Winamp doesn't work in Win 7

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

Hey,
Trying to get the Winamp 5.56 to work it just freezes any ideas ?? Tried comp mode still nothing

 

[zigzag3143]

Hey,
Trying to get the Winamp 5.56 to work it just freezes any ideas ?? Tried comp mode still nothing

Hi and welcome

have you lokoked in event viewer (type event vwr in search) go to the wondows log>application tab. Look for errors (ref in left column) theat have app hang, app crash, or winamp in tehm. they will be there when you find them note the event ID and source codes and let us know what they are.\

Let us know if you need help with any of this


Kenn J++

 

[Uber Philf]

I can assure you Winamp 5.56 work, im using it atm.

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

Thanks for the replay .. I looked for error in Event viewer but didn't find any. The actual behavior is it sits in the Task bar won't open but it Processes the Memory usage is kinda of dtable like 24,234 K doesn't change from that. The program doesn't say non-responding I tried to uninstall and reinstall couple of times and checked in different Windows Profile

 

[MilesAhead]

are you using a Winamp skin with a .wal extension by any chance? Just wondering because I got some errors in W7 with .wal skins that I didn't get with .wsz skins. I never got to the bottom of it but it seemed to have something to do with skin scripting or something. It's just one thing you can try to see if it starts working.

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

Sweet ... I got it to work.. I renamed C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins\DSP_SPS to C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins\DSP_SPS_old then tried ...Magic it opened When you told about skins i renamed that first then i though about plugins .. Thanks a lot for your effort

 

[Uber Philf]

Glad you got it working, and that you posted your solution.

 

[furydeath]

I'm having the same problem. It opens but after that it freezes so I can't even use it and nothing i see can fix it. Just something more going wrong with windows 7 making me wanta go back to XP now.

 

[Uber Philf]

Did you try any of the other fixes? are you running a .wal theme with it?

 

[stormy13]

Yes it does work, been using it since the RC of Win 7 (and have it playing right now). Also just came across this plugin that allows it to work with Aero Peek,

win7shell - Project Hosting on Google Code

 

[furydeath]

Yes I've tried everything I have found nothing works. I know it works was using it last night but now that i made a new computer reinstalled winamp and nothing i open it and it just freezes I can't even use the kill command to get it off i had to go make a shortcut it kill it.

 

[Gwindor]

For me it works perfectly (ver, 5.56) perfectly for both WIN 7 Ultimate x86 in my PC and in my Laptop WIN 7 Home Pro x64.

 

[Six9siX]

I use winamp 5.531 on both xp & 7, because the last ver of winamp have some bugs on my system.

 

[Gornot]

Winamp does seem to go around crashing on it's own from time to time, but since switching to Win7 I only keep Winamp for encoding my MP3s to M4As, and simply use WMP12.
Is Winamp the only idotic program which assigns the album art as a separate file in a folder instead of thumbnailing it to all music files? When I discovered that, it was the greatest reason to kick it in the ass and toss it aside.

(Six9siX, Yugoslavia, lol, change that, please )