- The classic, old-school look and feel of one of the most popular media players out there to remind you of the good old days, playing your favorite media files What's new in Winamp 2.95: startup.
- The classic, old-school look and feel of one of the most popular media players out there to remind you of the good old days, playing your favorite media files What's new in Winamp 2.95: startup.
Winamp 2.95 Download
A leaked version of Winamp 5.8 recently spread over the Internet. Consequently, we have decided to make this new version available to you, revised by us. We therefore recommend that you download this version rather than any other as we guarantee it is safe for you to use.
Winamp 2.95 the new version of the popular media player was announced Wednesday night in the Winamp's Forum and was taking away a few hours later... no reasons was given.
They also decided to add a 4th installer. There was already a lite, standard and full version, and now there is Full version with No Aol On Desktop.
Winamp 2.95 Lite
- Winamp 2.95:
- startup with hung winamp process in background fixed (opens new instance)
- CD ripping support in media library (with OGG Vorbis encoding support)
- Preliminary AAC playback support added to in_mp3.dll
- ryan fixed shuffle again
- minibrowser ctrl+l fix
- media library: lots of bugfixes
- media library: listener count in internet tv/radio
- media library: query playback mode preferences
- media library: skinnable list/treeview selection colors
- nsv: subtitle bugfixes
- nsv: more buffering options
- nsv: shoutcast metadata support
- nsv: better invalid bitstream handling
- nsv: better display options
- nsv: new ASYN aux chunk handling.
- nsv: support for new extended TOC with frame-accurate seeking
- video: overlay fixes on 556 and other unusual modes
- video: drag&drop URL to video window now works.
- video: subtitle fixes.
- video: support for alt+enter and alt+f4 to leave fullscreen
- cdda: bugfixes
- avs: evallib | and & operator fixes
- in_vorbis fixes/updated libvorbis to post-1.0 cvs
- in_midi fixes
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- Bosanek
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Multichannel FLAC in Winamp 2.95
I encountered a problem recently, and I did some investigations about it, both locally (on my own PC) and on this forum.
The problem is that Winamp 2.95 abruptly crashes (without any error message) every time when I try to play a multichannel FLAC file (a file which has more than two sound channels).
My system:
Windows 2000 Pro SP4+
Terratec DMX 6Fire 24/96 sound card (supports up to 5.1 channels, up to 96 KHz and up to 24 bits). True 24/96 in/out processing path.
5.1 surround speakers
All sound options (number of speakers etc.) properly set in drivers etc.
Winamp 2.95 with FLAC input plugin v1.2.1 (the latest one).
These are my conclusions:
- Winamp 2.95 CAN play multichannel sound, because it plays multichannel AC3 and MLP files (I installed AC3 and MLP input plugins). It also of course plays multichannel WAV files trough its standard PCM input plugin (I decoded my multichannel FLAC files to WAV and played those WAV files successfully in Winamp). When playing multichannel files, Winamp properly maps each channel to its appropriate speaker. In other words, Winamp's multichannel playback is completely proper.
- Winamp CAN play 24 bit and/or 96 KHz sound, because I have some 96 KHz 24 bit stereo FLAC files, and they play fine.
- It does not matter if I use the WaveOut or DirectSound output plugin. The behavior regarding 24b, 96K and multichannel support in Winamp does not change.
Therefore, the cause of the crash is in the FLAC input plugin. It crashes ONLY on multichannel FLAC content (it does not matter if it is 48 KHz or 96 KHz, or 16 bit or 24 bit). It has no problems with 24 bit or 96 KHz mono and stereo content.
Further info:
I found a three year old topic on this forum: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=38611
The issue which the participants of that topic had is the same as mine, and Josh Coalson replied back then that the cause of the crash is that the then-current FLAC input plugin can only handle mono and stereo FLAC files.
Since three years have passed since then, my question is - has this issue with the FLAC input plugin for Winamp been solved? It is obvious from my tests that Winamp CAN play multichannel sound, so it definitely is possible to make the FLAC plugin to support multichannel sound.
Warning:
Please, do not advise me to upgrade to Winamp 5.x (if that solves the issue). I would have done that a long time ago if I wanted to (I have had around six years to do that, haven't I?). Therefore, I had already taken Winamp 5 into consideration several times and rejected it swiftly. The reason is the same why I am using Windows 2000 and not XP.
Thank you for your reading time!