Problem 1
It could be the symptom of a severe problem: has anyone else noticed long system delays (several seconds) when MJ is active? The easiest way to notice the problem is looking at the time counter in the playback window: in my system it usually freezes for about 5 seconds sometime during the first 20 seconds of a track (I play back MP3 tracks from a 4600 tracks library originally ripped with Real Audio). When the counter is holding no activity can be done (for instance clicking on the pause icon). However playback is regular.
I had posted in the b282 thread the following message:
>In my system, since a few builds, the playback time counter is updated rather irregularly: it even stops for a few seconds. I've checked for other concurrent activities, rebooted, and even disabled the antivirus program, but the problem is still present. The playback is regular.
I have now installed build 284 (after deinstalling b282) and rebooted and the problem is getting much worse: the freezing concerns all system activities, generally lasts about 5 seconds, and happens also if MJ is not playing (empty "Playing now" queue) but is used for other activities such as library maintenance. I've activated the windows system monitor and noticed read operation bursts concurrent to the freezing: no similar bursts appear when MJ is not active. Of course it could depend on my computer, but notice that I've also installed b282 on my wife's pc, with the same results.
Problem 2
I'm also experiencing several MJ crashes (even on startup) in several modules (i.e. VISSTUDIO.DLL, WNASPI32.DLL, GDI.EXE).
Thanks for help
Luigi
Media Jukebox PLUS 8.0.284
Install Path: C:\Programmi\J River\Media Jukebox\
CPU: AMD Athlon 808 MHz MMX
Memory: Total - 261 MB, Free - 88 MB
Resource Info: System - 62 %, GDI - 76 %, User - 62 %
OS: Microsoft Windows Me
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2600.0000
ComCtl32.dll: 5.50.4704.1100
Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2600.0000
Shell32.dll: 5.50.4134.100
wnaspi32.dll: 2, 0, 0, 0 , ASPI for WIN32 DLL, Copyright © Adaptec 1995
Aspi32.sys: N/A