Dunno if this is really a bug or if can even be reproduced, but whenever I open the close program box(ctrl+alt+del..duh), for whatever reason, WinAmp skips a second of the current track over and over til you close the box. This is in WinME. Perhaps just part of the lameness of Microsoft, who knows..but it just happened when I upgraded to 2.71 and not with any previous version. More of nuisance than anything, but bareable I guess, since your not really in the close program box for long, unless of course you're locked up...ick. Anyways...thats it. Otherwise, seems straight so far to me.

that happens a lot, it happens to me when i used windows media player, with winamp it totally stops, it's cuz the close box is meant to halt everything, why it makes it skip i dunno, but ya know

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It did that in previous version...stopped play that is. That's why I was wondering why now it skips. Running ME of course, you're in the Close Program box more often than anything else...oh well...guess I'll just deal til WinAmp3 comes out and I can stick to Linux most of the time...

Windows halts all non-device and non-kernel level processes and threads when you go into the Close Program dialog box. It is basically an effective way to suspend most of your system. The reason your music skips is because the audio driver (a device) continues to run -- and without Winamp running to feed it more data, it will loop through the same chunk of buffered music over and over.

All versions of winamp I have ever used do this, and to my programming knowledge there is no easy way to avoid it (other than making winamp a vdx driver, hehe). Also, the exact behavior depends on your soundcard and its drivers. Some soundcards will simply stop once they reach the end of the buffered music. Others (notably most newer cards) do the broken-record loop thingie.

The only other reason I can figure that your previous version didn't do it is maybe because your configured Winamp output driver latency was considerably longer at that time. For example, if you have a 3000 millisecond buffer set in Winamp, you should be able to hang around in the Close Program dialog box for a full three seconds before the music starts skipping. Usually, people do not end up looking at the box for that long, and hence you wouldn't have noticed it skip.

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