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

mweiss · 11th September 2004, 08:21

I rebooted both XP computers and the problem is back on BOTH of them.

I can reboot my Win 98, Win 2000 computers and WinAMP does not fail to play streams. But on XP, WinAMP gets broken after shutting down and rebooting. I have two XP machines with SP1 installed. One is XP Home the other is XP Pro and neither one can play streams as of now. The registry hack above was only a temporary fix. Perhaps a permanent fix is just to switch to Windows 2000 and leave it at that. I'm getting sick of XP undoing all my fixes and tweaks.

After inspecting my registry, I find the tweaks are still there--but WinAMP is displaying only "1. Listen[1]" and not playing the stream again. On BOTH PCs, no less. Looks like the problem goes deeper than this.

RealPlayer installations are treated with EXTREME care here. I disabled all of RP's modifications on install, allowing it to play ONLY ram and rm files ONLY. I did not allow it to modify any other associations.

All of my Win 98 and Win 2000 machines also have RealPlayer, and WinAMP and these problems have never cropped up. The defining difference is the presence of XP. If OS is not XP, then no problem. If XP is the OS then WinAMP doesn't stream.

Thread Tools	Search this Thread
Show Printable Version Email this Page	Search this Thread: Advanced Search
Display Modes
Switch to Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Threaded Mode

11th September 2004, 08:21	#9
mweiss Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Connecticut Posts: 55	I rebooted both XP computers and the problem is back on BOTH of them. I can reboot my Win 98, Win 2000 computers and WinAMP does not fail to play streams. But on XP, WinAMP gets broken after shutting down and rebooting. I have two XP machines with SP1 installed. One is XP Home the other is XP Pro and neither one can play streams as of now. The registry hack above was only a temporary fix. Perhaps a permanent fix is just to switch to Windows 2000 and leave it at that. I'm getting sick of XP undoing all my fixes and tweaks. After inspecting my registry, I find the tweaks are still there--but WinAMP is displaying only "1. Listen[1]" and not playing the stream again. On BOTH PCs, no less. Looks like the problem goes deeper than this. RealPlayer installations are treated with EXTREME care here. I disabled all of RP's modifications on install, allowing it to play ONLY ram and rm files ONLY. I did not allow it to modify any other associations. All of my Win 98 and Win 2000 machines also have RealPlayer, and WinAMP and these problems have never cropped up. The defining difference is the presence of XP. If OS is not XP, then no problem. If XP is the OS then WinAMP doesn't stream.