Issue with Google Talk Show Current Music Track and Winamp

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: October 2, 2008

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!
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12 Comments

  1. Pradeep
    Posted December 27, 2008 at 5:37 am | Permalink

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

  2. Krishna Chaitanya Mandava
    Posted December 30, 2008 at 10:17 am | Permalink

    Glad we could be of help!

  3. Arjhun
    Posted January 2, 2009 at 11:43 am | Permalink

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

  4. Krishna Chaitanya Mandava
    Posted January 7, 2009 at 11:14 am | Permalink

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

  5. praveen
    Posted January 27, 2009 at 5:37 am | Permalink

    Thanks a lot for the tip :)

  6. Prithvi
    Posted January 27, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Permalink

    Most welcome, Praveen!

  7. Dinesh
    Posted March 1, 2009 at 11:42 am | Permalink

    Thanks for the solution

  8. ravi pardeshi
    Posted March 4, 2009 at 4:15 am | Permalink

    thanks dude……

  9. toxic brain
    Posted March 4, 2009 at 9:43 am | Permalink

    cheers! it woked like a chap!

  10. Nehemoth
    Posted April 1, 2009 at 7:17 am | Permalink

    Do this from the command line
    http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=87447&topic=12214

  11. barry
    Posted May 14, 2009 at 6:49 am | Permalink

    cheers mate! great fix

  12. Vishnu
    Posted September 7, 2009 at 4:49 am | Permalink

    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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