v5.33 doesnt like my external drive

BBanzai · 5th April 2007, 00:06

Had run winamp v5.13 (non-pro) for along time til this past weekend, then i upgraded to v5.33 (non-pro), everything worked fine and i really liked the dashboard addition..... then today i got a Western Digital 320GB My Book external drive (hooked up via firewire port), this drive has about 80gb of music files (mp3, wma, itunes, etc) along with some pics etc on it.... the sec i hook this thing up, it seems the media library in v5.33 wants to look at it and then winamp dies. If i launch winamp with the my book already hooked up, well winamp hangs for like 5-10 seconds and then dies. if the my book isnt hooked up, winamp v5.33 works fine. read thru alot of the tech msgs here, tried a complete fresh install of 5.33, nope still the same thing (also tried disabling some of the addons mentioned in other threads as possible problems), went and found a slightly older version 5.24, same problem (complete clean installs of this one too)...went back to a clean install of 5.13 and all is fine with the my book hooked up. any ideas or help on what to do? would like to use v5.33 but you can understand that i dont wanna give up a 320gb drive to tho

my computer is:
HP Pavilion Media Center a1430n Desktop PC (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 3800+, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, LightScribe Double Layer DVD+/-R/RW Drive)

DJ Egg · 5th April 2007, 00:47

FAQ

How to stop Winamp from managing external usb hard drives
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=268729
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=266823

Although there's no reference of any crashes in those threads, you can totally disable external/generic usb drive support by removing pmp_usb.dll from the Winamp\Plugins folder.

Note: Portable Media Player (pmp) support wasn't introduced until 5.2x

BBanzai · 5th April 2007, 00:58

thanks will give that a try

BBanzai · 5th April 2007, 01:10

works great now, busy day and i must have clicked thru the little pop up to let winamp manage the drive when i first plugged the my book in.

5th April 2007, 00:06	#1
BBanzai Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Out-N-The-Sticks, AR Posts: 4	v5.33 doesnt like my external drive Had run winamp v5.13 (non-pro) for along time til this past weekend, then i upgraded to v5.33 (non-pro), everything worked fine and i really liked the dashboard addition..... then today i got a Western Digital 320GB My Book external drive (hooked up via firewire port), this drive has about 80gb of music files (mp3, wma, itunes, etc) along with some pics etc on it.... the sec i hook this thing up, it seems the media library in v5.33 wants to look at it and then winamp dies. If i launch winamp with the my book already hooked up, well winamp hangs for like 5-10 seconds and then dies. if the my book isnt hooked up, winamp v5.33 works fine. read thru alot of the tech msgs here, tried a complete fresh install of 5.33, nope still the same thing (also tried disabling some of the addons mentioned in other threads as possible problems), went and found a slightly older version 5.24, same problem (complete clean installs of this one too)...went back to a clean install of 5.13 and all is fine with the my book hooked up. any ideas or help on what to do? would like to use v5.33 but you can understand that i dont wanna give up a 320gb drive to tho my computer is: HP Pavilion Media Center a1430n Desktop PC (AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 3800+, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, LightScribe Double Layer DVD+/-R/RW Drive)

5th April 2007, 00:47	#2
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	FAQ How to stop Winamp from managing external usb hard drives http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=268729 http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=266823 Although there's no reference of any crashes in those threads, you can totally disable external/generic usb drive support by removing pmp_usb.dll from the Winamp\Plugins folder. Note: Portable Media Player (pmp) support wasn't introduced until 5.2x Playlist -\|- Twitter

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5th April 2007, 00:58	#3
BBanzai Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Out-N-The-Sticks, AR Posts: 4	thanks will give that a try

5th April 2007, 01:10	#4
BBanzai Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Out-N-The-Sticks, AR Posts: 4	works great now, busy day and i must have clicked thru the little pop up to let winamp manage the drive when i first plugged the my book in.