Bookmarks - export and import

[dnewhous]

So that people can easily exchange lists of internet radio stations. Of course, in 34 days it might not matter anyway...

[dnewhous]

Well, internet radio is still around for the moment and I still wish there were an easy way to share bookmarks with other people.

[progh]

+1

i want that too :P

[DJ Egg]

Bookmarks that are shown in the Bookmarks view in the Media Library are stored in the %Appdata%\Winamp\winamp.bm file. You can open that file in Notepad and copy+paste the contents into anyone else's winamp.bm file :-)

[tonygamble]

I am migrating my Winamp from an XP Pro machine to a Vista one.

I found my winamp.bm but it was in the main Winanp folder and not in Apps.

I cannot get it to be recognised in the new Vista installation in the main Winamp folder - is this because it was never in the Apps one?

Totally confused.

And I have just noticed that I have no winamp.ini file in the new Vista folder!

Tony
London UK

[J_Darnley]

If you are using an old install then settings are saved in the install directory. If you are using a clean install of v5.5 or later then the default is to use %appdata%. This is easy to change, remove paths.ini in the install folder. I believe Vista has a tantrum if you try to use the installation folder to store settings.

[tonygamble]

Thanks j_d that removing the paths.ini fixed it.

Is there any chance of recovering the category entries I created on the old machine?

Tony

[J_Darnley]

Copy your old settings over your new Winamp settings? I don't know what you mean by "category entries".

[tonygamble]

j_d

I found an add-on that enabled one to create sub folders of favourite streaming radio bookmarks. Thus one could categorise them in any way that might be useful.

Anyway I had not a lot of entries so I re-did them by hand.

Tony

[dnewhous]

Does the add-on have a name?

[tonygamble]

It's here.

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=235871

Tony

[J_Darnley]

If you read its description then you would see that you need to make sure that you copy winamp.bmc to the new location.