Is there any issue or risk of driver incompatibility with other players or...

[Paranoid]

Re: Is there any issue or risk of driver incompatibility with other players or...

I have decided to turn adversity into an opportunity. Given I am facing reinstalling Win7 I am going to rebuild my machine with a couple of SSDs (these have dropped in price a lot recently). That would also eliminate any possibility of a hard drive problem besides any flaky windows behaviour - and of course seriously debottleneck IO (which might be a contributor to this). I was hoping to avoid an OS reinstall but my last good restore point has been pushed off the stack.

I'll put a post up on after my clean install either which way - good news or bad news. May be a while...

[garym]

Re: Is there any issue or risk of driver incompatibility with other players or...

I've never heard of such a problem with dbpa users. I myself use dbpa for ripping and have other programs running (streaming music, playing music, editing files, copying files across the network, etc.). I suspect your issue is some sort of network/process overload and not an issue with any of the actual programs involved.

[Spoon]

Re: Is there any issue or risk of driver incompatibility with other players or...

dBpoweramp cannot effect other programs such as this, each program is separate.

[Paranoid]

Hi
I recently had severe problems not long after installing 15.1. First I had omitted to uninstall 14.x. I just assumed it would upgrade.

The problem was glitches in the sound in MediaMonkey and dropping performance. I use 64 bit Windows 7 professional and installed the 64 bit v15.1. Source files are Flac and mp3.

This could equally be an MM bug as I was bashing it hard playing and deleting tracks (from its library and disk) in a big tidy up. The first symptom was brief drop outs in the audio. I had been doing this for several evenings with similar workflow without problem until I installed 15.1.

So could my problem be due to my install of dbpoweramp (not having uninstalled 14.x) or a possible driver conflict between the two applications?

I am trying to eliminate probable causes. I think possibly whatever happened may have upset my registry*, I am facing a Windows reinstall as uninstalling both dbpoweramp and MM and reinstalling does not solve the problem (including rebuilding the MM database). Yes it is that bad. I have done a Memtest (5 pass OK), intel diagnostics test (pass - all clean) and chkdsk (no bad sectors), checked for nasties, including aggressive rootkit check (clean).

Any help appreciated. I will also post on the MM forum. It all seems too much of a coincidence the problems started not long after upgrading to 15.1. MM version at the time was 4.1.4.1709. Anyone else had any issues like this?

No blame game here - I just want to solve my problem... hope this is the right forum/thread.

Thanks
*could be in the WOW layer as these are registry errors in there but that could be harmless detritus.