Windows 10: Famous media player Winamp new version with Windows 10 support leaks online

Remember Winamp? The popular media player for Windows is expected to make a comeback at some point. Winamp was launched by independent developers back in 1997 and it grew quickly popular with over 3 million downloads in a short span of time.

In a couple of years, Winamp became one of the most downloaded Windows applications. The app was sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million but it later acquired by Radionomy in 2014. Radionomy, the current developers of famous Winamp promised that the app will receive a new update with several new features.

A while ago, the developers published release notes of an update but no downloadable package was available for users to try out. Winamp developers promised major updates ever since it took over the company and we are still waiting for that day.

It’s an old and outdated app but it’s still being used by millions of users. A new version of Winamp, which was last developed on October 26, 2016, has leaked online. Winamp 5.8 has been published by an unknown source and it’s not from the official developers.



It’s also worth noting that VirusTotal scan generates two different warnings for the app, so we are not including the link to unreleased Winamp update in this article.

Winamp works fine on Windows 10


The Winamp 5.8 comes with several new features and improvements including support for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

It is, however, worth noting that public and stable version of the app works smoothly on Windows 10, but Winamp 5.8 is supposed to address compatibility issues with Windows 10.

As noted above, this release of Winamp comes with several other improvements. For example, there’s a dedicated setting that lets you disable Winamp’s video support and the company has also fixed some bugs to improve the overall performance of the player.

The current owner hasn’t officially announced any updates for the app but as the beta has just leaked out, there’s a chance that an official statement will be released soon. It’s also possible that the developers are internally testing a new and improved version of the app with better support for Windows 10.

At this point, it’s not yet known whether a new Winamp release is planned or not. We are waiting for additional details from the developers and we will update this article if and when a statement is available.

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New Windows Media Player Plugin for Firefox

Anyone who uses Windows Vista and Mozilla Firefox may be pleased to hear that the Windows Media Player team has now released a plugin for Firefox that should allow the browser to play WMP content on websites. Here are the steps to get it working:

• Installation of the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin may require administrative access to your PC. It is recommended that you close all other open browser windows before continuing with the installation.
• Click the Install button to automatically download and install the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin.
• Depending on your security settings, you may see a Security Warning dialog box. Click Install to install the plugin.

There is a known issue if you are using Firefox version 2.0.0.3 on Windows Vista with the installer failing with error code -203. To work around this simply restart Firefox (you will get a notification that Windows Vista will be changing the Firefox compatibility settings) and then install again - the second time should succeed.

The download is available here, and the new plugin works on all versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista (although it is mostly intended for Vista, as that currently has no WMP support in Firefox).

Source: Windows Vista Blog

 

HELP! Windows Media Player Problem

http://support.microsoft.com/KB/243621

that covers up to version 10... let me see if its diffrent for the newer versions


EDit:

here is how to clear the frequent list.
http://www.blogsdna.com/4086/how-to...edia-player-12-frequent-list-in-windows-7.htm

and here is how to clear the history
http://www.downloadatoz.com/essenti...ar-the-windows-media-player-12-history_g.html

and from the last link is the same error where you can just disable it too =)

 

Faulty Windows Media Player

Windows Mesdis Player developed a fault (Played jerky an missed bits) so I down loaded Media Player 10.

It's no better. Any suggestions (I run Windows 98)