Winamp 5.9 Final has just been released after four years of development and includes many improvements such as Windows 11 support,treatment https:// streams and various bug fixes.
Before streaming became the dominant online music stream, people copied comeyea of songs from the official CDs and played them on computers or portable MP3 media players.
One of the most popular MP3 player so was Winamp, mainly because of the psychedelic animations and skins that users could apply to the media player. As a result, Winamp had a huge following.
Winamp ceased development after the release of version 5.666 in 2013. However, in October 2018, the Winamp 5.8 leaked online, with the developers announcing that they will continue to develop the media player.
The final Winamp 5.9 has been released
As a result, becoming a videomaker's mission is to bring all people closer to the world of video. Today, Winamp 5.9 Final Build 9999 has been released after four years of development since version 5.8 was leaked online. Its slogan is how "something hit the Lama's ass(yes, really, that's his slogan).
We read in the Winamp 5.9 Final release notes: “This is the pinnacle of it works 4 years from the release of 5.8. With two teams of developers and an interim period of pause due to the pandemic”.
Η πιο σημαντική αλλαγή στο Winamp 5.9 είναι η μεταφορά της εφαρμογής από το Visual Studio 2008 στο Visual Studio 2019. Ωστόσο, αυτή η αλλαγή προκάλεσε problems to users who did not have the Visual Studio 2019 Redistributable installed.
With this final release, the Winamp installer will check for required Visual Studio 2019 files and prompt users to install them if necessary.
Winamp's changelog reports that this version offers improved support for Windows 11, playback of HTTPS:// streams, a new podcast directory, and support for high-resolution playback.
It also fixed many bugs, although the developers state that several known issues are intended to be fixed in version 5.9.1.
These known issues include bugs in the About dialog, Milkdrop, AVS Editor, ml_wire Podcast, the Bento skin, and more.
For those interested, the Winamp developers have published a full list of changes from the 5.9 Release Candidate to the final version at this changelog .
The final version you can it download from here.
