Winamp for Windows 10

Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by lazyjeff on Sunday November 01, 2020 @05:12PM (#24962990)

I use winamp 2.91 on Windows 10 as my main music player. It works fine except .wav files have clipping/static which doesn't occur in other players, and some newer formats are not supported. But still works great for flac (with a plugin) and mp3. I use the double size feature so it's not tiny on a 4K HiDPI monitor.

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by 51Cards on Sunday November 01, 2020 @06:42PM (#24963548)

All points mirror my use. MP3 only, double size on my 4K monitor, and it works perfectly. I didn't realize it had any Win10 issues.

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by DaiPlusPlus on Sunday November 01, 2020 @09:50PM (#24964435)

I modified the embedded app-manifest inside Winamp.exe because Winamp incorrectly claims to support high-DPI mode. After patching that I’m able to use Winamp on my 200% displays without turning on Winamp’s built-in pixel-doubling.

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by jeegsy on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:47AM (#24967562)

> I modified the embedded app-manifest inside Winamp.exe

How do you inspect the contents of an exe? Is there a program to do that?

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by DaiPlusPlus on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:08PM (#24974548)

The manifest is stored as a Win32 Resource, any resource-editor will work. I used Visual Studio (File > Open > EXE).

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by jeegsy on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:46AM (#24979115)

Thanks!

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by fireattack on Sunday November 01, 2020 @09:18PM (#24964312)

If it has issues with WAV playback only on Win10, I think this alone warrants an update (assuming the update addressed this).

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by SECProto on Sunday November 01, 2020 @11:08PM (#24964750)

Noting that I don't use winamp, and haven't since I found foobar2000 back in ~2004... I would not even notice that as an issue. The last time I had a .WAV I needed to play was in Windows 95.

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by fireattack on Sunday November 01, 2020 @11:28PM (#24964822)

Yeah there is little reason to use WAV anymore.

Admittedly, I still use it frequently when I am too lazy to convert my CD rips to FLAC.

(Another fellow FB2k user here.)

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by qubex on Monday November 02, 2020 @03:26AM (#24965756)

WAV is to audio as BMP is to images: the fundamental, brutal, unsophisticated, first-effort approach that also, coincidentally, because of its brutality, somehow simultaneously represents an apex of fidelity and impracticality.

All other image formats get parsed to recreate either an identical or approximate bitmap as would have been encoded into the BMP file, but usually with more features or smaller size, or both.

All other audio formats get parsed to recreate either an identical or approximate audiowave as would have been encoded into the WAV file, but usually with more features or smaller size, or both.

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by magicalhippo on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:40AM (#24966231)

WAV is based on the RIFF[1] container format and supports various compression formats, so in that regard it is more like TIFF than BMP.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Form...

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by mook on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:23PM (#24973562)

BMP has the ability to hold compressed data too; for example they can hold JEPG and PNG compressed images. I don't think it has the ability to hold arbitrary data though.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/dd183376(...

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by fogihujy on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:52AM (#24966647)

More like IFF than TIFF, though nowadays it's just "legacy" anyway.

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Re:Winamp for Windows 10 by crtasm on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:26AM (#24969066)

One case is DJ equipment - FLAC support wasn't standard for a long time so DJs may be forced to stick with WAV to be sure of compatibility with the pro kit installed in clubs.

Also now that many sources provide 24bit audio you need to check for that and resample to 16bit to be certain it'll work.

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