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    Winamp crashing

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by ToxicBanana, Apr 9, 2008.

  1. ToxicBanana

    ToxicBanana Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    Winamp has recently started crashing on me and I have no idea why. I recently started using Comodo firewall, but it was working fine after that. over the last couple days it would crash randomly, but now it crashes as soon as i open it. I have reinstalled the latest version and run windows update, but no changes. Any troubleshooting suggestions?
    Thanks
     
    ToxicBanana, Apr 9, 2008
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    davemolina Notebook Consultant

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    What happens if you go into preferences in Winamp and turn off any way for it to access the internet?

    Maybe the Winamp Agent is interfering?
     
    davemolina, Apr 9, 2008
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  3. ToxicBanana

    ToxicBanana Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    I don't have winamp agent installed and I wouldn't be able to get to preferences anyway as the program crashes when it starts
     
    ToxicBanana, Apr 9, 2008
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    ToxicBanana Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    Ok, a little more info I have figured out:

    - Winamp was crashing at startup because I had the media library open (for internet radio)

    - disabling Comodo does nothing

    - Certain MP3s play but not others, and there is no noticeable difference between ones that play and ones that crash winamp.

    Update:
    - I noticed that some of my trackpad processes were acting up and eating cpu. I disabled apmsgfwd.exe and now all my mp3's play again. However, Winamp still crashes if I try to open the library. This is weird.
     
    ToxicBanana, Apr 9, 2008
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  5. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Reinstall winamp and ccleaner or a registry cleaner. This happened back to me on XP

    What version winamp are you using
     
    flipfire, Apr 9, 2008
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