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[Barron10]

Why does MJ pop off with "Illegal Operations" every time I try to convert my music?
I'm trying to even out my music, so that all the bitrates are the saame. I only have a 6.4 gig drive, so space is at a premium.
When I start an album to convert, everything goes fine for a while. 2 or 3 songs will get converted, and then that darn "Illegal Operation" comes up again. It does it when I use either Lame or GoGo. What the hell's illegal?? I've never figured those things out, and quite frankly, it's pissing me off a bit.
I'm running Windows 95b, have a K6-233, and 64 MB RAM.
MJ works fine most of the time otherwise, except, every once in a while it'll give off with one of those darn "Illegal Operation" things, and need to be restarted. Sometimes it even does it when I shut MJ down.
HELP!!

[JimH]

Are you trying to convert anything that is licensed/encrypted?  WMA?

If you're converting MP3 to MP3, it's probably not a good idea.  Lossy to lossy conversion loses quality.

[marysm]

I've had the same problem. Some tracks are at, let's say 320kbps... taking up too much space so, I'd like to *reduce* the file to 128kbps. The converter crashes everytime:

MEDIA JUKEBOX caused an invalid page fault in module at 0000:c8cc0000.
Registers:
EAX=008cb9e8 CS=017f EIP=c8cc0000 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=008cb9e8 SS=0187 ESP=007d0038 EBP=007d0058
ECX=007d00dc DS=0187 ESI=817e2a34 FS=1127
EDX=bff76855 ES=0187 EDI=007d0104 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:

Stack dump:
bff76849 007d0104 008cb9e8 007d0120 007d00dc 007d0210 bff76855 008cb9e8 007d00ec bff87fe9 007d0104 008cb9e8 007d0120 007d00dc c8cc0000 007d02c8

[JohnT]

Which version of MJ are you using?

[marysm]

It has happened in most of the recent betas. Before posting yesterday, I tried it again-- same thing. Version 8.0.199.

[Adam]

A similar problem is happening to me as well. Much more detail on the thread orginated
by me (Adam) named "MJ8.0.198 crashes still". Marysm posted there as well. A user
nick-named "Desparate" had the same problem. See his post on Feb 01 called
"Consistent Error Messages."

-Adam

[JohnT]

If it happens on every track, it may be a bug that occurred when a temp music directory did not exist. Now it's created if it doesn't exist. Check your Settings/Options/File locations dialog and see if the Temp music directory exists on your computer. Create it if it doesn't.

If the problem happens sporadically, I'm not sure but I changed a couple things in the converter dialog that may fix it. Try the next build.

If it only happens on a particular track, send it to me and I'll take a look at it.
johnt@jriver.com