i recently tried to convert all my music to 128kbps mp3s for my creative zen xtra. while doing so i noticed that there is what i would call a bug/oversight: MC will keep on converting until it fills up the host drive and then start erroring out, instead of transferring some of the files over, freeing up space, and then converting more mp3s. i suppose with a dual core processor this might not happen, but since it converts so ** quickly, there's no cpu time for MC to transfer over on my single core athlon64 (using gogo).
my proposed solution is to set a maximum "cache" size or to have an option to fill up the host drive before it has to start transferring files to free up space.
ps for clarification, by host drive i mean the computer's drive. it just seemed like a convenient term to use.
sys info:
Media Center Registered 11.1.178 -- C:\Program Files (x86)\J River\Media Center 11\
5.2 Service Pack 1 (Build 3790)
AMD Unknown 1797 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 261 MB
Internet Explorer: 6.0.3790.1830 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82.3790 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.0.3790 / Shell32.dll: 6.0.3790 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping / Drive D: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG Mode:Normal Type:Auto Speed:Max
Drive E: 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: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG Addr: 0:2:0 Speed:48 MaxSpeed:48 BurnProof:Yes
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: Yes / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: No /