Hi all,  Extreme caution is advised before downloading any music
player systems.  I have AOL.  On the sign-on screen was an offer for
Winamp MP3: "See what it's all about!"

What it's all about is that, with no prior warning, it will capture
all your existing MIDI files and change the type [association] into
a Winamp file type.

I had no idea this would happen.  I have, or rather had, "Windows Media
Player 2" which came with my computer.  By this time I was comfortable
with it, understood it's options, etc.  It now is apparently unusable.
I feel like I have been hit with a virus.

I deleted every file I could find related to the new infecting Winamp
program, but all my MIDI files are still corrupted and unusable with
my Windows Media Player.

Tom Lear
San Francisco, CA

 [ It is relatively straightforward to reassign the type association
 [ back to Windows Media Player.   I will research this and print the
 [ procedure.  Winamp isn't real good (yet) with MIDI files.  It
 [ is, however, my preferred player for .WAV, .MP3, and several other
 [ types.  -- Jody