Download Winamp 5.12

A new release in the form of version 5.12 has just appeared on the Winamp forum posted of the media player. The update follows the Winamp 5.112 released in November and comes with a number of improvements and bug fixes. For example, various engines have been overhauled, including those of the plugins and skinning, which has reduced memory consumption and loading time. Large playlists also use less memory and Winamp takes less time to start up. The changes are posted below in summary form. For an extensive overview of the changelog, you can go to the aforementioned topic, where you can also find the downloads to the various Winamp versions:

What’s new:

• New: [in_wm] Windows Media Video support (with DRM)
• New: [in_mp4] Support for HE-AAC MP4/M4A files
• Improved: lots of minor plugin improvements
• Improved: Visualization data calculations
• Improved: Significantly less playlist memory usage
• Improved: more multi-user improvements (almost there!)
• Improved: [installer] setup options, saved settings, codec downloading
• Improved: [gen_ff] optimized skinning engine
• Improved: [out_disk] new features
• Improved: [in_cdda] playback/ripping with sonic engine
• Fixed: freezing when canceling cd burn
• Fixed: video scaling bug (with modern skin scaling < 100%)
• Fixed: minor installer bugs
• Fixed: freeze when loading classic skin with main window hidden
• Fixed: Visualizations for 24bit and 32bit songs
• Fixed: Advanced Title Formatting with Japanese, Chinese and Korean metadata (thanks mrym)
• Fixed: [in_mp3] raw AAC VBR file seeking and bit rate reporting
• Fixed: [in_mp4] unicode metadata writing
• Fixed: [in_wm/in_dshow] mms:// streaming video playback
• Fixed: [in_cdda] audio cd bit rate display
• Fixed: [in_cdda] Sonic engine on 64bit windows (thanks STanger)
• Fixed: lots of small bugs…
• Updated: Sonic CD Engine 2.2.50
• Updated: libmp4v2 1.4.1
• Updated: Coding Technology AAC+ Decoder 7.2.0