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[wolfen42]

Well,  Media Center 9 looks really nice but I don't know if I'll be able to use it or not.

I downloaded the test drive today and when I launch the application it
lets me start to add mp3s to the library then abruptly closes down.

I just got my iPod today and was planning on using media center with it since I remember how much media jukebox sucked when I used it on my wife's computer.

Help?  If I register a copy am I likely to continue to have this problem or  
is this just related to the test drive not liking my machine in some way...

After I uninstalled media center I put on the xplay demo and it worked fine for copying files over but I'd really like an integrated prog that does tag cleanup and playlists and all that...
 

[Matt]

Please post your system info from the MC -> Help -> System Info dialog.

If you aren't using MC 9.1, please upgrade because there have been many improvements since 9.0.

Thanks!

[wolfen42]

Ok, I'll reinstall and send you that info.

I'm assuming I had 9.1 since I just grabbed it today off the download link on the jriver website.  I'll do this as soon as I get home.

(Heh... I left  work to make sure my new Ipod didnt languish on the front porch... grin...)

[Kurt Young]

I strongly suggest uninstalling XPlay before continuing with MC9.  They don't like each other (or, haven't in the past)

[JimH]

You may have a bad MP3 file.  We'd like to see it if you can find it.

Try importing half your library at a time to see if you can isolate it.  

On the half that won't work, try half of that, and so on.

[wolfen42]

Ok... I'm thoroughly puzzled now...  I grabbed the latest beta and can't reproduce the problem at all.  Sigh...  Thought it IS very nice to know that i DO definitely want to register this app... (grin)

[SouthsideIrish]

I strongly suggest uninstalling XPlay before continuing with MC9.  They don't like each other (or, haven't in the past)

As someone who used xPlay until buying MC9 about two weeks ago, I can tell you that Kurt is correct. MC9 and xPlay really don't like each other and xPlay was causing a lot of problems for me, so it has totally been removed from my system.

Bill McNair

[wolfen42]

Oh yeah, you'll get no disagreement from me on that...  

Xplay worked fine for me to accomplish the one thing I needed when Media Center was misbehaving.  it let me quickly copy a ton of mp3's onto my new iPod so I could head back to the office... (grin)   It really didn't have any of the other features I wanted so I uninstalled it.

But just FYI.   I didn't have either MC9.1 or Xplay installed at the same time.  After the dire warnings I'd seen about having MediaMatch installed I figured that iPod  utilities would probably step on each others toes...

[kiwi]

You could also try http://www.ephpod.com/ for getting stuff onto your iPod.  

I've been using it for a year or so w/o problems.  Thinking about switching and using MC, but the other works well at the moment.

kiwi