arrgh! I can no longer convert MP3-ATRAC on-the-fly in SS3.3!

[WaywardTraveller]

Hello,

Happy New Year to all of you

Unfortunately, I'm now having a problem wtih SS3.3. The last project I did was to rip a 15-volume music set on to MD at 352kbps. Since I'm on Win98SE (yeah, yeah...no use in updating when you're on the road!) there were a few crashes, but more or less everything went off without major hitches.

Now, though, when I try to import MP3s and convert/transfer them at once, I don't get a nice polite error; I get an illegal-operation shutdown window with: "OMGJBOX caused an invalid page fault in module ASMAUDDECFF.DLL at 01e7:0f938bc7" (I can provide all the information if anyone wants).

So what did I do? I uninstalled and re-installed SS3.3, deleting the OpenMG modules through Add/Remove Programs. What now? Re-installed over the web...same error.

If I convert my MP3s to .WAV files and then convert+transfer the WAVs, everything seems to work fine; it's just that I can't seem to deal with converting MP3s (although I can still PLAY them in SS3.3!). I am sure I was able to convert MP3s on-the-fly before, but am unsure what I did to render this unstable.

In the hopes that someone can/wants to help me with this, I am giving as much info. as I can below:

OS: Win98 SE, Athlon 900mhz, 512MB RAM, USB 1.1; outdated version of Norton Anti-Virus is ALWAYS disabled when running SS (did I mention I've been gone from home for 2+years? )

I've used SS3.3 interchangeably with my RH-10 as well as an NH900 and NH800 without previous difficulties. Hell, I even plugged in my Sharp IM-MT880 NetMD, which only made it look for and install a new driver, but this was before the NH900 and NH800 and had no apparent difficulties. Right now I only hook up Hi-MD units.

If anyone can shed light on this so that I don't have to batch-convert my MP3s using CoolEdit, I would greatly appreciate it!

peace

WaywardTraveller

[WaywardTraveller]

Err, umm, never mind. I Googled my error and found that the DLL in question belongs to the Xing MP3 Encoder/Decoder. I uninstalled it (making sure the DLL was deleted) and everything seems to work fine!

Object lesson: sometimes Googling your problem can lead to the quickest solution!

peace

WaywardTraveller

[Syrius]

AND: Xing is C-R-A-P.

[atrain]

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Object lesson: sometimes Googling your problem can lead to the quickest solution!

peace

WaywardTraveller

AND: Xing is C-R-A-P.

both true, fact one should be tattoed on people's faces, when people ask you a question you could point to the forehead - i'd get it on mine but i'm pretty hot.