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2. Controversial Winamp creator resigns from AOL. Justin Frankel, the software engineer who created the Winamp media player, says he has put off leaving America Online 'long enough.'
3. Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), is a music visualization plugin for Winamp. It was designed by Winamp creator, Justin Frankel and was first shipped in version 2.0a4 with Winamp 2.61. AVS has a customizable design which allows users to create their own visualization effects, or 'presets'.

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Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), is a music visualizationplugin for Winamp. It was designed by Winamp creator, Justin Frankel and was first shipped in version 2.0a4 with Winamp 2.61. AVS has a customizable design which allows users to create their own visualization effects, or 'presets'. AVS was made open source software in May 2005, released under a BSD-style license. AVS is currently at version 2.83 and is included with Winamp, though the distributed version has later been reverted^[1] due to compatibility issues. Winamp currently ships with version 2.82 for Windows Vista (and later) and 2.81d for older Windows versions.

History[edit]

Initial releases[edit]

The first versions of AVS came with a set of pre-defined effects that could be arranged in any combination. Later versions introduced codeable components, most notably the 'SuperScope' render effect and 'Dynamic Movement'. The AVS plugin-in can be extended itself with AVS Plugin Effects (APE).

Version 2.81b of AVS was released by Nullsoft in 2003. It was faster and added several new features like arrays and interactivity in visualizations. 2.82 is the current stable release after some minor updates by Darren 'DrO' Owen. For a short period, version 2.83 was distributed, a decision that was eventually reversed due to incompatibilities.

Open-source and third-party versions[edit]

On May 18, 2005, it was announced^[2] that AVS would now be open source software, released under a BSD-style license.

Long after having left the company, Nullsoft founder Justin Frankel released a fork in August 2010 of the plug-in, titled 'Cockos Happy AVS'.^[3] It was first released as version 2.9, continuing the version scheme where the official version left off.

As of October 2013, AVS presets can be played directly in the browser using the Webvs^[4] visualizer.

Acquisition by Radionomy[edit]

With the release of Winamp version 5.66 on November 20, 2013, AOL announced that Winamp.com would shut down on December 20, 2013, and Winamp and its components would cease to be offered for download after that date.^[5] Resulting in the shutdown, many AVS downloads will be lost. The AVS Archive^[6] is an attempt to preserve some of the more popular AVS packs. The following day, an unofficial report surfaced that Microsoft was in talks with AOL to acquire Nullsoft.^[7] Despite AOL's announcement, the Winamp site was not shut down as planned, and on January 14, 2014, AOL sold Nullsoft to Belgian online radio aggregator Radionomy; no financial details were publicly announced.^[8][9] In fear of a shutdown, a mirror of the Winamp-hosted AVS forums has been published on GitHub.^[10]

Making presets[edit]

Every preset is made up of different components. There are three categories of components: Render, Trans and Misc. Render draws shapes, Trans transforms the current image and Misc contains the components that don't fit in other two categories. The components are plugged into a list, which is executed from top to bottom, each component doing something with the image and sending the result to the next one. A lot of components are configurable and a few are codable. Effect lists can be included, which act as presets within presets.

Codeable components[edit]

The codable components allow the most customizability, when a preset author can control and program effects through AVS' simple scripting language. The scripting language is compiled to native code at runtime for maximum performance.

The following components can be scripted:

• Superscope
• Triangles
• Texer II
• Movement
• Dynamic Movement
• Dynamic Distance Modifier
• Dynamic Shift
• Bump
• Effect List
• Global Variable Manager

User-generated presets may be featured on websites such as Winamp.com, DeviantArt or customize.org.

References[edit]

1. ^'Winamp 5.61 Version History'. Winamp.com. March 15, 2011. Archived from the original on 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2013-11-23.
2. ^'vis_avs'. GitHub project
3. ^Frankel, Justin (August 7, 2011). 'Cockos Happy AVS'. AVS Forum Mirror
4. ^'Webvs'. Webvs project on GitHub
5. ^Farivar, Cyrus (November 20, 2013). 'After 15 years of llama-whipping, AOL shuts down Winamp for good'. Ars Technica. Retrieved November 20, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
6. ^'AVS Archive'. Visbot Network. November 1, 2013.
7. ^'AOL reportedly wants to sell Winamp to Microsoft'. The Verge. Retrieved November 21, 2013.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
8. ^Lunden, Ingrid (1 January 2014). 'AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast Music Services To Online Radio Aggregator Radionomy'. TechCrunch. AOL.
9. ^'Winamp lives on after acquisition by Radionomy'. The Verge. Retrieved 14 January 2014.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
10. ^'AVS Forums on GitHub'. Visbot Network. November 23, 2013.

External links[edit]

Winamp is a plugin-based media player for Android, Macintosh, and Windows. It has a large library of 3rd party plugins, including enough to play almost all of the formats used by video games.

Winamp hasn't seen an official update in several years; the last official release was 5.666. At the end of 2013, AOL sold the rights to Winamp to Radionomy, who is currently in the process of revamping the website to resume development and distribution.

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Nullsoft CD Plugin

Winamp can play standard Redbook Audio if the game disc is in the CD-ROM.

Nullsoft FLAC Decoder

Supports FLAC at all compression levels.

Nullsoft MIDI Player

Supports CMF, HMI, HMP, MIDI, MUS, RMI, and XMI. Playback of General MIDI works perfectly and custom MIDI instrument banks in DLS format are supported. The CMF playback does not properly support the AdLib samples. XMI playback does not support all of the XMI capabilities. MUS is turned off by default and must be activated.

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Nullsoft MPEG Audio Decoder

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Nullsoft Vorbis Decoder

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Nullsoft Waveform Decoder

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Plugins

While Winamp comes with plenty of built-in plugins, there is also a huge library of third-party plugins as well.

Downloads

You can download the latest version of Winamp at their official download site.

Links

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