Hi,
WOW. I didn't know that XING AudioCatalyst still works on newer versions of windows. It was a only good application that can RIP CDs in pre-MM era. I remember that it was finally released as free app in 2004 thru original developer at https://www.audiograbber.org/

Checking it now it looks like 2020 version was released with included MP3 Encoding.

Re your issue: Ntdll.dll errors are System errors especially as DISM fixed the problem. I would deeply check your HDD state for Bad sectors as for me this smells like an hardware or OS issue.

Nope. MM Supports Winamp plugins so there will be no problem if you use them in MM.

Yup, it worked! I'm sending a problematic file for you by email. Is there any problem it could happen keeping the winamp dll there?

Try to disable in_mpg123.dll plug-in in Plugins folder (e.g. change extension to .off) and copy in_mp3.dll from WinAmp's folder there. After MM restart this causes that another input plug-in is used for playback. Please report back the result (and in case it works e-mail me one of the problematic tracks).

Jiri

I have some MP3 files grabbed from CD-audio by Autocatalyst software version 2.1, using variable bit rate ("normal/high" quality). When I try anyone of them in my MM 2.2.2.780 I get the error:

Access violation at address 7C910C27 in module 'ntdll.dll'. Read of address 12866D4D

The message error adresses are the same, even for different files. All the files are reported as 0:00 length in MM. MM doesn't crashes, but doesn't play the files. All of them play pretty fine in winamp.

I'm on a WinXP SP2, Athlon 1.4 512MB machine

Any ideas?