Winamp trashed its local media library database when I blocked it on my firewall -- Is this supposed to happen?

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Published on 2011-01-04T13:26:30Z Indexed on 2011/01/04 13:55 UTC
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Frankly, I don't see a compelling reason why Winamp needs to be using my network, as all I do is listen to songs from my local media. However, it appears to exact revenge when I try to ensure it can't on my firewall by completely eradicating my media library list (which includes all my song ratings and such). I was not able to recover this data, as I hadn't exported the database prior, and the actual database file was completely wiped. My other playlists and the actual media itself appear not to be effected, though.

~~Is this supposed to happen, by chance?~~

Edit: I wasn't able to get it to replicate this behavior with a different firewall+Winamp version. Hmm.

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