Strange Problem with Winamp(!)

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Hello guyz,
I have a Pentium4 processor (3.0Ghz, HT) with 512 MB of RAM and an Intel 865GBF motherboard, running Windows XP (SP2). The sound controller that I use is the one built in the motherboard, controlled using SoundMAX .

I am facing a peculiar problem regarding the sound device in my PC. Whenever I run Winamp (5.093) to play songs, the songs play just fine without any problems. The problem is, the sound device does not seem to get freed by Winamp even after I exit Winamp. Other Media Players, alongwith programs like CoolEdit, fail to detect the device, saying that the device is already in use. I have to restart the PC in order to get the device freed.
I even tried upgrading to Winamp 5.094, but the results were the same. Can anyone suggest a solution?

- gToX

Try Reinstalling the sound drivers .

try Lower Version

You just try out this thing with the lower version of winamp.
To download the lower version click the following link

*www.nisman.com/winamp/winamp291_full.exe

All The Best

Make sure that the winamp directory in program files is not read only! And yeah there's a new version out v5.1. Try that.

hey wait a sec ..
i dont get it .. "winamp doesnt free the device" .. wht exactly do you mean ??
do you mean that when winamp is running .. no other player/program can use the sound device ?
that itself is chaotic !!
In Windows, that's not normal .. i think something's worng with your soundmax drivers.

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alibi

Hmm..."Device already in use" error. Update your Audio drivers. This would solve the problem.

Dude .. winamp is not the problem ... u need updated drivers ...