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Is Media Center hanging intermittently for you?

Yes
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No
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skidoo

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MC hanging intermittently
« on: March 18, 2004, 01:41:52 pm »
This has been happening for many versions now.

No apparent pattern. Except that it seems to have something to do with changing tracks. I just "do something" in Media Center, e.g. double-click a track, skip to the next track, stop a track. Sometimes it hangs after automatically advancing to the next track. Happens regardless of display option (visualizations, track info, etc.).

Am I the only one experiencing this? I'm currently running 93. It's annoying.

After what, eighteen months? Two years? My wife is still asking, "When's that thing gonna start working right? When's it gonna be as easy as the CD player?" :-)
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skidoo

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Re:MC hanging intermittently
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2004, 01:48:03 pm »
Oh yeah...

Media Center Registered 10.0.93 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2577 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 795 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1276 / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1233 (xpsp2.030604-1804) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive E:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive F:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive E: SONY     DVD RW DRU-510A    Addr: 3:0:0  Speed:4  MaxSpeed:24  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None
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xen-uno

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Re:MC hanging intermittently
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2004, 01:49:24 pm »
Once I changed Playback: Stop from Fadeout (slow) to (fast) it took care of all hanging...so I voted No.

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skidoo

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Re:MC hanging intermittently
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2004, 01:54:30 pm »
Quote from: xen-uno on March 18, 2004, 01:49:24 pm
Once I changed Playback: Stop from Fadeout (slow) to (fast) it took care of all hanging...so I voted No.

10-27
Mine is on Stop/Immediate. And "Between Tracks" was set to Crossfade/Agressive. I'll set it to Crossfade/Standard, and see if that makes a difference.
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skidoo

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Re:MC hanging intermittently
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2004, 02:05:05 pm »
Quote from: skidoo on March 18, 2004, 01:54:30 pm
Quote from: xen-uno on March 18, 2004, 01:49:24 pm
Once I changed Playback: Stop from Fadeout (slow) to (fast) it took care of all hanging...so I voted No.

10-27
Mine is on Stop/Immediate. And "Between Tracks" was set to Crossfade/Agressive. I'll set it to Crossfade/Standard, and see if that makes a difference.

Didn't make a difference. In fact, I've discovered that it seems to have something to do with IE integration. I double-clicked a song, realized MC as frozen, then went back to my desktop and fired up IE to report my results.

Well IE fired up OK, ad I was able to click menu items and favorites links, but actual PAGE hyperlinks were un-clickable. The mouse was useless in the context of an actual page. That is, I couldn't select the MC forum once the forum list page had come up.

Then, as usual, after a minute or so, everything started working.

What's up? Is there any more info I can provide?
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xen-uno

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Re:MC hanging intermittently
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2004, 02:07:55 pm »
10.0.93

Between Tracks: Cross-fade (smooth)
3 sec dur
Seeking: Smooth (normal)

DirectSound output
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skidoo

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Re:MC hanging intermittently
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2004, 02:16:36 pm »
DirectSound output here too. Re-booted. Same old problem. I've also noticed regular visualizations have slowed down massively. I'll check the bug list for this build (93).
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