Winamp failing to close and ratings menu slightly altered

Since updating to 5.32 (from some version before 5.31) I've been experiencing a strange problem with Winamp.

Upon closure winamp.exe occasionally remains open as a background task, you can see it in the task manager. If you open and close winamp again, another winamp.exe often joins the last winamp.exe, until eventually many copies of winamp are running behind the scenes even though visually it appears closed.

Once enough instances of winamp have stacked up, opening anymore takes a very long time, making using winamp near impossible without first going into task manager and killing all winamp.exes that have stacked there.

Has anyone else experienced this and does anyone know whats wrong/what to do about it? I've tried a clean uninstall and reinstall to no avail.

The other minor niggle is that the ratings menu (right click on track -> Rate Items) no tick appears next to what a file is currently rated, this used to happen but seems not to anymore, the blank space for a tick is still there, but the tick isn't. Is this just a bug or has it been edited out for a reason?

System Specs:
Asus P4P8X SE Motherboard with Pentium 4 3.2Ghz processor running at stock levels.
2Gb Ram
Nvidia Geforce 6800 GS
Creative SoundBlaster Live! Digital 5.1
Direct X 9.0c
Windows XP Pro Sp2
Winamp Pro with shared user settings

HiJackThis log included, demonstrating stacked winamp.exes

Installed Winamp plugin list
Generated by 'One for Nunz v2.78'

<< Winamp Information >>

Winamp.ini path is: C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.ini
Plugin directory is: C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins
Visualisation directory is: C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins
DSP directory is: C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins
Skin directory is: C:\Program Files\Winamp\skins

Using Winamp version: 5.32 (Build 1003)
Current skin: Winamp Modern
Sonic Burning Engine is installed
Pro registered version

<< OS Information >>

Running on: Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
Memory available: 2095852 KB


<< Input plugins >>

Nullsoft CD plug-in (CDDB2) v3.3 [in_cdda.dll]
Nullsoft DirectShow Decoder v1.0 [in_dshow.dll]
Nullsoft FLAC Decoder v1.1.2c [in_flac.dll]
Nullsoft LineIn plug-in v3.11 [in_linein.dll]
Nullsoft MIDI player 3.13 [in_midi.dll]
Nullsoft Module Decoder v2.2.3 (x86) [in_mod.dll]
Nullsoft MPEG Audio Decoder 4.03 [in_mp3.dll]
Nullsoft MPEG-4 Audio Decoder v1.1 [in_mp4.dll]
Nullsoft NSV Decoder v1.07 [in_nsv.dll]
Nullsoft Vorbis Decoder v1.47 [in_vorbis.dll]
Nullsoft Waveform Decoder 3.1 [in_wave.dll]
Nullsoft Windows Media Decoder 3.23 [in_wm.dll]

<< Output plugins >>

DirectSound output v2.46 (d) [out_ds.dll] [active]
waveOut output v2.1 (d) [out_wave.dll]

<< Visualisation plugins >>

Advanced Visualization Studio v2.81c [vis_avs.dll] [active]
MilkDrop 1.04d [vis_milk.dll]
Nullsoft Tiny Fullscreen (v2.08) [vis_nsfs.dll]

<< DSP plugins >>

Nullsoft Signal Processing Studio DSP v0.37 [dsp_sps.dll]

<< General Purpose plugins >>

Nullsoft Modern Skins Support v1.24 [gen_ff.dll]
Nullsoft Global Hotkeys v1.31 [gen_hotkeys.dll]
Jump To File Extra v0.97.7h (Build 57) [gen_jumpex.dll]
Nullsoft Winamp Library v3.04 [gen_ml.dll]
One for Nunz v2.78 [gen_nunzio.dll]
Nullsoft Tray Control v2.0 [gen_tray.dll]

<< Media Library plugins >>

Nullsoft Dashboard v1.0 [ml_dash.dll]
Nullsoft Now Playing v2.01 [ml_nowplaying.dll]
Nullsoft Bookmarks v1.02 [ml_bookmarks.dll]
Nullsoft History v1.01 [ml_history.dll]
Nullsoft Local Media v1.1 [ml_local.dll]
Nullsoft Playlists v1.05 [ml_playlists.dll]
Nullsoft Rip & Burn v1.11 [ml_disc.dll]
Winamp Database Import/Export [ml_impex.dll]
Nullsoft Online Services v1.2 [ml_online.dll]
Nullsoft Portable Music Player Support v1.12 [ml_pmp.dll]
Nullsoft Replay Gain Analyzer v1.01 [ml_rg.dll]
Nullsoft Format Converter v2.01 [ml_transcode.dll]
Nullsoft SHOUTcast Wire v1.06 [ml_wire.dll]
ml_xpdxs v1.0.4 [ml_xpdxs.dll]

<< Portable Media Player plugins >>

Nullsoft ActiveSync Plug-in v0.14 [pmp_activesync.dll]
Nullsoft iPod Plug-in v0.54 [pmp_ipod.dll]
Nullsoft Creative NJB Plug-in v0.51 [pmp_njb.dll]
Nullsoft PlaysForSure Plug-in v0.53 [pmp_p4s.dll]
Nullsoft USB Device Plug-in v0.52 [pmp_usb.dll]

<< Encoder plugins >>

[enc_aacplus.dll]
aacPlus (HE-AAC) Encoder v1.23
aacPlus (HE-AAC) High Bitrate Encoder v1.23
LC-AAC Encoder v1.23
MP4/aacPlus (HE-AAC) Encoder v1.23
MP4/aacPlus (HE-AAC) High Bitrate Encoder v1.23
MP4/LC-AAC Encoder v1.23
[enc_flac.dll]
FLAC Encoder (Flake SVN r108)
[enc_lame.dll]
MP3 Encoder v1.32
[enc_wma.dll]
WMA Encoder v1.2


<< Summary of installed plugins >>

12 Input plugins installed
2 Output plugins installed
3 Visualisation plugins installed
1 DSP plugin installed
6 General Purpose plugins installed
14 Media Library plugins installed
5 Portable Media Player plugins installed
4 Encoder plugins installed

Total: 47 plugins installed

[siebe83]

Hi,

I had a quick look at your HijackThis log, and I see you're running MS ActiveSync.
New in Winamp 5.32 is pmp_activesync.dll, a plugin that provides Windows Mobile devices support.

Perhaps try disabling that plugin to see if something's going wrong there.

You can disable the plugin by renaming it to eg. pmp_activesync.off while Winamp is closed.
Plugins are stored in C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins


Other plugins you could try disabling...
pmp_njb.dll (Creative NJB devices plugin)
ml_xpdxs.dll (Predixic MusicMagic, a buggy third-party plugin bundled with Winamp)



As for the rating tick not showing up, not sure about that. It works fine here.
Are your files in the Media Library database?
Are you using the classic theme in Windows, or the newer XP style? (just trying to think of possible factors here)

Seems disabling the active sync plug-in fixed it, early days yet but Winamp seems to be closing properly on first inspection.

With the ratings I can view them in the ratings column (so they appear to be in the database), but when I right click on an individual track and go down to "rate item" there is no tick next to any of the ratings as there used to be. The skin I'm using is the Modern skin (Blue, curvy).

Any ideas RE: the ratings change?

[DJ Egg]

The same thing is happening for me.

I can see the checkmarked rating in the Rate Items menu in the Playlist Editor window, but not in the Rate Items menu in the Local Media views in the ML.

Unless no-one else can reproduce, I suspect it to be a bug...

[siebe83]

Duh, I only checked the menu in the Playlist Editor.

Yeah, no tick in the Rate Items menu in the Local Media views here either...