limit to music collection?

[bbooska]

I recently had a crash and it appears to have fried"my music collection" the program, as all fields are gone but 2,track and genre ,with horizontal red lines where the other info used to be.all the music still plays fine,just the info is missing,even the name of the field at the top is gone.

should i just reinstall or are there some settings somewhere that got changed?

if i need to reinstall whats the correct order to install all the different parts of dbpoweramp(amp,powerpack,converter,cdwriter etc)


While i got your ear, I have read here somewhere ,but can no longer find,that there is a practical limit to the number of songs you can have in your music collection..
can anyone tell me what that number is and what happens when you pass it?

Thanx

[Unregistered]

Re: limit to music collection?

Hell-o-o-o anybody out there...?

[xoas]

Re: limit to music collection?

Personally, I am not aware of an definite limit to MMC.

As to your crash, you might try to see what, if anything works. If dMC works but MMC is "Fried" you might try just reinstalling dAP (of which MMC is part). If asked, uninstall dAP first and then reinstall.

Anyway, try out your programs. Make a note of what works and what does not. If the file names are ok and if dMC works you might try the Tag from filenames accessory. If you don't have this option already you can download it at Codec Central (if you have the Power Pack).

Best wishes,
Bill Mikkelsen

[bbooska]

Re: limit to music collection?

Thanx..
everything seems to work fine,am listening to now,burned a cd and converted a tape thru aux input yesterday,checking individual files all the tag info is still there and the files are in the right places.

just the display in mmc is fried

if i need to reinstall then just uninstall an an reinstall the player itself and i wont need to reinstall the other programs?

thanx again

[Spoons]

Re: limit to music collection?

try out the beta player here: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=2045

it will ask you to uninstall through the install process. see if that fixrs it. can you supply a screen shot before you fix it? also i have had over 8000 files in MMC and worked fine. but my collection is small compared to others around here.

[bbooska]

Re: limit to music collection?

I'll try that out an see....

I only have 1000 songs so far so i guess I'm ok then.

I have a screenshot but not a clue how to post it here...does it have to be hosted somewhere,if so i have no webspace anywhere,i have sbc dsl with some storage but have never been able to make any files available publicly.

[Spoons]

Re: limit to music collection?

no worries, just email it to me: music @ optusnet.com.au
thanks.

[bbooska]

Re: limit to music collection?

In the wire man..hope you got broadband

[Spoons]

Re: limit to music collection?

i do

i had to shrink the size a little though for here. that is a weird problem :(

[bbooska]

Re: limit to music collection?

well i tried the new beta,uninstalling as prompted,first time froze my machine and had to do a hard shutdown,second time gave me the blue screen of death stop error,third try was successfull but i still have the same problem altho mmc looks slightly different

[Spoons]

Re: limit to music collection?

yes there is something wrong with the color.txt file. thats something spoon needs to know. unless the white screen was on purpose?

anyhow grab a color.txt file from here and see if it clears up.

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=170

copy it too C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpowerAMP\Skins\Default\Editor

[bbooska]

Re: limit to music collection?

Well that fixed the color problem,altho i prefer the original color scheme

But i still have the original problem..since i have completly uninstalled an reinstalled what could be the cause?

[Spoons]

Re: limit to music collection?

ok only delete the registry file left to do now. but that means re installing all the dbpoweramp suite again.

start-->run-->regedit-->HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Illustrate
delete the illustrate folder. remember to back up any music collection.

[Spoons]

Re: limit to music collection?

and here is the default color http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showpost...34&postcount=3
just make a new text file and copy / paste .

[bbooska]

Re: limit to music collection?

i just uninstalled again(amp) but have not reinstalled anything...do i still need to edit registry?
you talking about removing the whole dbpoweramp suite and starting over?
I have all my music on a external usb drive,should be safe shouldnt it?