An indie trying to do something good via WACUP (my take on the media players of yesteryear) 😎👍 Prior Winamp (until v5.666) & SHOUTcast (until v2.4.7) dev.
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It's been somewhat quiet from me but here's a quick look back at things for 2024, what I hope for 2025 & that there's a new #WACUP beta build 1.99.24.20678 now being tested🎄
A new preview will come out next month once some aspects are have been resolved.
patreon.com/posts/wacup-2024…
#WACUP 1.99.22.20202 preview builds are now available.
A relatively small set of changes for this one & gets a bit closer to dropping one of the re-used plug-ins whilst allowing the x64 build to play MP3 & AAC internet radio streams📻
patreon.com/posts/wacup-prev… has a bit more info.
it's happened & the license terms shown to me are as expected noticeably restrictive & not properly open source as many were expecting despite their choice of words in the announcement 4 months back.
as such I'm not going to touch anything to do with it with a big ol' barge pole.
#WACUP preview build 1.99.21.20088 is now available & I described it in the beta releases thread notes as "refinement rather than anything revolutionary" which sometimes is what a build needs to be.
patreon.com/posts/wacup-prev… has more information & related links for this update.
#WACUP preview build 1.99.20.19994 is now available & manually updating to the build is required unless you're one of the lucky ones where the build crashes on you & the post-crash prompting is still being triggered.
patreon.com/posts/wacup-prev… has more information for this update.
ALT Discord integration showing the "listening to" & up to 3 lines of ATF configured metadata.
ALT A local library results filter pane showing the tiled details albumart view including a tooltip with information about the selected item.
Finally after having had years of complaints it was only showing "Playing WACUP" when there wasn't anything I could do about it there's now "Listening to" support!
A new #WACUP preview build should appear soonish with this change once beta testing build 19762 has been completed.
Finally getting around to implementing a tiled / details mode for the album art filter panel results which should resolve some on-going complaints.
Visually it's a bit different from winamp's ml_local but this should be decent enough even if WINE doesn't implement the tiled mode.
ALT Screenshot of WACUP's local library view set to show the w.i.p. tiled / details view mode for the album art filter.
#WACUP build 1.99.15.19320 went up last night as a quick fix for an ironic crash from a change meant to avoid crashes (sorry to all for that) & a memory leak.
#WACUP build 1.99.15.19312 is up & 3rd time lucky is the aim for this new preview build vs the main stability issue the builds have been having.
patreon.com/posts/continuing… has a bit more information about this new preview build along with it's cumulative 70 line changelog vs 19100.
#WACUP build 1.99.15.19312 is up & 3rd time lucky is the aim for this new preview build vs the main stability issue the builds have been having.
patreon.com/posts/continuing… has a bit more information about this new preview build along with it's cumulative 70 line changelog vs 19100.
Another workaround is to add threads=1 in the [winamp] section of your winamp.ini
The location of that can be found by going to Preferences -> Advanced -> Diagnostics -> Settings Locations tab.
This change makes the saving of any db changes slower which may cause other issues.
For those having crashes, going to Preferences -> Media Library -> History & un-checking the "Limit tracking to items played in the last x" option might help to minimise the chance of crashing with this build (as has also been affecting the last few builds which is annoying me).
#WACUP build 1.99.13.19100 is now up & aims to resolve the main crash issue plaguing the prior build along with a slew of around 60 additions, changes & more fixes based on feedback & more determined from the crash reports received.
getwacup.com/preview/preview… has the changes made.
#WACUP build 1.99.13.19100 is now up & aims to resolve the main crash issue plaguing the prior build along with a slew of around 60 additions, changes & more fixes based on feedback & more determined from the crash reports received.
getwacup.com/preview/preview… has the changes made.
patreon.com/posts/wacup-prev… has some more thoughts about the new build & what's happening next.
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It's been just over 3 years since the last time a #WACUP preview build indicated an update was available.
That's now happened with build 1.99.12.18980 available with a cumulative changelog of over 1701 entries compared to 2021's build 1.0.21.7236. getwacup.com/preview/
ALT Snippet of the about preferences page showing the beta & preview builds finally on the same available build to install.
There's been many more changes in the inter-build changelogs to finally get to this point of the first full preview build to run without the need to re-use the #winamp 5.666 core exe (note: it still needs to re-use a few of the plug-ins & supporting dlls getwacup.com/files.html#wina…)
ALT WACUP's Discord now playing support can automatically show the albumart (ignore the old version number being shown in the description)
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Bit of an update about last month's progress patreon.com/posts/wacup-upda… as I feel like I lost 2 weeks somewhere.
Bit of an update on #WACUP development from October & how the beta preview build has been going patreon.com/posts/92023537
ALT w.i.p. image of the native last.fm implementation in wacup without the typo this time
#WACUP beta build 1.9.20.17040 just went up as a newer "beta" preview build which should resolve the main crashing issues found with last week's new build.
getwacup.com/preview/preview… details just the changes made between build 1.9.19.16956 & this newer one.
Since the last update ~4 months ago, there's been 10 beta builds, a whole load of interim / dev builds & the replacement local library is now (mostly) loading the expected artwork as of today's build #16242 along with a mass of changes, fixes & a hopefully more stable #WACUP
