Dante Posted October 10, 2007 Posted October 10, 2007 This past weekend, we met up with Matthew Callaway, product director for Winamp, as he showed us the new Winamp Remote. The product is relatively simple; users store their music files on a PC with Winamp running. Then they enable the application for remote access. After setting that up, users fire up the Wii or PlayStation 3 web browser and head to http://winamp.com/remote to sign in. As long as the host PC is on, has Winamp running and connected to the Internet, the user can allow a friend to stream music and video from that machine too. If the user was on the road, at a party, over a friend's or trapped in a coffee house with bad music, they can access their tunes remotely from anywhere with an Internet connection. The software also further expands on the Winamp steaming media concept with a similar interface for cell phones with web browsers and the Xbox 360. Sadly, without a browser, the Xbox 360 can only stream media from a local PC and not from another location. Should Microsoft fix the problem, you should be able to use Winamp Remote there too. Winamp 5.5 * New: Bento SingleUI Skin * New: Auto-Tagger in File Info dialog (powered by Gracenote) * New: Album Art support, including new window for Winamp Modern skin * New: Fully translatable Localization support * New: WLZ (Winamp Language Zip) filetype support * New: Global 'playback thread priority' setting for decoders * New: Media Monitor and MP3 Blog site scraper (in Bento browser) * New: Option to set the number of lines to scroll in the Playlist * New: Option to not show playlist item number in classic songticker * New: Option to not show the playlist number in the Windows taskbar * New: Redesigned Installer * New: Run Setup switch, winamp.exe /REG=S * New: Unified File Editor, with Artwork tab (for mp3, m4a, wma, ogg, flac) * New: Version History drop-down selector and Search (in About dialog) * New: Winamp Toolbar for Internet Explorer (optional) * New: %family% ATF string for identifying filetypes * New: $split() ATF function for splitting x/y disc & track strings * New: [in_mp3] Multi-channel mp3surround support * New: [gen_ml] Tree Options tab in Media Library Preferences * New: [ml_autotag] Mass Auto-Tagger in Send-To menu (powered by Gracenote) * 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 * New: [vis_milk2] Milkdrop2 Visualizer Download Here
Cube Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 Does this version crash 50% of the time like the last few versions I've used?
Marshmellow Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 I'll stick with the PS3/360's built in streaming abilities. But I may use this for school...
Wesley Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 I heard this is a real attempt by Nullsoft to grab the market back from Apple. It's AOL now anyway, isn't it...
Guest Jordan Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 Does this version crash 50% of the time like the last few versions I've used? I've been using Winamp since 2.1 (i skipped version 3 however and went straight onto 5) and i can't say i've ever had issues with crashing... hense why i've been using it for years and years.
Sanchez Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 I've been using Winamp since 2.1 (i skipped version 3 however and went straight onto 5) and i can't say i've ever had issues with crashing... hense why i've been using it for years and years. Same. This is awesome.
Mr_Odwin Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 Foobar2000 is where it's at. I'm giving no reasons, just saying it like it's true.
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