Okay, I bit the bullet & reinstalled VPC. Let me just say, as painful as keeping up with patches & service packs is on a real machine--picture installing all the fixes for Win2k, but taking 5 times as long!
Several hours later.... I downloaded the latest rev of MJ8 (360?) and tried to install. No problems whatsoever! No need for ASPI or other odd things.
It doesn't work well, though. My machine doesn't have the horsepower to get my music off the network & decompress & play it. With the buffer size set to the max, I could get about 10-12 seconds of audio before it had to rebuffer.
On an semi-related question: How do people deal with networked drives? If I have 2 PCs that run MJ, what's the most efficient way to share DBs, playlists, music, etc?
On my main server, I have my music on both the local C & D hard drives. I have my libraries stored in a separate folder on the C drive. When using the computer locally, there's no problems. If I use another machine to map network drives, I can point the network machine at the appropriate library path, but how do you deal with the music?
Best,
Brad