Issue with Google Talk Show Current Music Track and Winamp

♦ October 2, 2008 ♦ 24 Comments

A lot of people have (including me) have been facing a series of crashes when using the ‘Show Current Music Track’ feature of Google Talk and Winamp (5.531 in my case). I Googled and found that there were a lot of solutions that did not work, including one from the folks at Google itself which asks you to install the latest version of Talk. But the solution is a simple less-than-a-minute fix. Here it is:

  1. Exit Talk and Winamp.
  2. Browse to your Winamp installation folder.
  3. Create a new file and name it winamp.m3u
  4. Open Talk, Winamp
  5. Set status to ‘Show Current Music Track’.
  6. Done!
  • Pradeep

    Great tip mate!
    It always use to bug me.
    Cool Solution Thanks.

  • Pradeep

    Great tip mate!
    It always use to bug me.
    Cool Solution Thanks.

  • http://eguru.info Krishna Chaitanya Mandava

    Glad we could be of help!

  • http://eguru.info Krishna Chaitanya Mandava

    Glad we could be of help!

  • Arjhun

    Awesome man. Thanks a lot. That was a great solution.

  • Arjhun

    Awesome man. Thanks a lot. That was a great solution.

  • http://eguru.info Krishna Chaitanya Mandava

    You’re welcome…check back often for more stuff.

  • http://eguru.info Krishna Chaitanya Mandava

    You’re welcome…check back often for more stuff.

  • praveen

    Thanks a lot for the tip :)

  • praveen

    Thanks a lot for the tip :)

  • http://prithvikrishna.com Prithvi

    Most welcome, Praveen!

  • http://prithvikrishna.com Prithvi

    Most welcome, Praveen!

  • Dinesh

    Thanks for the solution

  • Dinesh

    Thanks for the solution

  • ravi pardeshi

    thanks dude……

  • ravi pardeshi

    thanks dude……

  • toxic brain

    cheers! it woked like a chap!

  • toxic brain

    cheers! it woked like a chap!

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  • barry

    cheers mate! great fix

  • barry

    cheers mate! great fix

  • Vishnu

    Thanks for this helpful trick.

    For n00bies who puzzled at creating a file

    Right Click > New > Click any (for eg: Microsoft Word) and name it as winamp.m3u.

    if you have still probelm under naming, uncheck Hide Extentions under folder options.

  • Vishnu

    Thanks for this helpful trick.

    For n00bies who puzzled at creating a file

    Right Click > New > Click any (for eg: Microsoft Word) and name it as winamp.m3u.

    if you have still probelm under naming, uncheck Hide Extentions under folder options.

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