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Posted by Wild Card on Sat Dec 11th at 3:40am 2004

I just reformated, and I am in a bit of a stick.

I had a quick launch icon for winAMP and I had added an extra line that would, when I clicked on it, launch winAMP with my play list already loaded and start playing the songs.

But I forget how I did that.

"C:Program FilesUTILITIESWinampwinamp.exe" "D:My%20Music" -play

That is what I have right now, but its not working.

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Posted by Nickelplate on Sat Dec 11th at 6:08am 2004

Whenever someone installs WinAmp, another species goes extinct. [addsig]



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Posted by Nanodeath on Sat Dec 11th at 6:13am 2004

What would you suggest, WMP? ;-) Actually that's what I use, despite issues. Anyway, why the %20? Isn't that only for HTML? If it's in quotes you should just be able to use a space I'd think.



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Posted by wil5on on Sat Dec 11th at 6:13am 2004

...O_o

As for your problem WC, maybe you have the cmd line in the wrong order or something. Try:

"C:Program FilesUTILITIESWinampwinamp.exe" -play "D:My%20Music"

And if that doesnt work, maybe you have to specify a file to play:

"C:Program FilesUTILITIESWinampwinamp.exe" -play "D:My%20Musicmusic.m3u"

If these dont work, try looking in the help files or something... or wait for someone who knows what to do to post

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Posted by Crono on Sat Dec 11th at 6:36am 2004

? quote:
I just reformated


*SLAP*


In WinAmp your previous playlist should still be loaded when you re-open WinAmp. If it isn't then the playlist file is read-only (or something as such).

But, number 1, if you put something in quotes you can put a space. Because, it is reading the %20 as "%20" because it's within quotes.
Anyway, if you create a playilst all you have to do is place the path after the path for winamp inside quotes. It will open winamp, load the playlist, and begin playing.

For example:

C:MusicWinampwinamp.exe "C:MusicWinampwinamp.m3u"

as the target line opens winamp.m3u playlist and plays it in WinAmp (on my machine, your directories are probably different.) [addsig]



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Posted by Wild Card on Sat Dec 11th at 9:42pm 2004

I know it remembers the last playlist I had in it. But I had entered so that if I clicked that shortcut it would load my entire playlist (so if last time I was only listening to one song, it would then load every song this time) And it would also start playing without me having to press play.

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Posted by Crono on Sat Dec 11th at 9:43pm 2004

? quote:
I know it remembers the last playlist I had in it. But I had entered so that if I clicked that shortcut it would load my entire playlist (so if last time I was only listening to one song, it would then load every song this time) And it would also start playing without me having to press play.



The example I gave you does all of that. Try it before you assume it doesn't work because "-play" isn't there. That command doesn't do anything anymore as far as I can see.
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Posted by Wild Card on Sun Dec 12th at 5:10am 2004

Well what I did this time was create a playlist file and then with what you suggested and it works. Although I didnt do that last time.

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