Online Media can now alert users to live events(can disable).


Winamp 5.092:
* Fixed: Long delay and high cpu on exit with many items in playlist


Winamp 5.091:
* New: DRM WMA Playback supports out_wave
* New: Non-DRM WMA Playback allows any output plugin
* New: Community Picks AVS Preset Pack
* New: Deletes in the Media Library now move files to the Recycle Bin
* New: NSV Subtitles can be disabled on the fly
* Fixed: gen_ml shutdown bug
* Fixed: Easy Move of video window back to normal
* Fixed: Pause in WMA playback memory leak
* Fixed: Multi-monitor full screen video
* Fixed: Drag and Drop in playlist editor
* Fixed: Drag and Drop on Winamp
* Fixed: Now Playing update on song change
* Fixed: Media Library/Windows Media scanning errors
* Fixed: Stay in fullscreen/Config mismatch
* Fixed: Ctrl-B Crash
* Fixed: Authentication for OGG/Vorbis streams
* Fixed: Drag and Drop strange behavior in open file dialogs
* Fixed: Stuttering WMA On Start and Seek
* Fixed: NSV Video stall during buffering
* Fixed: Autosize of video to be accurate to the Video size not snap size
* Fixed: Short NSV Clips audio cutout
* Update: Online Media tree is now dynamic (Checking can now be disabled)
* Update: Sonic Install/Config flag mismatch
* Update: CD Ripping/Burning Library (possible cause of msvcrt.dll errors


Winamp 5.09:
* New: By popular demand all "hTtP force to 'Now Playing'" support has been removed
* New: Deletes in the Media Library now move files to the Recycle Bin
* New: WMA Playback now works with WaveOut plugin
* New: NSV Subtitles can be disabled on the fly
* Fixed: Authentication for OGG/Vorbis streams
* Fixed: Drag and Drop strange behavior in open file dialogs
* Fixed: Stuttering WMA On Start and Seek
* Fixed: NSV Video stall during buffering
* Fixed: Autosize of video to be accurate to the Video size not snap size
* Fixed: Short NSV Clips audio cutout
* Update: CD Ripping Library
* Update: Online Media tree is now dynamic (More free videos on the way!)
* Update: Sonic Install / Config flag mismatch


Winamp 5.08:
* Created new eMusic bundles


Winamp 5.07:
* Critical Security bug fixed in in_cdda.dll and .m3u handler
* in_mp3 & in_nsv should work on Win95 again
* Proxy settings work again
* Installer fixed so that read_file.dll is installed always with mod support
* Version number should be properly reported by IPC_GETVERSION for this build


Winamp 5.06:
* Fixed crashbug when clearing the playlist and then right clicking on the songticker
* Security bug fixes
* Lots of small bugfixes
* JTFE v0.96ff


Winamp 5.05:
* Security bug fix
* Fix for upside down videos through DirectShow
* JTFE v0.96c
* Added prompt when loading a skin for the first time


Winamp 5.04:
* JTFE v0.96
* Added Coding Technologies' AACPlus decoder
* fixed deletion of temporary generated WAV files after a burning process on some computers
* fixed typo in some context menu shortcuts
* fixed slowness IPC bug caused by gen_hotkeys
* added "clear" button in internet radio/tv views
* added screenshots of classic/modern mode in installer
* fixed MP3 bitrate calculation (in_mp3 was reporting incorrect lengths on some MP3s)
* fixed incorrect length reporting on long WMA files
* better fix for pledit/video windows showing up at startup when minimized
* fixed db text bug when moving EQ sliders
* upgraded MP3 encoding to LAME v3.96
* fixed crash in WMA playback when using WMA v8 codecs
* updated default streaming values in in_nsv
* added Winamp.com Audio&Video views in the Media Library
* fixed tiny memory leak in in_cdda
* added right click context menu on "Now Playing" item in Media Library
* added script/ActiveX disabling for Media Library's minibrowser (on by default)
* fixed memory leak on MP3 files with messed up ID3v2 tags
* fixed visualization when playing CD tracks
* fixed proxy user:pass@server:port string getting cut when playing Shoutcast streams
* made in_dshow not to handle mms:// streams ending with .wma
* fixed %tracknumber% tag for CD tracks
* fixed some crash bugs in in_mp4
* fixed playlist generation when ripping full CDs
* added "import playlist from folder" in Media Library
* updated Media Library preferences screens
* added new SPS presets from Cockos, Inc. (pitch shifters, etc...)
* added basic streaming (download) support for M4A/MP4 HTTP streams
* added monitoring of fullscreen apps, disables always on top temporarilly
* added IPC_IS_WNDSHADE
* added gen_ml rating ipcs
* added ratings from playlist context menu (acts on selected entries)
* added ratings from song ticker context menu (acts on current track)
* added rating hotkeys in gen_hotkey
* fixed saving read-only playlists
* fixed double separator lines in gen_ml id3less item context menu
* fixed refresh of view losing query after removing dead files & background scan
* added escaping of ", ', [ and ] in ml queries : uses %HH where HH is the hex char code (uses %% for '%')
* added sdk support for multiple audio/video tracks in video input plugins (see wa_ipc.h for ITrackSelector class)
* added multiple audio avi support (right click video window, select "Audio Tracks")
* fixed multimonitor problem when toggling a windowshade on one monitor while playing a fullscreen video on the other
* added ML_IPC_EDITQUERY and ML_IPC_EDITVIEW
* fixed pledit drawing bug under winxp/cleartype
* fixed crash in id3 reading of zero byte files
* fixed crash in sps when exiting winamp before closing the open/save dialog
* added IPC_PUSH_DISABLE_EXIT, IPC_POP_DISABLE_EXIT and IPC_IS_EXIT_ENABLED
* fixed gen_ml crash when inserting item with length -1
* made gen_ml much more resistant to databases that have been corrupted
* fixed ml nuke
* added disabling of "keep on screen" option when going into a different resolution because of a fullscreen application (ie: a game)
* made ui:preferences global hotkey open the prefs to the previously opened page
* fixed a few preferences cosmetic 'bugs'
* modern skin updates :
- fixed windowshade repeat-track button state
- fixed scaling docked toolbars
- fixed 5.03 assert on deletion of newGroupAsLayout()
- fixed floating video windows coordinates dropping to 0,0
- fixed auto opaque when layouts are loaded already docked as toolbars
- fixed fadein/fadeout not used on notification window when linking all normal windows' alpha
- fixed docked toolbars moving when some other window docked to them switches to an alternative layout
- fixed silent crash on shutdown when pledit is docked as toolbar and gen_ml unloads before gen_ff (would not remember settings from session to session)
- fixed snap points
- fixed click on +12db / 0db / -12db
- optimized text scrolling (a lot)
- fixed content of pledit not painting in some instances
- gen_hotkeys are now routed thru System.onKeyDown(name), where name is the name of the hotkey prefixed by "HOTKEY: " (ie: "HOTKEY: Playback: Play"). You may issue a complete; statement to prevent gen_hotkey from handling the hotkey
- fixed horizontal resize of main window with video/vis drawer closed
- added auto-height for next drawer opening when resizing main window with video/vis drawer closed, this avoids having an unreasonably tall drawer open if you just watched a video in a big window and then only resized the player back to its horizontal minimum after the video had closed. auto-height resets to 4:3 proportions
- fixed docking bug when using snapadjustleft
- fixed buggy calculation of time display default width conflicting with right text alignment
- fixed windows moving after changing screen resolution
- fixed rare always on top desync with classic skins


Winamp 5.03:
* added eMusic trial offer to installer. uninstaller included in Program FilesWinampeMusic
* fixed a crash bug when playing some AVI files in in_dshow
* added multimedia keyboard keys in global hotkeys default configuration
* added "Manual playlist advance" in Repeat button popup menu in Classic mode
* improvements in MP3 encoder configuration (added --alt-preset standard, etc...)
* made the tabs in the preferences XP correctly themed under Windows XP
* revamped the Media Library preferences a bit
* new experimental WMA9 input plugin
* gen_jumpex updates from DrO
* added "Nuke library" action in Media Library
* more upside down videos fixes
* fixed crash if a plugin generated a pledit wm_windowposchanged on shutdown
* fixed crash exploit in in_mod (thanks Peter Winter-Smith)
* fixed various crashes in in_midi when playing invalid files
* made in_midi store its settings in winamp.ini instead of the registry
* fixed error during installation on computers with chinese/oriental regional settings
* removed AOD from installer
* added Shift-R to toggle manual playlist advance
* updated VP6 video decoder to latest VP6.2 code
* fixed crash when launching winamp with very long filenames from explorer
* made registration dialog to appear in Explorer's taskbar when installing pro version
* fixed pledit/video windows showing up at startup when minimized
* modern skins updates :
- winamp modern skin now uses a 3 state repeat button: no repeat/repeat all/repeat track
- added appplication desktop toolbars capabilities for layouts, add appbar="left|top|right|bottom" to use them
- upped maki binary version, improved stack protection
- current skin version number is 1.2 (this should not change for a long while now, and of course we continue to support 0.8 to 1.1)
- (very) limited maki debugger (for now you can bring it up with invokeDebugger(); in a script then use 'x'
- to continue and 'i' to trace into)
- fixed obscure capture problem with dragging windows
- fixed rectrgn being forced to 1 in xml xuiobject buttons that are originally imageless
- fixed hilited state not on after clicking on buttons while the mouse stays in area
- fixed scripted onEnterArea/onLeaveArea not being always correctly called while mouse button stays down
- fixed getToken being passed NULL throwing guru
- fixed clipping of painting within the background's region of a group rather than within the composed region (the one you can change with sysregion)
- fixed image cache problem when using the same bitmap as a map and a button image parameter


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 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 (http://bluemars.org/maki) :
- 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


Winamp 5.01:
* fixed gen_ml selection bug
* added gen_ml option for no guessing at all
* made AVS and SPS support loop() in user code
* made AVS support megabuf() in user code
* made pro installer not prompt for regkey if already valid
* improved font directory retrieval in gen_ff
* added content rating system in Internet TV's listing
* added bandwidth usage statistic in Internet Radio/TV listings
* made media library guess from filename only when NO metadata found
* added seperate recent items tracking options for files/streams
* made installer better handle installing wa5 directly over wa3.
* added milkdrop docs to installer
* made uninstaller not remove winamp directory if not empty (user is now required to do so manually to avoid people
going "oops")
* made installer check sonic px.dll versions and prompt for reboot accordingly
* fixed nsv metadata querying bugs
* fixed gen_ml guessing bugs for files with metadata that are not in DB


Winamp 5.0:
* Support for classic Winamp 1.x/2.x/2.9x skins and Winamp 3 ("Modern") skins
* Fancy new modern skin:
- Integrated video, AVS, and Milkdrop support
- Many built-in colorthemes
* Same ol' classic skin for people who want the Winamp 2 feel
* Vastly more powerful media library:
- Automatic background directory scanning options
- Customizable views and columns, graphical view editor
- Internet Radio (SHOUTcast) and TV listings
- Context-sensitive item info viewer
* CD ripping support (AAC@2x in free version, MP3 at unlimited speeds in pro)
* CD burning support (limited to 2x in free version)
* Advanced title formatting logic for file types that support it
* Huge AVS updates:
- New effects, bundled some popular 3rd party APEs
- A much better selection of default presets
- Experimental SMP support
- Full AVS preset subdirectory support
- Extensions and optimizations to the AVS evaluation library
* Support for playback of AAC and VP6 in NSV files/streams
* Global hotkey support
* new Signal Processing Studio DSP plug-in
* Options to disable plugin exception handling for developers
* A ton of new plug-in API calls (SDK forthcoming)
* fixed changing-systray options while minimized bug
* new Winamp icon
* added XP Manifest.xml to winamp.exe
* made agent icon use configured winamp system tray icon
* optimized winamp's load titles on demand logic, made faster
* made winamp's internal submenu management more reliable
* added skin font override preferences
* added spacebar shows current playlist item in playlist editor
* fixed manual playlist advance w/ repeat
* made winamp's open directory recurse checkbox nicer looking
* big prefs overhaul to make steve happy
* huge thanks to Amir Szekely and the rest of the NSIS developers for their help