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Visualisations / Re: Trying to convert AVS preset to MilkDrop, confusing results

« on: August 23, 2026, 06:04:49 PM »

The crash in the MilkDrop plugin was due to trying to ascend the directory tree to get to the Documents. After a few wrong attempts to get me out of this culprit I found the correct INI file though.

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Visualisations / Re: Trying to convert AVS preset to MilkDrop, confusing results

« on: August 23, 2026, 05:21:09 PM »

OK, beta Dev-build.

Several crashes, uninstalls and fresh re-installs later (installer stops at the attempt to re-download original Winamp 5.666 libs when it tries to update an existing installation):

MilkDrop 2 works OK regarding the last bug.

But it behaves annoyingly for different reasons. So I doubt I will ever enjoy the port from AVS to MilkDrop2.

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Visualisations / Re: Trying to convert AVS preset to MilkDrop, confusing results

« on: August 23, 2026, 04:19:06 PM »

LigH: As a beta tester you've already got access to the dev build which has the noted vis plug-in handling fix.

Unfortunately it doesn't run. There was a "Side by side error" (WinSxs), asking me to check the Event Viewer. This one reported also an application error trying to run the x86 installer (WACUP_Full_v1_99_53_24784_x86.exe) so I have to assume that the installation got aborted due to a broken installer.

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Visualisations / Re: Trying to convert AVS preset to MilkDrop, confusing results

« on: August 23, 2026, 05:56:54 AM »

the fix for that will come whenever the next preview build is released

  Glad to be involved again! Looking forward to it.

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Visualisations / Trying to convert AVS preset to MilkDrop, confusing results

« on: July 06, 2026, 08:30:39 AM »

I programmed a preset for WinAmp's AVS which I enjoy a lot. But I wondered if I could convert it to the MilkDrop 2 system. Well, that turned out to be not as easy. And I may have noticed a serious bug.

The MilkDrop 2 plugins in WACUP and foobar2000 differ obviously. While this reports version 2.41.4 and supports up to 4 custom shapes and waveforms which it saves explicitly, that one identifies as version 0.8.14 and supports up to 16 custom shapes and waveforms which it saves minimalistically. {PS: foo_MilkDrop2 is indeed an enhanced fork.}

The elephant in the room here is that the phase display I programmed displays a long diagonal line when the visualizer window frame is clicked or moved, and the right channel spectrum is not visible, so I have to assume that the right audio channel contains garbage values beyond 481 samples of the waveform window (looks fine up to 481, starts messing from 482 samples upwards).

{PS: From time to time there are even more mysterious issues. With the last update I installed yesterday, I see only one quadrant in use, as if all of the values are positive only.}

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Visualisations / Re: Trying to compare AVS versions: visbot archive seems messed up

« on: March 01, 2026, 08:35:04 PM »

grandchild found a possible reason for an UI issue which makes the fullscreen settings not remember the previously selected video mode. Might it be a kind of API problem? I tested it only with 3rd party hosts, grandchild said he can't reproduce it with an original Winamp.

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Visualisations / Re: Trying to compare AVS versions: visbot archive seems messed up

« on: February 28, 2026, 02:04:01 PM »

Thanks DrO. I will make an issue in grandchild's github repo and see if there is any reply. If not, I will just use what works for me.

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Visualisations / Re: Trying to compare AVS versions: visbot archive seems messed up

« on: February 25, 2026, 07:19:16 PM »

There is a download link for version 2.83 on the MusicBee site (outsourced to MediaFire).

AFAICS it works well too (WACUP 1.99.45.23528 32b + crash fix update; foobar2000 v2.25.7 32b + Shpeck [Winamp vis plugins wrapper] 0.3.7).

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Visualisations / Trying to compare AVS versions: visbot archive seems messed up

« on: February 23, 2026, 04:40:23 PM »

When I developed my Ultra Visualizer (yay, took me several attempts but eventually I got it uploaded there), I found that AVS versions 2.81b and 2.81d don't display the SuperScope renderer which is required for my spectrums and phase display. This may have been a compatibility issue with Windows Vista+ (running Windows 10 here).

AVS version 2.82 works well. Never had any crashes with my preset, I guess the numerous reports were caused by different kinds of presets.

Now I got curious if any newer versions do exist. And this quickly started to confuse me. So there is apparently a version 2.83 in the archive of the visbot network. Which identifies as version 2.2 in internal dialogs. 

Also there are seemingly newer versions like: vis_chavs-2.9.dll / vis_chavsmod-2.9.dll / vis_chavsmod-2.9.1.dll ... which appear to be exact copies of that same 7-zip archive as the one I downloaded as version 2.83. 

For some reason, I guess all the files the visbot archive sends me are the same, actually with vis_avs-2.2.dll inside. In case this is a fault of my webbrowser, and you are able to download the correct files, please share them!

I looked hard for any other sources but only found either dead links or github repos with sources only.