YADB is still giving me fits, although one issue was fixed.
Here's what I do:
1. place cd into tray and close tray
2. Analyzing devices dialog appears
3. Attempting to connect to YADB dialog appears
4. Track list (in background) is updated with proper album/artist info
5. dialog appears that states connection to YADB has failed.
6. XP presents a dialog that states the Media Core has caused an exception and prompts me to send the report off to redmond (where its unlikely to be answered, I suppose
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7. Media Center disappears
Now - when I restart MC, with the previous cd still in the tray, MC does not contact YADB to lookup the album for me - so I can rip that cd. However, when the rip cycle ends, if I click the 'ok' on the dialog box and enter a new cd to be ripped, I go through the above scenario again.
What used to happen at this point was that, if I clicked OK, and then closed the CD tray (with no cd in it), the GUI elements of MC were frozen (yet the screen repaints and I can move the window around). This was fixed as of this build.
I did notice that prior to build 113 (which is the build this started to happen), when I would insert a cd into the cdrw, I would have to click on the drive in the navigation tree on the left panel of MC to get it to analyze devices and fire off YADB. (and then, everything was just fine) Now, it does it on insert - it almost seems like WinXP's autoinsert notification is getting in the way of things (which I tried to disable, but haven't found a good way to just turn it off all the way).
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Media Center Registered 9.0.118 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 3071 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 796 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: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive D: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive F: Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: No / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive D: YAMAHA CRW3200E Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:24 MaxSpeed:24 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Drive F: HP DVD Writer 200j Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:12 MaxSpeed:12 Use MJ Engine:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None