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Woo Hooooo!!!!
Thanks for Fix #4, the iconed window problem....
-Jeff

Don't know if this is a bug or a setup issue.

I was using MediaJukebox 9 up to now with no problems ripping from either of my drives.  I decided to upgrade to MediaCenter, and since then I cannot rip a single CD!

The symptoms:

(i)  Put in CD, YADB lookup, everything set and I select the right tracks for ripping.
(ii)  Hit "rip" and for a few seconds I see the message "initializing".  Then next thing I know, it indicates complete without having done anything!

I looked thru the forum and did not see anyone with this same issue, and I tried updating to the latest MC to try to fix things, with no change.

Is this a bug or simply a problem with setting up MC?

Sunil

Neville,
Nice discovery.  Please post more details here:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=23735

Thanks,

Jim

I've used MC9 &10 without ever having this problem. But I just got a new computer and have a problem playing files.

When playing an mp3 file: If I click on the FF button to advance to the next song, MC advances to the next song, and halts playback.  Similarly, if I click on the display bar to advance to a different part of the song, playback stops.  The play/pause button shows pause, indicating that the file should be playing.


Media Center Registered 10.0.173 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows 2000  Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 4 (Build 2195)
Intel Pentium 4 2996 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 628 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1552 / Shell32.dll: 5.00.3900.6922 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive G: DVDRW   IDE1004           Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: No /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive G: DVDRW    IDE1004            Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:40  MaxSpeed:40  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

This version cannot create output directories when ripping if the album name contains a "."

Media Center Registered 10.0.173 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1833 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 272 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2900.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2900.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive D: PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-106D  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: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive D: PIONEER  DVD-RW  DVR-106D   Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:16  MaxSpeed:16  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Starflyer's problem with Quicktime mp4 files is here:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=23861

With this build, my Media Center shell extension no longer has an icon displayed for it.  Is this by design, or is something screwy with my system?

If you are addressing me, Jim, yes I did try rebooting.  And also disabling/re-enabling the shell extension.  I'll try reinstalling MC.  Thanks.

Disabling other shell extensions (with NirSoft ShellExView) didn't help.

But reinstalling Media Center 10.0.155 and rebooting did restore the icon to the MC shell extension.

I know this is very minor, but I thought I'd point it out anyway, in case it wasn't an intentional change.

I'm unable to connect to the FTP site in order to download updates.

Any suggestions?

I have a load of jpg files in my library that are tagged with artist and album information.  These files will not respond to rules like media Type = Audio or File Type = MP3 i.e. they are still included in the view schemes.  If I remove the artist / album tags from the jpg's they disappear from the view schemes.  

This is very annoying as i want to keep front and back cover art in my library but I don't want it to show up in all my view schemes.

Can this bug be fixed?

[Edited by risingdamp]

Nick-S,

That can be a bug or a preferred way. The view sorting can be anything; should MC always use that when full albums are send to the Playing Now?

I renumber my multi-CD albums, I would have track numbers 1-44 for that album. The original numbering comes from the CD disk space limitation. A hard drive is not limited. You have a "Medium #" field. You could also have a "CD Track #" field if you need to preserve that information for some reason.

A free site to store images, with a thumbnailing feature, to help prevent having to imbed 250-KB worth of images:

http://paintedover.com/

Quote from: GreggP on October 08, 2004, 09:15:08 am

Quote from: mikeh on October 06, 2004, 02:56:18 pm

Cant RIP to WMA Lossless

APE and MP3 is okay

WMA lossless works okay with WMP 10

Any progress on this? (I'm running out of time on my v11 trial and would like to go back to ripping with v10)

My 30 day trial expired today. I'm disappointed because I had to purchase the upgrade if I want to continue ripping CDs to WMA Lossless. I was told long ago that this would be fixed in v10 and it hasn't. I've only been using MCv11 for ripping, because I'm not sure if it is ready for full time use. I'm still using MCv10 for playback and management of my library. I guess I'll just keep running them both.

I just use WMP 10 to rip then re-import to MC - Shouldnt have to mind!!

Gargh...some more details...

AppName: media center.exe    AppVer: 11.0.113.0    ModName: in_mp3.dll
ModVer: 0.0.0.0    Offset: 00006adb

This seems to be a strange 10.0.173 bug.  I have about 700 CDs ripped to WMA Lossless.  I use a Pronto with Supernudelist to select albums to play.  As a result, I added an AlbumID tag to all my WMA files.  Everything worked perfectly.  Unfortunately, my system drive died recently, and I had to rebuild my system.  Thankfully, my WMAs were on a different drive, so I didn't loose any of them.  When I rebuilt my library is where I noticed the problem.  After I was up and going again, several hundred WMA files had their AlbumID tag cleared.  Which files were affected seemed to be random.  Some albums had one or two WMA files with missing AlbumID, some had only one or no WMA files with an AlbumID value.  The AlbumID tag was there, but the value was cleared.  It took me quite a while to get all the IDs back in there.

Obviously, this is not something that would happen every day, but I was a little nervous to see that tags had been tampered with.

Precise series of steps I took:

1) Rebuilt the OS (XP Pro)
2) Installed 10.0.173
3) Imported my files from D:\Media
4) Realized I didn't have AlbumID in the library, so I added it.
5) Updated MC library from WMA tags
6) Built AlbumID/Album view for use by Supernudelist
7) This is when I noticed all the files without an AlbumID.  Out of 8000 files, close to 1000 did not have an AlbumID tag value.  The tag was there.  It was just blank.

I've been testing with v9 a friend gave me to try out, and it's just what I was looking for.
Yesterday, I registered for this version.  Now when I try to rip a cd, the program stops responding.  I did notice that if I insert the CD after Media Center is running, at the bottom of the windows it says 'Gathering Files'.

I'm running W2K pro with the latest updates.  I have 2 DVD burners in the system (no CD-ROM), and use Nero with InCD quite frequently.

Any ideas??  I'm in the process of moving most my CD collection to HD so I can play it through my D-Link Media Lounge.

Thanks much

Please start a new thread on this and let us know what version you're using.  You can copy your system info from MC Help and paste it into your post.

I'm not sure.  Just visit the downloads page.

Where is the Barry image located?  Same directory as the music files?

Cant use Line in Recorder with WMA Lossless either.

Are you going to fix this?

Or should i downgrade to an earlier version.

Hi:

Because  from Media player option: Check for updates, don't upgrade automatically  ?

It's debateable whether it should be considered a "fix" when MC10 preceded WMP10.  But support for WMP10 is coming.

Since upgrading to .173 I'm getting a 'deskbar has time out' message every time I start MC.

I've followed some advice to unregister it but it says the .dll can't be found even though it's sitting where it should be.

How do I get it off my system?

Thanks.

This seems to be a strange 10.0.173 bug.  .... After I was up and going again, several hundred WMA files had their AlbumID tag cleared.  Which files were affected seemed to be random.  Some albums had one or two WMA files with missing AlbumID, some had only one or no WMA files with an AlbumID value. 

After rebuilding the database, I also had missing tags. resp. tags left blank. When opened with a hex editor, these files were still containig the tags and values. Also importing into MC9 works  without any problem.
All these MP3s are stored on a linux fileserver running samba  smb service. The application and also the database is stored on a local drive on an XP system.
Any MP3 which lost  tags on  import, could be imported without problems, when it was moved to the local  drive before.

Renaming files from tags does not work corrrect when saving to the linux server.

MC9 handled this without problems. 
There must be a problem  in MC10s file handling! 

Rolf