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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Enable multiple selection for Media Library Playlists items

« on: August 06, 2025, 01:04:58 AM »

Hello Dro,

It would be cool if we would be able to select multiple playlists in the media library to add them to a Group.

I'm not sure since when we can group playlists but I just discovered this feature and I absolutely love it. 

Just wish we could select more than one at a time.

I'm using the option "Show the available playlists as children under the root 'Playlists' item"

Thanks ♥

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General Discussion / Making a WACUP plugin

« on: July 26, 2025, 09:36:33 PM »

Howdy,

I'm looking for a project to challenge myself a bit and I thought it would be a good idea to try and pull off something I've been wanting for a long time: A plugin to create dynamic playlists based on audio signature (i.e.: 'Find more songs like this').

I never made any plugins for Winamp, let alone WACUP, but the first question that comes to mind is where should I be looking for in terms of API/SDK?

I found a repo by patrickmmartin detailing the Winamp API 14 years ago (https://github.com/patrickmmartin/winampremote/blob/master/source/API.txt), is that still relevant today?

Similar information from the Winamp dev forum here:
https://forums.winamp.com/forum/developer-center/winamp-development/156726-winamp-application-programming-interface?s=&threadid=180297

Other relevant information I could find:
Wacup SDK: https://getwacup.com/sdk/
Winamp 5.55 SDK: https://forums.winamp.com/forum/developer-center/winamp-development/228937-winamp-5-55-sdk
Most links are dead for Winamp SDK though.

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Adding relevant links to GitHub repos:
https://github.com/Wacup

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Better Playlist Changes Management

« on: July 23, 2024, 07:38:23 AM »

Original thread title: Remember Playlist Custom Order

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Howdy,

Today I have encountered something rather frustrating and hopefully this can be addressed so my clumsy fingers aren't causing me any more headaches lol...

I was ordering songs in a pretty big playlist and had been working on it for some time, then I misclicked on the 'Title' header and the playlist was automatically ordered alphabetically. I tried 'Alt + Z' but unfortunately this had no effect. All my work evaporated 😅 (EDIT: Actually realized since I did not load a different playlist I still had the correct order in the Playlist Editor pane. I was able to save it again with the proper song order. Still, I think some improvements can be made to how playlist changes are handled.)

Would it be possible to implement a 'Sort list by hand' or something that Wacup could remember so that if we change sorting it can be reverted to our custom sorting?

The above seems overly complex and there may be a simpler approach...

Alternatively, and maybe a simpler solution, an undo button - or better yet a functional 'Alt + Z' - could work so that we can restore the playlist to a previous state in case of changes.

I noticed that if I go into a playlist, then change the position of a song, a 'Save' button appears indicating that the change(s) are not (yet) permanent and have to be saved. This is not the case when you re-order the playlist by clicking on the 'Title' header (probably something that should also trigger the 'Save' button to be displayed). Also, if you don't click on the 'Save' button and move to a different playlist, the changes are automatically saved. This is a bit clunky, I like the 'Save' button idea but it seems redundant if you don't need to click on it to save your changes.

I'm not sure what would be the best solution. I may prefer to be forced to click the 'Save' button to confirm changes. Maybe moving to a different playlist after making changes that are not saved would display a popup 'Your playlist order has changed, what would you like to do?' Save/Cancel. Maybe a checkbox 'Don't ask me again' for users that don't want to bother with this every time. Just thinking out loud.

Let me know what you think

-B

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Resolved Issues / Issues playing Hi-Res WAV

« on: July 08, 2024, 05:07:40 PM »

Howdy,

My friend was recording an event straight from a mixer and saved the show as Hi-Res WAV (32Bits 96kHz). He made a little mistake by merging the left and right channels so the file is in mono, but this shouldn't really be an issue.

When I tried to play the file in Wacup, the sound was distorted and had a lot of clipping. He was a little panicked at first thinking the entire recording was messed up. I then tried to play the same file in Winamp and the sound was in fact ok and played well.

I'm a bit confused as to what's happening here since I use the same output plugin in Winamp and Wacup (AudioBurst FX). They also both share the same settings. Here's the resampler settings (both identical in Wacup and Winamp):



I have also noticed that the Spectrum Analyzer shows a much more satured waveform in Wacup compared to Winamp as illustrated below:

Wacup


Winamp


Note that this is the exact same file playing, locally (not on my NAS).

Any idea what's going on here?

Thanks!


Edit: Tested with other output plugins Not So Direct and Not So YASAPI, same result.

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Preview Build Discussion / Waveform seeker issues with mapped network drive

« on: July 01, 2024, 08:33:42 PM »

Howdy,

While looking at some of the threads here I came across one mentioning the waveform seeker. I've never really used it before but it's a neat little feature so I played a bit with it and found some issues.

When I'm reading a FLAC or MP3 from my NAS, the waveform won't load and looks like this:


However if I copy the file locally, looks good!


Seems like Wacup doesn't play too well with libraries on a NAS.

This also prompted me to do some testing regarding the other issue I mentioned about ATF/metadata, so I'm going to update the other thread with this information as well.