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General Discussion / Re: Winamp Pop-up

« Last post by MourningStar on March 22, 2023, 11:15:24 PM »

I want to use the 2nd instance for some very lengthy media (a/v lectures, tutorials, seminars, etc.) that need to be paused at end-of-day pc power off and have the paused locations restored at the next pc power-up.

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General Discussion / Re: Winamp Pop-up

« Last post by dro on March 22, 2023, 08:59:13 PM »

What are you doing to try to spawn a new instance? As Ctrl+Alt+N is the only keyboard action to do it unless you're using a skin / plug-in(s) that are some how messing with the shortcut handling.

The action should work irrespective of that prefs option which ideally should be left unchecked as you'll have a bunch of other issues if you do check it.

When you do a Ctrl+Alt+N it's meant to have prompted if you wanted to have it duplicate the settings which is a middle ground between making another install or keeping the same install but its using it's own settings folder to avoid the data corruption issue that multiple instances running can otherwise cause.

Now knowing what your config paths are, the simplest option would be to see if there's a %appdata%\wacup_m folder (am assuming the default paths) & if there is, once all wacup instances have been stopped, removed it & then in a newly started instance do the Ctrl+Alt+N & that should then give you a prompt on what to do about the settings. One thing with doing that is it can take a while for the copy to complete.

Otherwise make a portable install using the installer & that'll give you the equivalent & you can run as many portable installs as you want to.

-dro

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General Discussion / Re: Winamp Pop-up

« Last post by MourningStar on March 22, 2023, 08:39:49 PM »

You can run multiple beta instances like you can do with the preview build (would be a bit silly to restrict that in betas but not preview builds ).

OK - well, when I tried to invoke a new instance nothing happened. I then reasoned that perhaps there is a box or something in the options dialogue that needs to be checked. In Main Menu > Options > Preferences > General > I saw a unchecked box labeled "Allow multiple instances (this can cause data corruption)", checked it and closed the dialogue. The attached image of a popup appeared. I was in no mood for taking this 'leap' and cliked "No".

If there is another way, I am all ears. Maybe doing a separate beta install in another directory (is this what the popup suggestion refers to and is it safe?)? I will defer to your advice.

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General Discussion / Re: Winamp Pop-up

« Last post by dro on March 21, 2023, 10:33:21 PM »

You can run multiple beta instances like you can do with the preview build (would be a bit silly to restrict that in betas but not preview builds ).

re: that spammy looking message prompt (they have the means to do the nicer way of reporting updates to users but seems they cba to do it right), preferences -> general preferences page -> uncheck "Check for new versions of Winamp at startup" to avoid it reappearing if they do other 5.9.x releases.

-dro

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General Discussion / Winamp Pop-up

« Last post by MourningStar on March 21, 2023, 09:29:31 PM »

It has been awhile but when I need 2 media players to run at once, in addition to WACUP, I will fire up my original Winamp5.666 install. I have stopped using WACUP's preview build because there are too many fixes to it in the beta version and I exclusively use the beta. I know not if it can run more than one beta instance. Anyways, as I said, I fired up the 5.666 and the attached image popped up.

Just curious and I did dismiss it.

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General Discussion / MilkDrop 3.0 + 500 presets

« Last post by serge000 on March 20, 2023, 10:12:14 PM »

Hey guys, I've made a version of MilkDrop 3.0 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97XrIatMBWc



info and download : https://github.com/milkdrop2077/MilkDrop3

 

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General Discussion / Re: My MP4/Video Issue

« Last post by dro on February 24, 2023, 12:24:10 PM »

Ok, that's good to know it's behaving better.

-dro

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General Discussion / Re: My MP4/Video Issue

« Last post by MourningStar on February 24, 2023, 12:45:13 AM »

With all the mp4 discussion of late and not having played videos via this player since this topic was discussed, thought I would give it a go today with today's beta release. The issue looks to be resolved now. Thank you!

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Skins / Re: Winamp skinning resources

« Last post by dro on February 14, 2023, 07:19:30 PM »

Either they don't want to keep running it & cba to just acknowledge it or it's a side-effect of the sale of targetspot/shoutcast at the end of 2022 & they don't know how to split things cleanly or something went wrong at OVH (again) & it's hosed the database & they won't admit it or it's avoid any backlash about the "new winamp" that they're trying to push (the online thing) or <insert_other_option>.

I'm more surprised it was kept going for how long it was post-sale as they wanted to kill it early on plus they're only really interested about "the future" rather than what's come before to get them whatever remains of the integrity of the brand & all of the user content, etc that that place held which has likely been lost if it's not restored (as the 2013 internet archive scape was massively incomplete). Either way it's down to the "llama group" to sort it out or at least just acknowledge they don't want to deal with it than keeping some people hanging on to the hope it'll be restored.

-dro

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Skins / Re: Winamp skinning resources

« Last post by ariszlo on February 14, 2023, 05:47:28 PM »

It was wise of you to archive all this because forums.winamp.com is down.