Fix: Google Talk and Winamp 5 Hang/Freeze

October 20th, 2008 | Tags: , ,

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 !

Happy Tweaking :)





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  1. Paramjeet
    October 29th, 2008 at 19:36
    Reply | Quote | #1

    hey, thanks a lot man… you save me a day.

  2. harsh
    November 16th, 2008 at 15:40
    Reply | Quote | #2

    thanx a lot……i was very frustated about this……

  3. astanita
    November 25th, 2008 at 11:05
    Reply | Quote | #3

    good solution, thank you!

  4. Mariana
    November 26th, 2008 at 11:30
    Reply | Quote | #4

    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.

  5. Pankaj
    December 4th, 2008 at 18:56
    Reply | Quote | #5

    thanks man….u rock!!!!!11

  6. Shiva Kumar Kothakota
    December 11th, 2008 at 15:47
    Reply | Quote | #6

    Phew!!! Atlast you got the Solution…
    Thanks Yaar..

  7. irreprehensible
    December 19th, 2008 at 14:24
    Reply | Quote | #7

    thanx man

  8. sdk1
    December 23rd, 2008 at 13:41
    Reply | Quote | #8

    Thank you for this great save.

  9. Kiran Kumar P V
    December 26th, 2008 at 11:44
    Reply | Quote | #9

    Hey dude….
    I was suked with this issue….. many times…
    many thanks for the post dude…..
    Keeep Rockin……!!!
    :-)

  10. sam
    December 27th, 2008 at 17:08
    Reply | Quote | #10

    thanx !!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. Sandy
    January 8th, 2009 at 17:05
    Reply | Quote | #11

    thanks yaar….u upgrade my knowledge base..

  12. Pari
    January 23rd, 2009 at 13:35
    Reply | Quote | #12

    Awesome dude .. It was frustrating me for 2 days .. Gr8 work ..

  13. Bobby
    January 28th, 2009 at 00:14
    Reply | Quote | #13

    brilliant! million thanks for this…

  14. Vikas
    April 13th, 2009 at 16:22
    Reply | Quote | #14

    Thanks dude.

  15. Arifanda™
    April 28th, 2009 at 13:01
    Reply | Quote | #15

    Hey hey hey… thanks a lot man !!
    u are so brilliant !!

  16. karthik
    April 28th, 2009 at 13:46
    Reply | Quote | #16

    Thanks Dude,, God bless u :)

  17. Isti
    April 29th, 2009 at 14:53
    Reply | Quote | #17

    thanks a lot, God bless dude

  18. Himanshu
    May 12th, 2009 at 23:05
    Reply | Quote | #18

    Thanx a lot buddy……..this was a heck of a problem

  19. Kunal Gautam
    May 29th, 2009 at 10:01
    Reply | Quote | #19

    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 :)

  20. ampat
    June 23rd, 2009 at 23:59
    Reply | Quote | #20

    does not work for me

  21. Shaurya
    June 26th, 2009 at 19:52
    Reply | Quote | #21

    Thanks a lot bro….God Bless You!!

  22. stragepeer
    August 19th, 2009 at 21:13
    Reply | Quote | #22

    hey dude, good work .

  23. Raghavendra
    September 23rd, 2009 at 18:19
    Reply | Quote | #23

    it really worked for thanks

  24. Sweta
    October 17th, 2009 at 16:26
    Reply | Quote | #24

    Thanks a lottttttttt……………..
    :)

  25. MikeWhoRU
    October 22nd, 2009 at 02:46
    Reply | Quote | #25

    It worked! Thanks dude.

  26. crossbones
    November 13th, 2009 at 20:31
    Reply | Quote | #26

    working fine man thanks !!

  27. Varun Chopra
    December 9th, 2009 at 17:29
    Reply | Quote | #27

    Thanks a lot!! It did work like a charm :)

  28. varun
    January 1st, 2010 at 20:45
    Reply | Quote | #28

    Thanks !

    It works fantastic!!

  29. Ramya
    January 17th, 2010 at 20:15
    Reply | Quote | #29

    Many thanks dude ……

    Its workin’ now :)

  30. Andries
    January 27th, 2010 at 21:35
    Reply | Quote | #30

    Thanks a lot man!

  31. Ratz
    May 11th, 2010 at 21:22
    Reply | Quote | #31

    Awesome!!! u saved me :)

  32. paddy
    June 8th, 2010 at 23:43
    Reply | Quote | #32

    hey man,i m using windows 7,after unchecking when i go to new it only shows folder option but no text document option.what should i do ?
    plz help me out.

  33. jhansipravallika
    June 18th, 2010 at 22:02
    Reply | Quote | #33

    hey really thanks a lot…..now it s not hanging .Really i was worrying the whole day and finally got it thanks a lot……………….

  34. ambar
    June 26th, 2010 at 21:55
    Reply | Quote | #34

    Thanks a lot. It does work! :-)

  35. Bala
    July 1st, 2010 at 02:33
    Reply | Quote | #35

    Hey,

    Wonderful, I googled and got yours as the first solution?

    Cheers, Bala.

  36. Aya
    July 14th, 2010 at 18:02
    Reply | Quote | #36

    Excellent! Thanks ;)

  37. oonam
    August 3rd, 2010 at 02:23
    Reply | Quote | #37

    Thanks a lottttt. Good Its perfect in first attempt well done job and thanks for sharing.

  38. Asit
    September 8th, 2010 at 18:27
    Reply | Quote | #38

    Thanks a lotttttt . It really works…………….
    Thanks for sharing

  39. john
    September 28th, 2010 at 08:51
    Reply | Quote | #39

    tahnks your helps
    it fix now

  40. Spawn
    November 19th, 2010 at 14:35
    Reply | Quote | #40

    thanks a lot. worked like a charm.

  41. Anu
    January 19th, 2011 at 14:35
    Reply | Quote | #41

    Awesome :) Worked like a charm. Thanks.

  42. fardan
    March 9th, 2011 at 04:39
    Reply | Quote | #42

    Wow, this has bugged me for soo long!!!

    thanks dude!

  43. Harsha
    March 19th, 2011 at 13:16
    Reply | Quote | #43

    Thanx a lot

  44. Kavi
    April 10th, 2011 at 12:10
    Reply | Quote | #44

    Really looking for this…

    Thank, thankyou very much…

    Really works like a charm!!

    :) )

  45. frosted
    April 12th, 2011 at 18:45
    Reply | Quote | #45

    Yay, now it has stopped crashing :)

    Thanks!

  46. abcd
    April 24th, 2011 at 05:52
    Reply | Quote | #46

    Awesome.. :) thanks .. you rock.

  47. Rakesh
    October 3rd, 2011 at 23:03
    Reply | Quote | #47

    Thanks a ton, god bless you.

  48. Jedimindless
    November 2nd, 2011 at 06:25
    Reply | Quote | #48

    thanks!!!! 3 years later your fix still works and is the ONLY one i could find!