"Play in foobar2000" disfunct for multiple files
Reply #20 – 2008-03-28 10:27:59
I hate to bring back old threads to the front, but since after half a year I finally found the reason for this error, it's more than OK to do it. 1. It happened again. Again I first noticed it because foobar2000 wasn't able to load multiple files anymore. 2. I searched the web again. Half a year ago, I did find nothing. Now I found this page: Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers . My problem matches this: "When you select multiple files and right click and open / print nothing happens. (Selecting a single file in explorer and right click and open / print it works fine)" 3. I used method 2 and used ShellExView to pinpoint the program messing up my context menu: WhoLockMe . So foobar2000 is not to blame, which I noticed real quick anyway, you can see that if you read my former posts carefully. Why a re-install of foobar2000 with context-menu option turned off and then another re-install with this option turned on helped, I don't know. Maybe I have uninstalled/re-installed WhoLockMe in the meantime or deleted the folder it was in making it non-functional. So this problem had nothing to do with foobar2000 in particular, although bogus context menu handler can definitely affect foobar2000 as well, and therefor doensn't really belong on this forum, but I think it's only fair to post the solution to this problem anyway. just wanted to say thank you!! this solved my problem that i couldnt play or enqueue more than one song in foobar as in the blink of an eye it would say 'please wait' and clear the playlist and load the next song again and again very quickly for all the songs i had selected. turned out to be a broken context menu entry thanks to the pile of **** that toshiba bluetooth stack installs. disabled and works now! right, it was working until i rebooted and then toshiba bt stack would reinstall its retarded self back into the context menu, breaking it again and causing foobars 'play all' not to work. i looked in shellexview and couldnt find a way to automate the deletion of "toshiba bluetooth extenstion" [sic] so i decided to make a registry (.reg) file to automatically delete the offending entries straight after satan spawns them - on windows startup. here is the info to copy and paste in notepad \/ and then rename the file to deltoshiba.regWindows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\tosBtShllExt] @="{6BEF3D0B-53F0-4b0d-B91C-C19ED3D4C9D1}" [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\tosBtShllExt] @="{6BEF3D0B-53F0-4b0d-B91C-C19ED3D4C9D1}" [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\tosBtShllExt] @="{6BEF3D0B-53F0-4b0d-B91C-C19ED3D4C9D1}" then make another notepad file containing the following info \/ and rename it to deltoshstartup.bat and place it in your startup menuregedit /s deltoshitba.reg info provided in case it helps even just one person! EDIT: ive found that its not simply good enough to drop the bat in the startup folder so i suggest downloading "Startup Delayer" (google it) and adding the bat with a delay of say 45secs. this has totally fixed it for me jim!