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Title: MC 13 not responding on exit
Post by: alvintafoya on April 08, 2009, 03:47:32 pm

MC 13 completely locks up when i try to exit. I love the product and it seems to work just fine when i open and play my music files. But I have to shut it down in the Task manager every time I try to exit. I have temporarily installed it on a different system and the same thing happens.

Title: Re: MC 13 not responding on exit
Post by: AoXoMoXoA on April 08, 2009, 03:59:18 pm

MC needs to do some saving of stuff like settings and database and all on shut-down.

I believe forcing it closed can cause some problems with your library.


How long will it take if you leave it alone until it closes by itself?

Title: Re: MC 13 not responding on exit
Post by: alvintafoya on April 08, 2009, 04:03:37 pm

I have left it for at least 30 minutes with out a change. Thanks

Title: Re: MC 13 not responding on exit
Post by: alvintafoya on April 08, 2009, 04:09:59 pm

It seems that the longer I let MC 13 run (a long playlist) the worse it gets. Thanks

Title: Re: MC 13 not responding on exit
Post by: JimH on April 08, 2009, 05:36:39 pm

Why do you think it hasn't shut down?  What do you see on the screen?

Any third party plug-ins in use?

Title: Re: MC 13 not responding on exit
Post by: alvintafoya on April 08, 2009, 05:49:14 pm

No third party plugins. The screen just locks up. All menus are inactive, minimize, maximize, close buttons inactive, etc. The application just locks. Thanks for all the help

Title: Re: MC 13 not responding on exit
Post by: JimH on April 08, 2009, 05:50:59 pm

Anything else non-standard?  This isn't a problem I can recall.

Title: Re: MC 13 not responding on exit
Post by: alvintafoya on April 14, 2009, 05:47:38 pm

Nothing else non-standard; just a very large library of over 70000 tracks. After doing some testing MC13 freaks out when a lot of tracks are selected for playback or MC13 is in use for a long period of time: problems I never had with MC12. Thanks for the help.

Title: Re: MC 13 not responding on exit
Post by: JimH on April 14, 2009, 06:22:19 pm

70,000 tracks is a medium large library.  There are many much larger libraries around.  It isn't that.

But, you could try setting up a new library.  It's possible your old one is corrupt.  Killing the program is one way that could happen.

Under File/Library/Library Manager, choose Add.  Set it up in a new location, and import a few files.  Does the freeze still happen?

Title: Re: MC 13 not responding on exit
Post by: benn600 on April 14, 2009, 06:32:53 pm

I noticed (several versions ago) that the thumbnail checking would take place on exit and could take a minute or so.  But MC would exit if given time.  HDD activity was very high during this time as it scanned the thumbnail database for any orphan files.  A setting allows you to disable this but newer versions have altered how this works.

Title: Re: MC 13 not responding on exit
Post by: alvintafoya on April 17, 2009, 10:51:53 am

Thanks for all the help! I cleared my old library and let MC13 rescan the drive and build a new one. It now seems to act much better, although still not exiting as quickly or cleanly as MC12. Once again, thanks.