I have an Apple Shuffle that Mediacenter immediately recognizes when connected. (good!)
I have most all of my music in .ape format and have set the options for external devices to translate all music to MP3 using 4 processes for transfer to the ipod (great!) (I have a Quad Core Intel processor)
When I try to add songs to my shuffle, most of the time (seems to be more likely if there are a lot of songs being transferred), Mediacenter hangs. i.e. I need to go to the Task Manager and manually shut down the hung Mediacenter process.
I saw this behavior on my last computer too (dual core Intel processor) but it seems worse with 4 processors.
1. Is there anything you can do to test/debug this problem?
2. It would be nice to have an option that keeps the songs on the external device in the same order as in the DB: with multiple processors, some songs get finished before others....
I should say that the ability to use all of my 4 cores is WONDERFUL so I hope you won't tell me the solution is to just use one processor...