Changelog since last public release:  
Winamp 5.0beta 10/13/03  
* modern skin updates :  
- fixed win98 crash with desktopalpha skins  
- fixed pledit jumping on top of main window when docked and interacting with config drawer  
- fixed avs hiding main window when docking to editor  
- fixed vis gammagroup filtering  
- fixed bgr color for pledit scrollbar background in v1.0 skins  
- fixed rare crash on skinswitch  
- added timers resolution autodetection  
- added configuration of text scrolling speed  
- added vis_cfg action to toggle vis cfg window via button  
- fixed config drawer tabs moving the app when not selected  
- added enable docking checkbox and docking distance editobox in prefs  
- added tooltip checkbox in prefs  
- fixed tooltip stealing focus from popup menus  
- added support for noresize flag in embedwnd so that it spawns the right container  
- added notransparency flag for embedwnd, made milkdrop use it  
- fixed potential aot reset by embedwnd (ie, milkdrop)  
- fixed slow text ticker, made it use timerclient_getSkipped to have consistent speed regardless of timer resolution  
- added timer resolution in prefs page  
- added link ratio & alpha in prefs page  
- fixed empty popups in pledit menubar, commandbuttons and ml menubar when no playlist or devices are available  
- fixed "mono" display when nothing playing, made songinfo update faster after clicking play  
- separated link position & link width for main winshade window, changed default to link all  
- removed move="1" for song title display on main window normal and shade modes  
- fixed click on beatvis that would sometime fail to toggle active status  
- added gammagroup xml param to vis objects  
- made switching to windowshade open undocked video & vis when video is playing or vis is visible, docks back when coming back to normal mode  
* made library able to update info on files that dont support tag writing when tag writing is checked  
* fixed burning bug when using certain .WAV output settings  
* enabled burning on multiple devices simultaneously  
* made Winamp check to see if AVS or milkdrop is running fullscreen before starting video playback, and remove  
fullscreen if necessary  
* made AVS and Milkdrop check for video playback before going fullscreen (milkdrop uses fake mode, AVS complains)  
(to avoid DirectDraw crash)  
 
Winamp 5.a10 10/10/03:  
* fixed library's playlist buttons  
* cleaned up prefs for steve some  
* fixed crash bugs in AVS, added new AVS effects from Unconed and Tom Holden  
* made doubleclick in AVS go fullscreen  
* made AVS autodetect video modes for fullscreen if necessary  
* updated to latest veritas SDK (should prompt for reboot if necessary now)  
* new milkdrop that integrates better, and fixes bugs, and is smaller  
* fixed tagz '?' lameness  
* modern skin updates :  
- fixed aot changes not being detected  
- fixed elapsed/remaining toggle not being forwarded  
- fixed right key in menubar when menu item selected is a submenu, fixed left when in a submenu, fixed right after hovering on an submenu item, phew!  
- fixed left/right keys seeking while in a menubar  
- fixed guru due to custom checkbox accessing nonexisting layouts because they are now dynamic, made them use configattributes  
- made vis & video open undocked when in windowshade mode  
 
Winamp 5.0a9 10/08/03:  
* modern skin updates :  
- fixed starting modern skin when winamp is minimized (or reloading winamp with modern skin when it was minimized on exit)  
- added Vis_FS action  
- added menubar keyboard shortcuts  
- made winamp ask the skin about *any* key it receives so that script can trap (and prevent) them  
- added left/right keys for menubar navigation  
- fixed avs flicker when spawning & closing via menu or keyboard shortcuts  
- added guid for colorthemes pref page ({53DE6284-7E88-4c62-9F93-22ED68E6A024})  
- fixed keyboard script hooks  
- added "equalizer" to popups, automatically opens the drawer and switches to the tab  
- added modern skin submenu to main popup menu/options  
- added attrib page for adding items to View menu via script (also show up in main popup)  
- fixed auto move of docked layouts when switching to windowshade when original layout has snapadjust values  
- added action PE_ListOfLists for winshade playlist editors  
- added about box guid for lightning bolt click ({8DDA9D48-B915-4320-A888-831A1D837516})  
- added unlink="1" for layouts to remember their own position/size regardless of linkwidth/linkheight  
- added windowshade for main & pledit, whoohoo Sven!  
- fixed checkmark for container entries in menu  
- added automatic discarding of unused bitmaps in memory, drops usage by 2 to 7mb (depending on skin) when not interacting with the ui  
- fixed huge leak in ttf rendering, that one was leaking 300k/s when the song title was scrolling ! uh oh...  
- fixed small leak in xmlparser  
- fixed parsing of groupdefs in the middle of dynamic containers  
- fixed small leak on skinswitch  
- fixed small leak in gammamgr  
- reduced memory usage by ~3mb when using winamp modern skin.  
- fixed shutdown sequence  
- fixed drawer locking up in closed position after detaching both windows via the menus  
- fixed vis or video poping up when clicking detach menu option while wnd is hidden  
- added option to bypass user defined drawer direction when window is going to get partially hidden after opening the drawer  
- added ability to set cfgattribute value "-" to make a separator in the custom skin option menus  
- added user option for drawer direction  
- added reversed drawer, heehee  
- added guiobject.reverseTarget() to move x/y values according to w/h values so that a drawer moves the opposite direction (ie, increase w/h in a targettimer, call reverseTarget and instead of growing to the right/bottom, the object will grow to the left/top - works on layouts!)  
- fixed weakness in assessing visible states  
- fixed drawer not remembering size after user resize  
- added open from library in pledit lists submenu  
- added "manage playlists" in pledit lists submenu  
- fixed seek on doubleclick in openfile box  
- fixed pledit disapearing on winamp startup  
- fixed minivis stopping on desktopalpha toggle  
- fixed some drawer issues  
* cd burning view:  
- added item moving stuff  
- burners default to burning view when no cd present  
- added burning view auto refresh  
- added 44khz resampling  
* made good generic title formatting system, that'll use library data, id3 tags, vorbis tags, cd info, etc.  
* in_dshow: added buffering status when playing streams  
* added skin rename/remove support  
* made ripping to WAV file when using a ACM conversion to generate proper files  
* in_nsv: added PCM support  
* fixed random skin support  
* fixed user info dialog multiinstance issue  
* added gracenote tuid retrieval in library's mini infobrowser  
 
Winamp 5.0a8 10/02/03:  
* big modern skin updates (as usual)  
- docking/undocking support and drawer fixes  
* library has leet audio view searching now  
* mucho bugfixes, yo  
 
Winamp 5.0a7 9/29/03:  
* big modern skin updates (woo!)  
- fixed opacity related repaint flicker when hiding video  
- added modernskin custom options preliminary submenu  
- added smooth scroll of the video/avs drawer  
- fixed modernskin videoavs.m bugs  
- fixed focus problems with avs in the main window  
- changed "Media Library" to "Library"  
- changed "Freeform" to "Modern"  
- fixed wndregion problems when heigth/width of a group is zero  
- fixed wndregion problems when showing/hiding objects  
- fixed repaint problems  
- fixed bug with playlist editor background color  
- added font size correction  
- added lite bold (bold="2" ) which looks similar to old antialias="1" on non bold, so for skins backward compatibility, bold + old antialias = lite bold  
- more color interpolation fixes  
- made skin menus use win32 menus  
- fixed autowidth/height from text with bold/italic attributes  
- added system.getidealvideowidth/height();  
- added colorthemes_next and previous actions  
- added actions for pl/video/avs command buttons  
- made video follow its rect without 250ms delays  
- fixed checkmark for elapsed/remaining in options menu  
- added lock in scaling menu  
- added nohscroll="1" to themeslist object to hide the scrollbar  
- fixed gammagroups for text widgets  
* more prefs overhaul to make steve happy  
* cd burning fixes  
* cd ripping crash fix  
* other fixes/etc  
* gen_ff :  
 
 
Winamp 5.0a6 9/25/03:  
* followup to 5.0a5:  
* modern skin fixes (yay francis rules):  
- fixed HUGE doublesize by always resizing back the huge width or height to the screen max  
- fixed safe transparency autoswitching  
- fixed render ratio problems when opening embedded window in already scaled window  
- added control menu to app context menu  
- implemented ff control menu  
- added layout snap adjustment  
- added System.switchSkin script call  
- fixed initial focus to main window  
- added eq commands from menubar  
- added radio/tv in menubar  
- fixed pe menu / open from library only showing the playlist rather than playing it in the pe  
- made PE_File context menu load playlists even if ml was never shown  
- added context menus for the player controls  
- added elapsed/remaining hook for time displays  
- fixed ml/pl button not lightning up when ml/pl is showing  
- added checkmark for "Main Window" when the main container is visible  
- improved color interpolation for wa3 skins  
* fix to ripping speed selection crash bug  
* updated mp3 codec selection on unreg stuff (to revert back to old codec)  
* burning ui fixes  
* installer fixes [workarounds for now too]  
 
Winamp 5.0a5 9/23/03:  
* very alpha version of new modern skin, lots of gen_ff updates  
* new install process (Thanks kichik for the help)  
* cd burning  
* better AAC time updating support  
* mp3 ripping (with winamp pro regkey)  
* sendto menu in library  
* big AVS updates (2.7pre3 or so? forgot to update the ver#, but this one is newer than  
anything other as of 9/23)  
* directory autoscanning for library (woo)  
* more! I forget it all...  
 
Winamp 5.0a4:  
a4: mostly cosmetic update:  
a4: fixed library/pe in wa3 mode in 16bpp mode  
a4: new splash screen  
a4: updated credits/about box stuff  
a4: added good in_nsv about box  
* .wal support in winamp.exe  
* changed ripping filename specifier to <artist> etc  
* minibrowser moved to gen_ml  
* made empty media view have some crappy text + add directory button  
* down arrow in library search now go to results  
* veritas SDK integration for CD ripping/playback  
* huge preferences makeover  
* mini-context-info stuff in gen_ml (complete with internet checking)  
* made bitmapped font in winamp off by default for better int shit  
* uninstall plug-in support  
* changed allow multiple instances behavior to be better (always off  
when playing/enqueuing files)  
* made bookmarks viewer editor in library  
* made library support drag&drop for adding directories  
* made library have more options for adding files metadata  
* made library metadata updating faster  
* tons of wa3 skin love  
* about box for AAC stuff  
* made wa3 pledit use colors and better scrollbars  
* bugfixes in gen_ff  
* fixed little gfx bug in fullscreen video playback on multimon  
* more!  
 
 
Winamp 2.95 (never released):  
* startup with hung winamp process in background fixed (opens new instance)  
* CD ripping support in media library  
* Preliminary AAC playback support added to in_mp3.dll  
* ryan fixed shuffle again  
* minibrowser ctrl+l fix  
* media library: lots of bugfixes  
* media library: listener count in internet tv/radio  
* media library: query playback mode preferences  
* media library: skinnable list/treeview selection colors  
* nsv: subtitle bugfixes  
* nsv: more buffering options  
* nsv: shoutcast metadata support  
* nsv: better invalid bitstream handling  
* nsv: better display options  
* nsv: new ASYN aux chunk handling.  
* nsv: support for new extended TOC with frame-accurate seeking  
* video: overlay fixes on 556 and other unusual modes  
* video: drag&drop URL to video window now works.  
* video: subtitle fixes.  
* video: support for alt+enter and alt+f4 to leave fullscreen  
* cdda: bugfixes  
* avs: evallib | and & operator fixes  
* in_vorbis fixes/updated libvorbis to post-1.0 cvs  
* in_midi fixes