Latest WACUP public preview for x86 & x64 is build #20202 (September 28th 2024) (x86 & x64 changelogs)
Latest restricted WACUP beta release is build #20202 (September 28th 2024) (x86 & x64 changelogs)

NOTE: Beta testers are added in a limited & subjective manner as I can only support so many people as part of the beta test program to keep it useful for my needs.

Unless I think you're going to be helpful, not all requests will be accepted but might still be later on. Remember that beta testing is to help me & the limitations currently works for my needs for this project.

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Skins / Seek and Volume animations
« on: February 28, 2024, 11:36:01 AM »
Seek and Volume animations is a sequel to my Study Skin, showcasing different techniques of animating the seek and volume sliders.

Get the skin at WinCustomize, DeviantArt or here below.

Update
Animations by region were broken in WACUP build 1.99.3.18106. They work again in  build 1.99.7.18654.

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Skins / Quinto Black CT v3.8 released
« on: July 29, 2023, 06:18:58 PM »
Quinto Black CT is the best skeuomorphic Winamp skin for modern desktops, imho. In his 2018 blog entry, dro mentions it as one of the "two skins that stand out from the last year".

Get version 3.8 here.

Unfortunately, Quinto's installer is not WACUP-friendly but there is a workaround to install it for WACUP.

This post will guide you how you can install Quinto for WACUP in the following two scenarios:
  • You have both WACUP and Winamp on your machine.
  • You only have WACUP and do not want to install Winamp just for the sake of Quinto.
1. You have both WACUP and Winamp on your machine
  • Launch the installer and install Quinto for Winamp.
  • Copy the Quinto Black CT v3.8 directory from C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins to C:\Program Files (x86)\Wacup\Skins
2. You only have WACUP (and do not want to install Winamp)
  • In File Explorer, go to C:\Program Files (x86)
  • Create a new folder named Winamp
  • Enter the newly created Winamp folder and create a new folder named Skins
  • Copy winamp.exe from C:\Program Files (x86)\Wacup to C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp*
  • Launch the installer and install Quinto into the Winamp directory
  • Copy the Quinto Black CT v3.8 directory from C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins to C:\Program Files (x86)\Wacup\Skins
  • Delete the Winamp folder.
*You do not really need the real winamp.exe. It is in fact enough to create a 0-byte plain text file with the filename winamp.exe.

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Skins / Elapsed time and remaining time mismatch fixed
« on: May 31, 2023, 06:52:01 PM »
If you have a text object with the display="timeelapsed" parameter and another one with display="timeremaining" then the sum of their moduli will be 1 second less than the length of the song, e.g. song length 4:15, elapsed 1:22, remaining -2:52. This is because Winamp invariably rounds down decimals when converting milliseconds to MM:SS format. Thanks Aminifu for pointing out the issue.

Scripts to fix the mismatch and a proof-of-concept skin

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General Discussion / Do you ever use the mute button?
« on: May 24, 2023, 04:14:09 PM »
While it might make sense to mute the sound while watching a subtitled movie, I don't see the point of having a mute button in a music player. If I'm interrupted while listening to music, I just pause the playback.

I know that Winamp/WACUP can play videos and I occasionally watch some music clips with it but I never use it for movies.

Is it just me who never uses the mute button in Winamp/WACUP?

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Skins / Quinto v3.7 now compatible with WACUP :)
« on: May 23, 2023, 08:58:43 AM »
The previous version of Quinto was broken through and through in WACUP unless you kept a copy of its scripts folder in C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins\Quinto Black CT v3.6. You no longer need to do so.

Quinto Black CT v3.7.exe, Quinto's installer still will not install the skin into WACUP's skins directory. You still need a file with the name winamp.exe in C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp to make the installer believe you have Winamp on your machine. (The file does not really need to be a real exe file, a plain text file with an exe extension will do as well.)

Once Quinto is installed into Winamp's skins directory, you can move Quinto's folder into WACUP. And that's it.

Get Quinto Black CT v3.7 here.

Explanation
Version 3.6 of Quinto hard-coded Quinto's path in its makis but now it uses @SKINPATH@ instead.

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Skins / Ariszló’s Study Skin released
« on: August 13, 2021, 05:19:22 PM »
Ariszló’s Study Skin is both a Winamp Modern skin and a skinning aid.

As a skin, it introduces new features such as
  • state-sensitive tooltips for the shuffle and repeat buttons, and
  • dynamic tooltips for the seeker, the volume slider and the crossfade slider
As a skinning aid, it adds informative comments to XML and MAKI codes. It also comes with modular MAKI scripts that can be easily reused in other skins.

Get it at WinCustomize, DeviantArt or here attached below. ↓

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Skins / How to display elapsed time in percentage?
« on: July 06, 2021, 12:28:18 PM »
Say there is a one minute long song of which 12 seconds has been played so far. How do you display in a text tag that 20 percent of the song has been played so far?

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General Discussion / Alternative visualizers
« on: May 27, 2021, 10:41:29 AM »
MilkDrop is the best visualizer ever made for Winamp, imho, but I cannot stop myself trying out alternatives. Let me share with you what I have just found.

It really surprised me that SoundSpectrum still actively developed music visualizers which support, among others, Winamp. You cannot directly install SoundSpectrum's visualizers for WACUP but you can copy over the dll's from Winamp's Plugins directory. I have tried all their visualizers in Big Bento Modern and they run seamlessly. :)

These are the dll's of the visualizers:
  • vis_Aeon.dll
  • vis_G-Force.dll
  • vis_SoftSkies.dll
  • vis_WhiteCap.dll
  • vis_WinterWonders.dll

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Skins / Old skins updated for Winamp 5.666 & WACUP
« on: May 04, 2021, 09:56:02 AM »

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Skins / MAKIs
« on: April 12, 2021, 02:17:44 PM »
MAKIs are skin-enhancement binaries that you can pack with modern skins. They are compiled from MAKI scripts with the MAKI Compiler.

Find a lot of MAKI scripts in Winamp forum's MAKI Cheats thread.

To compile your MAKI
  • put your script in the MAKI Compiler folder
  • launch cmd.exe
  • cd to the MAKI Compiler folder
  • type mc.exe followed by the filename of your script and hit enter, e.g.
    mc.exe myscript.m
Copy the compiled maki into the scripts folder of your skin.

If this is the first time you are using cmd.exe and you don't know how to cd to the MAKI Compiler folder then here is an example. Let's say you have extracted MAKI Compiler v1.2.0.zip to your desktop. Then this is how you get to there in cmd.exe using the cd (⁠= change directory) command:

cd C:\Users\YourUserAccount\Desktop\MAKI Compiler v1.2.0


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Skins / Installing Quinto v3.6 for WACUP
« on: April 02, 2021, 04:11:47 PM »
Quinto Black CT is the best skeuomorphic Winamp skin for modern desktops, imho. In his 2018 blog entry, dro mentions it as one of the "two skins that stand out from the last year".

Unfortunately, Quinto's installer is not WACUP-friendly. It only recognizes one installation path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins

This post will guide you how you can install Quinto for WACUP in the following two scenarios:
  • You have both WACUP and Winamp on your machine.
  • You only have WACUP and do not want to install Winamp just for the sake of Quinto.
1. You have both WACUP and Winamp on your machine
  • Launch the installer and install Quinto for Winamp.
  • Copy the Quinto Black CT v3.6 folder from C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins to C:\Program Files (x86)\Wacup\Skins
Do not remove Quinto from Winamp because certain features will only work if Quinto finds the appropriate makis in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins\Quinto Black CT v3.6\SCRIPTS

2. You only have WACUP (and do not want to install Winamp)
  • In File Explorer, go to C:\Program Files (x86)
  • Create a new folder named Winamp
  • Enter the newly created Winamp folder and create a new folder named Skins
  • Copy winamp.exe from C:\Program Files (x86)\Wacup to C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp*
  • Launch the installer and install Quinto into the Winamp directory
  • Copy the Quinto Black CT v3.6 folder from C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins to C:\Program Files (x86)\Wacup\Skins
Do not delete the Quinto Black CT v3.6 folder from C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins because certain features will only work if Quinto  can find the appropriate makis in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Skins\Quinto Black CT v3.6\SCRIPTS

*You do not really need the real winamp.exe. It is in fact enough to create a 0-byte plain text file with the filename winamp.exe.

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Skins / Links Container
« on: March 11, 2021, 10:59:00 PM »
This is not a skin just a links container that can be added to modern skins. You can freely use it, modify it or do whatever you like with it.

The skin in the screenshot is Victhor’s Winamp Classic Modern.

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Skins / Skin testers requested
« on: February 27, 2021, 10:10:30 PM »
This is an old Winamp 3 skin by VAG and Da_Pipe updated for Winamp 5.666 and WACUP.

Its main feature is that it toggles the Playlist Editor drawer with the Equalizer drawer as shown in the attached video.

The original Winamp 3 skin creates a dynamic container for the Playlist Editor on top of the drawer, which crashes Winamp 5.x. It also has some minor bugs caused by the differences between Winamp 3 and Winamp 5. I believe I have fixed all the issues but I want to make sure by requesting your help in testing the updated skin.

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Skins / Scrollbar backgrounds do not match
« on: February 26, 2021, 11:13:39 PM »
Why are the scrollbar backgrounds different in this skin (and many others)? How do you define the background colour of the Playlist Editor's scrollbar?

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Skins / Duplicate bitrate number puzzles me
« on: January 22, 2021, 10:10:39 PM »
This is an update of an old skin from 2003. So far I have fixed whatever I could but there is an issue I cannot figure out what causes it. In addition to the position defined in player-normal-group.xml, bitrate value is also displayed north-west of the main window. I have looked through player-normal-group.xml and blinker.m several times but I still have no idea what puts it there.

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