I was recently sent a winamp document through my computer and I cannot open it. I have the winamp music software downloaded but I have no clue on how to open a document in it, does any one have any clues?? :confused:

 

Cheers,

Alan.......

A winamp document? Could it be a winamp skin?

If so, go to options, Skins, and select skin browser. Should be able to load it from there

right click the file. It will ask you "open" click this and it should give you an option to go on the web and this should tell you what sort of file it is? Or it will open it with the appropriate program?

 

Hope this helps.

Hi,

Tried both suggestions, no luck.

It is coming through as a Winamp Media File.

 

Do I need any special soft ware ?

I went to http://www.winamp.com and downloaded there.

Seems to be all for music tho ? :confused:

 

Alan.....

Hi,

Tried both suggestions, no luck.

It is coming through as a Winamp Media File.

 

Do I need any special soft ware ?

I went to http://www.winamp.com and downloaded there.

Seems to be all for music tho ? :confused:

 

Alan.....

Winamp will play music and video clips...just like windows media player.

Ensure the winamp software is installed....if your not sure then go to your control panel and select "add/remove programmes"...it will be listed here if so.

Right click your file you wanna play and ask "open/play with"

and then select winamp from the extra list.

 

Having said that...I occassionaly have files i cant open with winamp :rofl:

It sounds like you havent installed Winamp.

 

And it sounds like some one has sent you a Winamp play list. The play list is useless without having the songs in the same location as the person who made the list.

Sorry guys,

 

Fooked about with it for ages, tried all your suggestions, still wont open. :headvswal

 

Keep getting the thing up for playing music, like the front of a radio ??

 

What is in the thing I am trying to open is, like a page from a workshop manual.. :confused:

 

Alan......

Sounds to me like the attachment has got corrupted in some way or it is confusing the three letter file extension with Winamp. this can happen when an attachment comes through with a DAT extension. Outlook/Exchange has a habit of doing that sometimes when it get's a mail from a non-Exchange server.

 

I'd suggest saving the file to you C Drive and seeing what three letter extension the file has.

 

HTH

 

Phil

So why do you think it's a winamp file? Winamp is for music, not for documents. Anyhoo send it to me and I'll have a butchers: gio at beyondsl.net

Sorry guys,

 

Fooked about with it for ages, tried all your suggestions, still wont open. :headvswal

 

Keep getting the thing up for playing music, like the front of a radio ??

 

What is in the thing I am trying to open is, like a page from a workshop manual.. :confused:

 

Alan......

 

 

What is the extention of the file?

 

The extention is the 3 letters after the name of the file. For example Song.mp3, the extention is mp3

Manual.pdf, the extention is pdf.

 

If the file looks like it has no extention, in the window which is displaying your computer files click,

 

Tools (in the menu bar at the top of the window) --> Folder Options

 

In the new box which opens one of the tabs along the top of the box will say "View". Click on "View"

 

You will have a list with a few tick boxes. You want to untick the box which says "Hide Extentions for known file types"

 

File extentions will now be shown.

 

Tell us what the extention of the file is.