Winamp 2.80 Released

[Guru]

Changes in Current Version:
Fixed drag & drop from open file dialog related bugs
Made CDDB support better handle not-found CDs/lack of CDDB installed
Update to CDDB ui
New splash screen
Minibrowser security fix
Updated winamp agent to support both winamp 2.x and 3.x
Included PP's hacks for slightly better unicode filename support
in_wave support for floating point .WAV files fixed
Better win9x compatibility for DirectSound
waveOut made skip less
Some in_mod per-file fixes
OGG Vorbis support

http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp280_full.exe

[roadie]

would anyone reccommend upgrading from 2.79???

it says better win9x directsound compatibility, would this raise sound quality???

[isochar]

I'd say ogg vorbis support is reason enough.

[thop]

it did fix a serious bug for me (when opening playlists from a smaba share).

[High_Jumbllama]

I would definitely recommend upgrading fom 2.79. THere was a problem with 2.79 where the main player section would open and it would sometimes take several secons for he playlist, browser, and equalizer sections to open. An oh yeah, built in OGG/Vorbis support for the two larger installs.

[Tempest]

And don't forget to add the MAD Plugin: http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plugin/

[roadie]

And don't forget to add the MAD Plugin

personally i use the 'enhancer' plugin that can be found here . when it is set on general improvements the sound is noticably better.

however i shall try this mad one, and compare the two, has anyone here done this before???

[Tempest]

I guess you can use them together, because they do different things... MAD is an input plugin that enhances decoding precision and Enhancer is a DSP plugin that equalizes and enhances the sound.

Edit: Appears to work... Although you might have to use the 16-bit mixing mode in MAD because Enhancer might not support precisions of > 16 bit.

[roadie]

right ok got it now. i have not bnoticed any difference, probably because my layback device is an extremely crappy neomagic laptop thing

[Kastuvas]

How do you get it to work that enchancer, i downloaded unziped it and i looad up winamp and can't find any new settings :-/

[Tempest]

Press Ctrl+P, go to Plug-In -> DSP/Effect and select Enhancer...

[Kastuvas]

Thanx, got it working now.

I reckon windows media player sounds better then winamp.

[Guru]

Nullsoft, which makes WinAmp, has confirmed the vulnerability, which does not affect the newest version of the software. Version 2.80 of WinAmp is available on NullSoft's Web site. The problem can also be fixed by disabling WinAmp's minibrowser.

The weakness is particularly dangerous because MP3 files are generally considered safe, & hundreds of thousands of users frequently trade them with unknown Internet users via file-swapping services such as Kazaa & Morpheus.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-895174.html