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suviking

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Restart of MC
« on: December 19, 2011, 03:22:54 pm »
Using MC 17.050.
Playback stops, status windows says "Buffering..."

I hit Stop, nothing happens, I hit Play, still nothing.

I try to restart the application, hitting the top right X, nothing.
Right click - End process nothing. Task Manager - "End process", application still won't go away...

Is it by design that the application can't be killed? I can't recall earlier versions of MC being this difficult to restart.

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glynor

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Re: Restart of MC
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2011, 03:24:01 pm »
Quote from: suviking on December 19, 2011, 03:22:54 pm
Using MC 17.050.
Playback stops, status windows says "Buffering..."

I hit Stop, nothing happens, I hit Play, still nothing.

I try to restart the application, hitting the top right X, nothing.
Right click - End process nothing. Task Manager - "End process", application still won't go away...

Is it by design that the application can't be killed? I can't recall earlier versions of MC being this difficult to restart.

None of that is normal.  Something is crashing.
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mbagge

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Re: Restart of MC
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2011, 03:34:45 pm »
Are you playing audio ?
You would see this behavior if MC cannot write to the soundcard or DAC. You might be sending unsupported data to the unit.
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suviking

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Re: Restart of MC
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2011, 03:40:40 pm »
audio yes, using WASAPI - Event Style to a USB DAC. It was in a middle of a song. After rebooting I played the same song from the beginning and no hang-up this time.

So you think the kill problem is due to the app being stuck on some IO request in Windows and thus can't be killed?
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mbagge

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Re: Restart of MC
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2011, 05:06:26 pm »
My guess is that it is waiting to timeout and appears unresponsive until then. Another guess - did windows try to shut down your DAC, that is the usb connection to conserve power ?

I once struggled quite a lot with a usb harddrive, it wouldn't be recognized by explorer. I had to change my dual rail low noise super duper powersupply with a noisy standard psu to get it working. Maybe usb power is playing tricks on you ?
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suviking

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Re: Restart of MC
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2011, 06:05:28 pm »
not impossible. This is my office setup with a fireye II USB DAC. It's not the greatest, but it has worked OK for a couple of years. Recently I upgraded from MC15 -> MC17 and this buffering issue has happened a couple of times since then. No big deal, but not being able to kill the app is almost more annoying than the occasional playback hickup as it took a reboot today to get back to playing songs again!

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mbagge

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Re: Restart of MC
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2011, 01:31:05 pm »
One other thing to try, the buffer size in MC17 might be somewhat larger. You could try to adjust it a bit and see what happens  :)
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