dMC sometimes crashes

[Dave151]

I'm having occasional crashes when converting shn files to mp3. I'm using the lame_enc.dll to encode to mp3.

Some tracks seem more prone to crash than others, but I cannot pinpoint an exact cause because the problem cannot be exactly duplicated. On consecutive tries the same track may fail but at different points, or it may even complete successfully.

It seems to work a little more reliably if I convert to wav files first.

Possibly a memory fragmentation or allocation issue?

[Spoon]

Try converting to 'Test Conversion' can you get it to crash?

[Dave151]

I have not been able to make it crash when converting to 'Test Conversion'.

It seems more prone to crash if the priority is set to 'Below Normal'. Crashes are not nearly as often if the priority is 'Normal' or 'Above Normal'.

I like to use 'Below Normal' so I can use my computer for other tasks while converting without it seeming to bog down. It is a P3, 733MHz, 1.28 G ram.

Some tracks are much more prone to crash than others. Often the crash occurs at the 98% completion point.

[Unregistered]

I'm having the same intermittent problem converting shn to mp3. I'm on windows 98. Here is the error message:

MUSICCONVERTER caused an invalid page fault in
module IN_SHN1.DLL at 0177:01786d22.
Registers:
EAX=ffffee00 CS=0177 EIP=01786d22 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=81bae098 SS=017f ESP=01defe08 EBP=01defe10
ECX=3ffff5fa DS=017f ESI=00446000 FS=60cf
EDX=ffffee00 ES=017f EDI=00443c00 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
f3 a5 8b ca 83 e1 03 f3 a4 8b 45 08 5f 5e 5d c3
Stack dump:
81b7daa4 00000008 01deff98 01786102 004425e8 004449e8 ffffee00 81b7daa4 bff81627 81b7daa4 00000008 81bae098 e2e9bd10 00000000 00000000 00000000

A problem with the shn codec dbpoweramp uses?

[Unregistered]

Furthermore, "Test Conversion" does not seem to trigger crashes. I ran it on a folder of 44 files with no problems where I'd already experienced two crashes...

[Spoon]

I am guessing there is a pointer leak in Shorten, I will note it down as a bug, for now try converting temporary to another lossless format (ie flac, monkeys) then to mp3.