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[InflatableMouse]

I've been doing a lot of converting lately. I'm currently on the latest beta.

I convert 4 files at a time (quad core, 32GB mem), always flac, some high res, some CD quality. seemingly randomly, a convert fails. When converting 100 files, somewhere between 40 to 60% of them fail. Right now I am seeing 24 failures out of 46. I try them again, and again like half of them fail. I continue until there are none left.

My settings are to leave original, and add destination. Skip existing files or when they are the same (which isn't, I convert to ogg).

I noticed that always (no exceptions!) they fail after reaching 100% after a short pause.

Any idea what is going on please?

I find other threads on similar issues, but nothing really helps me out.

Thanks!

[johnnysix]

I've experienced this too. I think something wrong with parallel conversions, so I changed it down to 1 at a time. It may be worse if you are writing directly out to a USB stick or SD card.

[bob]

IIRC, the ogg encoder can only convert one at a time. There is a bug of some sort in the encoder dealing with temp files it creates.

[lepa]

IIRC, the ogg encoder can only convert one at a time. There is a bug of some sort in the encoder dealing with temp files it creates.

For what it is worth Foobar2000 has no problem to convert multiple oggs simltaneously.

[bob]

For what it is worth Foobar2000 has no problem to convert multiple oggs simltaneously.

Does it use an external encoder?

[lepa]

Does it use an external encoder?

Yes it does. Same oggenc2 executable. I have also tried to use the same encoder file which I use for foobar2000 also in MC but it also fails with simultaneous conversions in MC

[bob]

Yes it does. Same oggenc2 executable. I have also tried to use the same encoder file which I use for foobar2000 also in MC but it also fails with simultaneous conversions in MC

Odd.
It's been a while but IIRC it had something to do with the way the ogg2enc created temp files during the encoding...

[InflatableMouse]

Maybe this is something that can be looked into again? Apparently it should be possible with this encoder to do 4 simultaneous threads without half of them failing all the time.

Thanks.