Plainamp - Open Source Audio Player

Plainamp

2006-08-30

Plainamp is currently being completely redesigned. I restarted at almost zero a few months ago and I plan to do preview releases before all features of Plainamp 0.2.3 are re-implemented. You can influence the order of component implementation by letting me know what features of Plainamp are most interesting or important to you. One of the new features in future releases will be support for XSPF playlists coming from my upcoming library libSpiff.

Plainamp is a free, open source audio player for Microsoft Windows.

More precisely it is a rewritten Winamp core (or plugin host) which means it relies on Winamp plugins heavily.
It is still in early alpha state.

Plainamp currently features:

Winamp plugin support (input, output, visualization, DSP and general purpose)
Plugins can be manually loaded/unloaded during runtime
Native output stacking — several output plugins at once
Native vis stacking — several visual plugins at once
Native DSP chaining — several effect plugins in a chain
7 order modes

0.2.3

Binary

plainamp_023_setup.exe

Source

plainamp_023_source.zip

See the download archive at Sourceforge for old releases.
Online browsing of the SVN repository is also possible.


   Plainamp changelog
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/plainamp/

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   0.2.3                                                           2006-04-11
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   [+] Now bundled with Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP
   [+] Select zero hotkey added (Ctrl+Shift+A)

   [*] Fixed: Proper seekbar reset on stop
   [*] Fixed: Output plugin handling related bugs
   [*] Fixed: Plainbar on-off-on bug

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   0.2.2                                                           2006-03-20
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   [+] Invert selection added
   [+] Missing "Preferences" entry added to main menu
   [+] Windows XP manifest added

   [*] Fixed: DSP stacker bug
   [*] Better focus handling

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   0.2.1                                                           2006-03-07
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   [+] Now bundled with MAD MP3 Decoder and GPL waveOut Plugin
   [+] Button toolbar added
   [+] Vis toolbar added (used by vis_plainbar.dll)
   [+] Remembers which output plugins were active
   [+] Remembers position in playlist
   [+] Playlist entry numbers
   [+] Current track highlighting
   [+] Minimize to tray introduced (see Plainamp.ini)
   [+] Alternating row background color
   [+] Plugin Manager grid made optional (see Plainamp.ini)
   [+] Pan slider invert option introduced (see Plainamp.ini)
   [+] Seekbar keypress forwarding
   [+] Better handling of playback with no active output plugin
   [+] Missing plugins warning can now be turned off

   [*] Fixed: Playlist related bugs

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   0.1.9                                                           2005-12-23
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   [+] Equalizer introduced
   [+] Playlist follow made optional (see Plainamp.ini)

   [*] Toolbar context menu sorted
   [*] Fixed: Volume up/down did not work
   [*] Fixed: Crash on header right-click in Plugin Manager
   [*] Installer: Orange theme applied

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   0.1.8                                                           2005-11-12
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   [*] Console and plugin manager also come to front on window activation
   [*] Fixed: Division by zero when playing missing files

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   0.1.7                                                           2005-10-31
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   [+] Playlist entries now can be dragged (hold <Alt>, use mouse)

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   0.1.6                                                           2005-10-30
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   [+] Keyboard playlist selection enhanced (hold <Ctrl>)
   [+] Playlist entries now can be moved (hold <Alt>, press <Up>/<Down>)

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   0.1.5                                                           2005-10-28
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   [+] Basic vis support for PCM-only input plugins added

   [*] Console and plugin manager are hidden/shown on minimize/restore

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   0.1.4                                                           2005-10-19
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   [+] Hotkey 'L' added
   [+] Statusbar reset added
   [+] Installer now creates "Plugins" directory

   [*] Minor tweaks

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   0.1.3                                                           2005-10-16
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   [+] Output stacking
   [+] General purpose plugin support
   [+] Vis data synchronization
   [+] Embed window service
   [+] Plugins can be manually loaded/unloaded
   [+] Plugin status indicator works now
   [+] Vis plugin specific framerate support
   [+] Basic config handling introduced
   [+] M3U playlist loading/saving
   [+] Main and rebar context menu added
   [+] Plugins missing alert added
   [+] Playlist cropping ability

   [*] Output, vis and DSP plugins are unloaded after analysis to save memory
   [*] One instance maximum per DSP module

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   0.1.2                                                           2005-09-11
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   [+] <Add files> dialog added
   [+] Multi-vis support
   [+] DSP plugin support plus chaining
   [+] Basic Winamp IPC API
   [+] Timestamps in console
   [+] Icon by RITZ (Thanx!)

   [*] Fixed: Proper plugin shutdown
   [*] When adding a directory files are now sorted before adding
   [*] Console and plugin manager changed to tool windows
   [*] New window menu logic

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   0.1.1                                                           2005-08-17
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   Legend:
   [+] Feature added
   [*] Logic changed or bug removed

Other Winamp-related open source software:

Input plugins

Output plugins

Visualization plugins

DSP (effect) plugins

General purpose plugins

Media library extensions

SDK/Development related

Misc