Hasta la Vista Bugs! - Winamp Blog

Category: Winamp Updates, Category: The Team Posted by Vinay, Jan 28th 2009 4:02AM

QA = Quality + Assurance

Imagine you have a nice hotel and on an average you have 2.5 million hungry customers visiting daily. How would you give them the best food in terms of quality? Got the picture? Welcome to Winamp Quality Assurance team. Quality for us means catering to our user base so that they have a seamless experience with Winamp.

Winamp has almost 77 million unique visitors every month! We are very proud to say that, but there's a catch too. Logically, millions of users roughly translates into tonnes of combination of hardwares, softwares, operating systems, browsers and above all.. user expectations! It's indeed a top priority for us to make sure you are one happy Winamp user and we are very determined to squash each and every bug and say "Hasta la vista, baby" :) However there may be times when we may not be able to squash all the bugs at one go. So we go head-on with the nasty ones first.

Winamp QA team is not just a bunch of bug hungry people. We have a kind heart too! :) We would be glad if you join us in our quest of serving quality stuff to our ever growing audience - which you are already! There are number of ways to reach us. Make use of Winamp Forums, Blog, Feed back form etc. and tell us what's your likes and dislikes.

We are commited to make Winamp the Number 1 media player.

Llama loves you.. So do we!

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1. wow.and last i checked the chart, it was 3.5 million....:-)
Keep up the good work, Winamp QA!

Posted at 4:27AM on Jan 28th 2009 by sherlock

2. Awesome post Vinay!

Posted at 12:47AM on Jan 30th 2009 by Drunken Wolf

3. if this post was in response to my comment on the previous post, first i want to thank you for the response.

but allow me to clarify... there are a lot of KNOWN issues, and KNOWN bugs in winamp right now, my request is to concentrate on fixing all such known issues (bugs or unintended behaviors) before adding any new features. jmho.

Posted at 6:09PM on Jan 29th 2009 by MrSinatra

4. It's been three weeks - where's the patch for the AIFF processing buffer overflow vulnerability (Secunia Advisory SA33478)?

Any media player which allows remote system access just by opening a media file cannot be number one!

http://secunia.com/advisories/33478/

Posted at 1:07AM on Feb 3rd 2009 by Richard

5. The security issue is fixed and its going out with the new release very soon. Thanks Richard for the information.

Posted at 1:57AM on Feb 11th 2009 by Ashok

6. So one bug gets fixed, another gets introduced:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33981/

Posted at 9:33PM on Mar 3rd 2009 by Richard

7. And fixed in 5.55.1, but the update isn't particularly obvious from the home page, which still shows v5.55!

Posted at 1:37AM on Mar 17th 2009 by Richard

8. Winamp's da best!!!!

Posted at 1:07PM on Apr 23rd 2009 by nik

9. When are you going to produce a PortableApps.com version of Winamp Free Player? Winamp is still the best!

Posted at 1:26AM on Aug 4th 2009 by dj3