Odd bug that I can't fix.

[Colonel Skills]

Recently, I dual botted my system so that I could have two OSes running on it, Windows 98se and XP. Now, I have two HDDs, one partitioned into two parts, (one for each OS), and one for common data.

This problem occurs in XP. (And yes, I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling Winamp)

The problem is that I can't click the "open" button on Winamp, and look into the "common" drive. Winamp freezes every time I want to do this. I can open the music into winamp through explorer, but not Winamp directly. I can also open music with Winamp in the two partitions. I have no clue why this happens.

I've installed Winamp on all three if the drives, to see if this was a problem there. It wasn't.

Can anyone help me?

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'Borrowed' from one of DJEgg's previous posts

Does Winamp freeze as soon as you click the ADD File button, or is it when you browse to a certain dir?

If the latter, are all the files in this dir MP3's, or are there any other formats in there, eg. EXE, MPG, JPG, ZIP, etc?

Does the dir structure/path have an excessively long name, or does it (or any of the files within) contain a lot of full stops (periods) or any other irregular characters? (incl. non-english characters)

Take a look in winamp.ini with Notepad (in main Winamp dir).
Scroll down for this line:
cwd=
Change it to a different dir (cwd stands for: current windows dir)

You might also want to test all the MP3's in this dir with MP3Utility
just to see if any of them are corrupt and are giving Winamp a hard time reading them...


Can you add the tracks via Explorer, eg.
Rt click selection -> Enqueue in Winamp?

(Or drag+drop from Explorer into Playlist Window)

Have you installed any 3rd party Winamp plugins? (General, Input, DSP. etc)
Have you changed any of the default settings?

Have you tried running ScanDisk and Virus Scan?

[Colonel Skills]

Yeah, that seemed to help quite a bit, thanks. I changed the CWD, and it seems to work properly now.

Go figure.

Thanks again.