Sonicstage Crashes with *some* mp3s

[chuckempire]

Hey everybody,

I have a reasonably strange problem with sonicstage, here are the symptoms:

when I double click on any of two particular albums in my library (or even select their name in the list) Sonicstage crashes and windows reports the usual "had to close" message. If I click to file the error report I'm taken to a microsoft page saying they and sony know about the error but have no particular fix.

Now, this started a few weeks ago but I haven't had much time to deal with it, there was no other problem with any other album in my library. I read a couple of faqs and searched around here and thought maybe it was a database problem, so I went through the database fixes and used the MDAC program, upgraded to SS3.2 - no success.

I deleted all the files in my library and imported all the sonicstage files again. I imported each of the two particular albums and once again, selecting their names causes sonicstage to crash. So, I imported some different mp3s I didn't already have in the library - they didn't cause sonicstage to crash.

My question is: does anyone know of a species of mp3 that might cause trouble with sonicstage? I need to get some more info about the particular files but I'm not at home right now.

I'm thinking the answer could be something along the lines of "wierd version of id3" or "wierd format album art imported in iTunes".

Thanks,

Chuck.

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Some system information in case anyone thinks it's an issue:

AMD Athlon 64 3500

1GB Ram

GeForce 6600 (AGP)

Edited August 3, 2005 by chuckempire

[Syrius]

VBR Mp3 tend to drive SS nuts. Convert your MP3 to wav, and import that. See if it transfers ok.

[chuckempire]

I worked it out.

The mp3 files in question had .gif images as their cover art, when I changed them to .jpg images, sonicstage was happy.

Freakout.

Thanks for your help Syrius.

Edited August 4, 2005 by chuckempire