Download Winamp 5.25 beta build 868

Winamp could only play music files in its early years. At the time it was one of the most well-known programs that could play mp3s in a decent way. Now, several years later, the programmers are developing the Winamp 5 series. The 5 branch is characterized by the plugin support of 2.x and the skin engine of 3.x. At the moment Winamp is a complete media player: not only music files can be played, but it is also possible to watch movies and listen to various radio streams. The Winamp devtream has a new beta version of Winamp 5.25 on its own forum today released.This time it is build 868 and can be downloaded as free to use Lite-, Standard– and Fulledition, as well as the paid one Pro-performance. What changes have been made in this new Winamp can be read below:

Changes between b857 and b868

• New: [ml_pmp] automatically sync your ml playlists with your portable device
• New: Core Media Library Components subcategory in the installer options
• Improved: [in_mp3] faster mp3 replay gain scanning
• Improved: Filenames now shown for Gen & ML plugins in Prefs
• Fixed: [ml_playlists] non-english filenames fix
• Fixed: [ml_disc] CD view right-click menu options
• Fixed: [ml_pmp] various fixes based on crash reports
• Fixed: [in_mp3] “Size: x bytes” data missing in File Info box
• Fixed: [in_mp4] msvcp71.dll dependency
• Fixed: a few reported typos in prefs
• Fixed: duplicate media library entries bug (unfortunately your old duplicate entries will still exist)

Known bugs/issues:

• The WMA encoder configuration is currently a mess. We added in Lossless, VBR & 1/2-pass options, but things are a bit quirky. The encoder itself *does
• work, just it’s really tough to configure 🙂
• The small “Send Info” window that appears after installation is colored incorrectly.
• The installer says ‘custom’ instead of ‘previous installation’
• The [filenames] for gen & ml plugins in Prefs should be preceded by two extra spaces (like on the other Prefs > Plugins pages). Also note that this breaks DrO’s One For Nunz plugin, though a new fixed version of gen_nunzio is now available (for people using said plugin).