well i tried installing that but it popped up an error that said the patch was already installed on my computer..
so i did some research.
If anyone else has this problem, type in sound in the start menu, right click on speakers or any other primary sound hardware components, and go to advanced, and make sure the option that says something like "allow applications to have exclusive use" is unchecked, somehow those both got checked for me between AIM and winamp's installation. This has happened multiple times too so it must've been a programs installatoin that triggered it