v5.12.275 [Jul 22, 2008]
Winamp 5.1 Surround Edition
* New: CodingTechnologies AACPlus encoder!
Awesome at low bitrates!
* New: Grand Prize Winner of the Internet Surround Music Project!
KAJE - Hey Buddy (featuring Afrika Bambaataa)
* New: SHOUTcast Wire - A Media RSS Browser and Subscription Service
* New: Predixis Smart Playlist Generator
(Mix your tracks based on what they sound like!)
* New: AOL Radio featuring (((XM))) Free Sampler!
* New: CD Ripping now available at 8x in free version!
* New: Microsoft WMA encoder
* New: Over 200 new Milkdrop presets!
* Update: in_vorbis now returns bitrate in getextendedfileinfo
* Fixed: WMA stuttery playback
* Fixed: out_ds copy button on status tab now works all the time
* Fixed: Much improved ripping and playback with Sonic engine
* Fixed: Video window now resizable regardless of Sidecar
* Fixed: Length of long mp3's now reported properly
* Fixed: Silent install switch now works properly
* Fixed: Simultaneous CD Playback and Ripping
v5.9 [Jan 9, 2013]
- Improved: Windows 11 compatibility.
- Improved: Playback of https:// streams.
- Improved: Updated and tidier generate html playlist code.
- Improved: [in_mkv] vp8 support.
- Improved: [in_mod] Playback of .itz, .mdz, .s3z & .xmz compressed modules.
- Improved: [ml_wire] New working Podcast Directory.
- Improved: [out_ds] Display device information correctly in Unicode format.
- Fixed: [in_midi/in_mkv/nu/pfc] memory leaks.
- Fixed: [in_mp3] id3 empty genre displayed as Blues or Psychobilly.
- Fixed: [jnetlib/ml_online/ml_wire] JSAPI2 JavaScript API.
- Misc: lame_enc & libsndfile now static links instead of dynamic dll.
- Misc: libmpg123, libflac & zlib now static links instead of dynamic dll.
- Misc: libalac.dll added to Shared folder as part of alac update.
- Misc: Major compiler refactoring work.
- Misc: Many more general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations.
- Misc: Minimum required OS is now Windows 7 SP1.
- Misc: New online Help section and articles.
- Misc: SDK now compatible with VS2017 and newer.
- Misc: Versioning syntax changed to v5.x.x.
- Misc: Winamp\Microsoft.VC142.CRT runtimes now installed on Win7/8.
- Removed: Bento Browser tab - So long, and thanks for all the fish!.
- Updated: [alac/in_mp4] ALAC 2017-11-03-c38887c5.
- Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.100.1.
- Updated: [freetype.wac] freetype 2.12.1.
- Updated: [gif] giflib 5.1.4.
- Updated: [in_cdda] libdiscid 0.6.2.
- Updated: [in_flac/enc_flac] libFLAC 1.3.4.
- Updated: [in_mod] libopenmpt 0.7.0 & Portaudio 19.7.0.
- Updated: [in_mp3] libmpg123 1.29.3.
- Updated: [in_vorbis] libogg 1.3.5 & libvorbis 1.3.7.
- Updated: [in_wave] libsndfile 1.1.0.
- Updated: [OpenSSL] OpenSSL 3.0.3.
- Updated: [png] libpng 1.6.37.
- Updated: [vp8] WebM libvpx 1.11.0.
- Updated: [zlib] zlib 1.2.12.
