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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