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[thomaspf]

Hi,

I had some issue with garbled content when using the the 2.1.1 plugin with two concurrent conversions and upgraded to the 2.2.0 version released 4/28/2007.

Now it seems that MC12.0.222 is crashing on my Vista machine after any attempted encoding. Is that just me or is anyone else seeing this as well?

Cheers

   Thomas

[scthom]

Hmmm.  Vista is a bag of tricks, isn't it.  Don't have it here, so not able to really test it at all.  Sorry for making you all the guinea pigs.

[escaflo]

I manage to transcode about 3000+ worth of APE songs to FLAC...
There were about 3 or 4 times it crashes. No particular pattern can be noted from the crashes. It crashes on normal english filenames but didn't crash on the unicode filenames.

[thomaspf]

I'd be happy to test. I have a bunch of machines with a couple of version of MC and Windows.

In version 2.1.1 doing parallel encoding results in garbage and there is quite a long delay after the encoding before the download starts during which MC freezes completely.

Thanks a bunch for doing this plugin!

Cheers

   Thomas

[scthom]

Sorry, I must not have been reading well the first time.  I suspect parallel processing is not going to work well.  Only a single copy of a DLL is used for multiple instances, so parallel calls to encoding and buffers will inevitably create trash.  I'm not sure threads are even a way to address that since the current plugin architecture doesn't have any way to identify separate processes.

[TheLongshot]

There is definitely something going on with the new FLAC encoder.  I just installed it and I've been having problems with it crashing.  I have an XP machine.

It doesn't seem to like playing and ripping at the same time.  I had no problem with the previous version with that.

Jason

[thomaspf]

2.2.0 also crashes if I select only a single conversion at a time. I am surprised about the comment that parallel encoding is unsupported by the plugin architecture.

Maybe someone from JRiver can clarify?

Cheers

   Thomas

[escaflo]

Just tested this. Try to rip a CD straight into FLAC crashes MC. It is pretty consistent, I've tried about 3 or 4 times. In the end, I've to rip to APE then convert to FLAC.

Not playing music while doing this.

Cheers!

[scthom]

I'll take a look and see if I can find the problem.  Busy the next couple of days, so not until the weekend...

[scthom]

I was able to verify that parallel RipAndEncode processes create trashed audio (the files are technically valid).  Parallel ripping and encoding separately did NOT create trashed audio.  At least for now, use Advanced Ripping Options to either:

• Allow only a single process with "Encode on-the-fly while ripping" enabled.
• Do not allow more than one encoding process with "Encode on-the-fly while ripping" disabled.

I did find one memory problem with a BSTR, so that may be the fix for the crashes.

[scthom]

Update: I moved the static buffer inside the encoder object, and that seems to have done the trick, so the new version 2.2.1 should work for you now.

[stubbsy]

Thanks for fixing this so quickly Scot. It was driving me nuts having to convert to APE then to FLAC to avoid crashes.

[escaflo]

Thanks for the quick update. I will test it when I got the chance.

Cheers!

[kevind]

I just upgraded and now every CD ripped does this at the end of the rip

[Alex B]

Since you embed cover art in the tags the problem could be related to this:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=40916.msg279424#msg279424