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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 30 for Mac => Topic started by: Sashaaa on January 04, 2023, 05:59:27 pm

Title: MC30 Intermittent Freezing/Crashing When Decoding/Buffering Tracks
Post by: Sashaaa on January 04, 2023, 05:59:27 pm
Hey everyone, I've been using media center 30 often on my mac lately since I got my DSD bug figured out (thank you for the help Matt!) and I've been experiencing frequent freezing/crashing. It has mostly been happening sometimes when I try to play a track (not during playback, during decoding/buffering) and is more common when I try to quickly go from one track to another (but happens other times too). It doesn't seem to be specific to certain file formats/sample rates/bit depth etc., however there does seem to be a correlation with larger files (typically surround/dsd/super hires stuff). When it freezes the only workaround for now to unfreeze it is by force quitting MC. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help debug this behavior!

Specs:
M1 Max 16in Macbook 64gb RAM 8tb SSD
MacOS Venutra 13.1
Media Center 30.0.45 running in native mode
Title: Re: MC30 Intermittent Freezing/Crashing When Decoding/Buffering Tracks
Post by: JimH on January 04, 2023, 11:33:05 pm
What is "native mode"?  OS related?
Title: Re: MC30 Intermittent Freezing/Crashing When Decoding/Buffering Tracks
Post by: Sashaaa on January 05, 2023, 12:25:31 am
What is "native mode"?  OS related?
Native mode as in running natively on apple silicon, rather than running through x86 rosetta2 emulation.

EDIT: Just figured I'd test running it through rosetta2 to check if the behavior was still present and it was. Main difference I noticed is that the app was a bit slower and some ui elements were a little glitchy.
Title: Re: MC30 Intermittent Freezing/Crashing When Decoding/Buffering Tracks
Post by: bob on January 09, 2023, 12:04:28 pm
Is your material stored on the internal drive?
Title: Re: MC30 Intermittent Freezing/Crashing When Decoding/Buffering Tracks
Post by: Sashaaa on January 18, 2023, 02:45:04 am
Is your material stored on the internal drive?
Yep! It's actually happened a lot less often lately, so I'm not sure totally what was going on before.