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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: IanH on December 10, 2003, 01:12:23 pm
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Just doing some ripping and MC came up with an alert "you are low on disk space for your music library directory - do you wat to continue?"
I still have over 4 GB of space on the disk I'm currently using for my music.
Any ideas?
Media Center 10.0.12 -- E:\Media Center\
Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Intel Pentium III 698 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 324 MB
Resource Info: System - 40 %, GDI - 68 %, User - 40 %
Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1276 / Shell32.dll: 4.72.3812.600 / wnaspi32.dll: 4.71 (0001) , ASPI for Win32 (95/NT) DLL, Copyright © 1989-2002 Adaptec, Inc. / Aspi32.sys: N/A
Ripping / Drive J: Copy mode:Normal CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Drive K: Copy mode:Normal CD Type:Auto Read speed:Max
Digital playback: Yes / Use YADB: Yes / Get cover art: Yes / Calc replay gain: Yes / Copy volume: 32767
Eject after ripping: Yes / Play sound after ripping: No
Burning / Drive K: SONY CD-RW CRX100E Addr: 0:1:0 Speed:4 MaxSpeed:4 BurnProof:No
Test mode: No / Eject after writing: Yes / Direct decoding: No / Write CD-Text: Yes
Use playback settings: Yes / Normalization: None
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Any ideas?
1. delete files in the recycle bin
2. delete files\programs not used
3. buy a bigger drive
4 gigs is hardly anything now days even more so when dealing with riping to raw wav (like most music programs do) files that take alot of room.
if you click on rip and encode at the same time i think this will help since it will copy 1 file to raw wav then encode it to MP3 then remove the wave.
if you have this turned off then MC will rip the cd to raw wave then after the whole cd is done and used all the drive space then it will encode to mp3
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One quick thought: is your MC library file (File/Library/Library Manager) stored on another disk than the one you actually keep your music files on? Perhaps its that disk which is short on space. Although as library files are usually not too large, if youre using the default location, ie where you installed MC, if that is your Windows/Programs disk Id have expected Windows to let you know before now if that one was full. Otherwise, perhaps some temporary location MC uses when ripping, as King says, is full?
Bit far fetched perhaps, but I felt the MC alert was ambiguous.
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I think Lee might be onto something. I have a second rive with 20 Gigs on it and if I change my library (ripping destination) to that it still gives me the error. The drive that MC is on is my most full so I'll try moving the directory files or opening up more space. Stay tuned.