Yep, same thing happens to me I just answer no to the Winamp portable player support question and then all seems to be ok. when all else fails, reboot. On Dec 18, 2012, at 11:21 PM, "Arlene" <nedster66@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Another thing. I just got silence I was never asked that. > > From: winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:winamp4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ron Canazzi > Sent: December-17-12 10:48 PM > To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: strange problem > > Hi Arlene, > > Sometimes when I have connected a USB type device, when I try playing a track > that is on my hard drive, Winamp will ask if I want to install some sort of > remote access plug-in. I say no and then everything is OK. That's the > closest thing to your issue that I experience. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Arlene > To: winamp4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 8:41 PM > Subject: strange problem > > Hi list: Arlene here! I noticed this with my first xp box. If yu use your > disk drive or listen to music switching from disks. What I noticed was this. > When using winamp If I had switched to various disks. Then later I try to > play a song on the hard drive. What winamp did was this. I’d go to the player > itself. I’d see that I had been playing for instance, my Beattle’s disk. I > could not play anything because the computer was locked on to the last thing > I had played. So I had to get the beattle’s disk. When I turned off the > player. Waited a few seconds. Then Winamp let me play other stuff. Not with > windows 7. I have an acer desktop It did the same thing as my old Compaq did! > But the old xp box was forgiving. When I went back to the disk it thought I > was playing. I did the same as I did with my old computer. But when I went > to play something on the computer This windows 7 still acted like I was > playing that beattle’s disk. I went to it 3 times and it still locked on to > the Beattles. So I did a restart. Then when I was back up and running. I > went to my music and played something that was on the computer. It went to > work as though I was not playing the Beattles. Why is this so? Do you think > this is a windows thing? Sometimes with this Acer I can get away with not > having to restart. I hope I made sence!