WinAMP 5.5 Beta


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Winamp 5.5: 10th Anniversary Edition is packed with exciting stuff, including:

* A brand new unified user interface with album art support

* More Like This automatic playlist generator

* Media Monitor tool that automatically playlists playable songs from any web page

* Fully integrated browser with Smart Search functionality

* MP3 surround playback support

* Remote access to your music and videos on the web, compatible mobile devices, and TVs using Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360

* **Coming Soon** A custom Winamp browser toolbar with integrated Winamp playback controls

Winamp 5.5 Changelog of Interest

* 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: Media Monitor and MP3 Blog site scraper (in Bento browser)

* New: Redesigned Installer

* New: Unified File Editor, with Artwork tab (for mp3, m4a, wma, ogg, flac)

* New: Winamp Toolbar for Internet Explorer (optional)

* New: [in_mp3] Multi-channel mp3surround support

* 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: [in_mod] Added support for more than 256 samples

* Improved: [in_mp3] Faster metadata gathering (also speeds up ReplayGain scan)

* Improved: [ml_disc] Better Unicode support & other misc tweaks

* Improved: [ml_history] Unicode support

* Improved: [ml_local] New 'Podcasts' view (appears after downloading a podcast)

* Improved: [ml_local] Redesigned Smart View Editor

* Improved: [ml_local] Star Rating display and selection

Latest Build + Full Changelog: 5.5 Final

Direct Download Link:

Final (English Only) Full

Final (International) Full

Final (English Only) Pro

Final (International) Pro

Final (English Only) Lite

EDIT NOTE: Edited to reflect final release

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Edited by Hikaru
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Whoops :/ I did a forum search, and nothing turned up.

I hate how the current front page works... It used to show everything, but now to get to the Software and Games I've to explicitly click on them... And I keep forgetting to do that. Meh.

Can a mod please delete this please? Sorry...

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Whoops :/ I did a forum search, and nothing turned up.

I hate how the current front page works... It used to show everything, but now to get to the Software and Games I've to explicitly click on them... And I keep forgetting to do that. Meh.

When using the category view, scroll down to the bottom, and on the left side change "main" to "all" in the drop down menu ;)

or you can use the headline view: https://www.neowin.net/index.php?view=headlines

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Holy **** album art support! That was the only thing stopping me from switching from iTunes. Hopefully its not that same web based crap in previous versions. *runs off giggling*

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ok click an empty album (i.e meaning no album art), then from the playlist using file info (alt+3) go to the artwork tab then click the download artwork button. The artwork is being pulled from AMG AllMusic. If it has artwork, or multiple covers, available you can select which one is the right one for the album you're trying to find artwork for.

I'm part of the group officially beta testing this for Nullsoft, so I'll help/report what I can. If you have any questions feel free to pm me, or you can go to the official Winamp Forums at http://forums.winamp.com if you have any further questions on this Winamp 5.5 Beta Preview 1.

Thanks, and hope you enjoy!

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The new beta looks alot like WMP11 now with the album art. I guess i have to use the standard 5 version. Althru, i love the darker theme of it :D :D

funnily enough durring the Winamp 5 alphas/betas I was on the Winamp forum and in a topic asking for suggestions I recommended that they implement the media library in a more similar manner to WMP10's (I think WMP was 10 at the time) stating I felt it was lighter, quicker and made more sense. namely I felt the library was a bit too much of an afterthough element of the UI. This was followed with a more or less response of F** off and stop trolling and go back to WMP. Funny how thing's turn out.

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