Sorry John, it appears to broken again.
Well, just a little bit. I tried playing/ripping an enhanced cd (Dido's 'No Angel'). MC correctly identifies the audio tracks; right click the disc in the tree and select update from database and MC flickers once, very very fast, and the only visible change is "Folder" column inserted to the left of the sequence column.
Trying to play one of cda files gives the "hang with buffering" bug, and trying to rip the cd gives the "failed to extract digital audio. Try next track?" error.
For standard cd's though, there appears to be no problems. Thanks for that.
Might be just me, but it seems like MC is spinning the drive faster with this build? mp3 ripping speeds are up which is nice, but what's not so nice is that I can hear it spinning and it's spoiling any music it's playing. I'm certain I've never noticed this before, and I've not made any system changes, except for losing a HD, so before I start digging for more clues, is this down to changes in MC?