For Matt,
Regarding the issue with MC9.0.180 crashing when ripping multiple CD's, I have found, what I think may be the problem.
If I rip multiple CD in the following sequence, I don't experience any crashes:
1. Insert first CD. MC9 detects this correctly and I then click on "RIP CD". The rip is done in secure rip mode to a Plextor Premium CDRW with 8MB cache. The menu title bar at this point shows "CD Rip (copy) (Monkey Audio (APE) High)." It would also be nice if it stated "secure rip" in this Title bar header.
2. After the first CD rip completes, a new dialog box opens, briefly, indicating "Downloading Images" (I assume this is KingSparta's Cover Plugin working).
3. Then, the CD is ejected, and another dialog box opens with the title "Secure Rip Report". Here is where things can go wrong with MC9. Remember, at this point, the disc tray has ejected the 1st CD. If you click on OK to clear the "Secure Rip Report" dialog box BEFORE inserting another CD to rip and closing the disc draw, it seems MC9 gets a little confused and has difficulty finding the newly inserted CD. It is at this point that I am most likely to experience a problem. However, if I don't click on OK to clear the "Secure Rip Report" dialog box, but first remove CD #1 from the tray and insert new CD #2 to be ripped (and wait for a few seconds for CD #2 to load, and then click OK to clear the "Secure Rip Report" and OK again to clear the "Information" dialog, everything proceeds correctly and CD #2 is found, read and hopefully YADB has the CD's info in its database, and the rip proceeds as expected.
I hope this adds some clarification to the problem with MC9.0.180 I originally reported.
ABIT IT7 Max2 V.2
P4 2.4B (conservatively OC 2.8Ghz)
1GB Corsair Twinx DDR 2700-C2
4 WD1200JB ( 2 in Raid 0 array)
Plextor Premium CDRW
Pioneer DVR104
Sony 1612 DVDrom
XP PRO SP1