I had been using MJ 8.0.29x for some time, ripping to Ogg/Vorbis normal/high, and everything was working grand. I had never received *any* ripping errors. Then I tried to rip Natalie Imbruglia, "Left of the Middle": no problems. Fleetwood Mac, "Greatest Hits": errors, but OK after retry. Prince, "Gold", errors, but OK after retry. "The Very Best of Cat Stevens", new, straight out of the CD case: errors, but OK after retry.
(The only thing that's happened to my machine recently is that I upgrade to Win2K Service Pack 3.)
Worse still, when playing one of the Prince songs, MJ would just crash! It would just exit! And several of the songs were incomplete and didn't appear in the database, even though partial Ogg files were in the directory.
I upgraded to MJ 8.0.336, and upgraded the Ogg encoder to the latest available, 2.0.58 (even though the one I already had installed claimed it was version 2.0.59). I then erased all "The Best of Cat Stevens" files and tried to rip the entire CD again. Now, no matter what I do, MJ freezes in the middle of ripping "3. Lady d'Arbanville", the CD stops spinning, the progress bar stops, and I have to end the MJ process.
What goes?