Major Problem With Winamp
 

I Got Winamp 5, i went to play a song, and it asked me for winamp 3, and it couldnt find it, so i have to right click the music file and click play with "Winamp" i put, Use this program to open all files like this" and it changed all my music to Winamp media files which change them to large music file like wavs.

how can i fix this? so that it won't change them all to winamp media files ?

(I Can play Winamp media files) but i want to play MP3 Files with Winamp 5)

any help wood be much appreciated

Thanks moderators i hope you get paid :up:

There's no such thing as 'Winamp Media Files'.
It's just a decription, and means that Winamp is the default player of those filetypes.

If you go to: Windows Folder Options > View tab
and uncheck: Hide extensions for known filetypes

you'll then see that all your MP3 files still have the .MP3 extension at the end, and they haven't changed at all.

Winamp > Prefs (Ctrl+P) > File Types
Select/deselect the file extensions you want/don't want Winamp to be the default player for.

If you don't want Winamp to be the default MP3 player, then you can open them via the Winamp interface.

Main window > File -> Play File or Play Folder

Playlist -> Add button -> File / Folder


Re: Winamp3
See the relevant section here
(Legacy Support for Winamp3 v1.0)

Thanks for the reply, I Have now gone back to Winamp 3.0
because, im not overloading my hard drive with winamp media files, or whatever there called, because it changes to a wav sort of file. which is like 46MB. Thanks for trying to help.

Huh?

Oh well, Winamp3 isn't supported.
So, it's *whack* time.

Sounds to me like you had DiskWriter Output enabled.
Basic rule of Winamp 1.x/2.x/5.x usage.
The hi-lighted Output plugin is the active one.
For normal playback select one of WaveOut or DirectSound Output.

kthxbye