{"id":413,"date":"2010-11-25T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2010-11-25T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T07:12:08","slug":"google-talk-freezes-when-selecting-showcurrent-music-track-and-winamp-5-is-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/25\/google-talk-freezes-when-selecting-showcurrent-music-track-and-winamp-5-is-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Talk freezes when selecting &#8220;Show Current Music Track&#8221; and Winamp 5 is running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a fan on Winamp since version 1.0 and I like Google talk too.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I want to show people what music is playing on my box and wish that Google Talk would not freeze when I do it. That&#8217;s not the case by default unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s what needs to be done:<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Go to the root folder of your Winamp installation. Usually C:Program FilesWinamp (C:Program Files (x86)Winamp, if you&#8217;re on a 64-bit Windows).<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Select Tools -&gt; Folder Options -&gt; View (tab) and uncheck &#8220;Hide Extension for know file types&#8221; and confirm hitting Ok<\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Create a new empty file (Right Click -&gt; New -&gt; Text Document).<\/p>\n<p>Step 4: Rename the newly created file to &#8220;winamp.m3u&#8221; and confirm.<\/p>\n<p>Step 5: Close both Winamp and Google Talk.<\/p>\n<p>From now on when you open both and select &#8220;Show Current Music Track&#8221;, Google Talk will not freeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a fan on Winamp since version 1.0 and I like Google talk too. Sometimes I want to show people what music is playing on my box and wish that Google Talk would not freeze when I do it. That&#8217;s not the case by default unfortunately. So here&#8217;s&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/25\/google-talk-freezes-when-selecting-showcurrent-music-track-and-winamp-5-is-running\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[148,166,251,313,362],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-2","tag-freeze","tag-google-talk","tag-music-status","tag-show-current-music-track","tag-winamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.portnumber53.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}