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[dje06]

All I did was added a song that I searched for to the Playing Now to be played after the current song. And got the dreaded crash error message offering me to send an error report. But the music kept playing, thank God. So, my heart just sunk. I imagined that this can happen to me at a live gig.

So, I opened up iTunes and cued up a song. When the current one was over, I switched over to playing the next song out of iTunes, meanwhile I closed the error box and restarted Media Center.

I'd be sweating bullets if this happened to me live. 

[KingSparta]

dreaded crash error message offering me to send an error report.

you can turn that message off in windows

[dje06]

you can turn that message off in windows

Well that error message only pops up after a program crashes, right? If I turn off the message that won't have any effect on the program...

[KingSparta]

Well that error message only pops up after a program crashes, right?

Yep

If I turn off the message that won't have any effect on the program...

Nope

But you don't need to answer "No" to the question.

[Uwe]

Bad day? Broken Yugo?

[KingSparta]

I am waiting to win the lotto.

[marko]

bill gates famously "crashed live" (link anyone?) so you'd be in good company.

Wierd thing, yesterday, it vanished on me, no error of any kind, just vanished, you know the one, right? and all I did was click a 'play' link under an album tile!!
The 'crash free' windows PC is yet to be released, and to be fair, this version of MC is pretty stable, I cannot remember the last time it did that to me it was so long ago.

a lotto win would be sweet, who wants to set up an MC lotto syndicate?

[dlone]

This can happen if you turn off the error reporting

With error reporting on, you get a dialog box which if you ignore (move off screen etc) lets you continue with MC
Turning this off usually results in MC being 'end task'd with no warning

It's 6 of one, half a dozen of another - annoying messages or vanishing programs

Various versions of DivX detect the presence of a debugger and crash on purpose, which can be an incredible pain if you just want to watch a movie on a pc that has a debugger installed

[dje06]

Well to be fair, this was the first and only crash in about 3 weeks of screwing around with MC... but, still, it'd be nerve wrecking if it happened during a live set. I hate to say this, but as shi77y and featureless a program as iTunes is, I've never had it crash in over 6 months of usage.

I would pay the same money for MC if it only had Audio, no thumbnails or fancy tree settings, same library capabilities and same incredible playback capabilities (fade, seek, stop, etc) and NEVER crashed 

[hit_ny]

I would pay the same money for MC if it only had Audio, no thumbnails or fancy tree settings, same library capabilities and same incredible playback capabilities (fade, seek, stop, etc) and NEVER crashed 

I'm not sure what kind of music you play, but i've been to some looooooong sets, DJ does not use a pc 

That's right, just a pair of decks..

No crash

[Matt]

I honestly haven't seen an audio playback crash for years.

You may have other issues.  Not fully stable visualizations, DSPs, third party interface plugins, or drivers often turn out to be the cause of crashes.

MC's audio playback engine is amazingly bullet-proof.

[dje06]

I'm not sure what kind of music you play, but i've been to some looooooong sets, DJ does not use a pc  Shocked

That's right, just a pair of decks..

No crash

Get wid the times, mon   Digital DJ'ing is the wave of the future. It's easier to set up, easier and faster to find music by genre, date, type, artist, name, etc. (thanks to great library capabilities like in MC), easier to pre-program (playlists), and many many other reasons. I use CDs as backup in case my laptop craps out for some reason. I'm more of a stop & go DJ but even to do some mixing, I use Virtual DJ.

[dje06]

I honestly haven't seen an audio playback crash for years.

You may have other issues.  Not fully stable visualizations, DSPs, third party interface plugins, or drivers often turn out to be the cause of crashes.

MC's audio playback engine is amazingly bullet-proof.

I don't believe it was during audio playback. It crashed during middle of a song when I was trying to drag another song to the Playing Now list. It may have just been a freak thing, as the program's been rock stable for me other than this hiccup

[hit_ny]

Get wid the times, mon   Digital DJ'ing is the wave of the future. It's easier to set up, easier and faster to find music by genre, date, type, artist, name, etc. (thanks to great library capabilities like in MC), easier to pre-program (playlists), and many many other reasons. I use CDs as backup in case my laptop craps out for some reason. I'm more of a stop & go DJ but even to do some mixing, I use Virtual DJ.

Oh there's certainly a place for it (in the studio)..

On the rd, how many pro DJs do you see doing digital stuff ? as in clubs n stuff.

[dje06]

Oh there's certainly a place for it (in the studio)..

On the rd, how many pro DJs do you see doing digital stuff ? as in clubs n stuff.

Depends on the type of music. If it's House music it's one thing, but if you're DJing for ballroom dancers, it really doesn't matter what your source is cause all you'd be doing is play & stop.

[KingSparta]

bill gates famously "crashed live" (link anyone?)

http://techblabber.com/2006/03/

[Mr ChriZ]

Oh there's certainly a place for it (in the studio)..

On the rd, how many pro DJs do you see doing digital stuff ? as in clubs n stuff.

Erm, all the clubs round here do =)
Even our Uni club, which is quite a dingy place.

Analog stuff goes wrong as well, CD's skipping is very common.
I think in the big clubs they have a secondary system so that if one goes down they can immediatley switch
to it, on the mixer...