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- What's new in Winamp 1.70?
- * New version number
- * Redesigned playlist editor. Much more intuitive.
- * Fixed a TON of 256 color issues (vis looks better, dialogs look better)
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- What's new in Winamp 1.69?
- * Restyled playlist editor, graphical equalizer jump box, etc
- - they look MUCH nicer
- * 10 band graphical equalizer
- (Makes your 1.666 and earlier presets incompatible.. sorry)
- * Clutterbar now shows you the function of each button in the title
- field (when the mouse is over them)
- * Playlist editor's time calculation is better (uses ?'s if uncertain, and
- shows hours/minutes/seconds if applicable)
- * Playlist editor displays time for each track (if available)
- * More optimization, mostly in lower quality mode.
- * Plug-in related stability improvements (tries to tame badly behaved
- plug-ins)
- * Minor bugs fixed, including DSP selection, reverse stereo analyzer plug-in
- * Fixed focus-main-winamp-window-on-open-of-eq-or-pe bug. (phew)
- * Reverted the previous button back to the old way, of previous song, always
- (I like it better this way too)
- * New prebuffer after seek option
- * HQ button is now single-click
- * Sorry, this version changes the configuration format. You will need
- to reconfigure Winamp to your liking if you are upgrading.
- * A few new IPC calls
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- What's new in Winamp 1.666?
- * The Clutterbar.
- * Windowshade button
- * Seek-in-windowshade mode
- * Added desktop icon adding to preferences
- * Added a nifty hq control on main interface.
- * New ID3 tags
- * General purpose plug-in architecture (woohoo)
- * Fixed mixed-mode layer 2 bug (yay)
- * Fixed "blip" bug in low quality imdct
- * Optimized huffman decoding and requantinization
- * New high quality mode. Slower (but still quick), and sounds GREAT
- * Vastly improved shell integration. Try selecting lots of files in explorer,
- and hit "open" (doesn't work perfectly unless Winamp is already running)
- * Improved graphical equalizer (new ranges, more accurate, etc)
- * Added live web links.
- * Changed format of seeking display status
- * Added nifty "add to playlist from explorer" (more or less) option to
- prefs/initial setup
- * Better VU meter with peak detection in windowshade
- * More stable threading
- * Improved command line handling (supports relative pathnames better)
- * Alternate volume setting mode (for some soundcards)
- * More ID3 format strings
- * New buffer-all logic
- * More IPC functions for programmers
- * %6 ID3 bug fixed (invalid genres)
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- What's new in Winamp 1.64?
- * MAJOR "bug" fix: fixed buffer size logistics (enables 48/24/12khz output
- on many soundcards that wouldn't work before).
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- What's new in Winamp 1.62?
- * Numerous bugs fixed
- * Tooltip on titlebar
- * More menu items
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- What's new in Winamp 1.61?
- * Improved ID3 tag reading logic
- * Resizable playlist editor
- * Bugs fixed in .WAV writer (now replaces /\|,. etc with _)
- * Plug-in configuration hwndParent bug fixed
- * Configurable icon in system tray
- * Yes, we like refinements
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- What's new in Winamp 1.60?
- * Improved sound quality (added HQ option)
- * Improved batch .WAV writer
- * Cleaned up playlist editor
- * New ID3->Title translation
- * New multiple instances logic
- * Lots of cosmetic improvements and refinements
- * Countless other improvements and bugfixes
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- What's new in Winamp 1.6 BETA?
- * Plugin Architecture
- * Visualization Plugins
- * Simple test plugins (Analyser, Oscilliscope, VU meter)
- * Fullscreen plugins (Analyser, Oscilliscope, Voiceprint, etc)
- - requires DirectX3+ or NT4SP3
- * Zygron's plugin library (some nifty effects)
- * Trippy Visualization plugin (rotozooms/motionblurrs an image with the
- music) - requires DirectX3+ or NT4SP3
- * 3D Spectrum Analyser plugin (Jeff's) - requires DirectX5.
- * DSP Plugins
- * Simple Reverb/Echo
- * Simple Voice Removal (not extremely advanced)
- * Note: these plugins might not be that great, but it's open for other
- people to write plugins (and us when we get more time), so it will
- be pretty useful.
- * Right-click context menus in main interface
- * Improved ID3 tag editor w/ MPEG info display
- * VU meter and eject button in windowshade mode
- * Increased visualization accuracy
- * Faster seeking
- * More reliable HTTP streaming
- * Limited support for Microsoft NetShow audio streams (mms://)
- * Bugfixes, new options (of course)
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- What's new in Winamp since 1.45?
- * MPEG 2.5 support (preliminary - occasional blips)
- * HTTP streaming support
- * New "Eject" button
- * Fixed clipping problem
- * New mini features
- * TONS of bugfixes
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- What's new in Winamp since 1.40?
- * Keyboard shortcuts for playlist editor (as requested)
- * Ctrl+A: selects all
- * Ctrl+N: selects none
- * Ctrl+I: inverts selection
- * Ctrl+L: loads playlist
- * Ctrl+S: saves playlist
- * Ctrl+O: sorts by title
- * Shift+O: sorts by filename
- * Ctrl+Shift+O: sorts by full filename (with path)
- * Ctrl+R: randomize
- * Ctrl+Shift+R: reverse
- * Delete: deletes selected mp3s.
- * Enter: plays (first) selecteed mp3
- * Insert: inserts mp3s
- * Shift+Insert: inserts directory
- * Control+Insert: inserts playlists
- * Super low latency low overhead buffering for some computers
- * This lets my P5-133 use around 2% with ALL options on in Windows NT
- (but only with my GUS pnp, it doesn't help my AWE32. huh)
- * It isn't as skip-proof as normal buffering, so you will probably have
- to give it some big priority boost in the preferences. But the performance
- on some systems is amazing, the fastest I have EVER seen.
- * Winamp is now 100% uncrippled nag-free Shareware that never expires.
- * Registration for personal use is only $10.
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- What's new in Winamp since 1.20?
- Here's a few:
- * Restyled playlist editor (with improved functionality)
- * Total time display in playlist editor
- * Rewritten playlisting engine (less buggy, more efficient)
- * Improved ID3 tag editor (alphabetical genres)
- * Revised main user interface
- * Display of positioning/volume/balance in songname field
- * Panning control
- * EQ & Playlist buttons
- * Enlarged songname field.
- * Manual songname scrolling returned
- * Doublesize mode
- * Optimized Visualization (less slowdown in win95)
- * Fire Analyzer Mode
- * Snap-to-viewport in always on top mode
- * Returned mixed-bitrate MPEG 2 stream support
- * Logarithmic EQ
- * Now has full -12db to +12db adjustment
- * Presets and auto-loading of settings (per mp3)
- * Higher priority by default
- * Changes to taskbar/system tray preferences take place immediately
- * .WAV ouput support (look in Preferences/Output/Device)
- * Added support for mixed bitrate streams
- * More file icons
- * Lots of bugfixes and refinements
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