Winamp 2.9 is here!

[Nowhere]

az, me too, but the point is that the built-in winamp equalizer is just terrible...so it's better to use superequ if someone wants to equalize...

[az]

Grr.. I don't like the fact that the Media Library is just an "add on" - it produces a playlist every time you double-click a song. That means shuffling through the whole ML doesn't work. Oh well, I guess I'll have to make an "the whole ML" playlist then, and shuffle that. Good thing there's now a playlist library, too

AZ

[Gurm]

Burp. I found a problem.

Winamp, like every OTHER media player on the planet (except MS), just hangs hard when it has a codec mismatch.

Back to Sasami.

- Gurm

[az]

Codec mismatch? Is that when it thinks a file is one codec but is really another? Why would that happen?

AZ

[Gurm]

No. Stuff like:

You try to open a .mpg file that's MPG2 encoded (SVCD for example). It craps all over itself and hangs. Almost impossible to time-out, too.

And it's just plain bad coding.

How hard is a loop like this:

start_thread (get_codec_from_directshow);
while (thread_active(get_codec_from_directshow) && count < big_number) { count++; }
if (count >= big_number) {
kill_thread();
write (sorry, directshow sucks donkey cock);
}
else {
play_movie();
}

C'mon. I just did it in 30 seconds. JESUS H. CHRIST.


I HAVE SPOKEN.

- Gurm

[az]

But why should there be a problem? Because you don't have a MPEG2 codec?

AZ

[High_Jumbllama]

He means the media players aassume one codec based on file extension without confirming by reading the appropriate header info from the file I think.

[az]

That's what I thought he meant.

Anyway, Gurm, why don't you post in their feedback forum?

AZ

[High_Jumbllama]

I reiterate as in prevous threads to try using the Coolplayer music player. It uses technology from the MAD plugin for all formats for better rendering. It was stuck at build 205 for a qhile but they are making steady progress again.

[agallag]

Originally posted by az
Grr.. I don't like the fact that the Media Library is just an "add on" - it produces a playlist every time you double-click a song. That means shuffling through the whole ML doesn't work. Oh well, I guess I'll have to make an "the whole ML" playlist then, and shuffle that. Good thing there's now a playlist library, too

AZ

If you want to shuffle every song in your media library, just right click on "audio" in the left pane, and select "play". Make sure the player is set to shuffle. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

[Topha]

I like it

Why did they release 3.0 in the first place? I only used it because of the media library, and now they got an improved one in 2.9

We'll see how winamp 5 will turn out

[agallag]

Now they just have to add folder monitoring to the library. Right now, if you want to refresh the library to include new files, you have to re-add the entire folder. Takes a while if your music folder has over 20GB of songs...

[Gurm]

High_J:

Coolplayer's playlist is horribly broken, and it's a single guy doing development so bugs take forever to fix. I abandoned it as hopeless quite some time ago.

As for the codec issue... it's more than just assuming one codec when it's really another. DirectShow has SERIOUS issues dealing with MPEG2 video. Unless you put in a DVD, in which case it KNOWS it's a DVD... DirectShow just craps out completely oftentimes.

Bleh.

SOMEONE NEEDS TO WRITE A NON-DIRECTSHOW PLAYER. PERIOD.

I have spoken.

- Gurm

[az]

Since I don't use Winamp for videos (it's not really convenient, IMHO - I use WMP 6.4 for videos), that's no problem for me.

I use WMP6 for playing single mp3s, waves, midis as well (like when I just downloaded something, and want to check it, so that when I double-click it it doesn't destroy or add to my winamp playlist).

AZ

[High_Jumbllama]

Playlist seems fine for me, but it has had a few new versions in quick succession.