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  • superfastkyle

    • Jun 2006
    • 8

    Help! Music collection crashing

    My music collection keeps crashing when I "add folder". It is my flac drive with about 10000 files. Are there any known bugs? Problems with non standard characters in filenames? or is it more likely a bad tag? It doesnt crash until the progress bar gets to the end. Would deleting any certain database files help?
  • superfastkyle

    • Jun 2006
    • 8

    #2
    Re: Help! Music collection crashing

    could this folder be the culprit.... it loads by itself fine though... my problems started when I tried to locate missing files cause I moved some to another drive, it wouldnt work it just froze so I had to clear it and start over.

    1 Continuum für Cembalo.flac
    2 Zehn Stücke für Bläserquintett.flac
    3 Artikulation, elektronische Komposition.flac
    4 Glissandi, elektronische Komposition.flac
    5 Etüden für Orgel (Nr. 1 Harmonies).flac
    6 Etüden für Orgel (Nr. 2 Coulée).flac
    7 Volumina für Orgel (1. Fassung).flac

    they dont appear to have any tags

    on another note? anyone know if/when you get to a point where music collection can't handle all the files? I've successfully loaded all 23,000 of my songs a few times, so I'm just wondering

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    • Spoon
      Administrator
      • Apr 2002
      • 44477

      #3
      Re: Help! Music collection crashing

      If the files have unicode filenames then they will not be supported by dAP.
      Spoon
      www.dbpoweramp.com

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      • superfastkyle

        • Jun 2006
        • 8

        #4
        Re: Help! Music collection crashing

        Originally posted by Spoon
        If the files have unicode filenames then they will not be supported by dAP.
        Could you explain? Now I'm really confused cause I got home from work and tried it again and it loaded fine... but I cant have MC crashing so I need to firgure it out so I dont add more files it doesnt like

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        • Spoon
          Administrator
          • Apr 2002
          • 44477

          #5
          Re: Help! Music collection crashing

          >ˆr

          These symbols looked like unicode, perhaps they are not.
          Spoon
          www.dbpoweramp.com

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          • LtData
            dBpoweramp Guru

            • May 2004
            • 8288

            #6
            Re: Help! Music collection crashing

            By Unicode filenames he means that if the names contain non-ASCII characters, dAP cannot read them.

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            • superfastkyle

              • Jun 2006
              • 8

              #7
              Re: Help! Music collection crashing

              ugh this is getting really agravating, but it seems that maybe MC just can't add 12,000 files at once... I've had my music on my drive like so f:\artist - disc\01 track.flac so I've had to add f: to add my music but I tried just splitting all my files up into a few folders just temporarily IE f:\temp1\artist - disc\01 track.flac, temp2, temp3 and so on. Add the 3 folders individually and all is fine... Add the root drive and it still crashes! So have I just reached a limit or what? I thought I could keep splitting the files up into folders and hopefully find the bad files by process of elimination. but maybe I don't have any?

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              • LtData
                dBpoweramp Guru

                • May 2004
                • 8288

                #8
                Re: Help! Music collection crashing

                Does MMC crash or just freeze? If its freezing, its probably because it has to process a large amount of files.

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                • superfastkyle

                  • Jun 2006
                  • 8

                  #9
                  Re: Help! Music collection crashing

                  no it crashes (window disappears editor.exe gone from task man) and I'm sometimes unable to reopen it without logging off

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                  • superfastkyle

                    • Jun 2006
                    • 8

                    #10
                    Re: Help! Music collection crashing

                    Ok I found the culprits, I guess I got lucky, still took a few hours though. It was some Apple Lossless files I forgot I added. It was this character...

                    ´

                    that was in some of the filenames

                    thanks for your help

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                    • Corgi

                      • May 2006
                      • 20

                      #11
                      Re: Help! Music collection crashing

                      I had a problem with the Music Collection loading a large number of files on an older computer without a lot of memory. Works fine on a computer with lots of memory, but wouldn't load about 2,000 files on one without so much memory.

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                      • RussellRay
                        dBpoweramp Enthusiast

                        • Aug 2004
                        • 56

                        #12
                        Re: Help! Music collection crashing

                        Hello superfastkyle

                        >>>Ok I found the culprits,
                        >>>It was some Apple Lossless files I forgot I added. It was this character...
                        >>>that was in some of the filenames.

                        Can you tell me please exactly which character was causing the problem.
                        My MCC has about 3500 files and
                        it keeps freezing / crashing whenever I try to edit certin entries.

                        Some editing takes a fraction of a second; other editing takes more than a minute or doesn't finish at all before crashing.

                        Best regards from Ray

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                        • ChristinaS
                          dBpoweramp Guru

                          • Apr 2004
                          • 4097

                          #13
                          Re: Help! Music collection crashing

                          He said it was an apostrophe: [COLOR=DarkRed][SIZE=5]´[/SIZE][/COLOR]

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                          • RussellRay
                            dBpoweramp Enthusiast

                            • Aug 2004
                            • 56

                            #14
                            Re: Help! Music collection crashing

                            >>> an apostrophe ???

                            It seems unlikely that an apostrophe would cause such trouble.
                            The titles of rock, blues, and pop tracks are full of apostrophes
                            "it's a hard day's night" to mention just two.

                            Best regards from Ray

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                            • LtData
                              dBpoweramp Guru

                              • May 2004
                              • 8288

                              #15
                              Re: Help! Music collection crashing

                              notice it is not the normal apostrophe: ´ not '
                              This special apostrophe is not normally used, as it is only avaible by specifically wanting it and using either the Character Map or holding alt and pusing the number combination on the num pad

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