Winamp 5.5 Beta: Bento Box Goodness
Popular media player, Winamp, will be celebrating its 10th anniversary next month. To mark their upcoming anniversary, Winamp has just released Winamp 5.5 beta of its media player. The 5.5 version comes packed with fixes, improvements, and new features.
The most notable new feature is a new skin, the Bento Box, a new interface that’s contained in one big window. You can access all your music, radio stations, MP3 blogs, videos, and even concert tickets all within a tabbed interface.
Those of you who prefer using older skins have nothing to worry about. Winamp 5.5 supports older skins so your skin collection won’t go to waste.
Here’s a list of what’s new in Winamp 5.5:
* New: Winamp Bento (SingleUI Skin)
* New: Unified File Editor, with Album Art tab (for mp3, m4a, wma, ogg, flac)
* New: Album Art window for Winamp Modern skin
* New: Global ‘playback thread priority’ setting for decoders
* New: Option to not show playlist item number in classic songticker
* New: Version History drop-down selector and Search (in About dialog)
* New: [in_mp3] Multi-channel mp3surround support
* New: [gen_ml] Tree Options tab in Media Library Preferences
* New: [ml_local] 3 pane view options in ‘Add/Edit View’ dialog
* New: [ml_local] Smart View Presets
* New: [ml_local] Album Art support/pane and retrieval service
* New: [ml_local] Toolbar buttons to control view options
* New: [ml_plg] Winamp Playlist Generator (powered by Gracenote MusicID)
* New: [ml_pmp] New fields, configurable filter panes & columns, 3 pane view
* New: [ml_pmp] Album Art view & support for iPod and P4S Devices
* New: [ml_pmp] Separate view for video files
Want to see the new interface again? Here you go.
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September 15th, 2007 02:12
Winamp? I completely forgot about this program. Hey Brown - Do you still use it? These days I just run around with Windows Media Player.
September 15th, 2007 02:29
@Bush:
Actually I use it more than media player haha.
September 15th, 2007 02:37
Winamp is my PC’s heartbeat!
There is hardly a day when I don’t use it to listen to music. I’m still using Winamp 5.3. The new skin is really cool. Downloading it right away…
Thanks a lot for the update.
September 15th, 2007 02:43
@Haris:
I’ve been using Winamp since it first came out. Time sure flies fast heh. You’re welcome buddy.
September 15th, 2007 02:57
I have been using it since 2002
And I think it’s the best media player for music files.
September 15th, 2007 06:31
Man! And I thought I had my finger on the pulse of America! Time to get back in touch with the masses. *nod*
September 15th, 2007 06:58
Wow. Winamp. Hahaha. It’s been forever. I’ve missed Winamp. And Napster, come to think of it.
September 15th, 2007 07:30
[…] Winamp fan? Brown Baron talks about the latest version and has a list of new features and a screenshot of the new interface. Check out Winamp 5.5 Beta: Bento Box Goodness. […]
September 15th, 2007 11:52
The interface is really tempting me to download and use it
September 15th, 2007 17:16
@Haris:
It’s my favorite too. I tried using Media Monkey once, but I liked Winamp better.
@Bush:
It’s understandable buddy, it’s the weekend haha
@Shankar:
Hehe I normally wait for the final version, but that interface made me download and install it
September 15th, 2007 17:26
Very iTunes-like. Might give it a try.
September 15th, 2007 17:30
Ade:
That’s true. I think Winamp is trying to implement a service similar to iTunes
September 15th, 2007 17:51
@Lisa:
Napster .. as soon as they went legit, a lot of people forgot about them heh.
September 15th, 2007 19:35
That’s cool. I like using WINAMP because of it’s minimized/hide feature. (So my boss won’t see
)
September 15th, 2007 19:54
@Paris:
Lol that’s a great feature
September 16th, 2007 00:16
The last version i tried was Winamp 3 . The interface looks much better now , i will give it a go .
September 16th, 2007 00:20
@Madhur:
I usually don’t bother to update Winamp, but when I saw the new skin I couldn’t resist haha. I love the new interface
September 16th, 2007 22:26
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September 16th, 2007 22:42
The library still needs work, it’s just too difficult to browse
September 16th, 2007 23:02
@Harsh:
Hopefully it gets fixed in the final version.
September 17th, 2007 02:27
thanks brown for reminding me again of this program.I completely forgot this program a long time ago.Will give it a shot today itself.Let me see if i will stay with it or i will move back to my media player
Cheers
Abhishek
September 17th, 2007 14:34
@abhishek:
you’re welcome buddy
September 18th, 2007 00:11
thnx Brown the best thing i like about this site is that you do get replies to your comments and i wish i will be seeing many more sites do the same.
Brown all thanks to you for making this blog as i certainly make it a point to visit this.
Brown i also need to know how to contact u as i may give out some articles or some informations which i would like to share with all the users and people who visit this blog.
Cheers
Abhishek
September 18th, 2007 02:47
@abhishek:
Thank you for your kind words. If you need to contact me, you can use the contact page. The link can be found at the top navbar
February 7th, 2008 05:52
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May 11th, 2008 20:45
Very thanking I do.SsTE very beautiful.Wise useful extant.I wish your successes ‘ continuation.
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