Bento - Winamp's answer to Foobar?

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tarun

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Winamp 5.5 Build 1550 Beta Preview 1

[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica][/FONT][FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica]Screenshots of new Bento Skin:

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What's new:

* New: Winamp Bento (SingleUI Skin)

* New: Unified File Editor, with Album Art tab (for mp3, m4a, wma, ogg, flac)

* New: Album Art window for Winamp Modern skin

* New: Global 'playback thread priority' setting for decoders

* New: Option to not show playlist item number in classic songticker

* New: Version History drop-down selector and Search (in About dialog)

* New: [in_mp3] Multi-channel mp3surround support

* New: [gen_ml] Tree Options tab in Media Library Preferences

* New: [ml_local] 3 pane view options in 'Add/Edit View' dialog

* New: [ml_local] Smart View Presets

* New: [ml_local] Album Art support/pane and retrieval service

* New: [ml_local] Toolbar buttons to control view options

* New: [ml_plg] Winamp Playlist Generator (powered by Gracenote MusicID)

* New: [ml_pmp] New fields, configurable filter panes & columns, 3 pane view

* New: [ml_pmp] Album Art view & support for iPod and P4S Devices

* New: [ml_pmp] Separate view for video files

* Improved: General misc dialog/ui tweaks & improvements

* Improved: Re-tuned and optimized classic Spectrum Analyzer

* Improved: Surround indicator in Winamp Modern skin for multi-channel files

* Improved: Classic Songticker option for Winamp Modern skin (via Config drawer)

* Improved: [in_cdda] Conductor metadata support

* Improved: [in_cdda] Handling of multiple discs

* Improved: [in_flac/in_vorbis] ALBUM ARTIST & ENSEMBLE read support

* Improved: [in_flac] Advanced Editor mode

* Improved: [in_mod] Added support for more than 256 samples

* Improved: [in_mp3] Faster metadata gathering (also improves ReplayGain scan speed)

* Improved: [in_wm] Faster WMA/WMV metadata gathering

* Improved: [gen_ff] General freeform skinning engine optimizations

* Improved: [gen_ml] Collapsed/expanded state of treeview items now remembered

* Improved: [gen_ml] Skinned scrollbars for Media Library with Modern skins

* Improved: [gen_ml] Reordering of treeview items (via drag+drop)

* Improved: [ml_disc] Better Unicode support & other misc tweaks

* Improved: [ml_history] Unicode support

* Improved: [ml_local] Customize Columns menu for top filter panes

* Improved: [ml_local] Option to show horizontal scrollbar for top panes

* Improved: [ml_local] New 'Podcasts' view (appears after downloading a podcast)

* Improved: [ml_local] Added ISPODCAST and PODCASTCHANNEL field names

* Improved: [ml_local] Added BEGINSLIKE comparison operator

* Improved: [ml_local] Dragging of headers to sort column order

* Improved: [ml_local] Redesigned Smart View Editor

* Improved: [ml_local] Star Rating display and selection

* Improved: [ml_pmp] 'Copy to Local Media' config separated from CD Ripping settings

* Improved: [ml_pmp] Portables "Sync" can now keep podcasts updated

* Improved: [ml_rg] ReplayGain calculation support for 64, 88.2 & 96 KHz samplerates

* Improved: [ml_wire] Optional automatic downloading of new podcast episodes

* Improved: [ml_wire] Multi-select, 'Send To' menu and other general enhancements

* Improved: [ml_wire] Podcast downloads now saved in channel subfolders

* Improved: [pmp_ipod] Now uses the iPod's podcast menu for podcasts

* Fixed: DWM Thumbnails & Flip3D for Modern skins in Vista

* Fixed: Long filepaths corrupted when opening Winamp via Explorer context menu

* Fixed: Oversized preference pages with large DPI setting

* Fixed: Recurrence of multiple instances bug (previously fixed in 5.3)

* Fixed: Selecting 'No' for 'Physically Remove' prompt removes playlist/mldb item

* Fixed: TV button in video window not working

* Fixed: Windows showing if switching from modern to classic skin in minimized state

* Fixed: [ASX Loader] Recursive playlist loading & case-insensitive element matching

* Fixed: [ASX Loader] Handling of entries embedded within a REPEAT tag

* Fixed: [dsp_sps] DEP incompatibility

* Fixed: [gen_ff] "Can't unload script while in script" error when switching skins

* Fixed: [gen_ff] Transparent docked toolbars for skins using alpha-blending

* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Crash when loading multiple files via Explorer context menu

* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Enter key not working when JTFE dialog is skinned*

* Fixed: [gen_jumpex] Remove Duplicate Entries action broken in pledit

* Fixed: [gen_ml] %playcount% returning Comment on drag+drop from ML to pledit

* Fixed: [in_cdda] CDDB crash when attempting to rip a CD in a 2nd instance of Winamp

* Fixed: [in_flac] General FLAC Editor quirks (Comments field, Enter key, etc)

* Fixed: [in_flac] 24bit files don't play when 'Allow 24bit' setting is disabled

* Fixed: [in_mod] Fadeout value goes below 0.0 sec in in_mod config

* Fixed: [in_mod] Interpolator 'division by zero' crash bug

* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on some mp3's with corrupt ID3v2 extended headers (rare)

* Fixed: [in_mp3] Crash on loading corrupt id3v2.3 tags of a later revision

* Fixed: [in_mp3] Negative bitrate in File Info for long mp3's

* Fixed: [in_wave/libsndfile] Crash on invalid .au files

* Fixed: [in_wm] Garbage characters when editing filetypes in config

* Fixed: [in_mp4/libmp4v2] Memory leaks

* Fixed: [ml_disc] 0 byte temp files not deleted after ripping

* Fixed: [ml_disc] Double-click drive icon in Rip & Burn not selecting tree item

* Fixed: [ml_disc] Crash when using in playlist filename generation

* Fixed: [ml_disc] Drag+drop from Audio CD view to Playlist Editor

* Fixed: [ml_local] (no album) items adding to Album count in Artist pane

* Fixed: [ml_local] isempty and =0 queries now return same results

* Fixed: [ml_local] Add dir to 'Watch Folders' path truncated to 64 characters

* Fixed: [ml_pmp] Inserting extra period in filename when transcoding to mp4/aac

* Fixed: [ml_wire] Subscription Updates setting always resets to 'Never'

* Fixed: [pmp_ipod] Potential incompatability issue with latest version of iTunes

* Fixed: [pmp_p4s] 'Error In Insert' when transferring to some P4S devices

* Fixed: [vis_milk] Milkdrop DEP incompatibility

* Misc: Winamp Remote is now an installer option (ml_orb.dll)

* Misc: Moved drawing engine out of gen_ff to tataki.dll

* Misc: Moved freetype font renderer out of gen_ff to freetype.wac

* Misc: Removed db.w5s (replaced by new Gracenote database system)

* Misc: Removed unicows.lib/dll as we have officially dropped support for Win9x

* Updated: Gracenote MusicID CDDB v2.5

* Updated: libpng 1.2.20

* Updated: [enc_aacplus] Coding Technologies aacPlus Encoder v8.1.0

* Updated: [gen_jumpex] JTFE v0.99.1c b420 'dev'

* Updated: [in_flac] FLAC 1.2.0

* Updated: [in_mp3] FhG Decoder v4.10

* Updated: [in_vorbis] libvorbis 1.2.0

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ok, dude tarun, here is the gist of it, bento = skin for bloated media player with even more functionality

foobar = lite and infinitely tweakable media player. You just cant compare.

It's like saying that Windows aero is the answer to ubuntu linux :p

i think you meant to say bento is winamp's answer to foo AvA , or one of the really cool foo skins... something along the lines of saying windows Aero is the answer to ubuntu /Beryl, now that makes sense ;)
 
Yeah I know and I am not comparing :) Foobar is the lightest of them all and is highly customizable. I completely agree that you can't compare Winamp with Foobar :) But Winamp has attempted to copy their interface and I feel it's not a bad attempt :)
 
Yes it has but the OOTB interface is very minimalist. You need to customize it with components like Column UI, gfx, album art etc to make it look really cool :)
 
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