Personally I'd rather use WinAmp.. but WinAmp doesnt want to work on Vista for me anymore . Just crashes at random.. and the universal MM key plugin stopped working too.. does this to me no matter what version I try.

As everyone knows (or should).. when you are playing a play list and hit J, it brings up a search window. You type in the track you want, play it, and when its finished, WinAmp goes back to playing the play list randomly.

How do you get Media Player to do that ?!? All I can find is you type in the name in the playlist editor, but then it creates a new play list consisting of only tracks that match the search criteria, and it only plays them.. thats kinda annoying when you want to listen to ONE song right now specifically, and have it scuttle your 14,000+ songs and only plays the one song on a loop until you change it.

So.. advice to fix my WinAmp or how to make Media Player work properly

a lot of people I know have recently upgraded to WindowsXP - apparently it's more stable than Vista, and all your devices will work no worries.

what a crock

(yes, i will complain if Winamp f#@%s up with vista....but for the last 6 months..its been fine)

on a side note...lol...i'd never known the J key shortcut ice, thanks

what version of Winamp (mine's 5.52)?

cant help with WMP sorry mate

All versions of WinAmp do it.. J in V5.x and J or . in V2.x

Vista's just fine once you turn off Indexing, SuperFetch, the automatic defrag and put on SP1. XP is no more stable, and there's no problem with drivers and hardware unless you're using real old gear.

CTRL + H is a good one to see what your most played track is.

I prefer WMP, especially when i'm DJ'ing at a party.
I've had trouble on and off for years with WinAMP.

So you've got a big playlist, you have it on shuffle, you want to play one song and then continue the shuffle afterwards?

I just start typing the name of the song and press enter, the same as finding a file in an Explorer window.
The only problem with this, is you have to have the selection box in the playlist window.
If you switch to another program or whatever, that's fine, it will still work when you get back to WMP.
But if you adjust the volume, pause, or whatever, you have to click in the playlist window again.
Still, a mouse click isn't really any different to pressing a hotkey (other than repositioning the mouse first I guess)

This is the ONLY way i'm aware of doing what you've said.
You may want to look up a hotkey list, but i'm sure there's nothing useful.