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MC31 crashes
bob:
--- Quote from: rippolito on December 11, 2023, 11:50:12 am ---Bob,
I was playing a playlist I downloaded from Cloudplay (all 24 bit flacs). I was editing a Powerpoint presentation, so the MC display was in the background. Everything was playing OK, and it just stopped, MC went away (when it crashes, the dot under the icon in the system tray disappears), and up popped the crash report.
I do not have memory playback enabled: should I?
I am playing via USB to a Chord MScaler, which outputs to an external DAC.
I do not think media server is running. In Tools>Options>Startup, nothing is started.
Could there be an interaction with antivirus or antimalware software? I run ESET Cyber Security and Malwarebytes, but I currently have real-time protection disabled while we are trying to figure this one out.
Ron
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Thanks for the detailed info.
I don't THINK it's an antivirus issue. Since you downloaded the playlist it SHOULD be all local.
Were you using any trackinfos?
Do you think it had reached the end (within the last 6 seconds) of the playing track?
blgentry:
--- Quote ---I run ESET Cyber Security and Malwarebytes
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This is my opinion only. People will probably vehemently disagree. Ready?
Antivirus softare on a Mac is useless. It's less than useless. It's something to cause problems and get in the way. It is unnecessary.
In more than a decade of using Macs and having friends and family that use Macs, I don't know of anyone that has gotten a virus on a Mac. No one I know runs anti-virus on a Mac. The only person that's ever advocated it to me worked for a Mac specific anti-virus company. Even he admits that the threat is nearly zero.
That said, I do know of several people that have installed software THEMSELVES, as an administrator because a web site popped up something that told them to do so. They were tricked into action. Anit-virus can't prevent you from being manipulated into a bad decision. The only defense against that is education. Don't install software because a web popup too you to.
I recommend removing your AV software and saving your money for something else.
Brian.
rippolito:
I have a Macbook Pro 14 M1. Can I also install Media Center on that laptop (with my current mac license), and see whether the problem exists there, as well?
Ron
bob:
--- Quote from: rippolito on December 11, 2023, 03:22:53 pm ---I have a Macbook Pro 14 M1. Can I also install Media Center on that laptop (with my current mac license), and see whether the problem exists there, as well?
Ron
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Yes
rippolito:
To keep trying to isolate the problem, I outputted to a different external DAC: an Audioquest Dragonfly. I used a Cloudplay playlist, selected a group of songs that are all streamed from the Cloudplay server (no local songs on my SSD), put them in repeat mode, and let it go.
The system did not crash overnight.
Ron
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