I have a machine with 8 cores, and it seems that MM uses all possible cores to multithread the conversion of files. Here's what is happening on my Windows 7 -64 machine:
1. Select an album already in MM with say 15 tracks all in APE lossless format.
2. Select all files and choose Tools > Convert Audio Format (I convert to MP3 Extreme preset)
3. MM starts converting, and in Task Manager I can see 8 instances of Decoder.exe working to decode the files.
4. In Windows Explorer I can see the first 8 tracks, without the MP3 extension are created.
At this point several things can happen:
--MM crashes (Message says MediaMonkay - Audio Library has stopped working)
--It looks as if MM finishes, but if you try to play the converted tracks about 20% won't play at all
--It always seems that one or two of the Decoder.exe files remains in Task Manager running (I must kill them in TM to resolve the issue otherwise it seems that it keeps certain desitnation MP3 or MP3.xxxxx files locked)
--Occasionally everything works OK, and MM converts all the files properly.
To fix the bad tracks I have to manually delete the MP3 tracks in their folder using Windows Explorer. In the folder are MP3 files, MP3.XXXXXX files and others. I can always tell in Explorer when the files are bad, as they do not have their track number or the album title showing in the window. See
http://emeraldeagle.com/Bad_Convert.png for more detail.
Sometimes I cannot delete the files unless I close MM altogether and kill all the Decoder.exe files in Task Manager.
Then I try again until I get all the tracks converted.
This is a real pain since I have several things to convert at once. What is worse is that I know I have bad tracks since I used this process to convert files when I upgraded my entire collection to loseless, and then converting all the APE files to MP3 for iPods, etc.
What is going wrong, and how do I fix it????
Machine specifics: Windows 7-64 with all updates, Dell Precision T7500, 16GB RAM, internal RAID 10 2TB drives, dual Quad Core Xenon 2.4GHz procs, audio files on external 750 Seagate USB drive, DVD +-RW, Blu Ray RW.
Thanks,
I have a machine with 8 cores, and it seems that MM uses all possible cores to multithread the conversion of files. Here's what is happening on my Windows 7 -64 machine:
1. Select an album already in MM with say 15 tracks all in APE lossless format.
2. Select all files and choose Tools > Convert Audio Format (I convert to MP3 Extreme preset)
3. MM starts converting, and in Task Manager I can see 8 instances of Decoder.exe working to decode the files.
4. In Windows Explorer I can see the first 8 tracks, without the MP3 extension are created.
At this point several things can happen:
--MM crashes (Message says MediaMonkay - Audio Library has stopped working)
--It looks as if MM finishes, but if you try to play the converted tracks about 20% won't play at all
--It always seems that one or two of the Decoder.exe files remains in Task Manager running (I must kill them in TM to resolve the issue otherwise it seems that it keeps certain desitnation MP3 or MP3.xxxxx files locked)
--Occasionally everything works OK, and MM converts all the files properly.
To fix the bad tracks I have to manually delete the MP3 tracks in their folder using Windows Explorer. In the folder are MP3 files, MP3.XXXXXX files and others. I can always tell in Explorer when the files are bad, as they do not have their track number or the album title showing in the window. See [url]http://emeraldeagle.com/Bad_Convert.png[/url] for more detail.
Sometimes I cannot delete the files unless I close MM altogether and kill all the Decoder.exe files in Task Manager.
Then I try again until I get all the tracks converted.
This is a real pain since I have several things to convert at once. What is worse is that I know I have bad tracks since I used this process to convert files when I upgraded my entire collection to loseless, and then converting all the APE files to MP3 for iPods, etc.
What is going wrong, and how do I fix it????
[color=#FF0000][b]Machine specifics:[/b][/color] Windows 7-64 with all updates, Dell Precision T7500, 16GB RAM, internal RAID 10 2TB drives, dual Quad Core Xenon 2.4GHz procs, audio files on external 750 Seagate USB drive, DVD +-RW, Blu Ray RW.
Thanks,