help, tracks not playing

[zombola]

Hi,
Winamp has suddenly stopped playing my music, when i click on a track it cycles through all the tracks thereafter without playing. I've recently moved all my music files to an external hard drive but thr thing is this didnt effect it to begin with, they played fine. Ive looked in the preferences to see if i have to specify where to play music files from but there dosnt seem to be an option.
Can anyone help?
thanks in advance.


My list of plug ins are as follows:

Installed Winamp plugin list
Generated by 'One for Nunz v3.1.1' on 26/02/2008 at 19:51:27

<< Winamp Information >>

Winamp.ini path is: C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.ini
Plugin directory is: C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins
Visualisation directory is: C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins
DSP directory is: C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins
Skin directory is: C:\Program Files\Winamp\skins
Language Pack directory is: C:\Program Files\Winamp\Lang

Using Winamp version: 5.5 (Build 1640)
Current skin: Big Bento (Modern skin)
Sonic Burning Engine is installed

<< OS Information >>

Running on: Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
Memory available: 458224 KB


<< Input plugins >>

Nullsoft CD Plug-in (MusicID 2.5) v3.4 [in_cdda.dll]
Nullsoft DirectShow Decoder v1.04 [in_dshow.dll]
Nullsoft FLAC Decoder 2.02 [in_flac.dll]
Nullsoft LineIn Plug-in v3.12 [in_linein.dll]
Nullsoft MIDI Player 3.16 [in_midi.dll]
Nullsoft Module Decoder v2.3 [in_mod.dll]
Nullsoft MPEG Audio Decoder 4.1 [in_mp3.dll]
Nullsoft MPEG-4 Audio Decoder v1.3 [in_mp4.dll]
Nullsoft NSV Decoder v1.09 [in_nsv.dll]
Nullsoft Vorbis Decoder v1.51 [in_vorbis.dll]
Nullsoft Waveform Decoder v3.14 [in_wave.dll]
Nullsoft Windows Media Decoder 3.27 [in_wm.dll]

<< Output plugins >>

Nullsoft DirectSound Output v2.47 (d) [out_ds.dll] [active]
Nullsoft Disk Writer v2.13 [out_disk.dll]
Nullsoft WaveOut Output v2.11 (d) [out_wave.dll]

<< Visualisation plugins >>

Advanced Visualization Studio v2.81d [vis_avs.dll]
MilkDrop 1.04e [vis_milk.dll] [active]
MilkDrop 2.0 [vis_milk2.dll]
Nullsoft Tiny Fullscreen v2.09 [vis_nsfs.dll]

<< DSP plugins >>

Nullsoft Signal Processing Studio DSP v0.39a [dsp_sps.dll]

<< General Purpose plugins >>

Jump To File Extra v0.99.2 (Build 430) [gen_jumpex.dll]
Nullsoft Global Hotkeys v1.4 [gen_hotkeys.dll]
Nullsoft Media Library v3.20 [gen_ml.dll]
Nullsoft Modern Skins Support v1.3 [gen_ff.dll]
Nullsoft Tray Control v2.1 [gen_tray.dll]
One for Nunz v3.1.1 [gen_nunzio.dll]

<< Media Library plugins >>

Nullsoft Auto-Tagger v2.0 [ml_autotag.dll]
Nullsoft Bookmarks v1.05 [ml_bookmarks.dll]
Nullsoft Dashboard v1.02 [ml_dash.dll]
Nullsoft Format Converter v2.22 [ml_transcode.dll]
Nullsoft History v1.1 [ml_history.dll]
Nullsoft Local Media v2.0 [ml_local.dll]
Nullsoft Now Playing v3.1 [ml_nowplaying.dll]
Nullsoft Online Services v1.51 [ml_online.dll]
Nullsoft Playlist Generator v1.0 [ml_plg.dll]
Nullsoft Playlists v1.1 [ml_playlists.dll]
Nullsoft Podcasts Plug-in v1.2 [ml_wire.dll]
Nullsoft Portable Music Player Support v1.22 [ml_pmp.dll]
Nullsoft Replay Gain Analyzer v1.05 [ml_rg.dll]
Nullsoft Rip & Burn v1.2 [ml_disc.dll]
Orb Remote Media v1.0 [ml_orb.dll]

<< Portable Media Player plugins >>

Nullsoft Creative NJB Plug-in v0.54 [pmp_njb.dll]
Nullsoft iPod Plug-in v0.7 [pmp_ipod.dll]
Nullsoft PlaysForSure Plug-in v0.7 [pmp_p4s.dll]
Nullsoft USB Device Plug-in v0.6 [pmp_usb.dll]

<< Encoder plugins >>

[enc_aacplus.dll]
aacPlus (HE-AAC) Encoder v1.27
aacPlus (HE-AAC) High Bitrate Encoder v1.27
LC-AAC Encoder v1.27
MP4/aacPlus (HE-AAC) Encoder v1.27
MP4/aacPlus (HE-AAC) High Bitrate Encoder v1.27
MP4/LC-AAC Encoder v1.27
[enc_flac.dll]
FLAC Encoder (Flake SVN r117)
[enc_lame.dll]
[enc_wav.dll]
WAV Encoder v1.01
[enc_wma.dll]
WMA Encoder v1.21

<< Summary of system components (*.w5s) >>
(These are not included in the plugin counts below)
aacPlusDecoder.w5s (356kb)
bmp.w5s (7kb)
dlmgr.w5s (24kb)
filereader.w5s (11kb)
gif.w5s (17kb)
gracenote.w5s (12kb)
jnetlib.w5s (26kb)
jpeg.w5s (98kb)
playlist.w5s (35kb)
png.w5s (92kb)
tagz.w5s (18kb)
xml.w5s (85kb)

<< Summary of all dlls in the root winamp folder (*.dll) >>
(These are not included in the plugin counts below)
burnlib.dll (82kb) [not loaded]
libFLAC.dll (133kb) [not loaded]
libmp4v2.dll (174kb) [not loaded]
libsndfile.dll (197kb) [loaded]
nde.dll (85kb) [loaded]
nscrt.dll (344kb) [loaded]
primosdk.DLL (182kb) [not loaded]
tataki.dll (62kb) [loaded]

<< Summary of all dlls in the plugins\gracenote folder (*.dll) >>
(These are not included in the plugin counts below)
CddbAFX3.dll (269kb) [not loaded]
CddbCMSig_1_3.dll (105kb) [not loaded]
CDDBControlWinamp.dll (781kb) [not loaded]
CddbFEX.dll (637kb) [not loaded]
CddbFPX1.dll (493kb) [not loaded]
CddbMusicIDWinamp.dll (597kb) [not loaded]
CddbPlaylist2Winamp.dll (537kb) [not loaded]
CDDBUIWinamp.dll (789kb) [not loaded]
CddbWOManagerWinamp.dll (201kb) [not loaded]

<< Summary of installed plugins >>

12 Input plugins installed
3 Output plugins installed
4 Visualisation plugins installed
1 DSP plugin installed
6 General Purpose plugins installed
15 Media Library plugins installed
4 Portable Media Player plugins installed
5 Encoder plugins installed

Total: 50 plugins installed


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Associated Winamp file extensions list

<< Reported extensions from Winamp >>

CDA
MPG
MPEG
M2V
AVI
FLAC
MID
MIDI
RMI
KAR
MIZ
MOD
MDZ
NST
STM
STZ
S3M
S3Z
IT
ITZ
XM
XMZ
MTM
ULT
669
FAR
AMF
OKT
PTM
MP3
MP2
MP1
AAC
VLB
M4A
MP4
NSV
NSA
OGG
AIFF
AU
AVR
CAF
HTK
IFF
MAT
PAF
PVF
RAW
SD2
SDS
SF
VOC
W64
WAV
XI
WMA
WMV
ASF
< Playlist Formats >
M3U
PLS
M3U8
B4S
ASX
WPL

<< Reported extensions from each input plugin >>
(This should match with Winamp's listing excluding playlist formats)

in_cdda.dll CDA

in_dshow.dll MPG MPEG M2V AVI

in_flac.dll FLAC

in_linein.dll No extensions reported

in_midi.dll MID MIDI RMI KAR MIZ

in_mod.dll MOD MDZ NST STM STZ S3M S3Z IT ITZ XM XMZ MTM ULT 669 FAR AMF OKT PTM

in_mp3.dll MP3 MP2 MP1 AAC VLB

in_mp4.dll M4A MP4

in_nsv.dll NSV NSA

in_vorbis.dll OGG

in_wave.dll AIFF AU AVR CAF HTK IFF MAT PAF PVF RAW SD2 SDS SF VOC W64 WAV XI

in_wm.dll WMA WMV ASF

thanks :-)

[Sawg]

I've recently moved all my music files to an external hard drive

Where are you loading the files from? A playlist, the media library?

A playlist is basically a list that points to the proper location of the media files. If you move the files (rename or delete) then what the playlist points to no longer exists. Therefore when Winamp tries to play a track, it sees it doesn't exist and skips on the the next one, continuously.

You can try reloading the tracks manually and saving the playlist again. Or, since a playlist is just a list it can be opened in any text editor where you can edit it manually (use Find and Replace).

The Media Library playlists will be stored in:
C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins\ml\
with names like pl(Numbers and letters).m3u8

[zombola]

Hi,
thanks for that. There doesnt seem to be any playlist info on the c drive/prgram files/winamp, no files with ml or pl names. Would youn please be able to advice on how i reload track using find and replace?

thanks

[kineticlyfated]

I'm having the EXACT same problem with my files. Somehow this problem has spilled over into my WMP. I have wiped my hard drive to fix it. When I reinstalled it, it played the DJ Llama file just fine than suddenly decided to stop playing them again.

All my files were on my hard drive (then played from a backup disk when I wiped), and nothing.

WMP is now telling me I don't have proxy/network access to my own files.

[Geofjka]

Same sort of thing here. I have downloaded V 5.531. When I try to play .flac files it seems to cycle through the playlist until it comes to the end then displays the message "End of playback"

I was able to play these files with no problem on the old version.

.mp3 files play okay.

[zombola]

just wondering if anyone has been able to solve this problem? I am still unable to play anything as it just cycles through.

I can play a file if i go to File> play file> My computer> then My Book (My external hardrive)and physically select the file but if i select a file from 'Local media' on winamp or any of my playlists it cycles through without playing.

Is there a way that I can just select the destination to which winamp plays from (My book) or will I have to re add all my music files to winamp?

thanks in advance

[zombola]

hello anybody? please help