gen_msn possible problems
 

I'm a disc jockey for a net radio station and we are currently experiancing alot of buffering with different disc jockeys. I believe all of us use WindowsXP. Some have recently installed the gen_msn plugin and they think that may be the cause of the problem (the buffering). However I've had it installed for some time and had no problems. I did notice on the Winamp reviews page that there is a .024 version http://www.winamp.com/plugins/detail...9&show=reviews
however I can't find it. I don't know if upgrading to .024 would help or not even if I could find it using yahoo. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Well, the author of the plugin, Shane Hird (forums member shaneh), makes mention of a 'special build' of the gen_msn plugin in this post. However, he doesn't indicate the version number...I went to his site and looked for that 'special build' just now on his Live Messenger Now Playing Plugin page, but I only saw a download link there for v0.23.

Since 3rd-party authored plugins and/or skins are not supported here, I think your best bet is to contact him directly, either here via the forums, or at his site.

gen_msn shouldn't be the cause of your buffering problems. Its a very simple plugin that just sends a simple 'update song title' message to the MSN/WLM messenger window. It doesn't affect your network speed etc, which i suspect is the cause (possibly some spyware or other network intensive app running in the background?)

gen_msn v0.24 should not be used, it was built for the beta versions of WLM which had a bug which required the titles to be updated in a different way. v0.23 is the one you want.

If you still suspect it is caused by gen_msn, simply removed the gen_msn.dll file from your plugins directory and see if the problem still exists.