Winamp skipping songs

[Comdrpopnfresh]

My music collection is in a variety of formats, all of which I know winamp should be able to play just fine.
I just performed a fresh reinstall (completely different reasoning altogether), and the issue is present with a fresh winamp install to.
Worst of all, it skips every last of my FLAC format files!

Any help out there would be appreciated

 

[Anubis]

are you loading from a playlist? did your file locations move/get renamed. have you tried placing filed directly in the playlist?

 

[gsaldivar]

WinAMP Lite doesn't support FLAC files. Reinstall the FULL version and it should work fine.

Good luck!

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

I did not install the lite version, but the FULL (non-pro) version.
I don't do playlists- I just added the 'my music' folder after clicking 'add media to library' on the first run. the files run fine with vlc

while you are all in a helping mood- where under preferences do I enable the ratings I set in winamp to be written to the file info (so if I reinstall in another 6 mths I don't have to re-rate all my songs)?

 

[Anubis]

do you have the FLAC decoder installed. you can check in

preferences - plugins - input. you should see nullsoft FLAC decoder v2.4 [in_flac.dll] listed

should be part of the normal install.

as for your rating question i have no idea i dont use that feature

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

you were correct- the decoder is there by default with the install.
oddly enough, I added and sorted by the column "extension" and it seemd to play the few random .flac songs I tried.
HOWEVER...
(and maybe I was in error altogether when I said it was skipping FLAC files)
It skipped .m4a files. After opening the folder of one of the .m4a's that wouldn't play, WMP failed to play it, as did VLC. WMP claimed the file was in use by another program.
I'll have to check, but I'm fearful through my various reinstalls and relocation of directory targets, that the files are either broken, or access/ownership rights need correcting.

sorry for the accidental misinformation!

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

as for your rating question i have no idea i dont use that feature

preferences -> media library --> 'advanced library preferences'>> "save ratings to file for compatible formats"

in the now playing, to the right of the album are placeholder (+ at the bottom) is "rating" where you can rate the track 1-5 stars. without enabling the above preference, nothing is witten to the file (metadate I guess), so the rating doesn't stick from one media playing program to another, or between installs of winamp itself