Hello everyone,
I've had some bad problems after downloading to 12.529. The main symptoms include:
First, when I tried to synch the Ipod, the software would freeze when finishing.
From that point forward, MC has crashed whenever I try to play a song. The software crashes after about 15 seconds after I press play. I either get a Windows message stating that it needed to close the program, or I've even gotten a few blue screens of death.
Today, all my playlists (I have about 75) and all my song ratings disappeared. They were there for the first few days after I upgraded. Now, when I click on playlists, all I see are Recent Playing Now and Recently Imported.
I thought it may be problems relating to installing Service Pack 3 and all those new Windows updates, but I'm very worried. I've tried rebooting, etc.
I've used MJ and MC for many years now with not a single problem. I was thinking I might just need to try a clean install, perhaps to 12.530, but I'm worried that I have lost my playlists and ratings tags. I looked in my MC Library folders in the Applications Data folders, and I see some Library backups (I remember doing one in June or July but there are some there with august dates, so perhaps the software now does it automatically too?). I also exported almost all my playlists on 8/14/2008 to get picked up by my sonos players, so they are there. I guess I could reinstall, I just wanted to check here first to see if there might be an easier way and to ensure I don't erase anything.
All that said, any recommendations? I really don't want to lose all my hard work over the years tagging and creating playlists.
My data: MC 12.529
Windows XP Home Edition 5.1.2600
Pentium 4 3.0GHz, 1024 MB RAM
I'd be glad to post any other info needed.
Thanks as always,
John