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Quinto Black CT v4.8 (2026-01-17)

added: "Ticker" checkbox to "Songticker Scrolling" titlebox. This feature will allow to switch between Songticker, which shows Artist + Title + Duration and which provides the scrolling options (classic/disabled/modern) and plain text, which will display just Artist and Title. Please bear in mind that unchecking Ticker option will disable the scrolling feature.

added: "Always on Top" checkbox to Configuration window (page: Miscellaneous).

added: "Enable Tooltips" checkbox to Configuration window (page: Miscellaneous).

added: "Time Format on Playlist Editor (MENU)" titlebox to Configuration window (page: Miscellaneous). This allows you to choose whether the time is displayed in the long or short format (0:00:00 or 0:00).

added: Glow effect to PLAY/PAUSE/STOP buttons on Playlist Editor/Media Library/Video and Visualization window.

added: "Show Light Reflection" to Loudspeakers' context menu.

added: "Show Wood Pattern" to Loudspeakers' context menu.

added: "Search in Playlist/Cuelist" to Playlist Editor (MENU). Please remember to use the ENTER button to confirm your search. Once you see the search result you can also double click on a title and Winamp will play it.

added: "CUE Player" to Playlist Editor (MENU). See Tip 18 on the Tips & Tricks page for more information. This feature is experimental!

added: "Open Color Theme" button in Configuration window (page: Color Theme). I discovered that Winamp's Skinning Engine can parse .xml files. So, from now on, we must save our colour theme in .xml format every time we want to save it. Unfortunately, old text files with saved colour themes are now obsolete. We need to create new ones and save them in .xml format. Please excuse the inconvenience!

added: "Main Player Beat Visualization" to RGB Color Changer.

added: "VU Meter Analog" to RGB Color Changer. Now you can change the colors of all elements on those displays.

added: "Menu" button to Visualizations window. It will show all possible configuration options. Please remember that this button only works during playback.

added: Keyboard shortcuts for the Playlist Editor/Media Library and the Video window. We can now place those windows in one of six positions on the desktop by pressing and holding the CTRL and ALT keys and hitting a number between 1 and 9. See Tip 19 on the Tips & Tricks page for more information.

changed: The Crossfader has been moved from the Equalizer component to the Playlist Editor (MENU Features). The only reason Crossfader was in the Equalizer section was because the Winamp Base 5 Skin also has it there. I think it makes sense to put it in the MENU area of the Playlist Editor window, where there are other options for playback.

changed: The power indicators on the Equalizer and Frequency Response Graph are now connected to the "main power supply" of the entire skin. This means that when you press start, both components are activated. You can now decide whether you want the Equalizer to be on or off by pressing the EQ button.

changed: The look of buttons on Configuration window. "Radio buttons" are normally displayed as circles, which helps us to distinguish them from "Checkboxes", which are displayed as squares.

fixed: "Random" LED on Visualizations window would stay blue.

fixed: The color of Oscilloscope on the Main Player after switching to "Classic Look" should be white-ish and not in the same color as "Modern" color theme.

improved: The syntax within the skin's script files. Due to this procedure all component labels are set to default. Please excuse the inconvenience!

improved & redesigned: "Track Bookmarks" in Playlist Editor (MENU).

renamed: Button "FULLSIZE" to "FULLSCREEN" on Video and Visualization window.

Quinto Black CT v4.7 (2025-10-08)

- improved & redesigned: Configuration window. Due to some changes made to the "Timer" slider on the "Main Player" page, the position of the "MIN SEC" text on the Main Player's display is set to the default position. Please excuse the inconvenience! Also, regarding the "Miscellaneous" title box on the "Notification" page, these are real check boxes which do not provide a hover effect when the mouse is over the text line.

- changed: In the "Cover Art Dimensions" window, we find the text lines "Window Width" and "Window Height". These names are incorrect as we are not changing the dimensions of the window, but of the cover art. (Yes, the window's dimesnion get changed automatically as well and it will be wider by 2 pixels and higher by 28 pixels)

- changed: The "PREV"- and "NEXT"-track glyphs on the playback buttons should correspond with the original Winamp playback icons.

Quinto Black CT v4.6 (2025-08-09)

- added: Beat Visualization for the Main Player. You can activate this feature via Configuration > Main Player. (See Tip 9)

- added: "Winamp" as label for the Main Player. Please bear in mind that 'Winamp' is a shorter word than 'Quinto Black CT', so you will not be able to move it to the far left or right on the frame as you can do with the skin's name.

- added: Language ID/Application Path/CD Ripping Path and Settings Path to Configuration > Winamp Info.

- added: "Fullscreen" option to Album Cover Flow window. Close all components, also the Main Player (Alt + W), choose "Fullscreen" and enjoy! Please remember to keep the size of the album cover as small as possible. By size, I mean KB/MB size, not dimensions. The larger the file (for example, 4 MB), the more difficult it will be for the CPU to process. And Notifications are automatically disabled while in fullscreen mode.

- added: "Show Release Year" option to Album Cover Flow window.

- added: Progress Bar to Album Cover Flow. The color is always the same as the color of the progress bar on the Main Player.

- changed: "Album Cover Flow Background" to "Album Cover Flow Wallpaper" which seems to be the proper name for this purpose.

- improved: Compact Cassette.

- improved: VU Meter on Main Player (bigger LEDs).

- improved: Artist and Title text lines on Album Cover Flow window. These text lines automatically increase in size when the window is resized. Please report any 'visual glitches' if you have a display/monitor with a slightly 'unorthodox' resolution and the text lines do not fit.

- removed: "Show Track Duration" option from the Album Cover Flow because, in some cases, it displayed empty space or incorrect/corrupt values.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Many of you will probably already have discovered an issue with the Album Cover Flow feature when selecting a wallpaper or changing the background. The issue is that, after restarting Winamp, the Album Cover window reverts to its default position and dimensions, as if Winamp does not remember these values. This behaviour may be due to the fact that, when a new wallpaper is applied, the dimensions of the entire window change (you can see it in the studio.xnf file). This causes Winamp to handle the window as if it had never been activated before, hence showing it at its default x- and y-coordinates and width and height.

To avoid this issue, you MUST always follow this pattern:

1. Start Winamp.
2. Open Album Cover Flow window.
2. Resize the window to its default dimension (just drag the right edge to the left and the bottom one to the top).
3. Select a wallpaper and hit "Apply New Wallpaper" or change the background to "Gradient" or choose "Hide background".
4. Do not touch anything else and close Winamp!
5. Restart Winamp.
6. Now you can move and resize the window according to your liking. From now on the position and dimension will be saved.

Quinto Black CT v4.5 (2025-06-25)

- added: "Check for Skin Update". This option can be found in the Configuration window behind the hamburger button. If an update is available, a message box containing confirmation text will appear on your desktop. Clicking "Yes" will open the web page in your default browser, where you can find the new version. Please note that Update Checker only works on Windows PCs!
(The manual update checker procedure was chosen because, once a new version was automatically found, the message box would hide behind the entire skin. You may not see it at all in some cases.)

- changed: The tooltips' syntax has been modified within the script file so that it fits the entire project better. Unfortunately, this will result in the colors being set to the default after the skin is installed. Please excuse the inconvenience!

- fixed: "Select Bitmap File" on Playlist Editor (Menu: Online Stream Cover Art) does not work if Album Cover Flow is not installed. (Please remember: bitmap means graphics file format - like jpeg, png or bmp)

- improved: The Configuration window now has fewer pages and the alpha blending effect has been removed to enable faster browsing through all the pages.

- removed: Playlist Editor Info on Main Player. We should leave this feature to the Playlist Editor.