Amp keeps crashing on me

[Unregistered]

To start off, let me just say I LOOOOOOOVE dBpowerAMP. It is, without a doubt, the best audio player I have ever used. However, lately it has started crashing. I read about uninstalling and editing the registry, so I tried that. It still kept crashing. I downloaded the dAPResetAll.exe tool. It still keeps crashing. I don't want to have to run resetall every time I want to use my player! Can anybody recommend a fix?

[donny]

Re: Amp keeps crashing on me

we need more info to help....
like when does it crash, what OS are you using, what kind offiles are you playing,... something to point out the problem.

[Spoon]

Re: Amp keeps crashing on me

It might be the Skin you are using, or the File type you are playing (one or two corrupt audio files).

[Unregistered]

Re: Amp keeps crashing on me

I'm running Windows 2000, 1 GB RAM, and I'm playing Mp3 files. I switch between the H20 skin and default, although when it starts crashing it's on default. The audio files always worked before, but after a point (usually after the second time i exit i.e. i open, listen, close, open, listen, close, and it crashes) it refuses to work. It plays a second or two of the music and then... stops. And then until I run the ResetAll utility it'll play one or two seconds of music and stop. I hope that helps enough to diagnose. I'm sick to death of WMP :(

[Spoon]

Re: Amp keeps crashing on me

Perhap try dAP Options menu >> Amp

and set the 'output to' as the other option.

[aguptaweb]

Re: Amp keeps crashing on me

FYI: I started this thread under 'Unregistered' and now I'm registered.
OK, here's what happens. I play a song, any song. I then close dBpowerAMP. When I open it again, it stays minimized to the system tray. It may play a second of music, but then it quits. The funny thing is... after I run ResetAll, everything works fine again, but I have to reload my current skin, equalizer presets, and all my options. Here are the options I'm currently using:
Under Options menu:
Amp: Output to: Wave out [Wave Mapper]
Input Selector: Multiplayer
Multiplayer: all default, shouldn't mess anything up anyway
Graphic Equalizer: shouldn't change anything.
Plug-Ins: DSP: 24 Bit
48 KHz Resample
Karaoke
Skins: Default
H2O
Pioneer Skin
Under Install Options:
The only one left unchecked is "Load when Windows starts"

I've installed dBpowerAMP converter, too, along with WMA V9 Codecs.

Hope that helps diagnose whatever is wrong!

[Spoon]

Re: Amp keeps crashing on me

As a test start removing things, switch off all DSP effects. Try creating 10 wave files from your music, create a new collection and just add those, does it crash then?

[aguptaweb]

Re: Amp keeps crashing on me

I uninstalled all the DSP effects... works like a charm! I'd suggest more testing of these effects, maybe create a poll and see. Thanks for all your help!

[aguptaweb]

Re: Amp keeps crashing on me

Never mind. One day after I thought I had it running fine and dandy, it's started crashing again. I open it up and absolutely nothing happens. It just opens in my system tray then exits after 1 second. Anything? Anything?

[Spoon]

Re: Amp keeps crashing on me

Never mind. One day after I thought I had it running fine and dandy, it's started crashing again. I open it up and absolutely nothing happens. It just opens in my system tray then exits after 1 second. Anything? Anything?

Restart the PC and it should be fine.

[ferris209]

Re: Amp keeps crashing on me

It was probably the 48 Khz resample effect, that DSP has the tendacy to be very unstable. Cuased me lots of problems, but I've been a Dbpoweramper for a little over a year and I knew that I had no probs until I installed that DSP, so I turned it off, no probs since.