"Winamp Video" View disappears in Media Library

[dooshiant]

Hi all,

I've been noticing weird behaviour from the Winamp Media Libary since I installed 5.10 and also 5.11. The "Winamp Video" View has disappeared. It's an intermittent problem: It can disappear for a couple of days or sometimes it returns after restarting Winamp and/or the OS.

Any idea whats causing it? Tried to search the forum archives but could not find any reference to this.

Regards,

dooshiant

[JonnyMac]

1. Winamp > Ctrl+P
2. General Preferences > Media Library
3. Online Media tab > Modify Preferences button
4. checkmark 'Look for Online Media Channels on exit' > OK button
5. close out of prefs > close & restart Winamp

If it is already check-marked, try unchecking it > close and restart Winamp > checkmark it again > close & restart Winamp. If you prefer you can uncheck that option after the above steps. With that option unchecked, you may want to periodically click the 'Refresh' button in any of the Online Media views.

[alkone]

Hi,

I've the same problem and I've tried to make that and re-install the winamp, but noo!!!. It continues dissapear in media library. Any idea about it?.
why it disappears and not the winamp music?.

Sorry for my little english.. ;-) I hope learn it soon.

thanks!!
;-)

[JonnyMac]

Hi alkone,

Sorry for the late reply. Others have been posting saying that the various Online Media items (SHOUTcast Radio, AOL Radio, Winamp Music, etc) have been disappearing. That reminded me of your post, so I wanted to make a reply.

This may be an intermittent server side (not yours) issue. Apparently if the ML can not see the data for one of the Online Media items it will sometimes not display that item.

Try the above steps (from the first reply) again. Also, try installing Winamp 5.112.

If you still have troubles, please post a reply with system specs.

[ZeroBS]

I still have the problem of Winamp Video not showing in the ML or in the options menu. It all runs fine on my sisters laptop, but not mine. There is no error message. I have tryed the 'fix' in the above post but it did not do anything!

Motherboard: Dell
CPU: PIII 500MHz
RAM: 512MB
Soundcard: Soundblaster 16
Videocard: ATI AIW Rage 128 Pro
Windows: Windows XP Pro w/SP2
DirectX: DX 9.0c
Winamp: 5.12 Pro (clean install)

[jmatthews112]

Seen this thread?

jmat

[ZeroBS]

Yes... but my file only had

code:


[gen_ml_config]

mluid=WA-2B25ACC70A4E465EB51EE39F9D1B011F

I tried adding the code that was in the other thread but it did nothing!

It really bothers me because I had 5.? this morning and thought I would upgrade to the newest version, I gained the XM radio stuff but lost the music videos and with all the other radio stations I would rather have my music videos back. The worst part is I cannot find an 'old' version pre-XM radio version to download.

Could it be a registry issue? I noticed that even after I uninstall Winamp it leaves a lot of stuff behind! Is there a complete uninstall tool for Winamp? It would be nice to start fresh!

[jmatthews112]

Clean Install Instructions

[DJ Egg]

Go to: Winamp > Prefs > Media Library > Online Media > Modify Preferences
and uncheck "look for new channels on exit"
Close Prefs
Close Winamp
Unzip my attachment and place ml_win_media.ini in the "Winamp\Plugins\ml" folder
Reopen Winamp
If "Winamp Video" isn't displayed in Media Library > Online Media view
then go back to Prefs > Media Library > Online Media and checkmark it in the list.

Note, the reason why you don't see Winamp Video is because it's legally only meant to be available in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and a few other select English speaking countries. If you checkmark "look for new channels on exit" again, then if you're not in one of those countries, Winamp Video will disappear again on Winamp restart.

Also note that I can't guarantee that the powers that be will allow my attachment to stay, so I'll apologize now in advance if for some reason it disappears at some point.

[ZeroBS]

WOW thank you so much! It worked.

BTW: I do live in Seattle, WA so it should be ok for me to use Winamp Video

[DJ Egg]

Yes, it most certainly is. The Winamp Video view should be there for you without the need to use my attachment, if you followed the above instructions given by JonnyMac.

[G-boogie]

Well, short of installing that little app which I shouldnt need since I live in Canada, I've tried everything, JonnyMac's trick, as well as re-installing the latest version of Winamp. No dice. I'm just gonna get my videos directly from the site. Not worth the trouble. Good luck you all.

[DJ Egg]

If you're referring to my attachment above, it's not "a little app". It's the default config file for the Online Media section of the Media Library.

Unzip my attachment and place ml_win_media.ini in the "Winamp\Plugins\ml" folder

[G-boogie]

Originally posted by DJ Egg
If you're referring to my attachment above, it's not "a little app". It's the default config file for the Online Media section of the Media Library.

Sorry Egg, I didn't mean for that to come off like I was being smart or anything like that.

[DJ Egg]

No probs dude.

So... did you download, unzip and put that file in the correct place yet?