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[Adamski]

Hi,

Three days later and I still cant get MP3 encoding to work on MJ.  I have downloaded and reinstalled the software twice, and each time I'm told that the MP3 encoder has not been installed on the system and I'm prompted to download it ..... I try and then an MJ Reader box pops up saying "failed to connect to a server."

My questions are as follows:
1. Should the MP3 encoder not ship with the full MJ download!? has everyone else had to download it seperately? if so, then why is that?

2. Is there a problem with the download server at J River?

If not

3. Can anyone suggest what could be wrong at my end, perhaps in my settings, or browser settings that could be causing this?  Could there be a clash with other ripping software that I have installed - Easy CD-DA?

4. I cannot download anything at all through MJ - eg. in the start menu where it says "for the latest MJ news click here" when I click it says once again "failed to connect to a server"  .... does this problem sound familiar to anyone?

I'm using V8.0.388 running on XP and yes I use Internet explorer.

I really would like to get this resolved asap as it is such a basic issue & I have now been banging on about it for 3 days ..... basically I'm unable to use what I have paid for.

Thanks
ad.

[Fastyves]

Ad,

Some firewall settings problem ?

Here's a way around :

• 1. Go to the encoders download page (http://www.musicex.com/cgi-bin/downloads/plugins.pl?type=7&start=0&end=10&page=1)
• 2. Select the encoder you need, and right-click on it's download link > Save as.. in the folder you want.
• 3. Open the downloaded file (enc_mp3.mjp for instance) with Notepad and you'll find a link to the DLL
• 4. Use this link to download the enc_mp3.zip file
• Unzip it into Program Files\J River\MediaJukebox\Plugins
• 5. Go into MJ > Settings > Plugins Manager > Encoder and check if it's there.

You can do it for any MJ plugins (but I hope you solve your problem in the mean time).

Yves.

[Adamski]

Fastyves my man YOU ARE A STAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You have no idea how happy I am now! it worked finally!!! If you were here I'd take you out for a beer right now!

Cheers buddy,
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PS: any idea why the track info doesnt appear automatically?

[Fastyves]

why the track info doesnt appear automatically?

MP3 or CDA Tracks info ?

Yves.

[Adamski]

Hi Again,

When I'm trying to rip CD's the CD info doesnt appear, and I can't seem to connect to the CDDB or YADB server! Is there something I need to do in my settings etc?  

From reading through the rest of the forum I see that CDDB isn't an option anymore - although I find it strange that you can select it within MJ if its not supported.

So - I guess the question is when I try to update the CD info why do I get a box saying "Failed to connect to YADB Server" ??

Any help greatfully appreciated again!

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[xen-uno]

See if you can isolate problem to MJ.

Are u familiar with EAC? It uses FreeDB (YADB's dad). See if u can pull up CD info with it. If so then there's something funky with MJ. If not then u have a some kind of a internet setup problem.

Xenno

[Adamski]

This has been resolved .... Yipee!
Thanks
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[xen-uno]

YADBa Dadba Doo!

[Fastyves]

nothing more to say...

but always something more to learn about  

Now you can connect to YADB, can you also connect and download plugins ??  What was your problem ?

Yves

[Adamski]

Hey Fasty,

Yip got it all sorted in terms of connecting / downloading stuff - turned out to be a proxy setting screwing things up.  Thanks again for your help coz that got the MP3 encoder problem sorted way before I got the rest of this resolved.

Funny now though that I've been ripping away like a mad thing for the last 3 hours since I got connection to YADB ...... and now the darn database is down apparently!! .... no luck eh!

anyway cheers buddy
ad.

[John Gateley]

it's back up now....

j

[Adamski]

Yip I'm back in action! ...... notice I didnt start a new thread complaining about it being down!

Cheers
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