Winamp 5.1 Update Just Released

[Jamil]

You can download it here.

Updates are listed below.

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

 

[TheMajor]

Awesome, gonna install...

 

[kostas]

thanks. it sounds nice but i will stick with my QCD. i stopped at Winamp 2.9!!!

 

[dnoch]

Does it hog memory? I had that prob with 5.0, thats why I moved to iTunes.

 

[Jamil]

I don't check how much memory it uses, because I don't have memory issues. My machine has 2 gigs, which is the max for my mainboard (if it could hold more, I'd add more).

I do recall reading about using an older style skin instead of the newer ones to save resources though...

 

[EricB]

but with any version after 5.07, you lose the ability to reencode protected wma files to another format when you add the outputstacker.dll to it.

they add those extra features, to give extra incentive to get you away from those older versions of winamp to fix that glitz (not a bad glitz) in their system

 

[Jamil]

Wow. People actually use WMA by their own choice? Some of the copy protected audio CDs I have seen lately have a WMA download option, which gives a user little choice but to use WMA. Other than that, there are much better encoding methods to use.

 

[dnoch]

I personally only use mp3. It works on every player, is compact, and good quality.

 

[EricB]

people usually use it for converting song they downloaded off napster or musicmatch . or some people accident set their encoding rate to protected wma files as WMP alway tries to make you use wma

 

[TheMajor]

MP3 is poor quality. Almost anything is better. MPEG2 is good.