Op het forum van Winamp is een nieuwe build verschenen van Winamp 5.2. De update heeft versienummer build 359 meegekregen, verkeert nog in bètastadium en is vanaf deze locatie in verschillende uitvoeringen te downloaden. Winamp is in staat om diverse mediabestanden af te spelen. Oorpsronkelijk werd het programma ontwikkeld om mp3-bestanden af te spelen, maar in de loop der tijd is er ondersteuning toegevoegd voor meer formaten. De ontwikkelaars hebben de volgende veranderingen doorgevoerd in Winamp 5.2 beta build 359:
Current changelog:[break]
- New: [ml_pmp] Synchronization the Media Library with your portable media player (Compatible with iPod, Creative, and Microsoft Plays For Sure devices)
- New: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus High Bitrate encoder available in Winamp Pro
- New: [enc_aacplus] Using Coding Technologies encoder for LC-AAC
- New: [enc_aacplus] AAC+ in MP4 container
- New: [in_mp3] gapless MP3 playback
- New: [installer] multi-user profile options
- New: [in_wave] in_wave 3.0
- Improved: new ATF functions and tags
- Improved: Stereo beat visualization for modern skins
- Improved: [in_midi] provides metadata to media library
- Improved: [in_mod] provides metadata to media library
- Improved: [in_mp3] unicode id3 tags
- Improved: [in_mp3] preliminary id3v2.4 support
- Fixed: broken playlist sorting
- Fixed: playlist problems with multi-line tags (e.g. %comment%)
- Fixed: shuffle with only one song in playlist
- Fixed: ghost seek slider appears if Winamp loses focus during seeking
- Fixed: [enc_lame] bit reservoir
- Fixed: [enc_lame] cutoff of last frame
- Fixed: [gen_ff] GDI Object leak with Current Skin prefs page
- Fixed: [in_midi] not following winamp's title formatting options
- Fixed: [in_midi] reset button blocks further access to config
- Fixed: [in_mod] not following winamp's title formatting options
- Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect version identification (showed 5.18 in 5.12)
- Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect information shown for AAC+ files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] reading incorrect id3 comment tag
- Fixed: [in_mp3] sometimes failing to read last id3 frame
- Fixed: [in_mp4] loss of album art when modified metadata
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] not following winamp's title formatting options
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] registry usage (now multi-user profile safe)
- Fixed: [in_wave] 32bit floating point WAV playback distortion
- Fixed: [in_wm] changes made with Attribute Editor not updating in ML/Playlist
- Fixed: [vis_milk] missing files from distro (you can stop bugging us now, Rovastar
- Fixed: [vis_milk] 100% cpu usage when paused
- Updated: [enc_lame] LAME 3.97b2
- Updated: [gen_ff] FreeType 2.1.10