What program is playing music on my PC?

January 8, 2009 6:11 PM

How do i find out which program is playing music on my PC?

This has happened a few times - I'm in a situation that some application or perhaps a certain tab window in Firefox is playing music. What's the fastest way of finding out what that application is? I'm running Windows XP. If it's Firefox, what's the fastest way of finding out what tab it is?

posted by storybored to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Open up the task manager and start termininating programs one at a time. When the sound stops, you know you got it.

If you think it's firefox. start closing tabs one at a time. Of course, keep notes on what each one was before you close it, so you know after the fact.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 6:35 PM on January 8, 2009

Of course, if you're too aggressive about it you can cripple your system, but it's not a big deal. Just reboot after you figure it out.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 6:36 PM on January 8, 2009

If you close a Firefox tab and it wasn't the one playing music and you want it back, Shift-Control-T will re-open it.
posted by flabdablet at 6:53 PM on January 8, 2009 [1 favorite]

Shift-Control-T will re-open it

Oh my god, that's awesome. I'm a Moz/FF junkie and I had no idea. Previously.
posted by intermod at 8:04 PM on January 8, 2009

And sorry that none of us are really answering your question that well :)
posted by intermod at 8:05 PM on January 8, 2009

It's the Firefox tab of that youtube video you is clicked on yesterday and then forgot about and then it reloaded when you re-opened FF and then was slow loading so 5 minutes later ... music.

So: to answer your question - close the tab with the youtube icon !!
posted by Xhris at 10:17 PM on January 8, 2009