[gui-talk] Important Security Update for Winamp

[Joel Deutsch]

Steve,

I took your advice. I downloaded and installed this new version of Winamp. I 
believe I performed all the installations steps properly.
When it was all done, I went to the folder where I keep all my music files, 
and clicked on one so that it would launch Winamp and I'd see if I could 
still control it with the simple keystrokes I've learned for starting, 
stopping, pausing and restarting a music file or other such program source.

Well., not only would these commands not affect the playing at all, but when 
I pressed Insert T, expecting to be told the name of the running 
application, what I heard was Winamp Library. Now, I don't use any functions 
in Winamp but the player, in order to play audio files. I do not use or 
understand the library ir anything related to that whole thing of storing 
and arranging one's audio files in that way. So I was in a place I had no 
idea how to get back to the familiar player. Pressing Alt F4 didn't even 
stop the music nor end the application. Tabbing around just took me to some 
labeled and some unlabeled  buttons for things to do with Library functions 
and searches. There was no button that said the equivalent of "get out of 
the library and return to the player interface.

So now I can click on a music file, but then I just have to allow it to play 
until it stops of its own accord. that's bearable for a three-minute pop 
song. But I wouldn't even play anything longer on it because then I'd have 
to fool around with  Control Alt Delete and eventually maybe just exit all 
other running apps and restart Windows in order to stop it..

There's something easy here that I just don't understand. How do I get my 
regular  Winamp  player interface to launch when I click on a music file, 
and never again see this library screen?

Thanks.

From: "Steve Pattison" <srp at internode.on.net>
To: "Access L" <access-l at access-l.com>; "VIP L" <vip-l at softspeak.com.au>; 
"PC Audio" <pc-audio at pc-audio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:13 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Important Security Update for Winamp


Winamp version 5.552 is now available.  This version of Winamp fixes an
important security issue in Winamp

* Fixed: [gen_ff] memcpy integer overflow vulnerability in maki script 
loading:

One place where you can download this version of Winamp from is at
<http://www.majorgeeks.com/Winamp_5_Full_d2490.html>www.majorgeeks.com/Winamp_5_Full_d2490.html

Regards Steve
Email:  srp at internode.on.net
MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
Skype:  steve1963
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