I am running 9.0.180, and can't burn audio CDs, due to the "Invalid field in CDb" error, which has been reported by other users.
I've tried dropping the burn speed to 4X, and also unchecking the "direct decoding" option. When I do this, the "Invalid field in CDb" error does not occur, but the burn still fails. After about 5 minutes of near-system-freeze conditions, the CD gets ejected for no apparent reason, and Media Center remains frozen, until I kill it using Task Manager.
I also get this behavior, mentioned in another thread quite awhile ago:
Also now getting weird interaction with this build... If I select an album and send to burner (by any of the methods) I get the albums tracks listed twice... If I then delete one track from the end it deletes both versions in the queue !! Eg an album 1 - 10 tracks ends up with a queue 1 - 20 running 1 - 10 and then repeating (not interleaving) if I delete track 20 it removes track 20 and track 10 so I only have 18 left...
http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=MediaCenter;action=display;num=1051971047;start=13#13Media Center Registered 9.0.180 -- C:\Program Files\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1265 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 512 MB, Free - 213 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 (xpsp2.021108-1929) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive E: Copy mode:ModeSecure CD Type:Auto Read speed:2
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: Yes Soundfile: C:\Media\CDDone.wav
Burning / Drive E: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:4 MaxSpeed:16 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: No / Direct decoding: No / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: Yes / Normalization: None