Looong time since I’ve posted. I’ll get back to that.
Nearly a year ago, I had an issue with my favorite media player, Winamp. For some reason it no longer made any sound on my system. I checked volume sliders, windows volume mixers, reinstalling the application, and many things that would be considered altogether unreasonable. Nothing worked, and I was forced to leave the comfort of llama-land for things less familiar.
In this journey, I am pleased to have found Songbird, a wonderful media player developed in the spirit of Firefox. I only mention it here for those seeking an alternative to Winamp. The true nature of this post is to reveal the coveted fix to my Winamp troubles.
This morning I found myself reinstalling Winamp, as it is truly my first-love of media players. Disappointed that it still would not produce sound, I spent a while digging for a solution with my Google-shovel. I would link to and credit the original post, but I can’t seem to find it again, but tucked away on my clipboard is the solution, which I will share here in the hopes that it might help another.
Go to this regkey
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\Audio\PolicyConfig\PropertyStore\
Search for ‘winamp’ and delete all items that contain ‘winamp’
Restart winamp and you’re done.
I gave it a try, and it certainly worked for me. Good luck.
