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Winamp 5.2

Winamp 5.2 is released. It's nice to see that the quiet era in Winamp development seems to be over and the program is still getting improvements. About a year ago Winamp was near to die out, because lag of programmers, but now Winamp seems to be back on it's track, in spite of AOL and Winamp 3.

Whats new in 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 (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_mp3] gapless MP3 playback
• New: [installer] multi-user profile options
• New: [in_wave] in_wave 3.0
• New: right-to-left playlist display
• Improved: new ATF functions and tags
• Fixed: m3u playlist handling security vulnerability (thanks to NSFOCUS and Information Risk Management Plc)
• 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_vorbis] registry usage (now multi-user profile safe)
• Fixed: [vis_milk] 100% cpu usage when paused
• Updated: [gen_jumpex] DrO's Jump To File Extension 0.97
• 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
  ...

See the full list on changes here.
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=238648

Download Winamp 5.2
http://www.winamp.com/

Winamp 5.2 is released. Biggest update since 5.0
http://www.winamp.com/

Hmm... only thing that interests me in that long list of changes is the fact that they finally removed that damned 1k shoutcast limit that they added a while back. On the other hand, I simply removed the media library ages ago because it had become useless. Shoutcast was limited to 1k stations (only half of which were even useable since you couldn't pre-sort by bandwidth), their own radio was nothing but the crappy XM stations (don't know why they removed all the radio@aol ones). Since then I've been using shoutamp and the shoutcast site for shoutcast stations and spinamp for radio@aol ones.

Yeah the new shoutcast browser sucks big time, but that doesn't bother me. I rarely / never use it. Winamp is first of all a music player for me and not a semi web browser online radio/video player (cold shivers). But why remove media library? It's the best thing in Winamp, just don't install all the online stuff.

The only thing I use the media library for IS the online stuff. I mainly use winamp for webradio (I love the fact that with the proper plugins, it can play any format I want, all in a single player). Since the online stuff in the media library is worthless, the entire media library is worthless to me. Additionally, there's a long-standing bug in the library which makes it open when you open certain other plugins (including shoutamp). Since I couldn't simply close the thing and have it stay closed, I removed it.