Create a Portable Winamp Player!!!!

[bonishah88]

NOTE : With the lack of headphone support, you won’t be able to use it on the bus, or in the queue at the supermarket, but if you often use different computers – at home, at work, at school and at a friend’s place – it really pays to carry your collection with you.

1. Start out by downloading and running the Winamp Setup. Install to a subfolder of your portable drive, or simply copy the Winamp application folder from Program Files to your USB

2. Next, create a winamp.cmd file in the Winamp folder of your portable drive. You can do this by creating a new text document, and adding
>> start winamp.exe /inidir=ini.
Save the file as winamp.cmd

3. Double-click the file to execute it. This will launch the Winamp configuration wizard.
Note : Make sure that all file associations are unchecked. Otherwise, your computer will try to use your Winamp portable drive whenever you prompt to open a file – even when your USB stick isn’t inserted.

Also, In the third and final step of the configuration wizard, make sure to uncheck the anonymous usage statistics. If you don’t, Winamp will send periodical reports of the application. Though they will be anonymous, a lot of computers won’t like a portable application that tries to connect to the internet.

That’s it, you’ve now got an installation of Winamp that’s fully portable. You can use it not only to play back your files, but to build and manage a portable music library, just like in iTunes.


But, we are not done yet...............
If you want Winamp to run whenever you insert your USB stick into a computer, you must create an autorun.inf file.

Simply create a new text file and add the following lines:

[Autorun]
Open=Winamp\winamp.exe [ This should be the path to the Winamp.exe file minus the drive letter ]
Action=Start Winamp Music Player

And save the file as autorun.inf
Note : The above step is done with the assumption that USB autorun is not disabled on the PC's you intend to use.

[Alboguy]

Nice find...tricky one!!

[In-f3st]

Nice one, will check this out