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[jolo]

I am using MC 12.0.164 and when I went to convert a .WAV file this is what occured:

• I first got a Error Window Media Center has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.
• I clicked to get the error report which said Media Center has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.
• Then I am asked in another window
  Confirm action
  
  The MP3 encoder is not installed on the system.
  So you want to download and install it now ?
• When I clicked on YES, I received the first Error Box again
• Like before, the error report said AppName: media center.exe    AppVer: 11.1.201.0    ModName: unknown
  ModVer: 0.0.0.0    Offset: 0013f527
  Any thoughts on this ??
  
  Thanks,
  
  Jon

[JimH]

Vista?

Agressive firewall?

[Alex B]

I am using MC 12.0.164 ...
... AppName: media center.exe   AppVer: 11.1.201.0

This does not look right.

You could try to uninstall and reinstall both MC versions (if you use MC11.1.201 too).

In any case, a possible workaround is to just copy the lame.exe and gogo.exe files from the [MC11.1 Program path]/Plugins folder to the [MC12 Program path]/Plugins folder. This should be enough for enabling MP3 encoding without any downloaded components.


EDIT

You can download the needed files (lame.exe and gogo.exe) also from the following links (if you don't have MC11.1 anymore and you can't make the encoder download work):

- LAME 3.97  http://rarewares.org/dancer/dancer.php?f=109
- GoGo 3.13  http://www.rarewares.org/files/mp3/gogo313.zip

[jolo]

Ugh, No VISTA ... I hope never to use VISTA.

In fact, I do not use a Firewall at all. I haven't found one that hasn't caused troubles to my system.

But, those are excellent suggestions.

Jon

Vista?

Agressive firewall?

[JimH]

Alex B's suggestion is a good one.

[jolo]

 

• I uninstalled MC 11
  • Then I ran Ccleaner to remove any registry links that pointed to MC 11, as well as cleaned up the "Crap"
  • I uninstalled MC 12 - On unistall 11 and 12, I said yes to removing my libraries.
  • Ran Ccleaner again to remove registry entries pointing to MC and clean up any residue.
  • I deleted all directories where I have the installation programs for MC as well as any reference to it in my Program File folder
  • Downloaded and installed MC 12. It installed as a new demo app.
  • During the install, I saw LAME being downloaded
  • I then was able to convert a .WAV file to MP3 -
  • What is the equivalent of the normal and low VBR settings? I used Normal and it looked labout like a -VBR 2 Fast encode ?
  • Doesn't MC 12 come with the APE codec in it? I went to convert APE to MP3. My LCS flashed at me, then went a little crazy. Then it came back to tell me that it could not do it.
  
  Thank's very much for the help !!
  
  Jon

[Alex B]

In fact, I do not use a Firewall at all. I haven't found one that hasn't caused troubles to my system.

I hope that you have at least the Windows Firewall enabled or use a NAT/switch box that has an integrated firewall (if the PC is connected with the public Internet). I have noticed that various attack attempts start immediately when a PC is connected.

I use Kerio v.2.1.5. It is a nice and lightweight firewall program that has worked perfectly fine for me. This post has a download link: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=38619.msg262603#msg262603

[Alex B]

What is the equivalent of the normal and low VBR settings? I used Normal and it looked labout like a -VBR 2 Fast encode ?

In MC12.0.164 the settings are:
Normal  -V 4
High  -V 2
Extreme  -V 0

The "Fast" switch enables --vbr-new, which is the current LAME developer's recommendation.

The grayed out custom dialog box works as a display that shows the actually used command line. When the Custom option is selected you can use any valid LAME commandline switches. Here's more info about the recommended LAME settings: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LAME

In the build 164 the VBR command lines are still written in the old "preset" style, but this is going to change in the next build that uses the "-V" style commands and has the --vbr-new switch enabled by default. This style change will not alter the encoding quality. The "preset" style and the "-V" style use internally exactly the same encoding options. In addition the next build is going to have two new lower bitrate VBR options.

Doesn't MC 12 come with the APE codec in it? I went to convert APE to MP3. My LCS flashed at me, then went a little crazy. Then it came back to tell me that it could not do it.

MC has always had Monkey's Audio support. It is rather strange that the MP3 conversion does not work for you. I do it almost daily without any problems.

Is it possible that those APE files are corrupted somehow? As a test, could you try to convert a wave file first to APE and then to MP3?


EDIT

Before the next build is available you can use for example -V 5 --vbr-new as a "VBR low" setting in the custom box. Its target bitrate is about 130 kbps (naturally the actual resulting bitrate depends a lot of the encoded material). The audio quality is about the best that MP3 has ever offered at this bitrate - quite comparable with newer codecs like AAC or Ogg Vorbis. Here are the results of an interesting 128 kbps multi-format listening test: http://www.listening-tests.info/mf-128-1/results.htm. LAME was practically on par with the newer codecs (within the test's error margin).