winamp keeps crashing :< (audiscrobbler plugin issue)

[ctn|chrisw]

Winamp keeps crashing, not even at timed intervals or anything. I could have just hit play and it will crash.
Im running the audioscrobbler and mlwww plugins, but removing them doesnt help.

the crash thingy from xp says

AppName: winamp.exe AppVer: 5.0.0.4 ModName: user32.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 0002ef68

Im running Windows xp home edition sp2. I think it mighht have something to do with sp2 cause it was fine before it..

Its an hp pavilion xz295 laptop

[siebe83]

It seems to be related to SP2 indeed.

A guy/girl called narcotico was having the same problem:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....07#post1435307
(also reported by DocMARs and sebreid in the same thread)

He 'fixed' it by doing this:

Obivously you're using WinXP, try running Winamp in WIN95, WINME/98 compatibility mode, I did this and it doesn't crash anymore, works just fine.

(taken from here)

i.e.:

Open the folder Program Files\Winamp.
Right-click winamp.exe > Properties > tab Compatibility
Set option to run Winamp in Win98/Me mode.

Does it work for you?

[ctn|chrisw]

I dont know why I didnt think of that lol I set it to win98/me, shall see if it crashes now

[SirPurple]

I found that Winamp 5.04 crashed the very first time that I ran it after installing XPSP2. The failure is in user32.dll during ordinary playback.

I set compatability to Windows 2000, which allowed playback of a couple of songs before crashing. I've now set it to 98/ME and it's lasting longer. Fingers crossed it'll just keep on going...

[rizwank]

this is, obviously, not a longterm solution.

[Smoke_Rulz]

I'm glad someone posted about this, I too set it to 98/ME, and it seems to be working. That crashing was really pissing me off, and I noticed that it started doing it 18 seconds into any song. Or if I wasn't playing any songs, it still did it, probably at the same interval.

Hopefully it can be corrected somehow.

[siebe83]

Originally posted by rizwank
this is, obviously, not a longterm solution.

You are right, I don't think this is a good fix, but it's all we have atm, as far as I know.

[davros42]

I had the same problem and I had Audioscrobbler installed too... that seems to be problem.

When I removed the Audioscrobbler plugin from the plugins folder, Winamp started fine... with Audioscrobbler installed it needs compatability mode...

[siebe83]

Ok, thanks for that info.

[edit]
removed link, have to discuss with relevant person first...

[davros42]

After checking out the Audioscrobbler forums (because Audioscrobbler is up now and wasn't last night) it appears that there is an issue with the plugin itself, whenever it can't reach the servers in WinXP SP2 it crashes Winamp. This is definitely a problem with Audioscrobbler not Winamp per se... And there is a semi-official update which may or may not fix the problem.

[siebe83]

Ok, relevant thread at Audioscrobbler forums here:
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/forum/3/_/6039/1

Shaneh's patch (did you try it?), can be found here:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=191248

Thanks again for the info davros42, I was starting to worry

[shaneh]

Spib has realeased an update which should fix a few problems. His post has been lost due to more hardware failure at AS.

http://www.spibey.com/scrobbler/ml_audioscrobbler.dll

You can rename it gen_audioscrobbler.dll to have it not use the media library. AFAIK the problem has nothing to do with SP2 but is related to AS going up and down. (although using the firewall in SP2 may cause connection problems which could have the same effect).