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billrhynes	Date: January 30, 2008 @ 9:06 PM I have winamp 5.51 installed on the bedroom pc and the living room pc. I have no problem in the bedroom, but the other computer wont stream Distilled's or the other radio shows. I get an "unkown file type" error. When I select "all file types" in the prefs, it won't include the .pls file type, which of course, is the one I need...anybody have this problem?
ShadowMom	Date: January 30, 2008 @ 9:25 PM What browsers do you use?
billrhynes	Date: January 30, 2008 @ 9:51 PM IE. I won't use Firefox. I hate the downloading agent.
billrhynes	Date: January 30, 2008 @ 9:52 PM IE7, to be specific
ShadowMom	Date: January 30, 2008 @ 10:03 PM Okay, I have IE7 on my other pc, let me see if I can make it misbehave with winamp, too. And I firefox...
RichLum	Date: January 30, 2008 @ 10:06 PM On 31st Dec 1969, billrhynes said: I have no problem in the bedroom... I doubt your prowess with the ladies has any impact on Winamp....
leedsquietman	Date: January 30, 2008 @ 10:09 PM works fine with firefox or IE7 for me. Winamp just updated to 5.52 by the way, supposedly fixes a bad security flaw in 5.51 +1 to firefox, although I agree with Bill on the download agent - but it's not enough to put me onto IE7.
moam	Date: January 30, 2008 @ 10:10 PM On 30th Jan 2008, RichLum said: [QUOTE info=billrhynes] I have no problem in the bedroom... I doubt your prowess with the ladies has any impact on Winamp.... [/QUOTE] awesome
Tattoomom	Date: January 30, 2008 @ 10:27 PM Actually his prowess in the bedroom does all kinds of things to MY winamp!
billrhynes	Date: January 30, 2008 @ 10:38 PM On 30th Jan 2008, moam said: [QUOTE info=RichLum,January 30, 2008 @ 10:06 PM] [QUOTE info=billrhynes] I have no problem in the bedroom... I doubt your prowess with the ladies has any impact on Winamp.... [/QUOTE] awesome [/QUOTE] I knew I shoulda re-phrased that...
ShadowMom	Date: January 30, 2008 @ 10:46 PM Did you restart your pc after you changed the settings?
TameasDust	Date: January 31, 2008 @ 5:02 AM It may be that one pute has the codecs and the oither one doesn't ... re download winamp FULL or pro.
Distilled1	Date: January 31, 2008 @ 7:46 AM in settings file type make sure winamp is set for .pls and .m3u some other apps will try to take those. and ie7 is a pile of junk Bill its a poor attempt at firefox try opera if you really hate ff. ie is the the dl agent in firefox can be set not to pop up at all it drives me nuts to i have it off. no notices
GeneHilbert	Date: January 31, 2008 @ 9:40 AM On 30th Jan 2008, Tattoomom said: Actually his prowess in the bedroom does all kinds of things to MY winamp! You go boy.......
billrhynes	Date: February 3, 2008 @ 9:50 PM I re-installed winamp full, it still refuses to include pls. files...
Distilled1	Date: February 3, 2008 @ 10:20 PM Bill Options and prefrences set win amp to do .pls and m3u mp3 etc.
billrhynes	Date: February 3, 2008 @ 11:34 PM done it a dozen times, and Winamp always UN-does it
ShadowMom	Date: February 3, 2008 @ 11:40 PM I have noticed certain recalcitrant behaviors from winamp lately... once you get it to accept the setting, it seems fine, but for whatever reason-- sometimes it just refuses to change a setting. The only thing that I've found that works is doing it over and over and then try a cold start-- not a reboot, but a cold start. It's far from foolproof software.
leflaw	Date: February 4, 2008 @ 9:06 AM Wimamp is a memory hog. Need at least a gig to not crash windows.
Distilled1	Date: February 4, 2008 @ 9:40 AM its not win amp its another music app doing it tdo you have i tunes on your computer? that does it so will updates of Windows media. LefLaw winamp is light. comparatively to WMP and the like and music match forget it . fubar2000 is real light and plays .pls as well shoutcasting running 2 streams out and loaded with over 700 songs win amp is using a whole 12,732K mem. witch is a drop in the bucket its nada
leflaw	Date: February 4, 2008 @ 4:27 PM Winamp is lighter that Windows media and Itunes, but still a hog.
leedsquietman	Date: February 4, 2008 @ 6:27 PM Watch Itunes, that thing always sets itself as the default, even if you go into it's preferences and uncheck everything and OK it. I've found that even unchecked, it won't release the file associations (if I go into winamp or wmp and try to set those as default, files still open in itunes, especially using firefox) I only have Itunes on my computer to test videoclips I made in quicktime for the Apple crowd but regularly have to uninstall it or reinstall windows media player, it's like the cold war all over again, reinstall WMP and it makes itself king again, but open Itunes, it takes over all the file associations again....
billrhynes	Date: February 4, 2008 @ 9:26 PM I gave Firefox another try and am liking alot better...got rid of the download thingy...I tried Opera briefly and hated the hell out of it. I like Winamp, but what IS everybody using? Realplayer? WMP? Quicktime? What???
billrhynes	Date: February 4, 2008 @ 9:30 PM GOM looks kinda cool...
leedsquietman	Date: February 4, 2008 @ 9:41 PM I mostly use WMP11 because I like it's GUI better than Winamp but for shoutcast streaming or playing back 24 bit files I use winamp. People will give me the 'microsoft dinosaur, megacorp' lecture but Winamp is also major corp being that AOL/TimeWarner are it's owner. I only use Itunes/Quicktime Player for playing back movies made using the Quicktime video format like most movie trailers are these days because they only play back in Itunes/Quicktime player and if you don't have it you get prompted to get it when you click on the videolink (usually a .mov or .qt codec). I used to use Realplayer several years ago, but then they started bundling all kinds of 3rd party crapware who would spam your e-mail with innumerate 'music club discounts' and stuff. Even now, I have Real10 on my computer for those rare times when a file is not supported by windows or apple media, but any time I run it I have to go into sysconfig.exe and disable it from running at boot, which it likes to do even if you turn that preference off (and my wife who actually likes it tells me the downside on her laptop is that it pops up reminders to upgrade to pro and 'special offers' frequently)
GeneHilbert	Date: February 4, 2008 @ 11:23 PM Realplayer is a virus..... I have it installed - but a very old version. Quicktime is a virus... I uninstalled it years ago - because "I HATE THE GOT DAMN THING". But when I start doing real videos - I'll need to buy it..... and THAT BLOWS...... I hate it...... I don't hate much - but Bill, Hillary & Quicktime are neck in neck. I have used Wimamp for years, I now have the pro. Works for me..... I still have Windows Media installed..... why.......? because I have to.
Distilled1	Date: February 5, 2008 @ 11:13 AM win amp exclusively, have WMP 9 I went back to 9 tried 10 and 11 but I really don't like the UI its so large for a player I dont need all the web pages and stuff and damn it goofs with my music library((as well napster does)) ) it have to have it for the kids darn napster stuff real is installed as well but its so so old again some files just don't play right in win amp but most do. Quick time I hate its on but I refuse to update it anymore, quick time likes to make things its own along with i tunes and thats what happens when there are 3 i pods in the house I have foobar2000 but don't like its basic feel. used to have Music Match (that was my preferd encoder/ripper 5-6 years ago but since it has become loaded with 3rd party crap I don't even think its free any more it was bundeld as DELL music player on this box I don't remember where it went I must have killed it after tons of crashes on it. see I had a key I bought the pro way back when.
cantstoprunning	Date: February 24, 2008 @ 5:02 AM anyone know why WMP 11 is giving me a "not enough memory" error when I try to stream? I've got 3GB of RAM, and I'm only running ff and wmp. And streams have worked before on this system.
Distilled1	Date: February 24, 2008 @ 5:18 AM cause WMP isn't designed right its not to do with memory cause streaming shouldn't use it WMP and vista? I bet that bogged down WMP along with the over memory use of Vista is causing it ... there may be a MS hot fix but thats the best I can tell you I suggest for your streaming needs download the FREE winamp and set it for all audio mp3,m3u(playlist/streams) and even others if you like it I use it for all audio ---video well it does that too but some other players are better for it. WMP 11 talks to MS I refuse to use it
Distilled1	Date: February 24, 2008 @ 5:20 AM and those that like monster full screen players win amp has more skins than you can shake a ding0a0ling at
cantstoprunning	Date: February 24, 2008 @ 6:41 AM looks like it's actually an issue with the DMusic stream. Winamp is having an error syncing. Some streams work fine. Winamp is definitely a keeper, though. Thanks!
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 24, 2008 @ 7:13 AM I'm running Winamp 2.91 and Media Player Classic (I think it's version 6 of WMP)... And they work fine, so I ain't changing sh*t.
ShadowMom	Date: February 24, 2008 @ 8:25 AM Not all the tracks will work yet, whether you use WMP or winamp. But winamp is definitely preferable.
ChillinBuzz	Date: February 26, 2008 @ 4:06 AM Want a QuickTime alternative? http://www.codecpackguide.com/quicktimealt.htm That includes the Media Player Classic I use. Works well with almost all codecs, in conjunction with the K-Lite video/audio codec package.