20. January 2008

Google Talk Freezes with show music status using Winamp 5.5

I am a die hard fan of Winamp and using it for more than 5 years. What I like about this music tool is its light and easy to use features. When you compare other media players like iTunes and Jet Audio, Winamp uses a very light and easy to use playlist organizer. If you just want to hear mp3 songs then you can go with Winamp lite version which is not filled with bloats and add-ons.

Coming to the point, we know very well about the famous Google talk’s “show my current music status” and might be using it without any problem in Winamp although WMP needs an in activation. But after installing the latest version of Winamp 5.5, I had a few problems with the Google talk Integration.

Whenever you select the Show my current music track, Google talk either freezes or stops responding. This is actually a technical issue with Google talk or Winamp which is yet to be discovered but many users who have upgraded to Winamp 5.5 are facing this problem, so one of a guy has posted a simple resolution for fixing this bug.

The solution is:

Step 1: Go to the root directory of Winamp which is usually in C:\Program Files\Winamp\

Step 2: Select Tools->Folder Options->View (Tab) and uncheck the hide extensions for known file types and click Ok.

Step 3: Now create an empty file (Right click the mouse -> New -> Text document), so the default file would be like “New Text Document.txt”.

Step4: Rename the above file to “winamp.m3u” and save.

Step5: Close Winamp and Google Talk. Now open again and Your Show Current music track status should work like a charm 

Tip: Google Talk Help Group .

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45 Comments

1. Shankar Ganesh on 20. January 2008 at 4:49 pm

Google Talk has been causing a lot of problems lately for me, it won’t open links when I click on them from the chat window.

I’ve to manually copy and paste How frustrating.

I hope they’ll release an update with new features, still maintaining the minimalistic appeal

2. Marko on 25. January 2008 at 6:50 pm

THANKS MAN!!! :))))

3. Buddy on 28. January 2008 at 4:23 pm

You are a genius man !! it works

4. I.M.E. on 30. January 2008 at 4:27 pm

Thanks!!! I was looking for this… =D

5. Joel on 05. February 2008 at 4:35 pm

Thanks a lot… great job done

6. Karan on 06. February 2008 at 9:03 pm

thnx dude!!!!

needed that…..

really appreciate ur work…:)

7. Tedi on 08. February 2008 at 2:09 am

amazing! it works

8. rambhai on 08. February 2008 at 11:16 am

hey gtalk is a very simple messenger ~~~it has a very simple appereance~~~its set up file is less than 2 mb~~~so plzz dont compare it with other messy like yahoo or msn~~~however voice quality of gtalk is unmatched

9. Ed on 13. February 2008 at 5:04 am

Dude it totally works. Freakin awesome. Although for Vista users the instructions should go a little more specific. Like they may have to create the file on their desktop (like I did since it wouldn’t allow me to save directly) then move it over to the location you specified.
but yes, it definitely works no doubt.

No more crashes on showing my music track.

thanks.

10. Mog on 13. February 2008 at 5:11 pm

Actually, vista users can just rename the “whatsnew” notepad file that already exists in the winamp folder. Thanks, that was a great solution to a frustrating problem. <3

11. Isildur on 17. February 2008 at 5:00 pm

Awesome!!!

Thanks!

12. sunscreen on 17. February 2008 at 9:26 pm

i’ve tried the suggested advice and it didn’t help, gtalk still freezes as soon as i try to change the status mssg to show current music track..
any other suggestions, except creating that file?
winamp 5.52, WinXpSP2

13. Aakanksha on 21. February 2008 at 2:51 am

Hello,
I am still trying to fix this problem.
First of all I’ve windows vista on my laptop and when I click on C:/program files/winamp, there is no “tools” option on that page? What is this tool option?
Please help!
Aakanksha

14. andalsness on 21. February 2008 at 6:50 pm

cheers.
How did you find this out????

15. fkhan on 23. February 2008 at 1:05 pm

it wrkd . thnx man !!

16. Vijay Anandh on 25. February 2008 at 7:54 am

Wow it worked. Thank you very much..

17. Thunder Dragon on 26. February 2008 at 12:30 pm

Thanx man…was dying for dat………
But if u upgrade winamp 3.35 or any older version to newer version den it works
U know why???
Becoz
Older version had the “winamp.m3u”
file that has the current track entry and that what googletalk finds to show its status….

hav fun
however
gr8 work man
-ADIOS

18. Sebastian on 07. March 2008 at 1:18 am

Great job! It works like a charm!

Thanks!

19. Gsp on 11. March 2008 at 5:49 pm

hai boss
really rock u man. perfect solution .
thanqqqqqqqqqqqq very much.

20. Soham Das on 15. March 2008 at 1:51 am

Man! YOU actually solved it!!!! You rock man!!

By the way how did you find it out??

21. Shyamala on 18. March 2008 at 9:56 am

Thanks so much… was stuck with this problem for a long time:(

22. Bala Phani Chand on 01. April 2008 at 10:21 am

Thank u very much..really i was frustrated with this problem….I am very obliged if u say me how it is working if we follow the steps you have written..

23. Parwinder on 03. April 2008 at 8:14 pm

Thanks a lot man….
i wonder why ur webpage doesnt show up in google

24. Alive Hunter on 03. April 2008 at 9:39 pm

thanks …
it really works…

truely Gr8….wrk

thanks ,….cheers

25. Mihir on 04. April 2008 at 11:33 pm

thanks a lot dude..!!!!it worked for me too…!!!

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27. Swami on 07. April 2008 at 3:10 pm

Hi Buddy!!!
Thanks a lot. your solution worked!

Regards,
Swami
me_swami@yahoo.com

28. Kranthi on 09. April 2008 at 9:22 am

Thanks Buddy Gr8 Job

29. Winamp lover on 12. April 2008 at 5:40 am

Dude this is exactly what i was lookin fr long time!!!

Thanks mate….

30. Lee Regnimri on 17. April 2008 at 7:25 pm

Nice tip! Thanks!

31. Kaushik Biswas on 20. April 2008 at 4:31 pm

Thanks dude!!

32. MUDASSAR on 22. April 2008 at 5:58 pm

listen akanshaa , u r askin naa tat u can’t find tools , wel buddy u can check tools at upper side of ur my computer window , where u use to click for unhiding nd hiding folders , ……!!!!! if u still have prob than u r free to contact me

33. Mauricio Otta on 25. April 2008 at 10:19 pm

Thumbs UP on Stumble upon!
Thanks a bunch!

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35. Bembeng Arifin on 05. May 2008 at 8:24 am

Worked like a charm, thanks mate

36. Sohel on 13. May 2008 at 7:21 pm

wow, it works like a charm no problem at all. thank you so much.

37. Wowie on 21. May 2008 at 10:14 pm

It does work like a charm! Thx!

38. Omar on 24. May 2008 at 4:03 am

I love you.

39. Tiago on 29. May 2008 at 7:12 pm

SO GREAT!!!
WONDERFUL!!!

Thank´s Dude!!!

40. Arjun Goyal on 31. May 2008 at 12:07 am

Hey guys……..
U may now recheck “Hide known file types” box…..
As u know, File Type Display will make ur PC slow n irritating display….

by the way, Thanx A Million to Sankaranand

41. xtn on 31. May 2008 at 3:32 am

Win XP Sp2, Winamp 5.5, GTalk (no idea what version), followed your instructions half a song ago, it works perfectly.

THANK YOU!

42. rekul on 02. June 2008 at 6:47 pm

Thank you very much…

43. Eric on 07. June 2008 at 11:04 pm

Thank you!
Works perfectly now. : )

44. Arun Krishnan on 21. June 2008 at 4:50 pm

Thanks buddy..me too a die hard fan of winamp..

45. habba on 01. July 2008 at 11:46 am

Thanks man,
I was struggling for a long while with this issue. Everything seems to work pretty cool now.
Great job,
Habba

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