Winamp Playlist Generator has hung 5 times

Gabber1001 · 7th April 2009, 17:23

Winamp 5.551 (x86) - clean install (with NO 3rd-party plugins)
Skin: Green Hill Zone
Windows Vista Home Premium 6.0 SP1
Dell
Plugin ml_plg.dll - Playlist Generator

The Playlist Generator hangs every time it is in the middle of step 4 ("analyzing files") of building the database causing Vista to tell me that "Winamp has stopped running." Each time I delete the relevant files in my appdata folder to start the scan again and it hangs on step 4.

Gabber1001 · 19th April 2009, 15:55

Any help?

Juanus · 19th April 2009, 17:14

I think that I have seen this happen once when either there was a corrupt file or it was trying to scan a video. I am sorry I dont remember exactly. Unfortunately, you cant see which file the scan is freezing on. But I would check the video smart view and see if anything is in there. If there is, remove those and try the scan again. Also if you have some dodgy mp3s or something, do the same.

dslava · 30th April 2009, 12:42

i have exactly same problem. Still don't know how to solve it.

Turtlemania623 · 18th October 2009, 02:15

I have a similar problem.

But I'm running 5.56(x86) with the Bento Skin on a Dell Inspiron 1525 running Vista Ultimate SP2. I don't know if any of that matters, but this is really frustrating. :/

I have about 30 gb of music. Though I originally had lots of problems with doing the first scan, after deleting the relevant files several times it finally worked. Unfortunately, after some rearranging recently, I realized that the playlist generator was still including songs that had been removed from my library. I decided to scan again, but this didn't fix the problem. I reset the database and haven't been able to get it done since. It always goes through about 4,000 before winamp unexpectedly shuts down. I've deleted the files several times, and installed Winamp twice.

RennyAvM · 3rd May 2010, 17:09

I had the same problem. I noticed Winamp taking up over 1Gb of RAM and 1Gb of virtual memory. Try this workaround:

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....list+generator

good luck

7th April 2009, 17:23	#1
Gabber1001 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2	Winamp Playlist Generator has hung 5 times Winamp 5.551 (x86) - clean install (with NO 3rd-party plugins) Skin: Green Hill Zone Windows Vista Home Premium 6.0 SP1 Dell Plugin ml_plg.dll - Playlist Generator The Playlist Generator hangs every time it is in the middle of step 4 ("analyzing files") of building the database causing Vista to tell me that "Winamp has stopped running." Each time I delete the relevant files in my appdata folder to start the scan again and it hangs on step 4.

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19th April 2009, 15:55	#2
Gabber1001 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2	Any help?

19th April 2009, 17:14	#3
Juanus Major Dude Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Santa Monica, CA Posts: 740	I think that I have seen this happen once when either there was a corrupt file or it was trying to scan a video. I am sorry I dont remember exactly. Unfortunately, you cant see which file the scan is freezing on. But I would check the video smart view and see if anything is in there. If there is, remove those and try the scan again. Also if you have some dodgy mp3s or something, do the same.

30th April 2009, 12:42	#4
dslava Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Israel Posts: 18	i have exactly same problem. Still don't know how to solve it.

18th October 2009, 02:15	#5
Turtlemania623 Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1	I have a similar problem. But I'm running 5.56(x86) with the Bento Skin on a Dell Inspiron 1525 running Vista Ultimate SP2. I don't know if any of that matters, but this is really frustrating. :/ I have about 30 gb of music. Though I originally had lots of problems with doing the first scan, after deleting the relevant files several times it finally worked. Unfortunately, after some rearranging recently, I realized that the playlist generator was still including songs that had been removed from my library. I decided to scan again, but this didn't fix the problem. I reset the database and haven't been able to get it done since. It always goes through about 4,000 before winamp unexpectedly shuts down. I've deleted the files several times, and installed Winamp twice.

3rd May 2010, 17:09	#6
RennyAvM Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 4	I had the same problem. I noticed Winamp taking up over 1Gb of RAM and 1Gb of virtual memory. Try this workaround: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....list+generator good luck