Media Center hangs on playback fairly consistently under the following conditions:
1. MC running as mini-me, playing a list of mp3 files.
3. Hit pause button.
4. Leave it paused for a while. (several minutes)
5. Hit play button.
At this point, playback of track will continue, but within one second the application will freeze, and playback will stop. When this happens, I've been forced to kill the process and restart it.
I have thus far been unable to reproduce this problem with mega-me. I have been able to reproduce it pretty easily with mini-me, however, using several different skins. It doesn't lock up every time I try it, but it's definitely happening more than half the time.
This is not new behavior that appeared with version 168. I've been seeing this for a while now, with several different versions of the application. I originally reported this for build 165, but have been able to do some additional testing, and confirm that it doesn't seem to be a problem using mega-me.
Media Center Registered 9.0.168 -- C:\apps\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium III 797 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 261 MB, Free - 65 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2600.0000 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpclient.010817-1148) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2600.0000 (xpclient.010817-1148)
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2600.0000 (xpclient.010817-1148)wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0001)
Ripping / Drive E: Copy mode:ModeSecure CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive F: Copy mode:ModeSecure CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: No / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive E: BTC BCE3212IM Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:32 MaxSpeed:32 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None