Recently, I fixed a very annoying bug of Google Talk or Winamp 5 (I don’t know). Google Talk and Winamp were freezing (hang/not responding) when the status was selected was “Show current music track” in Google Talk messenger and same time I have Winamp playing my songs. So Google talk and Winamp 5.x wasn’t working together. However, I saw that this was not the case with other media players. But I like listening to music using Winamp player. That’s the best player available and I don’t want to use any other. Someone suggested me that creating a blank “m3u” file (Winamp playlist file) in the installation directory of Winamp (usually “C:\Program Files\Winamp”) may solve this issue. I perform the following steps and Wow! It worked.
Step 1: Go to the root directory of Winamp which is usually in C:\Program Files\Winamp\
Step 2: Select Tools->Folder Options->View (Tab) and uncheck the hide extensions for known file types and click Ok.
Step 3: Now create an empty file (Right click the mouse -> New -> Text document), so the default file would be like “New Text Document.txt”.
Step4: Rename the above file to “winamp.m3u” and save.
Step5: Close Winamp and Google Talk. Now open again and Your Show Current music track status should work like a charm !
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hey, thanks a lot man… you save me a day.
thanx a lot……i was very frustated about this……
good solution, thank you!
Thanks a lot me too, Aakash!
Btw, I think it’s GTalks bug =) Without the m3u file it was consuming up to 98% of the CPU. Guess it was looking for one file of this type and as it didn’t find entered in some kind of crazy loop.
thanks man….u rock!!!!!11
Phew!!! Atlast you got the Solution…
Thanks Yaar..
thanx man
Thank you for this great save.
Hey dude….
I was suked with this issue….. many times…
many thanks for the post dude…..
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thanx !!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks yaar….u upgrade my knowledge base..
Awesome dude .. It was frustrating me for 2 days .. Gr8 work ..
brilliant! million thanks for this…
Thanks dude.
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Thanks Dude,, God bless u
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Thanx a lot buddy……..this was a heck of a problem
Hey Thanks a lot
it really worked. Now Gtalk is not hanging and it also shows the Music as status message.
Thank you once again
does not work for me
Thanks a lot bro….God Bless You!!
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It worked! Thanks dude.
working fine man thanks !!
Thanks a lot!! It did work like a charm
Thanks !
It works fantastic!!
Many thanks dude ……
Its workin’ now
Thanks a lot man!