Weird Play/Queue/Playlist beaviour in Win2000

[Rarzie]

I'm used to Windows98 at home, and have a nicely large playlist with some 900 songs on it (all the mp3s reside on another server (and they're all legal), and it works fine with a playlist on the desktop of my workmachine.

At work I just got a new machine, which came with Win2000. After installing WinAmp 2.74, I wanted to play a number of mp3s I had copied to HD. (About 600mb's worth of music), so I select all files in the directory and rightclick + Enqueue in Winamp, expecting to see winamp start with all the songs in a playlist.

To my suprise is started a Winamp for every song started, quickly killing my machine.

"Well, I must have misclicked and selected 'Play' instead of 'Enqueue' or something.", I thought while rebooting. Once back up I started WinAMP, and opened the playlist (which was empty at that time), and dragged all the songs into the playlist. Again it started a Winamp for each song. Gah!

What am I doing wrong? Can't it handle that many songs at once? Using second method and only adding songs one-by-one works.. Ideas? o_O

M

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There have been a couple of reports recently on how the enqueue function doesn't work properly on Win2K machines. One thing you could try is to start up winamp, go to preferences (CTRL-P) -> setup -> file types and check the "Enqueue as default action" box. Now go to windows explorer and highlight and click on about 10 songs. Does it add them all to the playlist, or does it still open up ten instances of winamp??

You also say that all the files are in the same directory - if this is the case then you can go to the bottom of the playlist window, click on ADD -> ADD DIR and select your mp3 directory.

[beech]

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