plays only 4 seconds then stops (SOLVED)

[Rocki]

I discovered this problem today when yesterday it was fine. If I have one song to play, it only plays the first four seconds then stops. If I have a playlist, every third song plays four seconds. Help!

By the way, I had an older version yesterday and thought 5x would solve it but it hasnt!

UpDATE: now it only plays one second.

[siebe83]

what happens after that 3 secs (or 1)?
winamp crashes, gives an error, or just stops?
is it a mp3 file your playing, or wma?
is it happening with all songs?
what version are your running (5.03a?)?

do you use third-party plugins?
if so, try remove them or do a clean install
a clean install would be a good thing in general:

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=1212729#post1212729

after that, install the update patch:

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=179096#posttop

and also try the DirectSound Output tweaks

[Daveg]

Same thing here

Am having the same problem here but it also happens when streaming internet radio as well

any suggestions

[theknub]

is it just me, or have we had a rash of these tech issues lately?

@daveg... answer siebe83's questions 'cause either way it'll help us out.

[Daveg]

Thanks,

What happens it buffers plays 3 seconds then stops on net radio then on mp3 play 3 seconds and just stops

did a fresh re-install removing all ext plug ins so was just winamp on its own

Dave

[Daveg]

sorry forgot to say no error message is given either

[DJ Egg]

So... you can confirm that you've done a clean install, installed the update patch, and tweaked DirectSound Output... as recommended by siebe83?

[Daveg]

In answer to tyour question unistalled winamp making sure all plug ins that I had installed were unistalled then dowloaded winamp file + update patch installed winamp then patch also tweaked dso as well

[Daveg]

but still the same the funny thing until yeterday it was working ok no problems so still not working today

[Daveg]

gone over everything again but still not working

[Notre Dame 05]

Exact same thing happened to me - worked fine yesterday, now it's doing the exact same thing as Dave. Plays for a little bit, then stops on its own. No error message or anything. Just stops. I did everything - complete uninstall and reinstall, with patch. Still no dice. Never had a problem before.

Running Winamp 5.03 on Windows XP. Dell dimension 8100.

Thanks everybody.

[DJ Egg]

Most strange

Post a HijackThis log

Download and run the program
Click the Scan button.
This changes to a Save Log button.
Attach the txt file to a new post here
(attachment feature available c/o Post A Reply button)


Apart from that, try reinstalling your sound drivers & DirectX.

[Daveg]

as requested

[lemonchillman]

The exact same thing has started happening to me since yesterday. I've since been using Real player, but I miss my Winamp.

One thing I noticed, it occasionally opens some "Aquiring License" window, and says something about the song being a Napster song. I've never had problems with the music previously.

[DJ Egg]

@Daveg

Yeah, there's a few iffy spyware/malware entries in your list.

I recommend that you move HijackThis.exe into its own folder first, eg.
C:\Program Files\HijackThis

Now run it again and this time put a check against the following entries, and click the "Fix Checked" button.

O2 - BHO: (no name) - {029BB53A-C312-4b09-9B4F-ED57AF027B28} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\winhlp32.dll

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Tesla] C:\Program Files\Tesla\Tesla.exe /TRAY

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [system check] C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\updater.exe

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [websx] C:\Program Files\websx\int113780.exe -auto

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [winhlp32.exe] C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files\winhlp32.exe

O16 - DPF: {56336BCB-3D8A-11D6-A00B-0050DA18DE71} (RdxIE Class) - http://207.188.7.150/010747036799417c1f19/netzip/RdxIE601.cab

O16 - DPF: {6C31790D-1EDF-4B05-83DC-925B3A8E2318} (Reactivator Class) - http://mp3university.com/autoupdater.cab

Now download and install both Spybot Search & Destroy and Adaware SE

Run them one after the other (not both at the same time).
Use the internal updaters to get the latest definition files
then run the scan and let them fix whatever they find.


If you're not using them regularly, I also suggest that you disable the following items from loading at startup:

O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [mmtask] C:\Program Files\MUSICMATCH\MUSICMATCH Jukebox\mmtask.exe
O4 - Startup: Microsoft Find Fast.lnk = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\FINDFAST.EXE
O4 - Startup: Office Startup.lnk = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\OSA.EXE


Clean your system up, then get back to us.


@lemonchillman
Sounds similar to this recent case, where it turned out that the drm-licensed wma files downloaded from Napster were corrupt.