Winamp is one of the best music players i have ever used which has loads of features, unlike Windows Media Player. In Google Talk there is this option to show the currently playing music track as status message. This was working in the older versions of Winamp, but when i upgraded my winamp to Winamp 5.5 and tried to show the the currently playing music track as status in Gtalk, Gtalk freezes and stops responding. Winamp was working fine so i tried out it with Windows Media Player, then Gtalk was able to show the status perfectly and it was working fine. But come on, i don’t want to use win media player, really i don’t, neither do i want to use older version of Winamp cos winamp 5.5 is freaking cool. So i found out this solution in Gtalk Help, finally they have solved it Phew. Cos, i have been searching for a solution for quite some time.
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.
Cheers
July 11th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
I don’t use Winamp but I use iTunes coz I have an iPod and I don’t always listen to music from my comp. I transfer them to my iPod and then listen to it.
And btw its good that you have made aware of this problem. Its helpful for those who are facing this problem.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I had a bad impression about Winamp all these days, but looking at the way you praise Winamp i think have to try it. Anyways nice solution for the problem.
July 12th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Yeah you should try Winamp 5.5, it even has converter in it.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Joel, you preferred WMP over Winamp. LOLNUB.
July 13th, 2008 at 2:36 am
Joel, Or delete MP from your comp
August 20th, 2008 at 4:50 am
Ya i am also having the same problem da.I think some virus is there in our computer that’s y these problem r taken place. But now i can understand .Ur really knowledge guy……….
October 19th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Thanks a lot for providing the solution.
October 19th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Hey… do you also know why gtalk doesn’t show the current music track .( i use itunes)
October 20th, 2008 at 1:32 am
@I have never used itunes before, but if the status is not showed in gtalk, then you should check itunes plugins if it has the feature, like how we enable it in windows media player to show tracks in Gtalk!!
November 12th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
It worked, many thanks, you solved my problem
December 24th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
It´s working great thanks a lot