Latest WACUP public preview for x86 & x64 is build #24626 (July 10th 2026) (x86 & x64 changelogs)
Latest restricted WACUP beta release is build #24626 (July 10th 2026) (x86 & x64 changelogs)

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General Discussion / Re: Disable creating Start menu items every time
« Last post by dro on Today at 02:06:32 PM »
I'll be clear on this, WACUP is not Winamp so I will do things differently to it based on what I feel needs to be done with it. If you (or anyone else reading this) are not happy with that then you are more than welcome to uninstall it & use something else that better suits your needs. Additionally if you've made a donation then let me know the details & I'll do what I can to get it refunded so you're not out of pocket.



There are a bunch of options to control how wacup will do update checks so you can always just disable all of that & stick on whatever version you've got installed. That is from preferences -> about|updates -> updates tab (with a never option also being added for the next interim build to the post-release updates dropdown at the bottom) or by going to preferences -> general -> internet | online & turning the option off - it still allows you to play streams but it won't then do any update checks, etc.

As I've already tried to explain it's not my fault that the OS has a shitty requirement to do something that I also don't like related to a mode that otherwise I find is beneficial for getting post-release updates installed sooner. I also made changes with the 24616 build that recently went up which tries to auto-hide the shortcut when the fallback handling (as described previously) has been triggered.

So I've done what I can & if you don't like that then there's nothing else I can do & yes you should just uninstall it & move on.
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General Discussion / Re: Disable creating Start menu items every time
« Last post by butlnor on Today at 12:35:21 PM »
Why would I need a toast? I never update the software, I just need a simple audio player. But every day, I get back the entry in Start menu. So I am thinking of getting rid of WACUP just because of this. It is annoying, and making me angry. Winamp did not do this.

I would continue using 20 years old Winamp, but it does not support newer SSL protocols which the online radio I listen to, is using. This is the only reason why I had to switch to WACUP.
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Visualisations / Trying to convert AVS preset to MilkDrop, confusing results
« Last post by LigH 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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Both problems are due to my attempt to get 5.666's gen_ff plug-in working outside of winamp & there's still a bunch of things I've to figure out when it comes to resolving such compatibility issues especially with the window frames disappearing which can happen with any of the winamp3 / modern style skins though I've only tended to see it happen when resizing the windows. I don't have a timescale for fixing these types of issues.
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Preview Build Discussion / Re: Problems with Jump to File
« Last post by dro on July 05, 2026, 09:19:31 PM »
For those following along, there's now post-release updates for the jtfe & in_wave plug-ins with build 24568 which fixes the 2 aspects behind the issue reported.

The main problem was with how the search control dealt with the enter / return key action when the search box was focused due to an old core bug related to keyboard navigation in dialog windows that had already been resolved a while back but the jtfe plug-in hadn't been updated to avoid having to do some of the manual reprocessing it was doing to workaround that issue. It meant it was causing duplicate quick stop+play actions which could cause either a main UI thread deadlock or it hitting a timeout within in_wave's playback stopping handling. tl;dr: having less code fixed the problem.
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I just made the move to WACUP (1.99.51.24568 (x86)) from Winamp 5.666. It's mostly working great! Thanks so much for all the work on this! There are a couple issues with the Drone_v11 skin that I use:

1 - With certain color schemes, the main part of the main player window (and only that window) is always weirdly oversaturated. I attached a comparison of the window on 5.666 and then on WACUP with the "Dark: Mint Dark" color scheme. There are similar issues with many of the color schemes, such as "Movie: SW War Lord".

2 - The borders of random windows keep disappearing and then reappearing on their own every few minutes. I've seen it with the Playlist Editor, Media Library, lyrics plugin, album art viewer, and Waveform Seeker (see attached image) windows. So I assume it can just happen to any window at any time.
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Visualisations / Victor F_L
« Last post by TheLegoBoy on July 04, 2026, 03:50:03 AM »
Insided collection completed. Farewell Victor!
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Visualisations / ddrew
« Last post by TheLegoBoy on July 03, 2026, 11:39:16 PM »
Farewell Drew. It's been long to been AVS community come back of way it the end.


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Visualisations / Phoenix The Eternal
« Last post by TheLegoBoy on July 03, 2026, 11:38:14 PM »
Here i found this of oldiest long AVS pack of called Phoenix.

Farewell Phoenix.
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Visualisations / mykaL
« Last post by TheLegoBoy on July 03, 2026, 11:27:33 PM »
Inside completed of mykaL's AVS pack of the way.

Farewell mykaL!
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