Winamp taking ages...to load up :/

Greenlizard0 · 12 Jul 2007 at 20:55

For some reason winamp takes ages to load up now, and for the life of me I can't figure out why?

I have tried the lastest installation download, and the previous one which have both given me this problem.

z0mbi3 · 12 Jul 2007 at 20:58

Any extra plugins you're using?

Greenlizard0 · 12 Jul 2007 at 21:05

z0mbi3 said:
Any extra plugins you're using?

Just the DFX plugin, but oddly enough it loads up in a second, while the winamp takes about 15 seconds or so... :/

MarcLister · 12 Jul 2007 at 21:37

Have you removed any plugins you don't use? Perhaps Milkdrop if you don't use that etc?

And how many items in your Media library?

Greenlizard0 · 12 Jul 2007 at 21:57

MarcLister said:
Have you removed any plugins you don't use? Perhaps Milkdrop if you don't use that etc?

And how many items in your Media library?

I think you've got it (by jove!)

Just found out that for some absurd reason winamp is reading my D: (all 232GB of it) as a portable device? WTF?!

The trouble is, now I can't tell it to remove the D: from it's list or anything...argh..

MarcLister · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:02

Goto Options>Media Library>Local Media. Switch to Watched Media tab. Remove D:\ as a watched folder and just set your media folder to be the watched folder.

What is D:\ though? A partition on your PC or a disk?

Greenlizard0 · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:16

MarcLister said:
Goto Options>Media Library>Local Media. Switch to Watched Media tab. Remove D:\ as a watched folder and just set your media folder to be the watched folder.

What is D:\ though? A partition on your PC or a disk?

It's a hard disk on it's own.
edit - I don't have the pathway you describe, and none of the options? :confused:

MarcLister · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:18

Same as my D: then. Perhaps try removing the Portable MP3 player plugin from Winamp. That might stop Winamp seeing your D: as a portable drive and therefore reading the whole thing.

Greenlizard0 · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:23

MarcLister said:
Same as my D: then. Perhaps try removing the Portable MP3 player plugin from Winamp. That might stop Winamp seeing your D: as a portable drive and therefore reading the whole thing.

Hm...that's going to require a reinstallation isn't it?

MarcLister · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:24

Nah, just look under Plugins>Media Library find the portable media player plugin, select it and then press Uninstall selected plugin. You'll need to restart Winamp but it should be fine then.

Greenlizard0 · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:30

MarcLister said:
Nah, just look under Plugins>Media Library find the portable media player plugin, select it and then press Uninstall selected plugin. You'll need to restart Winamp but it should be fine then.

Lol, had a quick reinstall anyway, there were a few more options I took out of Winamp.

Problem sorted though, it loads up instantaneously (which is how it used to behave)!

Thanks MarcLister!

MarcLister · 12 Jul 2007 at 22:34

greenlizard0 said:
Lol, had a quick reinstall anyway, there were a few more options I took out of Winamp.

Problem sorted though, it loads up instantaneously (which is how it used to behave)!

Thanks MarcLister!

Good news that. What did you take out? I always remove the Milkdrop thing. I never listen to music AND look at screen doing nothing. I'm always doing something.

Greenlizard0 · 13 Jul 2007 at 12:10

MarcLister said:
Good news that. What did you take out? I always remove the Milkdrop thing. I never listen to music AND look at screen doing nothing. I'm always doing something.

I know what you mean, some of the AV plugins are fantastic to look at but nothing more. I have them all deleted/uninstalled since I'm the same i.e. I'm usually browsing while listening to my music or doing something or another!

I used to have a tiny rectangle roughly the size of e.g. the main body of the player or the EQ window instead of the even smaller EQ but I found that it just jumped all over the place everytime I started up Winamp=fail=no more!

Taking out those, I removed all of the portable media player support now that I have sold my iPod. I only really installed it because of how bad iTunes was. I think if I was going to get another player e.g. Creative/Microsoft I'd install their software.

MarcLister · 13 Jul 2007 at 12:14

Funnily enough I had a Winamp scare of my own last night. I was playing FM07 when I realised the match screen was jerky. Couldn't work out why. So I checked out Task Manager. Winamp is taking up between 30 and 50% of CPU usage when playing an MP3.

Turned out to be some DSP effect plugin I had. Removed it and down to about 0% CPU usage.

Greenlizard0 · 13 Jul 2007 at 12:21

MarcLister said:
Funnily enough I had a Winamp scare of my own last night. I was playing FM07 when I realised the match screen was jerky. Couldn't work out why. So I checked out Task Manager. Winamp is taking up between 30 and 50% of CPU usage when playing an MP3.

Turned out to be some DSP effect plugin I had. Removed it and down to about 0% CPU usage.

Aye sometimes it can get like that, I've just reminded myself that Winamp really is a fast little player when left on it's own!

I think the only thing that I've got running on it now are tonnes of skins and DFX, which actually really helps on older MP3's *shudders*.

I just looked at my Winamp dumping ground folder and got reminded of another player that came out in the late nineties. Do you remember one called Soritong by Sorinara? I remember it acting amazing on Windows 98/2000, so much faster and smaller than winamp with most of it's options. They never updated it since then though :/

MarcLister · 13 Jul 2007 at 12:23

greenlizard0 said:
Aye sometimes it can get like that, I've just reminded myself that Winamp really is a fast little player when left on it's own!

You mean we should stop tinkering? NEVER!!

greenlizard0 said:
I think the only thing that I've got running on it now are tonnes of skins and DFX, which actually really helps on older MP3's *shudders*.

My brother uses that. Is it any good? Have to pay for a full version don't you? I tried it once but it just looked like a another program to load up. Don't want that. Want to have a nice trim PC.

greenlizard0 said:
I just looked at my Winamp dumping ground folder and got reminded of another player that came out in the late nineties. Do you remember one called Soritong by Sorinara? I remember it acting amazing on Windows 98/2000, so much faster and smaller than winamp with most of it's options. They never updated it since then though :/

Was going to ask if you'd gotten your pension money for this month yet. Then I saw you're barely 14 months older than I am.

So er no.

Greenlizard0 · 13 Jul 2007 at 12:42

MarcLister said:
You mean we should stop tinkering? NEVER!!

My brother uses that. Is it any good? Have to pay for a full version don't you? I tried it once but it just looked like a another program to load up. Don't want that. Want to have a nice trim PC.

I'm exactly the same I'm always fiddling with what I have on my PC to make it e.g. run faster or smoother. Bar using nLite to install windows I don't think there's anymore I can do to my machine lol!

DFX is pretty good on older MP3's which were poorly compressed. Though saying that it works by enhancing certain disadvantages the programmers have presumed are present in all MP3's, which just isn't true. I have heard some MP3's that even on an X-Fi are very similar to CD quality and some that are deffo not!. So it is worth it, but not for all files. There is a free version out there, it just has a splash window that's all if you're unregistered. MSN me (username and hotmail do t c om) if you want it!

MarcLister said:
Was going to ask if you'd gotten your pension money for this month yet. Then I saw you're barely 14 months older than I am.

So er no.

Lol I've been tinckering with PC's for ages, I got my first PC (non-family) when I got my first hotmail address - 1995!

MarcLister · 13 Jul 2007 at 12:44

Bah already done nLite. :cool: