Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

[ChristinaS]

Ok, here's an annoying feature/bug I have encountered. I cannot cancel or otherwise stop dMC or dMC Audio CD Input by using the Cancel button, or the X to close the conversion window. The only thing that cancels them is Task Manager or, if I'm dealing with a CD, removing the CD from the drive - in which case I get a "disc scratched" error instead of anything more meaningful.

It doesn't matter what I'm vonverting to (even Test conversion). It doesn't matter whether the conversion is going ok or not (like if it hangs due to codec or file problems or going smoothly). It's unstoppable :p

I think I'm up-to-date with all versions: dMC release 11 (candidate 1); Powerpack release 5 (reg).

Added info:
Windows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195- all up to date with all patches and SP 4 .
AMD Athlon XP 1800+. 512MB ram.
One LG CD/RW and one LITE-ON DVD/RW . These drives appear to work OK, though at times one or the other seems to freeze shut (especially after burning with Nero v 6 which I just installed recently).

Oodles of gigs on 2 partitions on one hard disk.

[xoas]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

I have dMC r11 beta 3. I don't have this problem with either dMC or with dMC Audio CD Input. Not that this is a help for ChristinaS. but it might help start a discussion that could pinpoint who is having this problem and where it might be coming from.
Best wishes,
Bill Mikkelsen

[ChristinaS]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

*bump* ( :D )

[Spoon]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

I know the Rip to Ram is only able to quit after the track has ripped and the same is true for DSP effects which will only quit after completing.

[ChristinaS]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

I know the Rip to Ram is only able to quit after the track has ripped and the same is true for DSP effects which will only quit after completing.

Aha! I am always using Rip to ram! Ok, thanks. So I'll cancel using Task Manager, no big deal :smile2:

[Spoon]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

It is just a limitation because the Ripping goes onto another thread and there is no provision to stop it - you know features are added later - put it this way if I was to write dBpowerAMP from scratch it would be quite different.

[ChristinaS]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

No problem, Spoon, now that I know what's what. :D

[jzader]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

I'm having a problem much like Christina's, though it seems a bit more serious:

* I tried stopping the ripping process because it was moving really slow (estimated to take 25 minutes for something that's normally less than 10)

* It wouldn't stop, so I had to end it through the Task Manager

* The next time I tried to rip the same project, it wanted to take an hour this time. So I ended it through the Task Manager again.

* I then tried uninstalling dbPowerAMP and reinstalling it.

* Then I tried ripping again, for the third time. This time it wants to take 1.5 hours to complete the task. It's still going, very slooowly.

I'm afraid to cancel it again, because clearly there is some sort of cumulative effect going on.

Can somebody tell me how to return the program to its original performance levels??

Thanks in advance!

Joshua

PS. I absolutely love your software. It's worked flawlessly up until now.

PPS. System information:

Basic Version 11 of dbPowerAMP
Win XP Home SP2
1GB RAM
3GHz CPU

Christina made a reference to some other way to rip (that doesn't involve ripping to RAM) but I don't see that option.

[jzader]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

Okay, scratch all that. This appears to have been a temporary problem, perhaps associated with ripping a particular song. I put in a new disc, and everything's blazing fast again.

[neilthecellist]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

interesting bug, though! :D

[Spoon]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

Often a reboot of the PC (full shut down) can work well (I say that, even though my development machine hasn't shutdown (always slept) in about 3 months, I am impressed with the stability of the AMD 64).

[neilthecellist]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

Aren't AMD's more stable then Pentiums in general?

[iTunesIsEvil]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

Aren't AMD's more stable then Pentiums in general?

I feel like they are. I have to use a P4 here at work (it's not horrible or anything), and I would really rather have my AMD64. The AMD64s also dont produce near the amount of heat that the P4's do which can definitly help the stability.

[neilthecellist]

Re: Cannot cancel dMC or dMC Audio CD Input

lol I like my Pentium4 but I prefer my brother's AMD64 3200+ for gaming!

[lib.rum]

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