As I mentioned before in this forum (Nov. 26), I'm also having problems with "Playing now"....
Since I set "Jump on play" to NONE the problems are gone. But whenever I am playing some songs, switching to Playing now immediately "hangs" MC (11.0.133). The music continues most of the time, but sometimes it stops. And always MC is not responding to mouse clicks and keyboard.... CPU load for MC is 98 or 99% at that time. Usually I have to stop MC by deleting the task....
Sorry that I'm not really "technically skilled" enough to give more information. Here's my system info:
Media Center Registered 11.0.133 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 1991 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 785 MB, Free - 510 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 Q: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive W: 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 W: SONY CD-RW CRX175A1 Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:8 MaxSpeed:24 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None
I've seen this phenomenon for about 2 months now - don't know exactly in which build it started, but I'm sure I didn't have it before that time frame....
Steef.