Winamp 5.0 RC10

The latest release candidate of Nullsoft's ubiquitous media player is finally here. Winamp 5 RC10 boasts many changes and increased stability.

Winamp3 was seen by many in the community as a failure. While it did have freeform skinning, it was felt that stability and efficiency were not up to Winamp 2.x’s standards. So the Nullsoft team went about creating a new media player, one which would combine the best of both platforms Winamp 5 is the culmination of Nullsoft’s efforts to combine the best of Winamp 2.x and Winamp3 into one package. Boasting support for a wide number of video and audio formats including MP3, OGG, WMA, and lesser-known formats, Winamp 5 is all you need.

Changes since RC8:

modern skin updates
  - fixed coming back from windowshade closes video drawer
  - fixed user settings path assert
  - added 6 color themes (coagulated, peachy, bricks set, rosemary, blueberry and cream, qwayke)
added media library plugins configuration, support for type column
latest VP5 decoder, VP6 decoder
disabled hotkeys when hotkeys configuration is focused
AVS: support getkbmouse() from script. woot.
AVS: support new text features, including $(title), $(reg00), $(playpos), $(playlen)
AVS: added (optional) eval code for effect lists
AVS: experimental SMP support
AVS: fixed a alpha clamping bug in dmove
AVS: eval code stats in debug window
AVS: memory footprint reduction (framebuffer freeing)
AVS: eval code optimizations, much smaller and faster code (woot)
fixed how some very broken databases would set the db recovery
  into an infinite loop
fixed info for wa3 skins
fixed winamp3 upgrading for later builds
fixed sendto ml playlist when it is open

Note that while the download link leads to “winamp50beta4_full.exe”, you are actually downloading RC10.

Download: here (4.0mb)
Mirror: here
Homepage: winamp.com