In versions .277 through .286, there is a bug that can cause MC9 to lose access to my DVD drive until MC9 is restarted. To begin the sequence, I insert a CD into drive H and start a rip. After the rip has proceeded a bit, I insert a CD into drive G (a DVD drive) and click on its icon in the main tree, as my system has AutoPlay disabled in the registry. I receive this error message:
Once this is presented, I have to restart MC9 for drive G to work again. Since I hadn't seen anything in the recent releases about this problem, I looked further into what is happening on my system. All my prior postings failed when I began a sequence of ripping using my H drive. I tested MC9 using the G drive first in the ripping.
If the first drive is G, then I can continue to power-rip with both drives. For the most part, everything works as one would expect, Curiously, however, at the time I would expect to see the "Checking YADB" dialog, the most recently-used instantiation of IE is made topmost, but MC9 goes on about obtaining the data and filling the fields. I'm wondering if this can be related to the failure when H is used as the first drive?
Hope this is helpful, Randy
Media Center Registered 9.1.286 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2516 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 513 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1226 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer
Ripping / Drive G: Copy mode:ModeSecure CD Type:IDE Read speed:Max
Drive H: Copy mode:ModeSecure CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: No / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: Yes Soundfile: chord.wav
Burning / Drive H: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-240B Addr: 1:1:0 Speed:32 MaxSpeed:40 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: No
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None