Winamp 5 beta1

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Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.

Note: This is a beta release of the next-generation Winamp and it may contain bugs. Use at your own risk.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Winamp 5? How come I never get the WinAmp 4? I only have WinAmp 3?

Can someone give me a direct link to latest release on WinAmp 4?

Actually, if you find it, please send the url to me to Blueflame06@tmail.com
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
winamo 5 = winamp 2+3. There wasnt a 4, but 5 takes the speed of 2 and lets you use the skinning capabilities of 3
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Winamp 3 stunk pretty badly. This should be really nice, because Winamp 2 was really good. Using it now, actually. Can't wait 'till the final release.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
im using winamp 5 right now..its pretty good..the thing i like about it so far is that...it combines winamp 3 and 2..so that means you can have both winamp 2 and 3 skins for it..so that makes things a lil better
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
nice version. light cpu load, modern skin looks good and you can get kylie minogue on internetTV
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
more good news: the sysmetrix and dx controls for wa2 seem to work with wa5
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So do the Winamp commans from Keyboard Launchpad. This is nice. And I acutally like the "Winamp Modern" default skin. Plus the fact that it nicely uses both WSZ and WAL skin files is good.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hi,

I'm very happy with version 5. It is working fast and good!

Internet-radio and tv, also very nice
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
yup finally we have what WA3 should have been.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Looks good so far. It'll be nice to do my playing and ripping with one program.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm using the beta - working great here (I had problems with the previously released alpha. I think this will be a nice version
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sonique 2 all the way! Even though this new WA5 is better than WA3, I feel that the potential in Sq2, despite the fact that it is in alpha, will make a real dent once again!
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well it's nice, but it's still really pokey and often unresponsive on my computer. It often takes a second or so to resond to a mouse click, and often has large pauses between tracks (often seeing repaint issues on its GUI during these pauses).

Yet, Winamp2, WMP9, and QCD are all relatively snappy on this computer.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What's up with their website? It looks like winamp.com hasn't been updated in a few months (or longer); I went there expecting to see some kind of news about version 5, but there's nothing there except 2 and 3. They don't even have any announcements from when they decided to stop development on version 3. Have they moved to a different site, or what?
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well the installer has a load of stuff about accepting some betatesting agreement, so I suppose it's been leaked from somewhere, which would probably explain why there's nothing on the site.

Sam
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I do find it surprising that they still focus on 3 so much. Although I guess to switch and focus on 2 until 5 becomes reality wouldn't make sense either. It could be that since 3 went so bad they are taking it slowly introducing 5. Still you'd think some mention would be there on the site.
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
After a few days of using Winamp 5 I am very happy with it. I have had no problems at all. It interfaces with Sysmetrix and WB skins that have controls on them. And the best part you can use Winamp 2 and Winamp 3 skins. So if you couldn't use Winamp 3 now you can use the skins.