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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
[Something lame...]
I did something lame today. *looks ashamed*
Those of you using MSN Messenger would know about the "what am I listening to" feature. It's supposed to work with WMP 9 and above (I think). Basically, when you listen to music on your WMP, the whole world can see what you're listening to.
I thought that was a pretty cool feature, but I couldn't enable it because:- I'm using Winamp for my audio needs.
- I hate WMP.
- I'm still using WMP 6.4 for my video needs.
- I hate all newer versions of WMP.
- I didn't download any newer versions of WMP, save for the one that WinXP came with.
- Did I mention I hate WMP?
But it occurred to me today that there's probably a plug-in for Winamp that would enable the feature. So I did a search, found an excellent plug-in. No fuss, no config, no nothing.
There's just one problem.
Before you can enable the feature inside MSN, it'd check to see if you have version 9 (I think, couldn't remember) of WMP. If not, you're not allowed to enable the feature. Since I've never downloaded a newer version of WMP, that puts me out of the game.
I downloaded WMP 10, installed it (with no intention of using it) and enabled the feature in MSN. Fired up my Winamp, and it works.
That was the easy part.
Now I have to clean up the mess installing WMP 10 left behind. I had to re-assign my file type associations so that the multimedia files I want to be played in WMP 6.4 would be played in WMP 6.4. I spent a lot of time there, because I forgot about a quicker way. After that, I had to permanently disable a service used by WMP 10.
All that, just so I can display on MSN what I'm listening to.
This is beyond lame.
^^^ by Locksley @ 9:13 PM.
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