Audio CD Input Crashes on long album name

[dheintz]

If I supply an Album name (and/or possibly an Artist name) that is longer than x (not sure what x is, 64? 128?), and then click on rip, the software crashes. I'll try to narrow down the length, but it is not terribly long.

[LtData]

Re: Audio CD Input Crashes on long album name

What is the album name that it crashes on? What location are you trying to rip it to?

[Spoon]

Re: Audio CD Input Crashes on long album name

Also ripping to what?

[dheintz]

Re: Audio CD Input Crashes on long album name

More info:

Crash:
CDGrab.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience

To reproduce (probably not minimal case):

Set tags option to APE & ID3v1

Ripping to MP3

Album name:
98765432109876543210987654321098765432109876543210 98765432109876543210987654321098765432109876543210 987654321098765432109876543210

Artist name:
98765432109876543210987654321098765432109876543210 98765432109876543210987654321098765432109876543210 987654321098765432109876543210

Track filename/name are probably irrelevant, since it doesn't seem to start processing the first track before it blows up.

Let me know if you can't reproduce it with this information, and I'll give you more.

B.T.W., when I email an error report, does it ever get to your tech support, or does it just go to Microsoft? What happens to these emails?

Destination:
k:\My Documents\My Music

[LtData]

Re: Audio CD Input Crashes on long album name

Is that the artist name? It looks like a repeating string, not a band name.

Error reports sent via Windows go to Microsoft only, as far as I know.

[ChristinaS]

Re: Audio CD Input Crashes on long album name

I think he simply used such strings to indicate each is up to 130 characters long, he probably didn't want to use the real names.

Are these too long for what tags may hold?

[Spoon]

Re: Audio CD Input Crashes on long album name

Good! dMC R12 is being written, and that section (all internal handling of filenames and ID Tags should be 100% built proof, gives me a good test).

BTW on Windows XP a new dMC will allow filenames of upt 32,000 characters.

Those long names shouldn't cause problems for tagging.

[dheintz]

Re: Audio CD Input Crashes on long album name

Depends on the Tag type. ID3v1 is limited to 32 bytes per tag. ID3v2 total tag space is 256MB (per track) , so it is virutally limitless. That is not really the point. The point is that if filename/tagname, whatever exceeds the allowable length, the software should not blow up in your face. What should happen is that it should tell you that the name is too long, and give you options (i.e., truncation, editing, automatic mapping to a shorter name, etc.).

[LtData]

Re: Audio CD Input Crashes on long album name

It should, yes, if it was programmed to do so. However, it seems that it wasn't designed to forsee long filenames and ask for the users input, it just crashes.
If you shorten the name, does it rip properly? You can just use "Test Conversion (no write)" if you don't want to waste HDD space for conversions.