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5.666 (preferably the patched version as from https://www.filehorse.com/download-winamp/19580/ ) is almost 6 months newer than the 5.7 beta you've mentioned. The 5.7 betas were analogous to the 5.64/5.65 releases at the time & the difference was the Winamp Cloud beta features being present or not. So there's no reason to use the 5.7 betas other than wanting a higher number & is the reason why the leaked / official 5.8 beta (which is stated as "not an on-going project" was released as 5.8 & not 5.7. There's a changelog on their forum & in the threads in here about it from that time & is up to you to decide if you think it's worthwhile installing another beta compared to the 5.666 release (when correctly patched). The parts about Win8/Win10 support are just marketing fud & basically just relates to changing a value in a file so the program can correctly detect the OS otherwise 5.666 is fine on Win10. Personally I wouldn't touch 5.8 as it's incomplete, is unknown what telemetry they may have added into it (un-checking anon stats in 5.666 is known to work correctly) & is mainly changes for the sake of licensing not being renewed & not really doing much to move it forward & functionally there is less in 5.8 beta compared to 5.666 but it depends if you used what's not present as to whether you'd even notice. -dro More on reddit.com

You're doing nothing wrong and it's a side effect of the sale and the current owners making a complete mess of things. That's why you have to get links from a forum thread that takes you to 3rd party sites.

Until 31st Dec 2016 I was also providing a mirror site (https://getwinamp.com/) which had the 5.666 build 3516 patched installer on it but I was forced to take it down due to a grudge against me (I was the developer responsible for the 5.66x release at the end).

As such, http://www.filehorse.com/download-winamp/ is the next best thing as that is the same version that I was providing (i.e. it saves you having to manually apply the post-release patched plug-ins and general clean-up to remove the things that just don't work anymore).

-dro

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