Why does winamp listen on port 31000?
 

Its late at night, i might just be acting stupid.. but i was screwing around with a tcp monitoring program and noticed that winamp was listening on port 31000. Any reason for this?

Because AOL is launching a trojan that will be activated at midnight on 1/1/2003 causing them to 0wN all wa3 equipped PC's and take over the net!
Seriously though, none of the suggested reasons would run a server, they would connect to an external client. Unless you were running a shoutcast server or something.

at a guess, from the components out there right now, i would assume he has rm-x installed, which is probably the most likely to be running a server of some kind.

thats what makes it soooooo coool :).

Port 31000... thats a high high port number.

yup! you all said it before me. it sure it RM-X. i swiched NetSlave over to using higher port numbers, this way it has less of a chance of having a conflicting port number. You could disable NetSlave if you wanted to, and it will close the port in the proccess. I ment to have NetSlave start disabled by default because of this, but i forgot to do that in RM-X 0.7.x

if you check the advanced properties of RM-X, and then go to NetSlave, you can change the port number that it uses. this way, you could use your own super secret port number, that way you dont have to worry about others logging into your music system and changing your song. plus, in RM-X 0.8, it is fully password protected.

in the new NetSlave in RM-X 0.8, i am working on a multi-level log-in system, this way you could set one password for people to simply be able to log-in and view the playlist and chat on the internet NetSlave chat on that server, or higher levels where you could change what song is playing and change playlists, or even higher levels where you could disconnect others connections.

as of RM-X 0.7.x tho, the NetSlave protocol want finished. this is why the client for it isnt available for download yet. when it DOES become available, most likely it wont work with RM-X 0.7 anyways, so the NetSlave Server included with that release is kinda useless unless you have the dev copies of everything,

wow RM-X will turn into a WWWinamp with the multilevel stuff.... pimp!

Winamp listens on port 31000 because it feels like it.

now there is a great answer :)

Yup, its rm-x. BUT when I went to disable netslave, it still listens to the port its set to listen to even after closing out winamp and reopening it.

tthhhhhh thhhhhattts all folks!

OH YEA!!! thats right. i forgot about that bug. in RM-X 0.7, NetSlave didnt unload correctly when disabled. woopsies!

already fixed for RM-X 0.8 tho.