Why Can't WinAMP Play Shoutcast Streams on Win XP?

mweiss · 4th September 2004, 06:13

Just stepped through those settings... Play in WinAMP is in bold, the Advanced page shows the exact same command line as above quoted. I also noted "&Play in Winamp" as the action.
Curiously, if I keep clicking on the link to play, after about 30 clicks, the stream suddenly spooled up and started to play. But if I shut the PC down and reboot, WinAMP won't play the link again. It seems like clicking the link 30-40 times gets it 'unstuck' and it works repeatably until I shut down Windows XP and reboot. Then the problem begins all over again.

Win XP's firewall is disabled.

As mentioned, this does not happen on our Windows 2000 PCs, nor on the Windows ME laptop nor a Windows 98 PC that we also have.
We have XP also on another desktop machine that refuses to play. I clicked 115 times on the link and it made a playlist of 115 "Listen[1]" entries. However, I noted that entries 33, 48, & 53 had IP addresses next to them. The rest did not. If I clicked on one of the entries with the IP address, WinAMP will play the stream. But it should not be this difficult to listen to internet streams. On WIndows 2000, I just have to click only once on a link and it streams right away. THis is not the case on every Win XP machine we have WinAMP installed on.
THere must be something else going on.

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4th September 2004, 06:13	#5
mweiss Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Connecticut Posts: 55	Just stepped through those settings... Play in WinAMP is in bold, the Advanced page shows the exact same command line as above quoted. I also noted "&Play in Winamp" as the action. Curiously, if I keep clicking on the link to play, after about 30 clicks, the stream suddenly spooled up and started to play. But if I shut the PC down and reboot, WinAMP won't play the link again. It seems like clicking the link 30-40 times gets it 'unstuck' and it works repeatably until I shut down Windows XP and reboot. Then the problem begins all over again. Win XP's firewall is disabled. As mentioned, this does not happen on our Windows 2000 PCs, nor on the Windows ME laptop nor a Windows 98 PC that we also have. We have XP also on another desktop machine that refuses to play. I clicked 115 times on the link and it made a playlist of 115 "Listen[1]" entries. However, I noted that entries 33, 48, & 53 had IP addresses next to them. The rest did not. If I clicked on one of the entries with the IP address, WinAMP will play the stream. But it should not be this difficult to listen to internet streams. On WIndows 2000, I just have to click only once on a link and it streams right away. THis is not the case on every Win XP machine we have WinAMP installed on. THere must be something else going on.