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rpalmer68

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Strange MC11 behaviour when selecting/removing cover artwork
« on: December 06, 2004, 03:24:35 pm »

MC11.0.140 stops responding for about 90 seconds almost every time I either select or remove cover art images for one of my music files.

When I select the image file, I get the status message down the bottom "Done Saving Tag Changes" then the hard drive makes scanning noises and MC stops responding. After about 90 seconds MC11 comes back and I can continue using it.

It's like MC is rescanning the drive after every change.

I can change other tag info and it's OK,but when I select/remove an image  things go astray.

To problem doesn't always happen (even when using same music file/images), but I can reproduce it every time by doing the following:

1) Select all the music files for an album that all have a cover art file assigned (mine aren't stored in music file)
2) Tools, Image, Remove Cover Art (select No to delete from disk)
3) Once removal complete click on one of the files, or another album etc.
4) MC now goes off and does a scan and stops responding for 90 seconds.

I have approx 4000 WMA/MP3 files in my library installed on X:, program file are installed on C:

I have no 3rd party plug-ins installed.

Richard


Media Center Registered 11.0.140 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 1880 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 785 MB, Free - 322 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1584 (xpsp2.040720-1705) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1580 (xpsp2.040720-1705) / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: 4.71 (0001)

Ripping /  Drive F: PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-117  Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive G: PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-106D  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 G: PIONEER  DVD-RW  DVR-106D  Addr: 1:1:0  Speed:16  MaxSpeed:16  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None
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JimH

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Re:Strange MC11 behaviour when selecting/removing cover artwork
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2004, 03:53:20 pm »

Make sure you don't have the cover art directory set to a drive that isn't there.  A CD or DVD drive, for example.

MC Tools/Options/File location

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Re:Strange MC11 behaviour when selecting/removing cover artwork
« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2004, 04:16:05 pm »

Have checked, cover art directry does exist, although I store all my coverart as folder.jpg in the album directry and this is the image file I am selecting during the process.

Richard
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Re:Strange MC11 behaviour when selecting/removing cover artwork
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2004, 06:23:56 pm »

Any drives that aren't there?  Removeable drives?  Network drive that isn't available?

Sorry, but I'm really guessing.  It's an odd symptom.

Maybe a virus or insufficient Windows permissions??

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Re:Strange MC11 behaviour when selecting/removing cover artwork
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2004, 06:35:33 pm »

Have just re-booted for the 2nd time since I got the problem and now  it seems to have gone!

I HATE computers sometimes!!!

I still get a slight pause after removing the cover art, and changing the focus (maybe 2 seconds) but not a long delay with disc scanning like before.

Oh well I guess 2 reboots are better than one!

Sorry for the false alarm.

Richard
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