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mpg732:
I have been using MC on and off for years, I seem to keep having the same issue, over multiple MC additions and multiple hardware variations and multiple versions of windows. 

Seems like MC starts off good at first, but it seems to slowly corrupts itself and crashes.  Let's talk about this last time for me, I whipped the drive, reinstalled windows 10, installed MC 30, added my music library, everything ran great for about a month, only used for music at first, don't think I had a single crash, then I started trying to use MC for video playback, all movies stored on my NAS, added my movies to the library, imported all the meta data, I didn't change much in settings, now MC crashed almost every other day, even when playing music mind you, haven't gotten to movie playback issues, which there are some.  So again, to clarify, now crashes often when playing music.  I understand there are a lot of variables here, but over the years with all variations, seem to have the same problems.  My main goal is for music, I really do not need to play videos, I have other options for that if need be.  So, one question is, should I switch to a Mac mini, is this just a window thing?  Just frustrated..........

Thanks
mike

JimH:
Possibilities are:
Antivirus
Drivers
Bad files
Insufficient power
Registry "cleaners"
NAS issues

and so on.
Take one machine and see if you can find the cause. 

You can set up a new test library.  File > Library Manager.

Use only local files.  Test without the NAS.  That will tell you if it's network related or not.

Use only a single file type.

You could read the Weird Problems thread in my signature for other ideas.

It's probably not related to Windows.  But it's possible.

Logging might help find the cause.  https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Logging

mpg732:
I get what you're saying here Jim, but that's the basic trouble shooting guide that almost any software developers would state, not running an anti-virus, its one of my older gaming rigs, so enough power, most other things would be hard to trouble shoot, for the crashed are not constant.  Music is on the local hard drive, movies on NAS.  If it was a NAS issue then I would think it would only be an issue when playing movies but it's not.  I have over a thousand songs, so it would be hard to find a corupted file but again it ran fine playing music only for a month or so prior to adding movies, so I would guess that's not it, but impossible to know for sure.  Do you know if there is any kind of music file analyzer that could help?  Do you have a suggestion on a good registry cleaner.  As stated, before it's a clean install of Windows and MC, drivers are up to date.  I wish I could consistently reproduce the issue, but I cannot.  Again, is Mac better for this?

JimH:
If you're running Windows, look at the Windows Defender thread on the forum.  Follow its advice.

This probably isn't a Windows problem.

It's probably not an MC problem. 

Simplify as I suggested above to see if you can narrow down the cause.

Read the Weird Problems thread.  It's amazing.

mpg732:
Thanks Jim, will look at the other thread.  I also turned-on Logging so hopefully I can catch it.  I turned of Windows Defender, will keep after it.

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