5.2 - Skipping Songs

asphyxiating · 1st March 2006, 21:25

Since I updated my Winamp to the lastest 5.2 version about a week ago, it keeps skipping my songs. I have it on shuffle and it will play the first few seconds of a song and then suddenly it will skip through to lots of different songs in the playlist and it'll keep doing that until I click on the icon in the system tray and it steadies up. Also, usually, it will play a few songs in my playlist before the shuffle stops but now sometimes it might play 5 songs instead of maybe 15 and then it has already finished the playlist! Never had this problem before so I don't understand what's going on! Thanks ..hope this makes some kind of sense

Koopa · 1st March 2006, 22:46

Please provide more infos about your system, are you running any third party plugin, so list the plugins.

Also try a clean install of Winamp.

big_vaulter06 · 2nd March 2006, 00:35

here is a link the the stereo system,http://www.jvc.com/product.jsp?model...hId=13&page=1, and i jsut installed WINAMP, i have not put any plugins in yet, or done anyting to it at all.

rmp10 · 4th March 2006, 03:55

I am having the same problem. I did not have any problems with the old winamp. I downloaded 5.2 and my playlist will start playing .5 second clips of songs or some songs not at all. The taskbar shows the track numbers count up until winamp finds a song it likes and then it will play it. It doesn't do it all the time, but usually after I have listened to a couple songs. It does do the same thing in shuffle mode and you can see the numbers in the taskbar jump around until it finds a song it wants to play.

I did the clean install, and I know all the links are good because I cleared the playlist and readded all my files.

I don't exactly know what information you need on my system, but it is a dell inspiron 600m running windows xp. I don't have any 3rd party plugins.

siebe83 · 4th March 2006, 15:27

You could try these DirectSound output tweaks.

If that doesn't help...
What file format are the files? Mp3/wma/cd/etc...
Any difference in behaviour between different formats?

As for system info, see here.

asphyxiating · 4th March 2006, 16:47

Is there somewhere I can just get 5.1 back? That was better

rmp10 · 4th March 2006, 17:33

I had actually done the DirectSound output tweaks before my original post. It has been mainly happening with .wma files. I have not been listening to too many mp3s, but after listening to some of them today they look like they are working fine. I will repost if something changes.

The Mango Kid · 5th March 2006, 18:15

You know, I just downloaded 5.2 last night. And already I too am having this same problem exactly as people have been describing it. This is really annoying the hell out of me. And I'm with asphyxiating, is there somewhere where I can get v5.1 back?

asphyxiating · 5th March 2006, 23:52

I tried the DirectSound output tweaks as well and they don't work. All my files are WMA so maybe it's something with that. I just don't like 5.2 anyway, looked everywhere for 5.1 and I can't find anywhere else to download it back???

The Mango Kid · 6th March 2006, 00:18

Yes, now where can v5.1 be found?

siebe83 · 6th March 2006, 11:14

Are you playing WMA files as well?

As for old Winamp versions...
www.winampheaven.net

DJ Egg · 6th March 2006, 11:33

Ok, so 5 of you in this thread are experiencing this problem, but not one of you has provided any additional helpful info, not even what your Windows OS is.

Is the problem just with WMA playback and no other formats, for all 5 of you?

If WMA only, then are these files drm-protected?
ie. do they require a license to play them
(eg. they will if they were purchased from some online store like Napster or Walmart, or if they were encoded by Windows Media Player with the 'copy protect music' option checkmarked in Options > Rip Music tab).

Do they play ok if you go to:
Winamp > Prefs > Plugins > Input:
Windows Media Decoder v3.1 (in.wm.dll) > Configure
Remove WMA from the 'Filetypes' Extension List (hi-lite WMA, click 'Remove')
Click Save
and then go to:
DirectShow Decoder (in_dshow.dll) > Configure
and add ;WMA to the Extension List in there?

Note, DirectShow Decoder doesn't support drm-protected wma files, heh.

If not, then do they play ok if you use an older version of in_wm.dll ?

http://sawgweb.com/sawgstuff/winamp5/in_wm_5112.exe = in_wm from 5.112
http://forums.winamp.com/attachment....postid=1602176 = in_wm from 5.08d
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....48#post1350048 = in_wm.dll from 5.02
http://sawgweb.com/sawgstuff/winamp5/in_wm_old.zip = in_wm from 2.5

Please remember to include Windows OS, Regional Locale (OS language) and Windows Media Player version in your reply, and if relevant, whether you allowed the Winamp Installer to install the Windows Media 9.1 codecs (as represented by the "Codecs and system libraries: Download and install (if required)" setting on Screen 6 of the installer options).

For the record, I've got about 20 (non-protected) wma files (hate the damn format) out of my full library of ~15,000 (mainly mp3, ogg, aac/m4a, flac) and all 20 of them play perfectly ok in 5.2 (WinXP sp2, English UK locale, WiMP10)

rmp10 · 6th March 2006, 14:22

I've got WinXP sp2, English US, Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3990 and I allowed the codecs to be installed.

I was able to get the unprotected WMA's to play normally using -
"Winamp > Prefs > Plugins > Input:
Windows Media Decoder v3.1 (in.wm.dll) > Configure
Remove WMA from the 'Filetypes' Extension List (hi-lite WMA, click 'Remove')
Click Save
and then go to:
DirectShow Decoder (in_dshow.dll) > Configure
and add ;WMA to the Extension List in there?"

That seems to have fixed the problem of running through my playlist for my unprotected WMA (ripped from RioAudio). Thanks. However, some of my files are write protected (downloaded from mmjb), is there any way to play these songs with that change?

DJ Egg · 6th March 2006, 16:28

Nope, only the new in_wm.dll from v5.08e to 5.2 supports drm-protected wma's
and the one from 5.12 and higher also supports drm-protected WMV.

Marshdweller · 8th March 2006, 17:46

This also happens to me quite often, using playlists and albums I have played without problem in previous versions of Winamp. These playlists are predominantly mp3s, though there are .wmas in there too.

Considering this has only started happening since I upgraded to 5.2, I think it's pretty clear it's an error with Winamp.

asphyxiating · 9th March 2006, 10:10

The Directshow encoder worked for me, it doesn't seem to be skipping much except occasionally it will repeat the first few seconds of a song. I still want to go back to an older version though as now it's not reading my tags properly..all my albums have disappeared and only my most recent songs are shown in audio now, all the rest are in local media..also any artists with punctuation are cut off like hard-fi became hard..i have no idea what's going on! lol

By the way, i'm on WinXP (no SP) and have MessengerAmp plug-in and Audioscrobbler but none of these have disturbed me in the past so I don't see why they should now. 5.2 is obviously full of bugs!!

Thanks for your help anyway

xxx

DJ Egg · 9th March 2006, 12:37

Yeah, that's because you made DirectShow the default WMA handler.
The Media Library assumes all filetypes handled by in_dshow to be video types.
You can reconfigure the Local Media > Audio and Video views accordingly, eg.

Audio = (type = 0) OR (filename ends wma)
Video = (type = 1) AND !(filename ends wma)

But yeah, in_dshow doesn't support metadata, so it won't even read the WMA tags.
This will then make the Library attempt to guess the metadata (according to the setting in Prefs > Media Library > Watch Folders > Configure), and a hyphen is seen as a field separator (you can disable this behaviour by selecting 'no guessing' but then all you'll get is the filename for the title).

In other words, using the DirectShow Decoder for WMA is not recommended as the permanent solution to whatever problem you are experiencing here. I only mentioned it for troubleshooting purposes, to see if in_dshow played the WMA files ok.

There's been a few in_wm.dll bugfixes applied for 5.21,
so let us know if the problem still persists after 5.21 release.

Note that we still can't reproduce the problem.
All WMA files (whether drm-protected or not) play fine here.

yirmey · 10th March 2006, 21:11

I had the problem after upgrading to 5.2 as well. I was playing DRM2 (subscription) downloads from Yahoo Music Unlimited. The problem was not that the files wouldn't play. The problem was that when playing a playlist, songs would skip seemlingly randomly. I don't think this happened when using forward and back controls -- only when the songs were naturally playing in a playlist.

I uninstalled Winamp 5.2 and did a fresh install of Winwamp 5.21, and the problem has not occurred since.

-Jeremy

Marshdweller · 15th March 2006, 10:47

This problem has reared its ugly head only once since I installed 5.21, and so I think that this latest occurence may just have been a random error/my computer messing about rather than due to a bug in Winamp.

Cheers for fixing it!

tannicfer · 26th March 2006, 16:40

I'm having the same problem as everyone else here. And along with yirmey, it's not a problem playing the song. When you've got a large playlist or are just doing a random shuffle, songs get skipped. But if you press the skip backward button, the song that was skipped will play.

This is happening with 5.21 as well.

Rhianon · 26th March 2006, 17:37

My boyfriend and I are also having the same problems. We both have XP Home and had no problems before 5.2. Now we're both noticing that Winamp jumps songs, or won't play our playlists properly. Basically, I still have the 5.13 set-up file, so I re-installed that and am having no problems playing entire song lists without skipping.

DDock3287 · 18th April 2006, 02:21

Yes I have been having this problem also. After I upgraded, when playing large playlists (500+songs) as I normally do, Winamp randomly skips between 2-5 songs. I also stream my music via shoutcast so my only concern is the people lisntening hearing 1-2 seconds of 2 or more songs. I have a machine running Win XP Pro. Nothing has changed since I upgraded and it only happened after I had upgraded.

elomelia · 18th April 2006, 09:32

The first issue is that I have songs I wripped off a CD that are in mp3 format that don't always play. Winamp tries to play them and then fails and moves on to the next song. I have checked the file paths and they are all correct. Why is this?

The second is that I have problems playing .wma files. I have done all the steps in here :
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=190505 yet I am still unable to play the song.

Dell 2400
512 mb RAM/2.4 Ghz Celeron
As far as I am aware I have on board sound and graphics :P
Windows XP service pack 2
Direct X 9.0
Winamp version 5.08
Can't remember which installation type I had. I know I didn't pay for it!
Shared user settings

Thank you for your help!!!

1st March 2006, 21:25	#1
asphyxiating Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15	5.2 - Skipping Songs Since I updated my Winamp to the lastest 5.2 version about a week ago, it keeps skipping my songs. I have it on shuffle and it will play the first few seconds of a song and then suddenly it will skip through to lots of different songs in the playlist and it'll keep doing that until I click on the icon in the system tray and it steadies up. Also, usually, it will play a few songs in my playlist before the shuffle stops but now sometimes it might play 5 songs instead of maybe 15 and then it has already finished the playlist! Never had this problem before so I don't understand what's going on! Thanks ..hope this makes some kind of sense

1st March 2006, 22:46	#2
Koopa 16-Bit Moderator Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 4,341	Please provide more infos about your system, are you running any third party plugin, so list the plugins. Also try a clean install of Winamp. My Winamp Info Report \| My Winamp Backup Log \| My WACUP Info Report Own Projects: \| Winamp Tray Control Icon Pack v3.5.3 \| Winamp Backup Tool v3.6.0 \| >> Winamp Info Tool v6.1.0 << \| German Translations: \| Offizielle Deutsche Winamp Sprachdatei v5.66 \| Offizielle Deutsche Winamp Sprachdatei Plus Version 5.666 Useful Winamp Plug-ins: \| SNESAmp \| 64th Note \| NotSo FatSo \| Highly Experimental PSF Player \| Yar Matey! Playlist Copier v1.12 \|

4th March 2006, 03:55	#4
rmp10 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4	playlist skipping around I am having the same problem. I did not have any problems with the old winamp. I downloaded 5.2 and my playlist will start playing .5 second clips of songs or some songs not at all. The taskbar shows the track numbers count up until winamp finds a song it likes and then it will play it. It doesn't do it all the time, but usually after I have listened to a couple songs. It does do the same thing in shuffle mode and you can see the numbers in the taskbar jump around until it finds a song it wants to play. I did the clean install, and I know all the links are good because I cleared the playlist and readded all my files. I don't exactly know what information you need on my system, but it is a dell inspiron 600m running windows xp. I don't have any 3rd party plugins.

4th March 2006, 15:27	#5
siebe83 Forum King Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 9,229	You could try these DirectSound output tweaks. If that doesn't help... What file format are the files? Mp3/wma/cd/etc... Any difference in behaviour between different formats? As for system info, see here. If you're bored go here or, if the boredom is more serious, here.

6th March 2006, 11:14	#11
siebe83 Forum King Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 9,229	Are you playing WMA files as well? As for old Winamp versions... www.winampheaven.net If you're bored go here or, if the boredom is more serious, here.

2nd March 2006, 00:35	#3
big_vaulter06 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2	here is a link the the stereo system,http://www.jvc.com/product.jsp?model...hId=13&page=1, and i jsut installed WINAMP, i have not put any plugins in yet, or done anyting to it at all.

4th March 2006, 16:47	#6
asphyxiating Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15	Is there somewhere I can just get 5.1 back? That was better

4th March 2006, 17:33	#7
rmp10 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4	I had actually done the DirectSound output tweaks before my original post. It has been mainly happening with .wma files. I have not been listening to too many mp3s, but after listening to some of them today they look like they are working fine. I will repost if something changes.

5th March 2006, 18:15	#8
The Mango Kid Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2	You know, I just downloaded 5.2 last night. And already I too am having this same problem exactly as people have been describing it. This is really annoying the hell out of me. And I'm with asphyxiating, is there somewhere where I can get v5.1 back?

5th March 2006, 23:52	#9
asphyxiating Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15	I tried the DirectSound output tweaks as well and they don't work. All my files are WMA so maybe it's something with that. I just don't like 5.2 anyway, looked everywhere for 5.1 and I can't find anywhere else to download it back???

6th March 2006, 00:18	#10
The Mango Kid Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2	Yes, now where can v5.1 be found?

6th March 2006, 11:33	#12
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	Ok, so 5 of you in this thread are experiencing this problem, but not one of you has provided any additional helpful info, not even what your Windows OS is. Is the problem just with WMA playback and no other formats, for all 5 of you? If WMA only, then are these files drm-protected? ie. do they require a license to play them (eg. they will if they were purchased from some online store like Napster or Walmart, or if they were encoded by Windows Media Player with the 'copy protect music' option checkmarked in Options > Rip Music tab). Do they play ok if you go to: Winamp > Prefs > Plugins > Input: Windows Media Decoder v3.1 (in.wm.dll) > Configure Remove WMA from the 'Filetypes' Extension List (hi-lite WMA, click 'Remove') Click Save and then go to: DirectShow Decoder (in_dshow.dll) > Configure and add ;WMA to the Extension List in there? Note, DirectShow Decoder doesn't support drm-protected wma files, heh. If not, then do they play ok if you use an older version of in_wm.dll ? http://sawgweb.com/sawgstuff/winamp5/in_wm_5112.exe = in_wm from 5.112 http://forums.winamp.com/attachment....postid=1602176 = in_wm from 5.08d http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....48#post1350048 = in_wm.dll from 5.02 http://sawgweb.com/sawgstuff/winamp5/in_wm_old.zip = in_wm from 2.5 Please remember to include Windows OS, Regional Locale (OS language) and Windows Media Player version in your reply, and if relevant, whether you allowed the Winamp Installer to install the Windows Media 9.1 codecs (as represented by the "Codecs and system libraries: Download and install (if required)" setting on Screen 6 of the installer options). For the record, I've got about 20 (non-protected) wma files (hate the damn format) out of my full library of ~15,000 (mainly mp3, ogg, aac/m4a, flac) and all 20 of them play perfectly ok in 5.2 (WinXP sp2, English UK locale, WiMP10) Playlist -\|- Twitter

6th March 2006, 14:22	#13
rmp10 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4	I've got WinXP sp2, English US, Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3990 and I allowed the codecs to be installed. I was able to get the unprotected WMA's to play normally using - "Winamp > Prefs > Plugins > Input: Windows Media Decoder v3.1 (in.wm.dll) > Configure Remove WMA from the 'Filetypes' Extension List (hi-lite WMA, click 'Remove') Click Save and then go to: DirectShow Decoder (in_dshow.dll) > Configure and add ;WMA to the Extension List in there?" That seems to have fixed the problem of running through my playlist for my unprotected WMA (ripped from RioAudio). Thanks. However, some of my files are write protected (downloaded from mmjb), is there any way to play these songs with that change?

6th March 2006, 16:28	#14
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	Nope, only the new in_wm.dll from v5.08e to 5.2 supports drm-protected wma's and the one from 5.12 and higher also supports drm-protected WMV. Playlist -\|- Twitter

8th March 2006, 17:46	#15
Marshdweller Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 18	This also happens to me quite often, using playlists and albums I have played without problem in previous versions of Winamp. These playlists are predominantly mp3s, though there are .wmas in there too. Considering this has only started happening since I upgraded to 5.2, I think it's pretty clear it's an error with Winamp.

9th March 2006, 10:10	#16
asphyxiating Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 15	The Directshow encoder worked for me, it doesn't seem to be skipping much except occasionally it will repeat the first few seconds of a song. I still want to go back to an older version though as now it's not reading my tags properly..all my albums have disappeared and only my most recent songs are shown in audio now, all the rest are in local media..also any artists with punctuation are cut off like hard-fi became hard..i have no idea what's going on! lol By the way, i'm on WinXP (no SP) and have MessengerAmp plug-in and Audioscrobbler but none of these have disturbed me in the past so I don't see why they should now. 5.2 is obviously full of bugs!! Thanks for your help anyway xxx

9th March 2006, 12:37	#17
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	Yeah, that's because you made DirectShow the default WMA handler. The Media Library assumes all filetypes handled by in_dshow to be video types. You can reconfigure the Local Media > Audio and Video views accordingly, eg. Audio = (type = 0) OR (filename ends wma) Video = (type = 1) AND !(filename ends wma) But yeah, in_dshow doesn't support metadata, so it won't even read the WMA tags. This will then make the Library attempt to guess the metadata (according to the setting in Prefs > Media Library > Watch Folders > Configure), and a hyphen is seen as a field separator (you can disable this behaviour by selecting 'no guessing' but then all you'll get is the filename for the title). In other words, using the DirectShow Decoder for WMA is not recommended as the permanent solution to whatever problem you are experiencing here. I only mentioned it for troubleshooting purposes, to see if in_dshow played the WMA files ok. There's been a few in_wm.dll bugfixes applied for 5.21, so let us know if the problem still persists after 5.21 release. Note that we still can't reproduce the problem. All WMA files (whether drm-protected or not) play fine here. Playlist -\|- Twitter

10th March 2006, 21:11	#18
yirmey Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1	I had the problem after upgrading to 5.2 as well. I was playing DRM2 (subscription) downloads from Yahoo Music Unlimited. The problem was not that the files wouldn't play. The problem was that when playing a playlist, songs would skip seemlingly randomly. I don't think this happened when using forward and back controls -- only when the songs were naturally playing in a playlist. I uninstalled Winamp 5.2 and did a fresh install of Winwamp 5.21, and the problem has not occurred since. -Jeremy

15th March 2006, 10:47	#19
Marshdweller Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 18	This problem has reared its ugly head only once since I installed 5.21, and so I think that this latest occurence may just have been a random error/my computer messing about rather than due to a bug in Winamp. Cheers for fixing it!

26th March 2006, 16:40	#20
tannicfer Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 8	I'm having the same problem as everyone else here. And along with yirmey, it's not a problem playing the song. When you've got a large playlist or are just doing a random shuffle, songs get skipped. But if you press the skip backward button, the song that was skipped will play. This is happening with 5.21 as well. Last edited by tannicfer; 26th March 2006 at 17:37.

26th March 2006, 17:37	#21
Rhianon Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4	My boyfriend and I are also having the same problems. We both have XP Home and had no problems before 5.2. Now we're both noticing that Winamp jumps songs, or won't play our playlists properly. Basically, I still have the 5.13 set-up file, so I re-installed that and am having no problems playing entire song lists without skipping.

18th April 2006, 02:21	#22
DDock3287 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Computer Chair Posts: 3	Yes I have been having this problem also. After I upgraded, when playing large playlists (500+songs) as I normally do, Winamp randomly skips between 2-5 songs. I also stream my music via shoutcast so my only concern is the people lisntening hearing 1-2 seconds of 2 or more songs. I have a machine running Win XP Pro. Nothing has changed since I upgraded and it only happened after I had upgraded.

18th April 2006, 09:32	#23
elomelia Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Norwich Posts: 2	The first issue is that I have songs I wripped off a CD that are in mp3 format that don't always play. Winamp tries to play them and then fails and moves on to the next song. I have checked the file paths and they are all correct. Why is this? The second is that I have problems playing .wma files. I have done all the steps in here : http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=190505 yet I am still unable to play the song. Dell 2400 512 mb RAM/2.4 Ghz Celeron As far as I am aware I have on board sound and graphics :P Windows XP service pack 2 Direct X 9.0 Winamp version 5.08 Can't remember which installation type I had. I know I didn't pay for it! Shared user settings Thank you for your help!!!

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