If you have winamp installed and you have allowed winamp to manage your media file associations then it’s possible to change the default behaviour from ‘play’ to ‘enqueue’, i.e when you double click the file it should enqueue the media file as last item on current playlist rather than playing it.
This feature comes in handy when you have a really large mp3 collection (like I posses ! 
) and you find-and-listen songs on runtime. At those peak moments (when your ears are craving for some quality music) right clicking on each file and selecting ‘Enqueue in Winamp’ can be a bit annoying.
How to enable this option:
1. Open Winamp.
2. Press Ctrl + P (to show preferences.)
3. Browse inside General Preferences > File Types
4. Select the option on right that says: “Enqueue files on double click in Windows Explorer (default is unchecked)”
5. Restart Winamp.
6. Try opening some media files and it should enqueue them by defualt.
7. Hoorrray !!!
7.1 An instant update:
I followed my own foot-steps and alas ! I failed to get this working. 
Well don’t know the exact reason for this (my be because of vista or may be a bug in winamp 5.3) but I found a way out to get it working. Here it is:
7.2 (Yes, we are still on the same line 
) Open Registry Editor.
7.3 Browse to HKCR > Winamp.File > shell
7.4 Change the default value in key from ‘Play’ to ‘Enqueue’
7.5 Hooray finally !
Extra’s: If you want to do the same for playlists, do the same for Winamp.Playlist key.
Categories: appz · winamp
I wanted to blog about this feature from so long (as it got released with Winamp 5.5 a long way back), but I couldn’t find enough time to do this.This weekend however, I had decided to use this feature heavily to tag almost all of my mp3s and hence I decided to blog about it too.
So what I’m talking about ? Auto-tagging in Winamp 5.5
It’s a new feature introduced in Winamp 5.5 that tags your mp3 files using the Gracenote’s CDDB server. It doesn’t relies on any kind of meta-data present in file, neither it does uses the file name for this purpose. I suspect it sends some kind og hash (that I’ll have to hack around …).But what stands out is that Winamp was even able to tag a file name “dsfdsferfermvmev.mp3″ correctly.
Using this feature you can tag and categorize unused songs in your mp3 archieve.
How to find this feature in Winamp:
There are two ways to use this feature:
1. Double click on the scrolling title(or press Alt-3) to open file info dialog, in bottom right you’ll see Auto-tag button (for tagging a single file).
2. Create a playlist and select files and then right click on them, select send-to and select Auto-tag (for tagging multiple files in one go).
A word of caution:
Nothing is perfect ! so is this. Please keep an eye on the results of the auto-tagging, if you suspect anything wrong don’t apply the tag at all.
Renaming files based on their tags
Now what to do when your files have been tagged, but still their names are like r3rff34f.mp3, well you can use any software available in the market that can rename files based on their tag information or you can use the following ruby-script to rename them.
Click here
Categories: appz · ruby · tagging · winamp
