Nullsoft has just updated WinAMP 3 by releasing Alpha 666.

The following new features and bug fixes are included in this release:

3.0 Alpha 666 (05/21/01) build #429

+ better http streaming

+ more responsive interface

+ better seeking

+ image loading done by components

+ faster startup

+ preliminary support for winamp 2.x visualizations

+ less memory usage

+ better crossfading (no more clicks we hope)

+ Shuffle on next added, edit your .xnf file to turn it on

+ skin love:

   - faster skin switching/loading

   - faster gamma tweaking

   - GDI resource usage cut way down

   - faster MMX optimized blitting

   - bilinear filtering for stretched skin pieces

   - snap points for funky-shaped skin piece love

+ more scripting amazingness:

   - guru meditations slightly more helpful

   - faster execution

   - general purpose scripts

   - script manager to add/remove general purpose scripts

+ basic field editing in dbexplorer, which will probably go into the media lib

+ sclist for shoutcast browsing pleasure

+ bugs fixed, added

WinAMP 3 alpha is here! Remember that this is alpha software and is definitely not going to work anywhere near as stable as WinAMP 2.xx does.

coolishness

Great does it have tasktray setup yet

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i downloaded the first and second alphas and i hated them..... probably keep on crushing so i wont download it till it finally realeased... i only want it for better skin look and crossfading in a click of a button though i got crossfading plugin for winamp 2.xx and its really got lots of options.. but to turn it off and on i got to go into the options and thats annoying... not much of a diffrence but still

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honestly is there a need for a version 3?

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i agree pixelphreak, winamp 2.xx has always been perfect as it is.

It really whips the llamas ass, but my v 2.7x works great, no bugs, nothing.

Its fine the way it is..

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you wanna know what?
when i'm looking at monaux's skins, at goochtek's skins, and at all the other great skins, i'm absolutely satisfied....i don't know if WA3 will be 2x compatible, so....now...stop the project. leave me alone. go h0me.

nevioTH,
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I hope WA3 won't have the same fate as Mozzila - an overly sophisticated piece of engineering that takes way too much to be released, just about after everyone switched to the MS alternative, which kept getting better and better while the mozzila/WA programmers kept saying to themselves: "We have super XMML/SFGX, we re-implemented the wheel, we rule!"
Wow, this came out as a rant!
But think about it.

i'm donw with winamp until 3 final is released... musicmatch ownz for it's library functions.

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I'm sticking with 2x.....

By the looks of it, I'll stick to 2.x. Besides, WA3 isn't developed by Justin... So, really, it can't even bee as good And besides, even after 3 is released, Justin will develop the 2.x series even further. Lots of digits to go until 2.999.

666 is a Bad omen..


[Qoz]

it's all good that they want to come up with something new,but i'll stick with 2x for now....i just wish they'd do something about their skins section...they have such crap listed as 5 star skins-all pixelized and buggy pieces of junk...you have to sort through a hundred skins just to find a decent one...

Hmm any idea when it will be done?

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me thinks i'll wait till 3 is completed before i download its

./wicked amp

./dr0n99

what use do you have of an alpha winamp 3, when all it's used for is playing mp3's ... I mean, I haven't touched anything but the skin-support and a crossfade-option. The only major feat. that could make me change program is cpu-usage, and winamp 2.7x owns any other app doing the same job... *shrugs*, waste of time nullsoft.

::fisk

hmmm..... :/

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Nullsoft has to justify their multi-million dollar AOL buy-out doing something, don't they?

Personally, I'll stick with Quintessential Player. 'Specially because I can use WA & Sonique vis plugs with it now!!

evilness...

[doobybrain]

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on va en avoir encore conbien avant la suposser version finale
si possible de savoir si cette version est stable

: : : Winamp 3 will own j00 all : : :

Has the crew at Nullsoft ever let any of you down?

U know they wouldn't be working on something unless it money baby, come on.

The only two things that make this case does not compare as well to IE/Mozzila is:

1) There is not a super-duper mp3/*** player getting better and better (at least not yet released)

2) AND winamp already works really fine. It does what it is supposed to do very well AND it does better than any other player. Plus mozzila wasn't so efficient as winamp is in its area.

I don't care what everyone says but once I started playing around with all the option this thing ROCKS i tell ya WOW. I can see good things come in the future..

Sonique's Mantis technology owns winamp! Check it out. http://software.deviantart.com/download.php?id=159


ALF IS GOD!!!!
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Winamp 2 is the best player but everyone knows that.. only the playlist could use a couple of enhancments.

Winamp 3 looks bloated already as it is, with all those little windows and everything... and freeform skinning is mostly evil. The database thingy however is a nice touch.

Mantis demo.. yes I found that impressive too, now I want to see a finished player!

i'm gonna go with 2x but thanks for the news anyway.!

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tonight! Can I slumber?

If it's not broken, don't fix it.....

"If it's not broken, don't fix it" and "what's the point of an alpha when we already have 2.x" have got to be two of the most IGNORANT things I've ever read in my entire life. By that logic, why should we ever improve on anything. Improving requires risk, and god forbid that someone should fail at trying something. I applaud Nullsoft for what they're doing, and I've been trying the alphas as they come out. They're getting better and better, with lower CPU usage, and I can't wait to see the final product (even if I end up sticking with 2.x). All these people badmouthing the company for expanding should be slapped upside the head.

I remember everyone thought this was going to be out, complete, last xmas. Even one of the nullsoft people said it was, however by the looks of it it seems it wasn't even Started till then. We're almost halfway through the year and it's still in alpha! With a couple of playlist enhancements i'd stick with 2.xx, as someone has already mentioned, this just seems like bloatware. A good artist knows when to stop fiddling with his painting before he overdoes it, it's a pity nullsoft can't do the same.

How many more 2.xx's do we need man...I mean have'nt you had this alpha version online for a long time now so that you can make substantial changes to that player of yours.Also I would love 2 see winamp skins like sonic's.Hope you get ALL the bugs etc. out of the player sooner than ur next version of 2.xx comes out.

As for me I'm off to get this EVIL player...
Bye ppl.

vgfcgc

Lets see how many ways we can restate the same post. As i read down the list i see the same ideas restated over and over. ether "Im not going to upgrade to wa3 because its only an alpha" or "winamp 2.xx is sooooo perfect leave it alone man". Both of these ideas leave very little to add on to. As for my take on the deal, WA3 has some great enchanced functioning (transparent/shaped skins for example) but it using the same codex to play mp3s as of yet. So in short no need to upgrade. does the same damn thing the same way.

winamp 3 sucks. using xml in skins is fucking stupid. not everybody knows xml or even html. the whole skinning process it way too long and complicated. its getting up there with sonique and windows media player in difficulty.

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hmm 666? i can't wait for 777!!!!

hmmm... i dunno bout winamp 3.... i think they should just keep workin on 2x cuz its already the best player out there.

once the 2.x is playin i dont give a shit about 666or777

this is the tightest, jk 2x is betta

Looks like it will be great when it is all smoothed out but for now it is riddled with bugs. (I got the blue screen of death just by opening a file)!