Something has been introduced in 11.0.92 which is causing a lot of crashes.
I've got a library of 2,810 WMA files (of various encoding qualities but most of them VBR High). I can play one song and as soon as I click on any other song, it crashes. It crashes when I click on Library Browser or if I run File, Library, Import Media and re-scan my files.
I went back to build 91, created a fresh Library file, rescanned my collection and there are no problems. Installing build 92 introduces the crashing. I've tried to create a new library file and rescan the same set of WMA files, but it crashes almost instantly.
From the Dr. Watson crash report:
AppName: media center.exe AppVer: 11.0.92.0 ModName: in_wma.dll
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0000893e
In all of the WMA files, I have 2 custom fields and I have ticked the option to store the fields in the file tags. Thought this info was relevant given the work on build 92 on WMA file tags?
* Name: Artists, Category: General, Data Type: List, Edit Type: Standard
* Name: Mixed?, Category: General, Data Type: String, Edity Type: Standard
I have 2 PCs which both access the same set of files which are stored on a network file server. MC crashes and exhibits the exact same behaviour on both PCs.
One PC is a Windows Server 2003 - clean install with only LimeWire 4 and MC 11.0.92. It still has WMP 9.
The other PC is WinXP +SP2, WMP 10 and serveral 3rd party apps.
MC config on the WinXP machine:
Media Center Registered 11.0.92 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2781 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 523 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive E: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive F: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive G: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive I: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive J: Mode:Normal Type:Auto 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: No
Burning / Drive E: YAMAHA CRW8824S Addr: 3:3:0 Speed:8 MaxSpeed:8 BurnProof:No
Drive F: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-103 Addr: 2:0:0 Speed:3 MaxSpeed:3 BurnProof:No
Drive G: YAMAHA CRW2200E Addr: 4:0:0 Speed:20 MaxSpeed:20 BurnProof:Yes
Drive J: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108 Addr: 4:1:0 Speed:5 MaxSpeed:5 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: No / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
I have experimented a bit by moving about 10 WMA files to my local hard drive and seeing if I could get them into a fresh library file. I couldn't get a single file into the library. MC crashes if I try to import any of one of them.
I've hosted a sample WMA file on my server if it helps debug the problem:
http://azureproperty.com.au/ozmael/mc11092_wma_sample.zip (17Mb).
Regards,
Ozmael..
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Topic: MC 11.0.92 crashing often with WMA files (Read 964 times)