After upgrade to 5.02, media library = slow [FIXED]

squall14716 · 7th February 2004, 04:25

I don't know why, but ever since I upgraded to 5.02 from 5.01 circa 15 minutes ago, when I double click on a song in a media library playlist, it takes forever to start playing. At first I shrugged it off and blamed it on me running too many programs, but after a reboot it is doing the same thing. Playing a song from the media library in 5.01 was almost instantaneous, now it takes about 5 seconds. -_-

Any ideas as to what may have caused this?

EDIT: Adding more to this - when just playing a song, Winamp takes up about 5% CPU. When I double click a song in the media library, it skyrockets to about 97%. It's un-fucking-real.

DeathWing · 7th February 2004, 07:23

I'm having this problem too, and it wasn't happening with Winamp 5.01, but it started with Winamp 5.02.

With short playlists, this problem isn't noticeable. However, the longer the playlist gets, the longer the delay is before the song starts playing. With my longest (830 song) playlist, the delay is a good 2-3 sec. long (while with a 10-song playlist it starts playing instantly).

In the Media Library Prefs, in the 'Library Options' tab, in the top box if you uncheck "Play all playlist items..." then the problem stops, but then the entire playlist isn't added to the Playlist Editor. So apparently the problem has something to do with the entire playlist being added from the media library to the playlist editor.

The strange part is, even if you double click another song in the same playlist in the media library, it still does the delay, meaning that it re-adds the playlist every time.

Since this problem wasn't happening w/ Winamp 5.01 (the entire playlist would get added without any noticeable delay, or at least it wouldn't happen if you were staying within the same playlist), I'm assuming that it isn't due to problems specific to my computer.

MarkRH · 7th February 2004, 11:12

Hmmm.. I don't notice anything here. With a 1,515 list in Media Library, I can double-click a song and it loads the whole playlist into the Playlist Editor and starts playing with hardly any delay.. same as 5.01.

One thing I did have to do was Re-enable Hardware Acceleration in the Direct Sound Output plugin.

MarkRH · 7th February 2004, 12:42

Well, opened mouth too soon.. upon further examination.. I am in fact exhibiting this change in behavior. I changed back to 5.01, and what delay I was having went away. I also noticed a CPU spike of only 33% or so when playing a song. With 5.02, it would jump up to 90% momentarily.

Alot of changes were made to the Media Library and Playlist.. probably more going on behind the scenes than there used to be. Well, back to 5.02 to see if any tweaks can reduce the delay maybe.

DeathWing · 7th February 2004, 19:14

Yeah, Enabling/Disabling hardware acceleration in the DirectSound Output plugin didn't change anything for me.

And I also found that, after uninstalling 5.02 & installing 5.01, the problem went away.

squall14716 · 7th February 2004, 20:10

My 1,034 song ML playlist has a 5 second delay when play a song from it - there was no delay in 5.01. This is a sersiously annoying problem.

soljarag · 9th February 2004, 01:10

yeah,i'm having the exact same prob... i'm going back to 5.01 till they fix it, and your right, it has something to do with the size of the playlist.... 500 songs .. slight delay... 8,000 songs about 5-7 seconds

but when i re-installed 5.01 there was no delay at all for the 8,000 song playlist
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XP 1700+
1 GB ram
Windows XP sp1

zootm · 9th February 2004, 11:00

i can replicate this, yes. i don't really use playlists in the media library, so i can't say i noticed it before...

DySPHoRiA · 9th February 2004, 18:31

i was just about to report this.

Qaxar · 9th February 2004, 19:12

I don't recall any differences between 5.01 and 5.02, but it seems to me that the answer to your concerns is pretty straightforward. When the ML option is set to "play all playlist items on a double click", Then that's what it will do - every time you double click another ML track the entire playlist loads.

So, depending on the length of the playlist and the speed of your PC, the amount of time to perform this process will vary. No mystery there!

If all you want to do is just play the double clicked track, then simply unclick the "play all playlist items on a double click" - as Deathwing suggested earlier.

Under the ML option you might also want to decide whether or not you want the track enqueued.

squall14716 · 9th February 2004, 19:54

The problem is, even with this option on in 5.01, there is no delay - it starts playing right when you double click it, and the entire playlist is replaced with the ML playlist - no delays at all. Only after upgrading to 5.02 is there any sort of delay, and after a downgrade back to 5.01, the delay disappears. And yet I haven't changed any options from 5.01 to 5.02. If 5.01 is instant, and 5.02 takes 5 seconds and sends the CPU usage to almost 100%, something is wrong somewhere.

Qaxar · 9th February 2004, 20:14

Wish I could be of more help, but I don't have any ideas. In my system, I get no delay, even when I have the "play all playlist items on a double click" selected.
BTW, my specs:
Dell Pentuim 4, 2.4 GHz
I'm using the Modern skin.

King_Tweaker · 9th February 2004, 21:46

Yeah I get this too.

I have about 9000 songs listed, with a fast setup, Dual Raptors in Raid 0 and Athlon XP 2.75ghz so its not my PC.

Is there a way to stop the playlist adding thousands of files to the playlist when I select one song from my media library, and only add files I want to add myself manually. This might help with the speed problem I feel.

The slowness isn't as bad when I narrow the songs listed in my media library by typing in an artist for example. Then the song loads instantly when I double click. This is why I think its something to do with the playlist, not as many songs to add to it.

KT

DeathWing · 9th February 2004, 22:17

I realize that you can unselect the "play all..." option so it only adds the one song to the playlist editor. But, as it is a playlist, I would like to be able to play a certain number of songs in a row without needing to double click each one. By the same token, I want to be able to skip part of the playlist and play a different song when I feel like it, without having to wait 3 sec. for it to play and bogging down my computer. This was all possible with 5.01, but not with 5.02.

I'm sure it's just a minor bug, since 5.01 was working fine...

As for King's question: well, you can make another playlist with only the songs you want to play. Or you can select the option in the media library prefs, library options tab, "enque the selected item(s)" instead of "play the selected item(s)" (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

Qaxar · 9th February 2004, 22:23

You can select any number of multiple tracks from the ML list by holding Ctrl or Shift as is normal in any Windows app. Then place the cursor on any of the selected (highlighted) tracks, right click and "Play selection".

glex · 10th February 2004, 18:24

So what explains the speed difference between 5.01 and 5.02?

The delay in starting any one song when selected from the media lib is ~5 seconds and quite annoying. I've re-installed 5.01 to fix it.

(>5000 songs in lib, no hardware bottlenecks)

This is reminsicent of WinAmp3.

Qaxar · 10th February 2004, 19:16

Are you sure you've UNselected "play all playlist items on a double click". I have about 3000 tracks in my library, and get ZERO delay when selecting an individual track - with 5.02. I experienced no difference between 5.01 and 5.02.

Qaxar · 10th February 2004, 19:25

Just had another thought. I have imported all of my playlists to the ML. Note that this is an additional step after "Add media to library". Don't know whether this makes any difference in the delay time for playing a track selected from the ML, but it's something to consider.

I don't plan to test this, since it would require that I delete all the playlists from the ML and re-import them.

squall14716 · 10th February 2004, 19:59

Let me say this 1 more time.

Download 5.01 and get the settings set up. Have a huge playlist, and play them all. Now upgrade to 5.02. Do not change any settings whatsoever and play all of them again. You'll notice that 5.01 plays them instantaneously and 5.02 has a nice delay.

By huge I mean it needs to be around 1,000+ songs. Trust me, there is a big difference between the speeds of 5.01 and 5.02. I have downgraded to 5.01 until 5.03 is out, at which point I'll probably upgrade and hope that whatever error is in 5.02 is cleared out. For now, I'm going to have to stick with 5.01.

Qaxar · 10th February 2004, 22:28

Last time for me also:

Tracks = 2368

Version 5.01
Double click one track from ML
Delay time = 0

Version 5.02 (no change in settings)
Double click one track from ML
Delay time = 0

squall14716 · 10th February 2004, 22:51

Well, it's a ~5 second delay for me in 5.02.. -_-

glex · 10th February 2004, 23:44

And me:

Tracks = 5331

Version 5.01
Double click one track from ML
Delay time = 0

Version 5.02 (no change in settings)
Double click one track from ML
Delay time = 5 seconds

DeathWing · 12th February 2004, 06:41

The reason I don't consider unchecking "play all playlist items on double-click" to be a valid solution is that i often like to turn on the playlist shuffle for my largest playlist and let winamp go at it for a while.

There may be other, more important problems that need to be solved first, but this is a bug that should eventually be fixed as well, simply because it is an inconvinience, and it should be able to be solved easily since it did not exist in 5.01.

DJ Egg · 12th February 2004, 08:08

Alright, calm down folks

Fear not. The whole world is watching.
This issue has been reported.

Qaxar · 12th February 2004, 13:52

Deathwing,
I'm curious. I assume that you save your playlists. If you want to shuffle through the largest one, why do you not just open the playlist in the playlist editor, rather than using the double click in the ML to do the same thing?

DeathWing · 12th February 2004, 23:13

Convinience - the media library is one of the best improvements that winamp 5 made. I put all my playlists under the 'playlist' tree in the left side of the media library so i can access them with one or two clicks. Basically, I'm lazy

squall14716 · 12th February 2004, 23:15

Exactly! We're all lazy and the media library helps us be that way. Isn't that right?

Qaxar · 13th February 2004, 03:02

Ok, Thanks for the info

DySPHoRiA · 13th February 2004, 20:18

like if i want a specific song i look through media library because its easier. then it lags hwen i click it. Library of about 1600 songs

Kickboy12 · 13th February 2004, 20:31

I hardly ever use the ML except when I'm trying to edit my playlists in a large group, or change the names of the playlists. Otherwise I just use the normal Playlist editor to select my songs. (This is because I use the MMD3 skin, and I like to have my windows nested in the top of my screen -- I can't do that with the ML)

I'm sure you've all heard the saying "If it hurts the stand up, then don't stand up" (or some version of it). The point being, if there is an annoying delay in the ML, then don't use it! Or just downgrade to v5.01 until the problem is resolved. Either way works just fine.

graigsmith · 13th February 2004, 23:24

ALSO... 5.02 seems to skip and (nearly) stop responding while playing 3d games.. 5.01 worked great while i was playing all my 3d games..

i tried a fresh install and that diddn't fix it.

Kickboy12 · 14th February 2004, 15:08

I havn't been on my computer in a week, so I havn't even used 5.02 until today. (All posts this week were made from school)

My final verdict on 5.02: Resource Hogger

I'm going back to 5.01, as 5.02 really has nothing new I need/want.

Tracy Boehrer · 14th February 2004, 16:59

I'm new to this support forum... but I have to wonder if the Winamp crew ever chips in? Rather than everyone just guessing at the problem, it would seem appropriate for Winamp themselves to chime in.

I too went went back to 5.01 because of this and the slow CD ripping problem.

DJ Egg · 15th February 2004, 04:41

Quote:

Originally posted by DJ Egg
Alright, calm down folks
Fear not. The whole world is watching.
This issue has been reported.

vs271 · 15th February 2004, 20:10

help a newbie here...

i want to uninstall 5.02 and reinstall 5.01. if i take the uninstall winamp found in my comp will that delete the whole program? what about my songs and playlists? will i lose them? Is there a simple way to do this? and where will i find 5.01 to reinstall?

Tracy Boehrer · 18th February 2004, 15:29

Follow the directions for the Full Uninstall (somewhere in these forums)... if you don't you'll lose your playlists and custom Media Library views (like I did). You won't lose your songs in any case.

Nunzio390 · 18th February 2004, 16:51

Full Uninstall -> Reinstall procedure

Quote:

You won't lose your songs in any case.

Not necessarily true. Believe it or not, there have been some people that have erroneously saved/placed their media files within the Winamp folder/sub-folders and then they complain about the loss of those files after uninstalling Winamp. And of course it is very unwise to place important files (keepers) within any Windows program folder. Not to say that vs271 has done this, but just in case, move all media files to a folder outside of any Winamp folder/sub-folders before uninstalling.

@vs271...
You can obtain 5.01 here. But also understand that if you look for support here for a previous version of Winamp, we will only tell you to upgrade to the latest version (currently 5.02).

JonnyMac · 18th February 2004, 17:01

blah

Nunzio390 · 18th February 2004, 17:08

DOH!!

Grrrr... darn crossposters!!!

And I know better. I should have checked.

graigsmith · 19th February 2004, 02:46

i uninstalled winamp 5.02 fully, even deleted the whole winamp folder.. and reinstalled.. it still wont work if im inside a game.. it just freezes..

winamp 5.02 is buggy.

after i reinstalled 5.01 my problem is fixed.

7th February 2004, 04:25	#1
squall14716 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 349	After upgrade to 5.02, media library = slow. I don't know why, but ever since I upgraded to 5.02 from 5.01 circa 15 minutes ago, when I double click on a song in a media library playlist, it takes forever to start playing. At first I shrugged it off and blamed it on me running too many programs, but after a reboot it is doing the same thing. Playing a song from the media library in 5.01 was almost instantaneous, now it takes about 5 seconds. -_- Any ideas as to what may have caused this? EDIT: Adding more to this - when just playing a song, Winamp takes up about 5% CPU. When I double click a song in the media library, it skyrockets to about 97%. It's un-fucking-real.

7th February 2004, 11:12	#3
MarkRH Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Edmond, OK Posts: 482	Hmmm.. I don't notice anything here. With a 1,515 list in Media Library, I can double-click a song and it loads the whole playlist into the Playlist Editor and starts playing with hardly any delay.. same as 5.01. One thing I did have to do was Re-enable Hardware Acceleration in the Direct Sound Output plugin. Mark H. System Information \| Old Winamp Info \| WACUP Info Older MIDI input plugin that supports auto loading SoundFonts

7th February 2004, 12:42	#4
MarkRH Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Edmond, OK Posts: 482	Well, opened mouth too soon.. upon further examination.. I am in fact exhibiting this change in behavior. I changed back to 5.01, and what delay I was having went away. I also noticed a CPU spike of only 33% or so when playing a song. With 5.02, it would jump up to 90% momentarily. Alot of changes were made to the Media Library and Playlist.. probably more going on behind the scenes than there used to be. Well, back to 5.02 to see if any tweaks can reduce the delay maybe. Mark H. System Information \| Old Winamp Info \| WACUP Info Older MIDI input plugin that supports auto loading SoundFonts

12th February 2004, 08:08	#24
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	Alright, calm down folks Fear not. The whole world is watching. This issue has been reported. Playlist -\|- Twitter

13th February 2004, 20:31	#30
Kickboy12 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Bay Area, California Posts: 242	I hardly ever use the ML except when I'm trying to edit my playlists in a large group, or change the names of the playlists. Otherwise I just use the normal Playlist editor to select my songs. (This is because I use the MMD3 skin, and I like to have my windows nested in the top of my screen -- I can't do that with the ML) I'm sure you've all heard the saying "If it hurts the stand up, then don't stand up" (or some version of it). The point being, if there is an annoying delay in the ML, then don't use it! Or just downgrade to v5.01 until the problem is resolved. Either way works just fine. [@imho] man [@imho] I had dreams about unit testing last night :-( [@sim`a] i have nightmares about syntax errors, whats your point

7th February 2004, 07:23	#2
DeathWing Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 23	I'm having this problem too, and it wasn't happening with Winamp 5.01, but it started with Winamp 5.02. With short playlists, this problem isn't noticeable. However, the longer the playlist gets, the longer the delay is before the song starts playing. With my longest (830 song) playlist, the delay is a good 2-3 sec. long (while with a 10-song playlist it starts playing instantly). In the Media Library Prefs, in the 'Library Options' tab, in the top box if you uncheck "Play all playlist items..." then the problem stops, but then the entire playlist isn't added to the Playlist Editor. So apparently the problem has something to do with the entire playlist being added from the media library to the playlist editor. The strange part is, even if you double click another song in the same playlist in the media library, it still does the delay, meaning that it re-adds the playlist every time. Since this problem wasn't happening w/ Winamp 5.01 (the entire playlist would get added without any noticeable delay, or at least it wouldn't happen if you were staying within the same playlist), I'm assuming that it isn't due to problems specific to my computer.

7th February 2004, 19:14	#5
DeathWing Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 23	Yeah, Enabling/Disabling hardware acceleration in the DirectSound Output plugin didn't change anything for me. And I also found that, after uninstalling 5.02 & installing 5.01, the problem went away.

7th February 2004, 20:10	#6
squall14716 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 349	My 1,034 song ML playlist has a 5 second delay when play a song from it - there was no delay in 5.01. This is a sersiously annoying problem.

9th February 2004, 01:10	#7
soljarag Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 92	yeah,i'm having the exact same prob... i'm going back to 5.01 till they fix it, and your right, it has something to do with the size of the playlist.... 500 songs .. slight delay... 8,000 songs about 5-7 seconds but when i re-installed 5.01 there was no delay at all for the 8,000 song playlist -------- XP 1700+ 1 GB ram Windows XP sp1

9th February 2004, 11:00	#8
zootm Forum King Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: the nether reaches of bonnie scotland Posts: 13,375	i can replicate this, yes. i don't really use playlists in the media library, so i can't say i noticed it before...

9th February 2004, 18:31	#9
DySPHoRiA Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 9	i was just about to report this.

9th February 2004, 19:12	#10
Qaxar Major Dude Join Date: May 2000 Location: Bel Air, Maryland, USA Posts: 725	I don't recall any differences between 5.01 and 5.02, but it seems to me that the answer to your concerns is pretty straightforward. When the ML option is set to "play all playlist items on a double click", Then that's what it will do - every time you double click another ML track the entire playlist loads. So, depending on the length of the playlist and the speed of your PC, the amount of time to perform this process will vary. No mystery there! If all you want to do is just play the double clicked track, then simply unclick the "play all playlist items on a double click" - as Deathwing suggested earlier. Under the ML option you might also want to decide whether or not you want the track enqueued.

9th February 2004, 19:54	#11
squall14716 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 349	The problem is, even with this option on in 5.01, there is no delay - it starts playing right when you double click it, and the entire playlist is replaced with the ML playlist - no delays at all. Only after upgrading to 5.02 is there any sort of delay, and after a downgrade back to 5.01, the delay disappears. And yet I haven't changed any options from 5.01 to 5.02. If 5.01 is instant, and 5.02 takes 5 seconds and sends the CPU usage to almost 100%, something is wrong somewhere.

9th February 2004, 20:14	#12
Qaxar Major Dude Join Date: May 2000 Location: Bel Air, Maryland, USA Posts: 725	Wish I could be of more help, but I don't have any ideas. In my system, I get no delay, even when I have the "play all playlist items on a double click" selected. BTW, my specs: Dell Pentuim 4, 2.4 GHz I'm using the Modern skin.

9th February 2004, 21:46	#13
King_Tweaker Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 12	Yeah I get this too. I have about 9000 songs listed, with a fast setup, Dual Raptors in Raid 0 and Athlon XP 2.75ghz so its not my PC. Is there a way to stop the playlist adding thousands of files to the playlist when I select one song from my media library, and only add files I want to add myself manually. This might help with the speed problem I feel. The slowness isn't as bad when I narrow the songs listed in my media library by typing in an artist for example. Then the song loads instantly when I double click. This is why I think its something to do with the playlist, not as many songs to add to it. KT

9th February 2004, 22:17	#14
DeathWing Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 23	I realize that you can unselect the "play all..." option so it only adds the one song to the playlist editor. But, as it is a playlist, I would like to be able to play a certain number of songs in a row without needing to double click each one. By the same token, I want to be able to skip part of the playlist and play a different song when I feel like it, without having to wait 3 sec. for it to play and bogging down my computer. This was all possible with 5.01, but not with 5.02. I'm sure it's just a minor bug, since 5.01 was working fine... As for King's question: well, you can make another playlist with only the songs you want to play. Or you can select the option in the media library prefs, library options tab, "enque the selected item(s)" instead of "play the selected item(s)" (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

9th February 2004, 22:23	#15
Qaxar Major Dude Join Date: May 2000 Location: Bel Air, Maryland, USA Posts: 725	You can select any number of multiple tracks from the ML list by holding Ctrl or Shift as is normal in any Windows app. Then place the cursor on any of the selected (highlighted) tracks, right click and "Play selection".

10th February 2004, 18:24	#16
glex Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 4	So what explains the speed difference between 5.01 and 5.02? The delay in starting any one song when selected from the media lib is ~5 seconds and quite annoying. I've re-installed 5.01 to fix it. (>5000 songs in lib, no hardware bottlenecks) This is reminsicent of WinAmp3.

10th February 2004, 19:16	#17
Qaxar Major Dude Join Date: May 2000 Location: Bel Air, Maryland, USA Posts: 725	Are you sure you've UNselected "play all playlist items on a double click". I have about 3000 tracks in my library, and get ZERO delay when selecting an individual track - with 5.02. I experienced no difference between 5.01 and 5.02.

10th February 2004, 19:25	#18
Qaxar Major Dude Join Date: May 2000 Location: Bel Air, Maryland, USA Posts: 725	Just had another thought. I have imported all of my playlists to the ML. Note that this is an additional step after "Add media to library". Don't know whether this makes any difference in the delay time for playing a track selected from the ML, but it's something to consider. I don't plan to test this, since it would require that I delete all the playlists from the ML and re-import them.

10th February 2004, 19:59	#19
squall14716 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 349	Let me say this 1 more time. Download 5.01 and get the settings set up. Have a huge playlist, and play them all. Now upgrade to 5.02. Do not change any settings whatsoever and play all of them again. You'll notice that 5.01 plays them instantaneously and 5.02 has a nice delay. By huge I mean it needs to be around 1,000+ songs. Trust me, there is a big difference between the speeds of 5.01 and 5.02. I have downgraded to 5.01 until 5.03 is out, at which point I'll probably upgrade and hope that whatever error is in 5.02 is cleared out. For now, I'm going to have to stick with 5.01.

10th February 2004, 22:28	#20
Qaxar Major Dude Join Date: May 2000 Location: Bel Air, Maryland, USA Posts: 725	Last time for me also: Tracks = 2368 Version 5.01 Double click one track from ML Delay time = 0 Version 5.02 (no change in settings) Double click one track from ML Delay time = 0

10th February 2004, 22:51	#21
squall14716 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 349	Well, it's a ~5 second delay for me in 5.02.. -_-

10th February 2004, 23:44	#22
glex Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 4	And me: Tracks = 5331 Version 5.01 Double click one track from ML Delay time = 0 Version 5.02 (no change in settings) Double click one track from ML Delay time = 5 seconds

12th February 2004, 06:41	#23
DeathWing Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 23	The reason I don't consider unchecking "play all playlist items on double-click" to be a valid solution is that i often like to turn on the playlist shuffle for my largest playlist and let winamp go at it for a while. There may be other, more important problems that need to be solved first, but this is a bug that should eventually be fixed as well, simply because it is an inconvinience, and it should be able to be solved easily since it did not exist in 5.01.

12th February 2004, 13:52	#25
Qaxar Major Dude Join Date: May 2000 Location: Bel Air, Maryland, USA Posts: 725	Deathwing, I'm curious. I assume that you save your playlists. If you want to shuffle through the largest one, why do you not just open the playlist in the playlist editor, rather than using the double click in the ML to do the same thing?

12th February 2004, 23:13	#26
DeathWing Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 23	Convinience - the media library is one of the best improvements that winamp 5 made. I put all my playlists under the 'playlist' tree in the left side of the media library so i can access them with one or two clicks. Basically, I'm lazy

12th February 2004, 23:15	#27
squall14716 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 349	Exactly! We're all lazy and the media library helps us be that way. Isn't that right?

13th February 2004, 03:02	#28
Qaxar Major Dude Join Date: May 2000 Location: Bel Air, Maryland, USA Posts: 725	Ok, Thanks for the info

13th February 2004, 20:18	#29
DySPHoRiA Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 9	like if i want a specific song i look through media library because its easier. then it lags hwen i click it. Library of about 1600 songs

13th February 2004, 23:24	#31
graigsmith Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 72	ALSO... 5.02 seems to skip and (nearly) stop responding while playing 3d games.. 5.01 worked great while i was playing all my 3d games.. i tried a fresh install and that diddn't fix it.

14th February 2004, 15:08	#32
Kickboy12 Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Bay Area, California Posts: 242	I havn't been on my computer in a week, so I havn't even used 5.02 until today. (All posts this week were made from school) My final verdict on 5.02: Resource Hogger I'm going back to 5.01, as 5.02 really has nothing new I need/want. [@imho] man [@imho] I had dreams about unit testing last night :-( [@sim`a] i have nightmares about syntax errors, whats your point

14th February 2004, 16:59	#33
Tracy Boehrer Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 10	I'm new to this support forum... but I have to wonder if the Winamp crew ever chips in? Rather than everyone just guessing at the problem, it would seem appropriate for Winamp themselves to chime in. I too went went back to 5.01 because of this and the slow CD ripping problem.

15th February 2004, 20:10	#35
vs271 Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 20	help a newbie here... i want to uninstall 5.02 and reinstall 5.01. if i take the uninstall winamp found in my comp will that delete the whole program? what about my songs and playlists? will i lose them? Is there a simple way to do this? and where will i find 5.01 to reinstall?

18th February 2004, 15:29	#36
Tracy Boehrer Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 10	Follow the directions for the Full Uninstall (somewhere in these forums)... if you don't you'll lose your playlists and custom Media Library views (like I did). You won't lose your songs in any case.