Winamp doesn't play specific mp3s

[theweather]

Hi guys I need your help!
Winamp doesn't seem to play some mp3s, specifally some podcasts. There is no error message and it looks like it's playing, displaying everything but there is no sound. I'm using Winamp 5.623.
Can anyone help me with this?

[theweather]

anyone who could help me with this?

[MrSinatra]

do they play in other apps like VLC or WMP?

did u scan them with mp3val? examine the tags with mp3tag? run RG on them?

[theweather]

Thanks for the reply!
Yes, they all play in vlc. mp3val didn't find any errors. I have mp3tag and i tried removing all the tags from the file, but that didn't help, although I don't exactly know what I'm doing when editing tags. And what is RG?

[MrSinatra]

RG = replaygain. post the files to mediafire or somewhere so the devs and i can see whats going on.

[theweather]

Alright. Here's an example for a file I can't play after downloading: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episod..._-_david_cross

[MrSinatra]

i downloaded it and it didn't work at first. so i removed all the - and _ and then, even though it seemingly had the .mp3 extension, i was told windows didn't know what app to open it with. so i told it winamp, and voila, it worked.

its a mpeg 2 layer 3, so i suspect that might have something to do with it, but again, after that finagling it does work for me in winamp.

[DrO]

i downloaded it directly from the site page and dragged it into Winamp as well as using an external enqueuing of the file and it worked immediately. i tested with 5.623 and internal and just for fun as it was open for other reasons in 5.541.

-daz

[MrSinatra]

DrO, i was double clicking on it. any idea why winamp wouldn't have already known it should play it?

[DrO]

nothing obvious comes to mind unless something had gone awry with the file associations. all i know is a direct download and play and it worked. i've also since loaded it via double-clicking without issue as well.

as such i think a plug-ins list (http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....161361#plugins) is really required from the original poster.

-daz

[MrSinatra]

interestingly, earlier today i changed on winamp context menu options (in shell options) and i think that may be related, b/c the mp3s no longer have the winamp icon next to them in windows explorer. how do i fix this?

[DrO]

a default action needs to be set, be it play, enqueue or enqueue & play for the association to work in Explorer. i've tried to explain why that happens in the later posts in http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=343241 from a few weeks back. the summary is if there is no default action then files will not be properly associated with Winamp and what you saw is expected.

-daz

[MrSinatra]

ok, that makes sense, b/c i only had "add to ML" selected. but now, under file context menu, i have play in winamp also selected, and yet the icons in windows explorer still don't match what i set in winamp prefs. i can't seem to get it fixed...

[DrO]

hold down 'ctrl' when leaving the file types page - that should force Winamp and in-turn jtfe to re-build the associations. if not then i'd need to see what has been set on the file types and shell option prefs pages to determine what is going on - which still sounds like a default action hasn't been set i.e. the checked state of the 'enqueue files on double click' on the file types page isn't in the right state.

though in all honesty i'm pretty tempted to remove the bottom options on the shell options page as it just seems to cause more issue than it's worth with things being unchecked when there's no way to keep a default action associated without screwing up other parts of Winamp's handling - retrospect on adding in things that should have been in the core or just never touched is a wonderful things *shrugs*

-daz

[MrSinatra]

DrO,

can u tell me exactly what should be selected on the "file types" and "shell options" pages in prefs? i have tried a lot of things at this point, and yet i can't get the file type icon to be the cool black one with lightning bolt. this is one of my fave things in winamp, i'd hate to see it not work, and/or be removed from the app.

on file types:

i picked my extensions, and have since added a check to restore associations. i have nothing else checked except winamp agent.

on shell options:

i have nothing checked, and have "play in winamp" and "add to ml" picked under both file and folder context menu.

i didn't see ctrl do anything, although i don't know what u mean "when i leave" the file types screen.