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RE: [ECS] Lockups while Winamp is playing David Kindred Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:45:05 -0500

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Kevin,

WACTRL is a small Delphi app I wrote to control WinAmp with command line
parameters. It seems to work well with WinAmp 2.5, which is what I have.
Don't think I'm going to upgrade, based upon what I'm hearing.

If you'd like a copy of it, drop me a line. It's a freebie, or you can buy
me a Pepsi if you ever meet me. :-)

Here are the supported command line parameters:

     Usage: WACTRL [Parameter]

     Valid parameters:
       PLAY -- Starts/Resumes playing
       STOP -- Stops playing. Moves pointer to start of file
       PAUSE -- Pauses playing
       DELETE -- Deletes current play list
       START -- Starts playing file from start of file
       FFWD5S -- Fast forward 5 seconds
       REW5S -- Rewind 5 seconds
       NEXTSONG -- Start playing next song
       PREVSONG -- Start playing previous song
       VOLUP -- Raise WinAmp volume
       VOLDOWN -- Lower WinAmp volume
       ONTOP -- Toggle WinAmp's status of being topmost application
       C:\FILE PATH\FILE.MP3 -- Add file to play list
       C:\FILE PATH\FILE.M3U -- Add play list
       ? -- Shows help

--David

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Keast [mailto:libertyc@prodigy.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 6:35 PM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: RE: [ECS] Lockups while Winamp is playing


A.J.

What is WACTRL?  I use simple keyboard-events to send keys to Winamp.  It
works every time.  You cannont simply specify a window though with Winamp,
you have to specify the class type.  The version I am using responds to
class:winamp v1.x

If you don't know the class type run wnddmp.exe with Winamp running

Good Luck

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From:	A.J. Griglak [mailto:aj@griglak.com]
Sent:	Thursday, February 24, 2000 12:22 PM
To:	ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject:	[ECS] Lockups while Winamp is playing

I just started using Winamp on the ECS machine to play music throughout the
house...  I'm using the latest version of Winamp (2.6) and WACTRL to control
it.

At first, it was causing the computer to lock up like crazy.  When I say
lockup, it would take a trip to the basement to CTRL-ALT-DEL (3 finger
salute) to end task on (usually) a MS-DOS window.  These were from the WPDL
and EDM stuff.  Through trial and error, I have stopped most of the problem
by changing all the Execute/NW/ND and Execute/NW and Execute/ND to just
plain Execute.  This has worked for most of the lockups, but it's still
happening.  The lockups only occur when Winamp is playing a song, not when
Winamp is running (but not playing).

Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening, or a better way to play
MP3s?

Thanks!
-=A.J.

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