Strange Winamp Issue

m0r94n · 25 Nov 2008 at 11:23

Probably just me being a complete noob but my winamp Now Playing page won't change from this stupid search thing. Hillarious thing is, I didn't click anything to run this in the first place so i'm wondering a) how it got there and b) why it wont go away.

Like I said, probably just me being a colossal failure and not noticing a button, buts its damn annoying when i can't even open my Now Playing screen to view my tracks.

bledd · 25 Nov 2008 at 11:26

that wallpaper always makes me laugh

can't help though i'm sorry, i use winamp lite

MarcLister · 25 Nov 2008 at 12:20

The wallpaper doesn't make me laugh, I've no clue what its about. :confused:

If I were Mr OP I'd go to Winamp Preferences then look at either General Purpose or Media Library under the Plugins at the bottom. You should see a Now Playing.dll plugin or similar. Uninstall it and restart Winamp. Problemo solved.

m0r94n · 25 Nov 2008 at 12:34

MarcLister said:
The wallpaper doesn't make me laugh, I've no clue what its about.

Its a ytmnd

MarcLister said:
If I were Mr OP I'd go to Winamp Preferences then look at either General Purpose or Media Library under the Plugins at the bottom. You should see a Now Playing.dll plugin or similar. Uninstall it and restart Winamp. Problemo solved.

Mr OP tried that and it worked

Had to delete both Now Playing and Dashboard and it worked, turns out Winamp has been installing things without my permission which seems quite naughty. Might start looking for a new player.

bledd · 25 Nov 2008 at 12:34

look at the 3rd frame..

vin diesel's face IN the other's guy's

MarcLister · 25 Nov 2008 at 13:01

m0r94n said:
Mr OP tried that and it worked Had to delete both Now Playing and Dashboard and it worked, turns out Winamp has been installing things without my permission which seems quite naughty. Might start looking for a new player.

Good stuff. And have you done the customised install? If not then it installs everything.

bledd. said:
look at the 3rd frame..

vin diesel's face IN the other's guy's

Ah right.

m0r94n · 25 Nov 2008 at 13:06

MarcLister said:
Good stuff. And have you done the customised install? If not then it installs everything.

Yeah, just wiped & re-installed it. Custom this time, though I could have sworn I did that last time. Oh well, if it pops up again I now know what to do!

MarcLister · 25 Nov 2008 at 13:13

Yeah I always do a custom install of Winamp. There is a fair amount of stuff I don't use so no point in installing it.

Have to say I'm open to finding a new media player for my music. I used to use Winamp for CD ripping but no more, EAC a la Bledd for that. So as long as it has a library feature I'm happy. And that doesn't include Winamp Lite OK bledd.