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Issue with Google Talk Show Current Music Track and Winamp

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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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 at 3:20 pm and is filed under Google, Tips n Tricks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

12 Responses to “Issue with Google Talk Show Current Music Track and Winamp”

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

  2. Glad we could be of help!

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

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

  5. Thanks a lot for the tip :)

  6. Most welcome, Praveen!

  7. Thanks for the solution

  8. ravi pardeshi on March 4th, 2009 at 4:15 am

    thanks dude……

  9. cheers! it woked like a chap!

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

  11. cheers mate! great fix

  12. 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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