Windows 7 - M3U File association not working

jhigh · 26th October 2009, 23:23

Hi,

is there a known problem with file associations in Windows 7? Especially with .m3u files. They are listed as associated with "unkown application" even though I choose "open with Winamp". I am using the German version of Windows 7, so I assume it is "unkown application" in the English version.

There is no other Mediplayer installed, except for WMP12 of course.

This does effect all my Windows 7 PCs.

code:
Installed Winamp plugin list

Generated by 'One for Nunz v4.0' on 27.10.2009 at 01:15:18



<< Winamp Information >>



Winamp.ini path is: C:\Users\X\AppData\Roaming\Winamp\Winamp.ini

Plugin directory is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Media\Winamp\Plugins

Visualisation directory is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Media\Winamp\Plugins

DSP directory is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Media\Winamp\Plugins

Skin directory is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Media\Winamp\skins

Language Pack directory is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Media\Winamp\Lang



Using Winamp version: 5.56 (Build 2512)

Current skin: Deviant Art.wsz (Classic skin)

Sonic Burning Engine is not installed

Using a language pack: C:\Program Files (x86)\Media\Winamp\Lang\Winamp-DE-DE.wlz

Intended localisation language: de-DE



<< OS Information >>



Running on: Windows Vista

Memory available: 4193460 KB





<< Input plugins >>



Nullsoft CD Plug-in (MusicID 2.5) v3.8    [in_cdda.dll]

Nullsoft DirectShow Dekoder v1.06    [in_dshow.dll]

Nullsoft FLAC Dekoder 2.08    [in_flac.dll]

Nullsoft Flash Video Dekoder 1.1    [in_flv.dll]

Nullsoft LineIn Plug-in v3.12    [in_linein.dll]

Nullsoft MIDI-Spieler 3.17    [in_midi.dll]

Nullsoft Modul Dekoder v2.6    [in_mod.dll]

Nullsoft MPEG Audio Dekoder 4.7    [in_mp3.dll]

Nullsoft MPEG-4 Audio Dekoder v1.95    [in_mp4.dll]

Nullsoft NSV Dekoder v1.1    [in_nsv.dll]

Nullsoft Flash Control Wiedergabe v1.0    [in_swf.dll]

64th Note v1.1 FINAL 2/10/06    [in_usf.dll]

Nullsoft Vorbis Dekoder v1.55    [in_vorbis.dll]

Nullsoft Waveform Dekoder v3.16    [in_wave.dll]

Nullsoft Windows Media Dekoder 3.3    [in_wm.dll]



<< Output plugins >>



Nullsoft Disk Writer v2.14    [out_disk.dll]

Nullsoft DirectSound-Ausgabe v2.49 (d)    [out_ds.dll]    [active]

Nullsoft WaveOut-Ausgabe v2.12 (d)    [out_wave.dll]



<< Visualisation plugins >>



MilkDrop 2.1   [vis_milk2.dll]    [active]

Nullsoft Mini-Vollbild v2.10   [vis_nsfs.dll]

Nullsoft Visualisierungsstudio (AVS) v2.82   [vis_avs.dll]



<< DSP plugins >>



Nullsoft Signalverarbeitungsstudio DSP v0.39b   [dsp_sps.dll]



<< General Purpose plugins >>



Nullsoft UnterstÃ¼tzung von modernen Skins v1.38    [gen_ff.dll]

Nullsoft Globale TastenkÃ¼rzel v1.7    [gen_hotkeys.dll]

Springe zu Titel Extra v1.0.5 (Build 779)    [gen_jumpex.dll]

One for Nunz v4.0    [gen_nunzio.dll]



<< Encoder plugins >>



[enc_aacplus.dll]

    aacPlus (HE-AAC) Enkoder v1.28a

    aacPlus (HE-AAC) Hoher Bitraten Enkoder v1.28a

    LC-AAC Enkoder v1.28a

    MP4/aacPlus (HE-AAC) Enkoder v1.28a

    MP4/aacPlus (HE-AAC) Hoher Bitraten Enkoder v1.28a

    MP4/LC-AAC Enkoder v1.28a

[enc_flac.dll]

    FLAC Enkoder 2.1 (libFLAC v1.2.1)

[enc_lame.dll]

    MP3 Enkoder v1.35a

[enc_wav.dll]

    WAV Enkoder v1.02a

[enc_wma.dll]

    WMA Enkoder v1.22a



<< Summary of system components (*.w5s) >>

(These are not included in the plugin counts below)

aacPlusDecoder.w5s (356kb)

bmp.w5s (7kb)

dlmgr.w5s (24kb)

filereader.w5s (11kb)

gif.w5s (15kb)

gracenote.w5s (13kb)

jnetlib.w5s (602kb)

jpeg.w5s (102kb)

playlist.w5s (74kb)

png.w5s (76kb)

tagz.w5s (18kb)

timer.w5s (26kb)

vlb.w5s (114kb)

xml.w5s (85kb)



<< Summary of all dlls in the root winamp folder (*.dll) >>

(These are not included in the plugin counts below)

elevatorps.dll (7kb) [not loaded]

libFLAC.dll (133kb) [loaded]

libmp4v2.dll (165kb) [not loaded]

libsndfile.dll (232kb) [loaded]

nde.dll (85kb) [not loaded]

nscrt.dll (340kb) [loaded]

tataki.dll (62kb) [loaded]

zlib.dll (45kb) [loaded]



<< Summary of all dlls in the plugins\gracenote folder (*.dll) >>

(These are not included in the plugin counts below)

CDDBControlWinamp.dll (1313kb) [not loaded]

CddbMusicIDWinamp.dll (881kb) [not loaded]

CddbPlaylist2Winamp.dll (981kb) [not loaded]

CDDBUIWinamp.dll (1021kb) [not loaded]

CddbWOManagerWinamp.dll (377kb) [not loaded]

Cddbx1.dll (221kb) [not loaded]

Cddbx2.dll (585kb) [not loaded]

Cddbx3.dll (637kb) [not loaded]

Cddbx4.dll (269kb) [not loaded]

Cddbx5.dll (381kb) [not loaded]



<< Summary of installed plugins >>



15 Input plugins installed

 3 Output plugins installed

 3 Visualisation plugins installed

 1 DSP plugin installed

 4 General Purpose plugins installed

 0 Media Library plugin installed

 5 Encoder plugins installed



Total: 31 plugins installed





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Associated Winamp file extensions list



<< Reported extensions from Winamp >>



CDA

MPG

MPEG

M2V

AVI

FLAC

FLV

MID

MIDI

RMI

KAR

MIZ

MOD

MDZ

NST

STM

STZ

S3M

S3Z

IT

ITZ

XM

XMZ

MTM

ULT

669

FAR

AMF

OKT

PTM

MP3

MP2

MP1

AAC

VLB

M4A

MP4

NSV

NSA

SWF

USF

MINIUSF

OGG

AIFF

AU

AVR

CAF

HTK

IFF

MAT

PAF

PVF

RAW

SD2

SDS

SF

VOC

W64

WAV

WVE

XI

WMA

WMV

ASF

< Playlist Formats >

M3U

PLS

M3U8

B4S

ASX

WPL



<< Reported extensions from each input plugin >>

(This should match with Winamp's listing excluding playlist formats)



in_cdda.dll		CDA 



in_dshow.dll		MPG MPEG M2V AVI 



in_flac.dll		FLAC 



in_flv.dll		FLV 



in_linein.dll		No extensions reported



in_midi.dll		MID MIDI RMI KAR MIZ 



in_mod.dll		MOD MDZ NST STM STZ S3M S3Z IT ITZ XM XMZ MTM ULT 669 FAR AMF OKT PTM 



in_mp3.dll		MP3 MP2 MP1 AAC VLB 



in_mp4.dll		M4A MP4 



in_nsv.dll		NSV NSA 



in_swf.dll		SWF 



in_usf.dll		USF MINIUSF 



in_vorbis.dll		OGG 



in_wave.dll		AIFF AU AVR CAF HTK IFF MAT PAF PVF RAW SD2 SDS SF VOC W64 WAV WVE XI 



in_wm.dll		WMA WMV ASF 





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Listing of installed input plugins (in_*) and the relevent apis which they indicate that they

support to allow you to see how well the plugin is likely to work with different Winamp builds.



Note: This is a best guess at how well the plugins shown should work with Winamp and until

      you actually use the plugins with Winamp in normal use you will not otherwise know.





A * means the plugin has support for metadata queries on a file (2.9+)

A # means the plugin supports saving modified metadata via Winamp apis (2.9+)

A % means the plugin supports the unified file info dialog and a '%+' shows it adds its own pages (5.5+)

A || means the plugin supports the api_decoder used for transcoding/replaygain/etc (5.34+)



A || means the plugin supports the api_decoder used for transcoding/replaygain/etc (5.34+)

     and '(Seekable)' indicates extra support in processing of audio data via api_decoder



A {} around a symbol means the plugin supports the unicode version of the api





in_cdda.dll	{*}	{#}	%+	 || 

in_dshow.dll	 * 	 # 	  	    

in_flac.dll	{*}	{#}	%+	{||}

in_flv.dll	{*}	{#}	  	    

in_linein.dll	   	   	  	    

in_midi.dll	 * 	 # 	  	    

in_mod.dll	 * 	 # 	  	 || 

in_mp3.dll	{*}	{#}	%+	{||} (Seekable)

in_mp4.dll	{*}	{#}	% 	{||} (Seekable)

in_nsv.dll	 * 	 # 	  	    

in_swf.dll	{*}	{#}	  	    

in_usf.dll	   	   	  	    

in_vorbis.dll	{*}	{#}	%+	{||} (Seekable)

in_wave.dll	 * 	 # 	  	 ||  (Seekable)

in_wm.dll	{*}	{#}	%+	{||}





Summary:



'One for Nunz' found 15 installed input plugins in 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Media\Winamp\Plugins'

86% (13) of the plugins installed provide the needed 5.x api ("winampGetExtendedFileInfo(..)

or winampGetExtendedFileInfoW(..)") to allow the formats provided by the plugins to work with

most of Winamp 5.x's features (more important with higher versions).

code:
Mainboard ASRock K10N78

CPU & RAM AMD Athlon X2 5200+ & 4GB DDR2-800

Sound     Creative Audigy 2ZS

Video     NVIDIA 8800 GTS 320

OS        Windows 7 x64 GERMAN

DX        Direct X 11

Type      Full Install

Jay

Entegy · 28th October 2009, 12:29

No one is answering Windows 7 issues for now it seems.

1st November 2009, 15:08

Having the same issue myself, even though Winamp is associated with M3U files, double clicking on them just brings up the choose program dialogue box.

Here's how I have the default programs set up. As you can see there are multiple file types that are associated with Winamp, but shown up as unknown program.

jhigh · 3rd November 2009, 10:03

Since I'm not the only one with this issue, I hope winamp dev will fix this soon.

Venomaster · 3rd November 2009, 14:27

Exactly the same happens to me! Windows 7 32 bit. M3U ,PLS won't stick to winamp. I can't change the icon file for PLS. Even tried to change association through Total commander - no luck. Hope this will be fixed soon as more and more users switch to Windows 7. I was sitting on WinXP for a few years as I hate Vista, but Windows 7 rocks!

DJ Egg · 4th November 2009, 02:49

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....=156839#known2

Venomaster · 4th November 2009, 11:18

Thanks! Overlooked that this is known bug and fixed in internal build. When will we see new downloadable build?
Any ETA?

ficklefinger · 7th November 2009, 22:39

I have had this problem with every media player I have tried. I use JetAudio as well as Winamp with same problem. Also tried Quintessential with same result. Damn Microsoft meddling. No problem in XP or Vista. Look forward to a fix!

8th November 2009, 15:54

Quote:

Originally posted by DJ Egg
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....=156839#known2

If there's an internal fix already would it be possible for you to upload the Elevator.exe file somewhere if that's all that's needed to fix the problem. Or is there more to it?

Since it doesn't look like Winamp 5.57 is coming out any time soon. It's annoying not being able to double click on playlist files and have them open in Winamp.

jhigh · 9th December 2009, 04:25

I am a little bit disappointed how this issue has been treated. It should have been fixed so long ago. Windows 7 has been on the market for months now and still there is no fix. That kind of bugs should be fixed by a hotfix and should not be postponed till the regular release date.

Hopefully there is a fix at least in this year . . .

Sawg · 9th December 2009, 04:46

Oh, SNAP!
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=315162

raabnz · 23rd January 2010, 01:28

This bug has been around since 2008 with Vista, don't expect it to get fixed anytime soon.

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=2421545 has a reg file which DJ Egg made, just replace D:\\Program\\ with the location of your winamp and the m3u problem gets fixed.

I don't quite understand why a simple bug like this still exists but oh well.

DJ Egg · 23rd January 2010, 03:52

Hmmm... strange....
Pretty sure that it's fixed in 5.572

4th November 2009, 02:49	#6
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....=156839#known2 Playlist -\|- Twitter

9th December 2009, 04:46	#11
Sawg Forum King Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 7,456	Oh, SNAP! http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=315162 \| Brought to you by ^V ^C \| The one... the original... no seriously!

23rd January 2010, 03:52	#13
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	Hmmm... strange.... Pretty sure that it's fixed in 5.572 Playlist -\|- Twitter

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28th October 2009, 12:29	#2
Entegy Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 169	No one is answering Windows 7 issues for now it seems.

1st November 2009, 15:08	#3
Broken Hope Guest Posts: n/a	Having the same issue myself, even though Winamp is associated with M3U files, double clicking on them just brings up the choose program dialogue box. Here's how I have the default programs set up. As you can see there are multiple file types that are associated with Winamp, but shown up as unknown program.

3rd November 2009, 10:03	#4
jhigh Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 3	Since I'm not the only one with this issue, I hope winamp dev will fix this soon.

3rd November 2009, 14:27	#5
Venomaster Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 4	Exactly the same happens to me! Windows 7 32 bit. M3U ,PLS won't stick to winamp. I can't change the icon file for PLS. Even tried to change association through Total commander - no luck. Hope this will be fixed soon as more and more users switch to Windows 7. I was sitting on WinXP for a few years as I hate Vista, but Windows 7 rocks!

4th November 2009, 11:18	#7
Venomaster Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 4	Thanks! Overlooked that this is known bug and fixed in internal build. When will we see new downloadable build? Any ETA?

7th November 2009, 22:39	#8
ficklefinger Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1	I have had this problem with every media player I have tried. I use JetAudio as well as Winamp with same problem. Also tried Quintessential with same result. Damn Microsoft meddling. No problem in XP or Vista. Look forward to a fix!

9th December 2009, 04:25	#10
jhigh Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 3	I am a little bit disappointed how this issue has been treated. It should have been fixed so long ago. Windows 7 has been on the market for months now and still there is no fix. That kind of bugs should be fixed by a hotfix and should not be postponed till the regular release date. Hopefully there is a fix at least in this year . . .

23rd January 2010, 01:28	#12
raabnz Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1	This bug has been around since 2008 with Vista, don't expect it to get fixed anytime soon. http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=2421545 has a reg file which DJ Egg made, just replace D:\\Program\\ with the location of your winamp and the m3u problem gets fixed. I don't quite understand why a simple bug like this still exists but oh well.