Skype — No Winamp Pause, No redial?!

Phil Burchill — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:51:59 +0000

So I’ve been using Skype for years now since 0.2 or something and it had been getting better and better. But they seem to be removing features now.

No More Redial
I was trying to call someone today and autoredial has been removed

No more Winamp Pause
I got a replacement laptop recently the Winamp pause feature was gone fortunately it is still there just not on the GUI.

To add it you need to modify the Config.xml file. You can do it like this.

From the start menu select run then type in the text “%AppData%\Skype”
Open the directory which is your skype username
and there is config.xml
Backup the file so if you break it you can revert
Edit the file with your favourite text editor
Look for this tag
Insert the following, before this tag

1

Save the file
Restart Skype so it re-reads it
As if by magic the entry should be back in the GUI

So why are Skype annoying their users, removing useful features?

Skype Contacts

Phil Burchill — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:48:08 +0000

I don’t have my office number mobile yadda yadda on my Skype profile as I don’t want all and sundry to phone me. I would be happy for my contacts to phone me. There should be a privacy setting for this and I would add them in so people could phone me. They probably would do this with Skype. So there is a business driver for this change to happen as well as making my life easier.

For skype out I often add someone and their mobile number. These should be organised as a single contact just like they are on my Nokia phone. Less messy and easier to organise.

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Skype — No Winamp Pause, No redial?!

Skype Contacts