Current version:
v0.99.1b download (15/05/2007) | Development Thread
note: the plugin is only really designed for Winamp 5.x (and generally only the latest Winamp version) though it'll probably work still :)
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As of Winamp 5.02 this plugin has been
included as part of the distribution but what is
it? What does it do? Is it really any good?
With the Winamp player there is the ability to
search through the files in the current playlist
and 'jump to that file'. With this plugin it is
possible to enqueue the file instead of jumping
to the file which is useful if you want to find a
song to play but you want to finish listening to
the current one that is playing.
However, that is not all that it does...
The plugin has been developed rapidly over the
last few months since being started at the end of
October 2003 as a proof of concept to it's
current state (v0.96ff) with it being included
in the Winamp distribution since 5.02 (not bad if
i do say so myself).
Due to this level of development, the queuing
features added to the jump to file dialog have
been extended to other parts of the Winamp player
to now include the Playlist Editor (with support
eventually to be added to the Media Library once
1.0 has been reached).
With the addition of the Playlist Editor features
it is now possible to have a similar style
queuing as was possible in the Winamp3 Playlist
Editor (alt+click on the playlist item or via a
right-click menu) which is a much missed feature
going by the posts over in the Winamp forums. And
added since v0.94h there has been the ability to
view the queue position of a song in the playlist
window.
The key aim of the plugin is to allow you to
queue you files to play in an order that you
specify. With the plugin installed you have two
different methods available to you to achieve
this (though a third method is being worked on).
The two ways are:
and to be implemented before v1.0...
- a few other useability features
There's a lot of features in the plugin since
it was designed very early on to be as
customisable as possible for the many different
users needs. Some of these include:
- Customisable queue text formatting (for the
dialog and playlist editor)
- Save/Load the current queue to m3u and pls
playlist files
- Save the current search results to a
playlist
- Skin the dialog using the current skin
(supported on Winamp 2.9x+ and 5.x)
- Drag and drop playlists into the queue for
quick album queuing
- Integrated preferences dialog in the Winamp
Preferences (though will be a normal dialog on
older versions of Winamp)
- Configurable display of buttons on the Jump
to File dialog
- Configurable right-click menu for the
Playlist Editor
- lots of other little things to help tune
the plugin to your needs (i hope)
However the plugin is still small for what it
does since i've tried to keep to nice lean coding
where possible :o) There are still a number of
features to add into the plugin such as timed
queuing and a few other things for a v1.0 release.
If you have any suggestions, comments or bug
reports then please contact me and let me
know. Where possible i will always try to fix any
bugs as soon as possible and update to a newer
fixed version.
Any versions distributed with the Winamp
installer will be the most stable version however
the plugin will be updated in between with new
stable and test builds coming out to help move
the plugin forward so keep a look out for the
latest developments. In most cases, the current
version(s) will extend the plugin features and
hopefully the stability of the plugin. If there
is a better version than was shipped with a
Winamp distribution then this will be pointed out
at the top of this page.
Here you can find information on all of the
settings and any 'quirks' of the plugin just
incase you have difficulties or you want to find
out how to make more use of things.
Pages are coming though nothing at the
moment (and still nothing 2 years after i first did this page, heh)
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