Winamp Gives Me Bad DirectSound Drivers Error

I opened up my Winamp 5.01, and tried to play a song. Alas, I got an error that says:

Bad DirectSound Driver. Please install proper drivers or select another device in configuration.
Error code: 88780078

*twitch*

What happened?

if you right c,lick on my computer and go to manage then click on device manager you will se a list of all your devices. Is the Sound Video and Game Controlers expanded out. If so think back what did you chance lately? Did you run windows update and install an updated driver for the Sound Card. If so i would use the roll back driver option on the driver tab. That is assumeing that u have windows xp installed. Could you give some more discription on what you are running in your system. The easyest way to fix this is to install the drivers from the manufacture's web site.

I have WinXP Home. I already tried updating drivers and such. I don't even have anything called DirectSound.

when you log onto windows does the login sound play or no sound at all

Yes, it plays. So do all the other Windows sounds. Just not my Winamp.

I went to my Winamp and it is version 5.20 and if you go to the WinAmp Preferences (Ctrl+p)and click on output. There is a option on my end to select DirectSound Output Then there is a dll called out_ds.dll i would take the next step to find what that dll does and assume that you are missing it.

i had the same problem today.. i went in to the options sectionand under plugins, in th output area i saw the out_ds.dll file was there.. you have the ability to change the properties of the specified dll.. after looking thru the options, i found that it had changed my soundcard setting, from my soundcard to a generic name.. i switched it back to my soundcard and got no problems.. no more error.. just thought i would pass the info along..

hope it works for you if youre still having problems..

Dj - Option21
http://www.option21.org

Well , Hi there

The advise about the .dll file that had to be configured worked

But I now can't use the buttons on my keybord anymore.....
( U no, The VOLUME +/- , and the MUTE button.....)

I really used them a lot so i'd really like them to work again

Thanks for reading my post...

Later!!!

Oh i forgot 1 thing... I still don't have any music when playing games......


Thanks

this suggestion, mentioned earlier, did the trick for me:

" had the same problem today.. i went in to the options sectionand under plugins, in th output area i saw the out_ds.dll file was there.. you have the ability to change the properties of the specified dll.. after looking thru the options, i found that it had changed my soundcard setting, from my soundcard to a generic name.. i switched it back to my soundcard and got no problems.. no more error.. just thought i would pass the info along..

hope it works for you if youre still having problems.. "

Thanks a lot guys

I also have the some problem with you, but my PC didn't sound anything, not just Winamp, but my Windows Media Player, my games also silent.

I had already installed the latest soundcard driver, but it did'nt make any changes.

I'm so frustating right now.

Somebody please give me solutions.
Thanks.

I am actually having the same problem. My issue, though, is there is some sort of problem with my operating system (windows xp pro). Check these things:

1) Control Panel, Sound and Audio. Do you have a default device setup?

2) Right click on My Computer, Properties, Manage. Do you have a multimedia driver configured and installed, with no problems (Problems being exclamation points)?

See, my sound card driver is recent, and appropriate for the hardware. I'm not having any IR problems, and the device is setup correctly, but it's like Windows doesn't see it. I cannot even select it as my default audio output (in the control panel). Funny thing is, though, I was able to select this device with Winamp (instead of the default), and my Winamp is outputting sound now (it sounds like a couple people had similar setups). Anyone ?ever? see anything like this before? Thanks in advance.

I've been going crazy and feeling bitter all day because of my mute computer BUT YOU ---> dark-apprentice <--- you are a f*cking genius!!

I don't understand how it could ever be so tricky, but you cannot solve it any other way, look around, every forum ends up in the question only you answered.

Best wishes and thank you VERY much!

I am kind of having the same probs as pfnagel.....nothing works for me at all. Not one bit of sound, though i did use his trick to get my winamp to work. But everything else is still down. unfortunately i don't know what the problem is because i do not have a new video card. I am using service pack 2 but that was installed when it first came out so i know its not that. and no new drivers have been downloaded or installed. so i am completely lost some help would be most appreciated.

Try this:

Right click on My Computer
Manage
Device Manager
go down to where the exclamation point is
Right click to Disable, then Enable it.

Worked for me.