History Panel in Media Library

[childsje47]

I am using V5.35 on Vista 64 Home Premium.

My usage "history" sub-screen in Media Library is not showing any history.

Have tried un-installing/ re-installing but no joy.

[siebe83]

Prefs (Ctrl+P) > Media Library > History

Make sure the relevant options are checkmarked there.

[childsje47]

Thank you siebe83.

ALL the relevant options are selected, STILL no joy.

Any other suggestions? Is it possible to direct access 'history' file or registry or location where details are stored to see whether there is some type of corruption?

[siebe83]

The contents of the History view are saved to recent.dat and recent.idx, in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Winamp\Plugins\ml

Do you mean to say that if you play a file it is not added to the list in History, or that the History view is empty again after a Winamp restart?


If no luck, please post a my_plugins_list.

[childsje47]

Many thanks for help.

Both recent.dat and recent.idx files exist where stated.

Do you mean to say that if you play a file it is not added to the list in History, or that the History view is empty again after a Winamp restart?

Yes to BOTH questions.

The 'Plug In' Listing is below


Installed Winamp plugin list
Generated by 'One for Nunz v2.83' on 29/05/2007 at 9:53:32 PM

<< Winamp Information >>

Winamp.ini path is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Winamp.ini
Plugin directory is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Plugins
Visualisation directory is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Plugins
DSP directory is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Plugins
Skin directory is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\skins

Using Winamp version: 5.35 (Build 1305)
Current skin: Winamp Modern (Modern skin)
Sonic Burning Engine is installed
Pro registered version

<< OS Information >>

Running on: Windows Vista
Memory available: 4192832 KB


<< Input plugins >>

Nullsoft CD plug-in (CDDB2) v3.33 [in_cdda.dll]
Nullsoft DirectShow Decoder v1.03 [in_dshow.dll]
Nullsoft FLAC Decoder 2.01 [in_flac.dll]
Nullsoft LineIn plug-in v3.11 [in_linein.dll]
Nullsoft MIDI player 3.15 [in_midi.dll]
Nullsoft Module Decoder v2.2.5 (x86) [in_mod.dll]
Nullsoft MPEG Audio Decoder 4.06 [in_mp3.dll]
Nullsoft MPEG-4 Audio Decoder v1.22 [in_mp4.dll]
Nullsoft NSV Decoder v1.08 [in_nsv.dll]
Nullsoft Vorbis Decoder v1.50 [in_vorbis.dll]
Nullsoft Waveform Decoder 3.13 [in_wave.dll]
Nullsoft Windows Media Decoder 3.26 [in_wm.dll]

<< Output plugins >>

Nullsoft Disk Writer plug-in v2.12 [out_disk.dll]
DirectSound output v2.47 (d) [out_ds.dll] [active]
waveOut output v2.11 (d) [out_wave.dll]

<< Visualisation plugins >>

Advanced Visualization Studio v2.81d [vis_avs.dll] [active]
MilkDrop 1.04e [vis_milk.dll]
Nullsoft Tiny Fullscreen (v2.09) [vis_nsfs.dll]

<< DSP plugins >>

Nullsoft Signal Processing Studio DSP v0.38 [dsp_sps.dll]

<< General Purpose plugins >>

Nullsoft Modern Skins Support v1.27 [gen_ff.dll]
Nullsoft Global Hotkeys v1.32 [gen_hotkeys.dll]
Jump To File Extra v0.99.1b (Build 400) [gen_jumpex.dll]
Nullsoft Winamp Library v3.12 [gen_ml.dll]
One for Nunz v2.83 [gen_nunzio.dll]
Nullsoft Tray Control v2.01 [gen_tray.dll]

<< Media Library plugins >>

Nullsoft Dashboard v1.01 [ml_dash.dll]
Nullsoft Now Playing v2.03 [ml_nowplaying.dll]
Nullsoft Bookmarks v1.04 [ml_bookmarks.dll]
Nullsoft History v1.04 [ml_history.dll]
Nullsoft Local Media v1.61 [ml_local.dll]
Nullsoft Playlists v1.09 [ml_playlists.dll]
Nullsoft Rip & Burn v1.14 [ml_disc.dll]
Nullsoft Online Services v1.5 [ml_online.dll]
Nullsoft Portable Music Player Support v1.2 [ml_pmp.dll]
Nullsoft Replay Gain Analyzer v1.04 [ml_rg.dll]
Nullsoft Format Converter v2.21 [ml_transcode.dll]
Nullsoft SHOUTcast Wire v1.10 [ml_wire.dll]

<< Portable Media Player plugins >>

Nullsoft iPod Plug-in v0.56 [pmp_ipod.dll]
Nullsoft Creative NJB Plug-in v0.52 [pmp_njb.dll]
Nullsoft PlaysForSure Plug-in v0.62 [pmp_p4s.dll]
Nullsoft USB Device Plug-in v0.54 [pmp_usb.dll]

<< Encoder plugins >>

[enc_aacplus.dll]
aacPlus (HE-AAC) Encoder v1.26
aacPlus (HE-AAC) High Bitrate Encoder v1.26
LC-AAC Encoder v1.26
MP4/aacPlus (HE-AAC) Encoder v1.26
MP4/aacPlus (HE-AAC) High Bitrate Encoder v1.26
MP4/LC-AAC Encoder v1.26
[enc_flac.dll]
FLAC Encoder (Flake SVN r117)
[enc_lame.dll]
MP3 Encoder v1.34
[enc_wav.dll]
WAV Encoder v1.01
[enc_wma.dll]
WMA Encoder v1.21

<< Summary of system components (*.w5s) >>
(These are not included in the plugin counts below)
aacPlusDecoder.w5s (356kb)
db.w5s (253kb)
filereader.w5s (11kb)
jnetlib.w5s (26kb)
jpeg.w5s (27kb)
playlist.w5s (31kb)
png.w5s (63kb)
tagz.w5s (21kb)
xml.w5s (88kb)

<< Summary of all dlls in the root winamp folder (*.dll) >>
(These are not included in the plugin counts below)
burnlib.dll (82kb) [not loaded]
libFLAC.dll (124kb) [not loaded]
libmp4v2.dll (165kb) [not loaded]
libsndfile.dll (222kb) [loaded]
nde.dll (84kb) [loaded]
nscrt.dll (344kb) [loaded]
primosdk.DLL (182kb) [not loaded]

<< Summary of installed plugins >>

12 Input plugins installed
3 Output plugins installed
3 Visualisation plugins installed
1 DSP plugin installed
6 General Purpose plugins installed
12 Media Library plugins installed
4 Portable Media Player plugins installed
5 Encoder plugins installed

Total: 46 plugins installed

[siebe83]

Mmh...

In your plugins list it says:
Winamp.ini path is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\Winamp.ini

If I'm correct, that means that Winamp attempts to store settings in the install dir in Program Files (which won't work on Vista).

I had expected it to say:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Winamp\Winamp.ini



Do you have a paths.ini file in the Winamp installation folder?
C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\paths.ini

If there is one, could you open it in Notepad and post here what it says?

If you don't have a paths.ini file, you could try creating one yourself:

Originally posted by DJ Egg

Close Winamp

Open Notepad

Paste in the following:

[Winamp]
inidir={26}\Winamp

Save the file as:

C:\Program Files\Winamp\paths.ini

(assuming that's where Winamp was installed)

[childsje47]

siebe83,

Many thanks for your help.

You had me 'searching'.

Outcome was that it appeared that 'some way' I had managed to mess up my install when I recently re-installed or upgraded to 5.3. Possibly with the initial install question about whether one copy with access for ALL users.

So I decided to follow the FAQ section of the forum on 'uninstalling/re-installing' and started from fresh.

'APPEARS' now ALL okay with 'History' accumulating information and displaying correctly

Thanks again

John