Windows 2000 Bug

[DrHash]

Sometimes when I open new files in Winamp (equal if I use Drag & Drop or really "open"), WinAmp closes itself and wehn I start again, I have the playlist that was saved after the last sucessful close of WinAmp - But there is no error message - I have Winamp 2.76 and win2k german professional & directx 8.

Can somebody help me ?

[DrHash]

forgot to say, that i have sp 2 installed ...

[DJ Egg]

Reinstall Winamp, especially if you haven't done so since upgrading to sp2.

[DrHash]

I'm nox using Winamp 2.64 and it works fine, but thx for your help :)

[texasdiablo]

I had the same problem...Winamp would just up and close at random times when I was dragging in files. I installed service pack 2, then re-installed Winamp, and it just got worse.

Winamp just up and quits MORE now... now sometimes when I'm *NOT* dragging files. This is a nightmare... what is going on here?

[peter]

any third-party plugins installed ? do you have some SBLive sound card ?

[DrHash]

a debugger tells me, that winamp reacts like it does when hanging itself up (jmp to the same pointer) - but why does winamp do that ?

[texasdiablo]

This sucks and I hate to inform the coders...

Winamp has become completely unusable on Windows 2000. It just closes itself at random times: when I try to browse directories, when I try to drag in files, when I go to the next song in the playlist, or even sometimes just at random.

Winamp was such a good program under Windows 98, and I don't understand why it can't even stay running for more than 60 seconds on Windows 2000.

I'm afraid I'll have to find a useable player for Win2k until these little random quits are fixed.

:(

TexasDiablo

[peter]

http://64.12.38.241/showthread.php?s=&postid=212863 - you said that winamp does a lot of weird things on win98, now you say that it worked fine on win98. wtf?

[DJ Egg]

Aah, yes! The infamous double-click incident.
Remember it well. :D

TD

Best solution = Uninstall -> Reinstall (http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=50818)

If you want to try an older version (lord knows why?)
www.winampheaven.da.ru

[AngryChicken]

That's odd, I use Win2K exclusively on all of my systems, and after I erased the gen_nomad.dll file all was happy

[Shard6]

I think I am having the same problems that everyone else is having. However, I noticed that Winamp crashes without error if I am playing a track and try to scroll through the a directory after clicking Add:File. I have been able to reproduce this everytime.

System Info:
PIII-733
192MB PC100 RAM
Windows 2000 Professional, SP2
DirectX 8.0
Winamp 2.76

In addition, this happened in 2.75 as well. After I realized that it was a reoccuring bug, I upgraded to 2.76, with no improvement.

It's not a life-threatening bug, but it sure as hell is annoying. I hope someone figures it out.

[Shard6]

But so should you if this works. I remembered that a friend of mine had had trouble with the WaveOut plugin under Win2k... not related to this problem, but still. Either way, I switched to it, and the problem does seem to occur anymore.

Hell, I may be on crack and this is not the issue the rest of you are running into, but if so you may want to try this out.

Laterz...

[Diablos]

If you guys have the KaZaA plugin, try deleting that. Winamp hasn't closed on me since... HOPEFULLY. :)

But yeah this is a let down, a program as popular as Winamp should be fully compatible under Windows 2000. Hopefully removing this plugin helped. I have SP2 as well.

[DJ Egg]

Well, PP asked above if any of you'd installed any 3rd party plugins, but no-one anwsered.
So, yes, Kazaa is a 3rd party plugin and is obviously no longer compatible with the newer versions of Winamp. Either that or it isn't 100% Win2k compatible.
As with all 3rd party plugins, you should check the author's site for any updated version, and if there isn't one, report the problem to the author of the plugin.
There's nothing Nullsoft or anyone on these forums can do about it.

[DrHash]

I have NO 3rd-party-plugins installed, because I hate plugins ;) Winamp is good for hearing Music, i don't need any shit either ;)

[GourmetArtist]

I have the same problem as DrHash.

These are the plugins I have.

Advanced Visualization Studio v2.5
Lionhead B&W Dance Visualization
Nullsoft Tiny Fullscreen v2.02
WildTangent Winamp Visualizer

I don't think it's a plugin problem since I'm not using any of them and winamp doesn't even know where my pluggins are. I've only had this problem with winamp 2.76. I've also reinstalled after sp2.

Can someone tell me where I can get an older version of winamp?

thanks.

[DJ Egg]

Originally posted by GourmetArtist
Can someone tell me where I can get an older version of winamp?See my second post above

[texasdiablo]

did we ever figure out WHY winamp just closes at random times? i'm actually interested to know. my downstairs neighbor says he has noticed this as well running win2k with sp2.

i'd love to migrate back to winamp if and when this nasty little problem is resolved. i'm guessing it's something wrong with win2k, and probably not winamp...

texasdiablo

[peter]

Originally posted by PP
any third-party plugins installed ? do you have some SBLive sound card ?

[GourmetArtist]

It's not Win2k. Winamp 2.75 works fine. Same goes for 2.74, 2.73, and most of older versions. This is the first time I've ever seen this bug.

It's funny how fast they were coming out with new versions, then when an actual bug appears they stop.

I tried a fresh install of 2.76 with no pluggins and I still had the same problems.

[peter]

full system specs ? sound card type ?

[GourmetArtist]

Win2k sp2 (Winamp 2.76 has mentioned bug)
NT4 sp6a (Winamp works fine)

PIII 800
SBLive
Geforce 256
256 SDRAM

I recently reformatted my whole HD so I don't have much installed yet. Haven't installed anything from Soundblaster. Running my soundcard with the drivers that came with Win2k. I had the newest Soundblaster drivers installed before and it had the same problems. So I'm guessing it's not SBLive especially since the older versions worked fine. The only other thing I can think of that might cause a problem is that I have EasyCD 4 installed.

Hopefully this helps you guys.

[peter]

Originally posted by AngryChicken
That's odd, I use Win2K exclusively on all of my systems, and after I erased the gen_nomad.dll file all was happy

[sgames]

No probs in Win2k here. Works great!!!:D