Winamp locks up upon

[ElmoTheGreat]

This might sound like it kinda came out of left-field, but...

Have you just recently upgraded winamp from an older version? The reason I'm asking, is because that particular errour suggests that the Mp3 codec itself may be unable to handle the bitrate of the songs you're trying to play. What I'm thinking, is maybe when you upgraded, you retained the older codec(s) from one of the past versions of winamp (or possibly some other mp3 decoder). If this is the case, I would uninstall winamp completely, then reboot, throw away the winamp program folder, then re-install. That way, I could make sure there were no old files that didn't get replaced by the new installation.

I know it does sound unlikely, but I would try it anyhow.

Another thought... MMSYTEM32 is a windows core component for integrating media with your output devices (soundcard, in this case). I would also check that Winamp, or (more likely) some other application didn't somehow corrupt your soundcard driver, since this is what MMSYTEM32 hooks to.

If your soundcard driver is one of the generic drivers that is available in Windows, then I would get an upgrade from the manufacturer site (if for no other reason than to simply get all of the functionality from the card itself).