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JimH:

--- Quote from: BabyFace on April 19, 2010, 10:23:04 am ---After MC was not running for many hours, I started it and immediately changed the view from PlayingNow to Audio.

After a few minutes, MC froze for 2 seconds and then resumed playback.  I know it froze, since the little spectrum analyzers stopped moving during the 2 seconds.

This freeze happens 99% of the time when MC has been started after being shutdown for many hours.

The freeze does NOT happen if MC is started immediately after a reboot.  I don't know if it happens the first time MC is used after a reboot, if many hours pass between the reboot and starting MC.

What could MC be doing for those 2 seconds that freezes the entire program, and why only after being shutdown for many hours? 

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It could be just a disk drive spinning up.

BabyFace:
Jim,

This evening when I get home, I'll make sure the J: drive (where I keep my music files) is spinning before I start MC and see if the problem still occurs.

If it were a drive spin up issue, then it would not be there after a reboot.  I suspect the drive is stopped when I start MC after a long time being shutdown.  When MC starts up after many hours being shutdown, wouldn't the drive have to be restarted spinning for it to play the track at all?

I will test out the drive spinup theory this evening.

BabyFace:
I was skeptical.... about a disk spin up time causing the short MC freeze shortly after startup after a long idle time...

My first test was to clearly have the music drive spinning before a test, no program freeze.

I thought about adding some code to my start up script to write something to the drive and then run a "synch" program I have that will make sure it's written and not cached, or I think there is some setting in Windows to not allow disc caching....

I turned on "play from memory" in MC, and have not had the problem since, still testing for a few more days before I declare 'success'....

BabyFace:
Jim, thanks for the disk spin up suggestion.  At this point I am convinced that was it.

I wish I understood why it was not a problem on XP (with MC12 and MC14) and is a problem on Win7.

Either way, I can work around it now.  Thanks again.

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