Mar. 25th, 2003 09:13 am
New Winamp Beta
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servermonkeyIt's here: http://www.nullsoft.com/cookie/winamp29beta2_full.exe
Eventually, skinning features from 3.0 will be incorporated into 2.8 and then Nullsoft is skipping 4.0 and releasing 5.0, Netscape style. 3.0 is dead, and I hope it remains that way. I'm not altogether sure what's true or not, but there you are. . .
I am so glad that 3.0 is being discontinued. It, uh, sucked. It did not whip the llama's ass at all.
A short Post Script (the read me of the Winamp installer:
Known issues:
* The Vorbis tag updating through the media library may be buggy, please test.
* the minibrowser page says "upgrade". =)
* running a fullscreen visualization plugin when playing video (or vice versa) can be bad
(i.e. cause Winamp to quit). This appears to be a directdraw issue, we'll figure out why.
* new extended skin format may change for 2.90, so don't distribute new skins too widely.
* some AVI/MPEG/ASF/etc videos may be flipped, due to directshow weirdness. We will work to correct this as
much as possible.
* Some MPEG2 video decompressors (latest PowerDVD one apparently) may have issues with playback.
* Many more configuration options and fixes should be added in the 2.90 to 2.9x land. Enjoy.
And so far, I haven't noticed too much of a difference at all. Oh well.
Eventually, skinning features from 3.0 will be incorporated into 2.8 and then Nullsoft is skipping 4.0 and releasing 5.0, Netscape style. 3.0 is dead, and I hope it remains that way. I'm not altogether sure what's true or not, but there you are. . .
I am so glad that 3.0 is being discontinued. It, uh, sucked. It did not whip the llama's ass at all.
A short Post Script (the read me of the Winamp installer:
Known issues:
* The Vorbis tag updating through the media library may be buggy, please test.
* the minibrowser page says "upgrade". =)
* running a fullscreen visualization plugin when playing video (or vice versa) can be bad
(i.e. cause Winamp to quit). This appears to be a directdraw issue, we'll figure out why.
* new extended skin format may change for 2.90, so don't distribute new skins too widely.
* some AVI/MPEG/ASF/etc videos may be flipped, due to directshow weirdness. We will work to correct this as
much as possible.
* Some MPEG2 video decompressors (latest PowerDVD one apparently) may have issues with playback.
* Many more configuration options and fixes should be added in the 2.90 to 2.9x land. Enjoy.
And so far, I haven't noticed too much of a difference at all. Oh well.
