Hmm anyone using the new winamp 2.9?

[cchen]

Here are some of the new features:

Hot new default skin, done by none other than the evil robot turned good, Steve Gedikian
Added integrated full featured video support (NSV and DirectShow (AVI, ASf, MPEG, etc.))
Added library (complete with media database, shoutcast listing, playlist editing, CD listing, mass tag editting, plugin API for portable devices, and more!)
Updated Winamp's window docking code to be more robust/extensible - made AVS dock use this new API
Updated PCM equalizer with code from 4Front Technologies/George Yohng. Quality is a lot better
Updated equalizer default skin to show the true +12db/-12db range (the 20db was a veeery old typo)
A ton of new WM_WA_IPC API calls
- general purpose plugin window support
- extended metadata system for getting more than just title/length of items
- lots of exposed features via IPC

Updated to PP's latest input and output plugins
Focus/Z order change on window close related bugfixes
Added track numbers and song lengths in HTML generated playlists
Removed all ATL code, shoved EXE size by 20kb
Added digital audio extraction in in_cdda.dll (needs WNASPI32.DLL under Windows 9x/ME)
Added Alt+M shortcut for minimizing Winamp
Added Ctrl+(Keypad +)/Ctrl+(Keypad -) shortcuts in playlist editor for changing font size
Fixed stop after current menu item trash related bug
Added ultravox support for in_mp3
Made in_mp3 not display 'unknown X' for empty id3 tags
Installer uses leet new NSIS 2.0b3
Improvements to the setup process
Made the keep on screen code multimonitor smart and better
Fixed a tooltips error in Winamp's systray icons
...and TONS more! (new SDKs will be posted soon)


anyone using this? Is it worth the upgrade from 2.81?

 

[Feldenak]

I've been having problems with winamp lately. It's REALLY slow on my work machine (worked fine on my old machine), considering it's a p4 2.4 w/ 512mb it shouldn't run that slow. Needless to say, my work office has been rather quiet lately.

 

[dman]

I'm sortof afraid to try it with all the hype over 3.0 and it being a bomb and this 2.9 supposed to be an upgrade from that??? Well, maybe I'll try it...

 

[yoda291]

OOOOOHHHH! I am.

works like 2.8 here..slightly larger footprint than what I remember...cuz I switched back from qcd.

 

[ViRGE]

I've been using it for a couple of days. Audio wise, there isn't much to say, it's as good as ever. Video wise it seems fine, although I haven't had the chance to tinker with it much yet. Considering it doesn't seem to take longer to load, or encounter any of the other "penelties" of WA3, it seems like it would be a worthwhile upgrade.