Download Winamp 5.54 Client

Category: Winamp Updates Posted by Ashok Bania, Jul 2nd 2008 4:25PM

Presenting the new spiced up and spunky Winamp 5.54 – Enjoy artist songs, videos, photos and radio streams with the completely redesigned Now Playing service; enjoy great online radio with the all-new AOL Radio Powered by CBS Radio; expanded Flash support, and much, much more! Download Winamp 5.54 Now or keep reading for more details.

Here are some of the highlighted features included in the Winamp 5.54 client:

* Redesigned Now Playing – Enjoy songs, photos, videos and radio stations for your favorite artists, or discover and enjoy new artists.
* AOL Radio Powered by CBS Radio – AOL Radio, in partnership with CBS Radio, offers you 150 local CBS Radio and over 200 AOL Radio channels.
* Integrated Commerce – Easily accessible commerce links connect you to downloadable tracks and Albums, Ringtones for your phone, or the option to buy physical CDs.
* Expanded Flash Video Support – Finally you can play your flash video using Winamp's player controls.
* 3 New Language Packs – Now you can download language packs in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Can't wait to try it out: Download Winamp 5.54 Now.

Want the nitty gritty details. Here are the full release notes:

* New: [in_swf] Adobe Shockwave Flash (SWF, RTMP) playback support
* New: [gen_dropbox] Winamp DropBox alpha (use: Ctrl-Shift-D)
* New: [Online Services] AOL Radio featuring CBS Radio (requires in_flv)
* Improved: Background reading option for playlist metadata
* Improved: Classic songticker scrolling for Winamp Modern skin pledit winshade
* Improved: Vista elevation (fixes: installing skins, filetype reg, Pro reg)
* Improved: Zero padding option for playlist item numbers
* Improved: [in_flv] Better streaming support and other improvements
* Improved: [in_mp3] Added APEv2 tag options to configuration
* Improved: [in_mp3] Optional retention of existing APEv2 headers
* Improved: [ml_disc] Artwork support for Data CD Reader
* Improved: [ml_disc] Better detection of any copy operations in progress
* Improved: [ml_disc] Improved start times if ml_disc view is active
* Improved: [ml_playlists] Right-click option to sort list of playlists alphabetically
* Improved: [pmp_usb] Connect/Disconnect/Blacklist config options
* Fixed: Alt+F4 closing Winamp instead of individual dialogs
* Fixed: Bento browser redirecting network drive url's to Winamp Search
* Fixed: Blank playlist when in docked toolbar mode and Winamp is minimized
* Fixed: Modern skin component windows appearing individually in Alt+Tab
* Fixed: Multi-flashing on startup when previously closed whilst minimized to systray
* Fixed: Pure Virtual Function Call runtime crash errors
* Fixed: Redraw issue when built-in classic vis is disabled
* Fixed: Various multi-monitor docking issues
* Fixed: Various other 5.53-specific keyboard accelerator issues
* Fixed: [Bento] Drag+Drop into Playlist from Open Files dialog
* Fixed: [burnlib] 'CD Drive locked by another Winamp process' on 2nd burn attempt
* Fixed: [dsp_sps] Crash on close when config Help dialog is still open
* Fixed: [enc_flac] MD5 checksum generation
* Fixed: [gen_ff] Attached vis plugin crash on winshade to normal mode in Modern skin
* Fixed: [gen_hotkeys] Assigning Winkey with Ctrl combinations already used by Winamp
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Enter/Shift+Enter broken for ML treeview items (5.53-specific)
* Fixed: [in_cdda] Composer/Conductor logic bug when saving CDDB data to database
* Fixed: [in_flac] Minor metadata writing bugs
* Fixed: [in_midi] Seeking with 'DM/MS Synth' device in Streamed playback mode
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on files with invalid/corrupt gapless data
* Fixed: [in_mp3] Create new ID3v1/v2 tags configuration setting
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Huge lag on files with large embedded cover art
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Metadata & Format Info display for streams in View File Info
* Fixed: [in_vorbis] Potential unicode-related crash on close issue
* Fixed: [jpeg.w5s] Saving corrupt album art
* Fixed: [ml_autotag] Results dialog hidden under Winamp when AOT is enabled
* Fixed: [ml_disc] Small resource leak
* Fixed: [ml_playlists] Enter/Shift+Enter broken for selected ML Playlist items
* Fixed: [ml_playlists / ml_transcode] Sending playlists from ML tree to Transcoder
* Fixed: [ml_wire] 404/timeout with valid rss feeds on Vista
* Misc: Added Chinese, Japanese & Korean installer translations and language packs
* Misc: Miscellaneous localization tweaks, fixes & updates
* Misc: More miscellaneous general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: Setup fixes (Agent not always starting, WLZ filetype not registering, etc)
* Misc: Various other 'Winamp Modern' & 'Bento' skin updates
* Misc: [ml_nowplaying] Now returns related Artist Info from Gracenote, AMG & Truveo
* Updated: Bento skin v1.2
* Updated: freetype 2.3.6
* Updated: libpng 1.2.28

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1. Hello,

First, thanks a lot for your work! :)

I have this message with windows vista sp1 - Avast up to date - Firefox 3.0 and Winamp 5.54 when i download it :

09/07/2008 19:18:07SYSTEM1572Sign of "Win32:Trojan-gen {Other}" has been found in "http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp554_full_emusic-7plus_en-us.exe $SMPROGRAMS$1$PLUGINSDIRbundle3.exe" file.

Any idea? Thanks in advance.

Posted at 3:42AM on Jul 10th 2008 by Jacky672

2. Jacky672,
Thanks for the comment. Just to let you know, the Winamp application comes bundled with a promotion from eMusic for 50 free downloads. Sometimes virus scans will give a false positive & think that the eMusic .exe is a virus or trojan.

Posted at 3:45AM on Jul 10th 2008 by Tarik

3. Winamp 5.54 is really very nice one.

Posted at 3:52AM on Jul 10th 2008 by Chitra

4. I've been a longtime fan of Winamp ... but am extremely disappointed in this release's "AOL Radio" section (powered by CBS Radio). When I go to view the stations, I no longer get all of the categories in one window and must scroll up and down to find the category I'm looking for. Then ... I can no longer view the channel/station description. This is very useful when trying out new stations, finding something I'm in the mood for, etc. For example, if I might be interested in "Adult Rock", the only thing I have to go off of is the following: "Adult Rock - Rock that's ... " and I can't even view more details without loading the station. Seems like a waste of time. I've always liked Winamp because it's always so easy to use ... but the latest 'update' to CBS Radio is a big step backwards. Please change it back!

Posted at 9:59AM on Jul 10th 2008 by NebraskaGuy

5. NebraskaGuy,
Thanks for the comment & longtime support! Try maximizing your player while browsing thru radio stations... that way you can see the full title and description. Sometimes station descriptions get truncated if you don%u2019t have your player open wide enough.

Posted at 2:15PM on Jul 11th 2008 by The Winamp Team

6. This helps ... but sure uses up real estate (which seems to go against one of Winamp's great features of the past - quick, simple, effective). I'm sort of a minimalist and would like to see a return to getting the job done without requiring so many additional steps. Perhaps offering stations the old way, and just adding the 'physical' station links to the category? (Please?) :)

Posted at 10:15AM on Jul 14th 2008 by NebraskaGuy

7. NebraskaGuy - If you'd like, can you send a screen shot? I'm pretty sure I understand the issue, but want to be sure. You can try reaching me on the following email: chunderv@aol dotcom

Posted at 8:05AM on Jul 16th 2008 by The Winamp Team

8. Sure! I've just sent you an email. Winamp still rocks!

Posted at 9:22AM on Jul 16th 2008 by NebraskaGuy

9. NebraskaGuy. Got your mail! Thanks for taking the time. Will look into it more.

Posted at 8:41AM on Jul 18th 2008 by The Winamp Team

10. I have been using winamp since the Llama was in diapers..... I LOVE your program, I use it to DJ for friends' weddings. I LOVE the "Jump To File" window feature. I can categorize and search MUCH better that way. I was wondering if you could give me an itemized list of the features I can disable so it will run at "peak" performance. Right now my collection of music is quite large and it takes up to 30 seconds for it to search for a song.

Thanks so much!

Mark

Posted at 5:19PM on Jul 21st 2008 by mark

11. winamp rocks!!

Posted at 1:47AM on Jul 22nd 2008 by karnic

12. Mark - The Winamp forum is a wealth of information. You may want to check out a great post by DJ Egg. Awhile back, he pulled together a full list of 5.51 components (which are modular features which can be deselected prior to installation)

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=199851#list

There's also a great site that he pointed me to... "Like the Wind". It offers tips & tweaks to speed up Winamp, or fix any settings that may be slowing you down:

http://nunzioweb.com/daz/like_the_wind/

Posted at 10:45AM on Jul 22nd 2008 by Winamp Team

13. I am having problems with AOL radio stations showing up in the media library section.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times the v5.54 but no luck
nothing happens when I click on the highlighted radio station name... :(
Im considering to downgrade to the previous version.

c'est dommage ...
Any clue

Posted at 2:17AM on Jul 26th 2008 by Manin

14. Winamp is still my favourite music player, but the latest versions are turning more like Windows Media Player (which I hate a lot, for it's greede requierements). So please, don't let Wiamp become Windows Media Player, make Winamp light and powerfull again, like good old times ;)

Posted at 1:09PM on Jul 28th 2008 by VideoX VX

15. Manin - Can you confirm that when you click on AOL Radio that you see the "AOL Radio powered by CBS Radio" logo?

Here are a couple of quick steps you can take that may solve the issue:

1) AOL Radio is a sub-directory under the "Online Services" root. Try clicking on "Online Services" & then deselecting and then re-selecting the check mark next to AOL Radio. That may synch your subscription.

2) Try clearing your Internet Explorer cache

Posted at 12:05PM on Jul 28th 2008 by The Winamp Team

16. Thanks for taking the time to answer me.
Yes, in the 'Mediatheque' tab I see : AOL ► radio powered by ☺CBSRadio
then the bar : View Stations by : GENRE | Location (hyperlink)
Under I have the vertical list of the radios starting by : AOL Recommends and 32 rows way down finishing by World/International.

Those rows are mouse sensitive and react properly in turning greyed on mouse over.
Also when I click on (say *Rock*) the page with the Rock radios list is sent properly. Up to here Winamp works as expected.
So I have now the complete list of the radios ie. :
100.7 WZLX - Boston's Only Classic Rock
101 KUFO - blablabla and so on...

The radio name is highlighted in a beautiful light blue color.
The rows are also responding to the mouse over, the focus is materialized by a grey rectangular background of about 10 cm long.

But all the hyperlink on that window,
. Genre
. Location
. All Radios names
does NOT react to the mouse click, (left or right) or to any keyboard action (enter, ctrlM, tab, shift ctrl alt click...

no way to select a particular radio.... whatever the time I wait awaiting for some kind of answer... no luck.

Same problem occurs in WinAmp Music :
. the artist list in shown
. when I click on a singer, the message Loading is displayed breafly then NOTHING....

On AOL Videos: I succeeded to have some videos but it is very ennoying to wait for about ten minutes to see the message *loading* desappears and finaly see the vid (whatever the artist I choice, on my 18 kbits/s internet connexion)...

. ShoutCast TV Ok
. Shoutcast Radio Ok :)

Of course I took care of the IE cache, first thing I did
also I closed all applications in order to leave all my DDR memory for Winamp (2Gb).
I already tried to active and deselect the Online Service in order to try to synchronise the contents with the display... no results...

I use Winamp from the very beginning,

Oh by the way I remarked on Music List some artists name misdisplayed their name has unreadable unicode (UTF8) characters.... may be is a way to dig...

Manin
Manin Technologies
software engineering

Posted at 8:31PM on Jul 28th 2008 by Manin

17. Manin,

To be honest, I'm not sure what's causing your issue. I pulled in one of our resident experts (DJ Egg) and he thought that you may potentially have 'enqueue' set as the default action.

If that's the case, what may be happening is that when you click on the station, the url is getting added to the end of the playlist, rather than immediately playing.

Again, not sure if that's the cause... but hope that helps.

Posted at 11:07AM on Jul 30th 2008 by The Winamp Team

18. Love the new look of Winamp! Now playing is great to use to look up an artist that is new to me when playing on a SHOUTcast station. I would like to see the new Dashboard have the layout of Now Playing or similar user friendly layout. Keep up the great work team!

Posted at 5:47PM on Aug 1st 2008 by DJKalyxtaNRG

19. Any idea why the "Title" in the "Now Playing" section gives me something like:
CBS R20 878P F128?ext=.flv

Also get the same when I hover over the Winamp icon in the system tray ... ?

Posted at 3:25PM on Sep 11th 2008 by NebraskaGuy