Winamp Roaming Profile
 

I'm trying to get winamp to work with my Domain Roaming Profile. I got everythign to work except winamp and trillian and I just finished getting that setup too, but, I'm at a loss on winamp. How can I get my skins, settings, and plugins to be sync on an active directory roaming profile?

- Tucker

Do the settings not work if you use %appdata% to store them? As for the skins and plugins, I would have thought that you could store them in %appdata% too and just set the correct path in Winamp. Actually this might not work as you can only seem to set the DSP and Vis path.

You could just resort to using an archive to store everything and then use that with the profile. Can you store documents with it?

Where would I set the winamp path.

You can set the path that Winamp uses to store its settings with paths.ini placed in the Winamp installation folder. The default contents are:

code:
[Winamp]

inidir={26}\Winamp 2

And this should point it to the %appdata%\Winamp folder.

You might be able to find some more detail on what you can use in the file with a search as I have no clue what you can use (and I had to run the installer to find out the default).

You can set the skin and DSP & Vis paths in Prefs -> Skins and Prefs -> Plug-ins respectively

Re: Winamp Roaming Profile
 

We know who you are. Seriously. It says so on the side bar next to your post.

Re: Re: Winamp Roaming Profile
 

take a deep breath, seriously.

Roaming profiles... seriously, I can remember the day when programmers made programs write files in their directories with every setting you needed in there.

Luckily Winamp dodges most of the crap with its good implementation... unfortunately there are a couple of niggles.

One thing nobody mentioned yet is that the installers for skins/plugins etc... may have trouble detecting your directory if it isn't set in the registry (from my pre winamp 5 AVS installer script):

getwa2path:
ReadRegStr $INSTDIR HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Winamp" "UninstallString"
StrCpy $INSTDIR $INSTDIR "" 1
Goto skippy

getwa3path:
ReadRegStr $INSTDIR HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Winamp3" "UninstallString"

No idea what it is for Winamp 5... have never bothered to look.

There really is no need for windows registry, dll hell... any of this crap! You can replicate all of the functionality yourself and implement it better! At least until M$ force one of their bad ideas down your throat (visual studio 2005 manifests and dll version tracking - the new dll hell! it stops me from avoiding the original dll hell and forces a new one down my throat :) )

Argh!!!!

I set everything to read off my roaming profile, but, i'm still in the process of reformatting my dell and getting all my programs, drivers, etc back on there. After that's done i'm going to take an image of it and then i'll never have to reformat again. I did this to my laptop weeks ago and I decided it was time for the dell. Roaming profiles make it alot easier to come back after a reformat too :)