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Here’s the lastest available version of the unofficial FLAC input plug-in for Winamp 5:

Unofficial Flac Input Plug-in 1.1.2 (with full Media Library support)

(Windows Executable, 196.8 kb)

This keeps all the qualities of the official FLAC project plug-in, but with full Winamp 5 media library support and a couple of bugs fixes. This is of course compatible with Winamp 2 releases, although of less interrest for versions prior to 2.90.

You may want to have a look at my FLAC encoder for Winamp 5 to rip your CDs into this awesome format.

Testing version for both 2000/XP and 98/ME users

I’ve been reported several issues using the FLAC input plug-in under the Windows 98/ME operating systems. Basically FLAC comments doesn’t seem to show up properly...

I’ve managed to address these problems; according to my own tests, the plug-in now seems to fully work for both 2000/XP and 98/ME systems:

Unofficial Flac Input Plug-in 1.1.2a (with full Media Library support)

(Windows Executable, 195.1 kb)

However before wide diffusion, I would highly appreciate if some of you could have a try with it, and report me back the results of their tests. I’m interrested in:
 both success and horror stories
 tests under 2000/XP and 98/ME

Thanks for your help .

Changelog

v1.1.2a
 rewrote meta-data handling: it should be more reliable, handle empty tags in a better way, convert ANSI from/to UTF-8 strings more accuratly and best of all, should work for Windows 98!
 fixed bug "show average bitrate while playing" misbehaviour
 fixed bug "File-Info box showing weird/duplicated info under Windows 98" (which used to happen with empty or incomplete FLAC tags)
 reorganised the "File Info" window for better consistence with the other plug-ins
 reorganised the configuration dialog window, once again for better consistence with the other plug-ins

v1.1.2
 based on official FLAC plug-in v1.1.2
 flushed back my bug fixes from v1.1.1
 fixed bug preventing my plug-in to properly load under Windows 98

v1.1.1
 based on official FLAC plug-in v1.1.1
 fixed bug which was stressing the Winamp UI, causing wrong song change notifications (Toaster, IMs title’s updaters, etc.), and preventing "scroll Title in window" option to work (Sourceforge bug #1073443)
 introduced experimental meta-data handling (SourceForge bug #1080821). It allows proper import of FLAC files in the Winamp’s library, mass-tagging and Advanced Title Formatting to work.
 added ".fla" file extension

Source code

Update: The following source files correspond to my modified plugin v1.1.1. As soon as the testing period for the plug-in v1.1.2 is over, I’ll publish the sources here. Should you urgently require my v1.1.2 sources, simply drop me a mail to get them.

As the official FLAC input plug-in is covered by the GNU-GPL license, I’m publishing the source code of my additions along with the binaries:

Source code of the main plug-in file (bugs fixes)

(C source, 10.1 kb)

Source code for media library support

(C source, 4.2 kb)

It’s to be merged with the FLAC 1.1.1 source package.

The first file in_flac.c is an amendment to fix some old bugs. The other one medialibrary.c is totally new to the project and implements the new Winamp 5 features.

Add these source files to the plugin_winamp2 project, recompile everything and you’re done!