David,
I am going to use the old fashioned way of replying to your thoughtful
post by responding to your points by placing my responses below the
text. It will save me a lot of work <smile>.
Let me just say, that this is a format quoting custom that I have
missed since the Fido Echo days. You might remember those days, but it
would worth knowing about, and looking up. It worked with a worldwide
network of BBSes (bulitonboard systems). Quite primitive in
comparison to today, but it worked amazingly well. Just the email of
its time.
Also, let me thank you here and now for all of your thoughtful
suggestions.
Here we go.
On 2/25/2020 12:23 AM, David wrote:
"WinAmp, is not my shoe number, so cannot offer you any direct help. But
a couple of suggestions that might prove worth a try.
First of all, should it be that you have something messed up in the
Registry, I would suggest running a Registry cleanup. One thing wrong,
likely several other issues will have built their nest in there as well.
So how about for instance CCleaner? Or any other Registry Cleaner you
prefer. Will specially be worth, since you mention there recently have
been some kind of servicing on the computer. Who knows, if the
technician has bothered running a cleanup." Smiles.
Here, a little explanation is in order.
I had to take my computer into BEST Buy's Geek squad for a little
servicing after I was foolish enough to think that I needed to update
my HP Pavilion through Support Assist. I know, that was a mouthful
<g>. They did a complete reinstall of Windows, so I would think that
since all of my apps were missing as a result of their reset that my
registry would have been rendered relatively pure
I have never installed, at least as memory serves a registry cleaner
of any kind on my system, kinda fearing that it might do more harm
than good, but with a little advice from those who have done so, it
just might be an option.
Now, I hate to ask, but is there a free one that I might use that
would still be reliable? If so, please send me a link to it. I've
heard about CCleaner, and that seems to be the one most favored.
"Somewhere, and I do not know in Win10, you should be able to unregister
filetypes. Unregistering it, and then attempting to reopen the given
filetyp, you will be asked to pick your default program for the file in
question. Yet, I am not sure if this really is your trouble, since it
seemingly already opens in WinAmp. Still, give it a go."
Well, if either you or someone else can locate that option, and let me
know about it, and where i might find it, I just might try that too.
Does this happen with all your MP3-files? Or, could there be some issue
with particular files? For a moment, try to play the file, with
something else, like Windows Media Player (if that still is around in
Win10). Usually, focusing the MP3 in Explorer, and then hitting the
app-key, or Shift-F10, you will see a choice in the drop-down for
replaying in Media Player. This just to make sure your files have not
gotten corrupted."
They work in all of them, save Winamp.
"Do you have the chance of making a backup? Or at least, make a copy of
your WinAmp folders on your hard drive. Then, in case there is such a
functionality in WinAmp, you might try rolling it back to factory
settings. Does that take care of your issue? If not, simply reinsert
your backed up folders. At least, that works in many software. Though,
WinAmp may have tons of its settings in the registry, and if so, this
approach will delete all your user settings. So be careful what you do.
Smiles."
I'll have to go to my new external drive and look through the roaming
folder and check it all out. If the folder and all of its contents
are still available, maybe I could just recopy the contents to the
newer installation.
"Of course, there is the fix you suggested yourself, to roll your
computer back to an earlier restore point. Yet, if you'd just had it for
service, and now you roll it back to a point prior to servicing, you
might end up having to call that tech personel once again. At least, you
might want to consider if you should roll back that far, that you know
things were up running smoothly before servicing. That could mean a few
weeks back. Big challenge then, would of course be to remember when
things ran smoothly last time."
At present, my restore points go back to the 15th, the day we picked
it up. However, I think I might opt for the 19th to be as safe as
possible.
By the way, does WinAmp fool around with any other filetypes? You told
M3U's was no problem, but how about other files?
Tried .ogg file in both Winamp and groove music, but Winamp wouldn't
play. Got the Winamp URL Command Handler instead. Have gone way back
to try .mp3 files, and still no joy
"Does WinAmp have any Email or Online forum? If so, try asking there if
any users have experienced similar troubles. In itself, I don't see how,
or why, WinEyes would be of any trouble in the issue you are facing.
Unless the WinAmp app would have got messed up, but that would be
quickly determined. Simply go to WinEyes Controlpanel, and turn off all
apps - then see if that would be the bottleneck. Very likely not, but
then you at least got something to spend your time and nerves on. Sorry
for the joke. I just meant to say, if you want to turn every stone,
there you have a pebble."
I might try that, but it really seems unlikely that there would be
such a connection
I'd leave to other users of your player, to help you further. These were
just some guess-work suggestions; places I often start when the computer
is playing up on me. Sometimes, even closing the computer all down, and
then letting it cold-boot from scratch, might solve a chunk of
naggings."
I'll probably give myself an hour or two for openness to any
further suggestions, and then it will be time begin the process.
On 2/25/2020 5:36 AM, Larry Higgins via Talk wrote:
Oh yeah Rod, Winamp is the default for .mp3 files. It always has been.
The weirdness of it all is that the nature of the .mp3 file has been
changed
to something else. Only God knows what. What I've been getting when
running them is another description namely - Winamp URL Command
Handler, and there is no such choice given either in Winamp settings,
or in Windows. I have tried changing the setting both in Windows
properties and default app settings in settings, but to no avail. I
can't seem to change these settings in Winamp at all, there seems to
be no way to actually select them. This situation is most unusual to
say the least. This only started happening this morning, so I am
really at a loss as to what might be going on.
The only thing I can think of to do for it is to use system restore,
and see if maybe the registry hasn't become corrupted.
Someone on another list suggested that there might be some files that
winamp might preserve in case people wish to simply reinstall, but
nevertheless keep their settings, and I can certainly see that as a
possibility. I can't decide if I should once again uninstall Winamp
and then go to the various folders that pertain to Winamp and delete
all of them in order to make sure I really get a clean restart, but I
dunno. If you have any suggestions, I'd be very happy to hear them.
Oh well, I'm pretty tired of it now, so will take this on tomorrow.
Wish me luck. I'm sure gonna miss Winamp if I can't solve this problem.
I'm definitely gonna miss WE, but I'm coming close to just having to
let it go. It just hasn't functioned well since bringing the computer
home the other day.
I attempted to update my HP Pavilion through the support assist, but
after doing so, I couldn't load Windows. Anyway, all of this is making
me a little on the nervous side.
Oh well, will put it all to bed for now, including me.
Good to hear from you.
On 2/24/2020 5:22 PM, Rod Hutton via Talk wrote:
Hi Larry,
I would say that somehow Winamp is no longer your default application
for playing mp3 files.
Windows hasn’t changed that much such that you can still go to a
folder and use the context key and use the options to change the
default program for opening them.
Good luck,
Rod
Sent from my iPad
On Feb 24, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Larry Higgins via Talk
<talk@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote:
thought I'd better make that correction.
On 2/24/2020 12:11 PM, Larry Higgins via Talk wrote:
Hello listers,
And I sure hope you can help me with this one.
For some reason, as of earlier this morning, Winamp wants to treat
my .mp3 files as if they are audio streams. I hear something, or
did, like"URL file handler file type," and the files will no longer
play. If I load an mp3 audio stream that uses an m3u file, it will
load that stream, just not regular mp3 files.
Please don't tell me I should move to another player, because I'm
sure that either this issue or another could arise when using
Foobar, or any other player for that matter. I stick with it
because Jeff Bishops app works so well.
I know that very soon, I'll have to give up on WE altogether,
because after recently getting my computer back from the shop, WE
seems to be falling apart before my very ears. Right now I am in
the middle of a project, and I really would like to be able to use
Winamp to play mp3 files as usual.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Larry
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