SubscribeToday I started my Winamp player and my GoogleTalk froze up. Then I tried to start it up again, and it still was locked up and frozen. Only after closing Winamp was I able to get GoogleTalk to work again. It only appears to be a problem when the GoogleTalk status is set to Show current music track.
After Launching GoogleTalk with Winamp shut down and changing my status to Available, I was then able to make both applications coexist peacefully. I just couldn’t live without getting this to work though. The information here helped me out a lot. Here’s how I made GoogleTalk display the current song from Winamp without locking up:
1. Close both Winamp and GoogleTalk.
2. Open the directory that Winamp is installed to. For me it was C:\Program Files\Winamp
3. Click File > New > Text Document. (or Wordpad or Notepad Document)
4. Name the file winamp.m3u
That’s it. Now GoogleTalk should work with Winamp as well as display the current track for your status.
See also: Incompatibility with Gtalk
by 0lly, on January 15 2008 @ 5:36 am
Thanks dude, i now have the current track im playing in winamp as my status message!
Your a star!
by Gtalk不爱Winamp? | 中国特色。NET, on January 21 2008 @ 3:41 am
[...] 但是对于我这样一个顽固分子，这样就算结束了么？当然没有！ 正好也有一个这样的顽固分子，号称不能这样苟且的活着(couldn’t live without getting this to work though)。他找到了解决方法，在winamp的安装文件夹下新建一个空文件“winamp.m3u”，问题就解决了。 [...]
by oleszka, on May 7 2008 @ 10:56 pm
Thanx! It helped me. I got such problem right after updating Winamp player.
I translated it in Russian if you don’t mind.
by Brahmdeep, on March 11 2009 @ 12:42 pm
Thanx a ton man….
the trick worked for me!