Alpha 4 freezing on 30% of my tracks...

statik · Post by **statik** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:29 am

Anyone else get this. Generally it works just fine, but on certain tracks, MM just freezes for 5-6-7 seconds, and then skips to the next track, greying out the skipped track(s). It can be one, or a couple in a row, but there doesn't seem to be a pattern to it.
and the tracks work, I've played them many times...

any ideas? is it me or MM?

Running on Vista x64 with bucketloads of CPU power and RAM available.

GSV3MiaC · Post by **GSV3MiaC** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 3:36 pm

A guess, but the 'Vista X64' may be the issue here. Most of the newly reported MM oddities seem to be coming from Vista sufferers. When MM does the 'wait, then grey it out', it means that it couldn't get to the track .. but why it couldn't is not always apparent.

Have you got any virus scanning on this system (or anything similar) because that can hold things up a long time sometimes? Since there is not automatic retry for 'can't access' tracks, you have to go do the whole 'find moved tracks' thing I think, and that doesn't always work right.

statik · Post by **statik** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:37 pm

Yeah I've got Kaspersky AV; but I didn't have this problem with MM2 (it crashed once in a while but nothing like this).
Odd thing is; if I close down MM and try the track again, I get the same thing with the exact same tracks. So it's like it doesn't accept certain tracks.

Also; when it greys out the tracks, they are "in use", so I can't move or delete them until I close down MM, even if I'm playing a completely different track.

HiveKiller · Post by **HiveKiller** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:27 pm

I get this same problem but it only seems to be with one cd worth of songs. It does exactly the same thing with graying out the songs and not playing. It does it on both my Vista X32 and Win XP Pro SP2 machine. But only with MM3 (any alpha). With MM2 they play just fine. I have tried removing all the track tags, and album art, but still the same problem.

rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:06 am

see if you can get the mm 3 to post an error alert so you can get it sent in and they can find the error.

GSV3MiaC · Post by **GSV3MiaC** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:27 pm

What sort of media files are the problems with (mp3? wma? ogg? anything at all??). I've not managed to reproduce this in many hours of playing under WinXP SP2 - but mostly with .ogg files.

statik · Post by **statik** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:20 pm

mp3s of various bitrates....

statik · Post by **statik** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:43 am

Still getting this on Alpha 5; only now it doesn't freeze, it just skips tracks and greys them out. Kind of an improvement I gues, but still bloody annoying

rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:45 pm

just an idea but one time i tried to edit a mp3 in an mp3 editor.

it would not work. it gave me an error report of

" This is not A real mp3 "

up on checking farther with different programs i found a program that showed me it was an wav file retyped to be a mp3 extension. so i had no choice but to delete the file and not get songs from that on line site anymore.
i know you think why not change the extension back to wav.
i did and it did not work they had done something else to it so
it needed deleted.

maybe that is what those mp3's are. wav's masquerading as mp3's

statik · Post by **statik** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:12 pm

Nope, defo not; I've played them tons of times before, so it's a MM problem

Post by **jiri** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:28 am

If you can reproduce it with certain mp3s, please e-mail me a sample. Also, was it ok in MM2 because you used another mp3 input plug-in? Or did you use the standard configuration?

Jiri

statik · Post by **statik** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:20 pm

e-mail sent!