.Net Geek » Winamp http://www.aakashjain.com Technology, musings and stuff by Aakash Jain Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:09:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Fix: Google Talk and Winamp 5 Hang/Freeze http://www.aakashjain.com/google/fix-google-talk-and-winamp-5-hangfreeze-14 http://www.aakashjain.com/google/fix-google-talk-and-winamp-5-hangfreeze-14#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:46:35 +0000 Aakash http://www.aakashjain.com/Fix+Google+Talk+And+Winamp+5+HangFreeze.aspx 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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