Caesarean Rhapsody

Been a long time since anything geeky made its way onto the blog. So here’s something that has bugged me all week. I’m sure it has had at least a few of you pulling at your hair.

Some days back I upgraded to Winamp 5.5. But in a day of use, I saw that Google Talk doesn’t quite like the new interfaces in this version. When you switch the status to “Show current music track” the GTalk window freezes, never to return to stability. There’s no option other than closing and restarting GTalk. But the internet threw up an easy fix to this.

Step 1: Go to the Winamp directory, which is usually C:\Program Files\Winamp\

Step 2: In Windows Explorer, 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 -> New -> Text document), so the default file name would be “New Text Document.txt”.

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

Step5: Close Winamp and Google Talk. Now open the apps again and voila, your music track should show up in GTalk without any problems.