Hi,
I have used MC for a couple of years now. I like it, because it plays most formats and video's as well.
Now I have always had stability issues. Especially if you change between songs too fast, MC will hang. This gets worse when files are large like high res FLAC's.
At home I run MC on my laptop. Library is on my laptop and music is on a NAS. (ca 3T). Now when the collection increases, problems get worse. At the moment, I can play 3 songs before it hangs and windows will ask me if I want to wait, but that is no option as it will still hang after 15 minutes. When at work, I use an external drive with my music collection and that will cause MC to hang as well.
My son is using MC from his computer hard wired to the NAS and his will hang as well when he shifts between songs too fast and on other occasions.
I have upgraded to newer versions a couple of times, hoping things would improve, but unfortunately it hasn't.
Other problems I run into is that tagging sometimes does not result in changes in the library. I have changed ACDC several times into AC/DC, so all the albums stick to one single artist, but without results. If I open the tagging window of the ACDC album, it shows AC/DC in the tagging window, even after restarting MC, but it keeps being shown as a different artist called ACDC.
Sometimes one song of an album shows up as a different artist, but tagging is all the same. (I tagged the album in one go).
Another thing is that if I import say 3000 songs in one go, running auto import, MC does not import them all at once. Sometimes I have to run auto import about 3 times before they all show up.
Last time my collection contained 88489 files. I added another collection, running auto import and it went to 90157 the first time, 92820 the second time and 96723 the last time.
Does anyone else run into problems like this? At the moment I can't use MC at all because it will hang almost immediately.
Thanks,
Hubert