I am still having problems with MC giving me an error when it tries to initialize my iPod. However, this is on a brand new Dell laptop. I have not installed any other software on this machine yet. I do have all of the windows updates installed. I was having the exact same problem on my old laptop, and Jim thought it must be a machine specific problem. I highly doubt that at this point.
I can tell you that I have NOT upgraded from a previous version on this machine (or on the other for that matter), and I know the installation was shrunk recently. I'm assuming that some component or file was accidentally eliminated from the installer. I would guess that an old version would have installed what I need, and upgrading wouldn't show any problem. I don't have any idea when this might have started, but I first installed v.172? on the other machine, and installed v.174 on this one.
Please let me know if you need anything else from me to resolve this. I'm willing to leave it alone so you can use the 'virgin' machine for diagnosis, but I do need to get my iPod synched pretty soon. I'll be leaving town for Canada in a week or so.
I'll post system stats below in a second.
One other thing. .asf files are still showing up as audio files when you select the audio only button up top. This screws up the shuffle by adding videos to the mix. I imagine it would also try to add those to the iPod if it thinks they are audio files.
Finally, some of the .asf files play just fine, and others don't play at all. It might be because they are mis-tagged as .asf (just a guess, I don't know why that would be), but how do I find out what they really are, and get they to play again?
Here are the system stats...
Media Center 11.0.274 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\
Microsoft Windows XP Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Unknown 594 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 246 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2627 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.050309-1648) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2620 (xpsp_sp2_gdr.050225-1820) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive D: Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive D: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4243N Addr: 1:0:0 Speed:24 MaxSpeed:24 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No / Normalization: None