Karmageddon Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 (edited) Here is an odd one I have yet to see mentioned/addressed on this site.I have been a user of SS since 2.0 and am currently using 3.4 since its release on my XP SP2 machine.Now, since I got my RH-1 I have been creating a MASSIVE library of all my CDs/Downloads at ATRAC3+ 192, and so far have about 500 CDs converted.However, I have noticed a few things:I have moved my "Optimized" folder into the same directory as the "Fringe" folder (for thumbnails of cover art) and all my "Albums" and when I import the WAV files (I rip my CDs using EAC - much better than the ripper in SS which produces faulty rips 90% of the time) I then "Get CD Info" and re-name the trax as neccesarry.I then convert the WAVs to 192k but then I have to delete the files I just imported (unless I am missing something??) and then re-import the ATRAC files located in the "Optimized" folder. Once imported I then have to "Move File" to the actual folder/directory for that specific album. Now here is the problem: About every 5 albums during the Import or Move function S.S. will start acting REAL SLOW and the screen shwoing the diretcories will flicker and then I get an error saying "OMG has encountered an error and needs to shut down". This has happened for every 5 CD's roughly and I have upped 500 already. Can you feel my pain?Am I missing something? Is this a fault in the software? Am I importing the files wrong?It is very strange behaviour. I know SS is no iTunes, but still..you think a "database/library" program would act much better than this.... Edited July 25, 2006 by karmageddon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmageddon Posted July 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 (edited) ....if the answer to my problem is posted elsewhere on the site, it would be great.should I just go to 4.0 then? I never had this problem with 3.4 on a previous XP installation on the same computer.... Edited July 27, 2006 by karmageddon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 I never had this problem with 3.4 on a previous XP installation on the same computer....What are the other differences between the two installations--especially skins and security program? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmageddon Posted July 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 no difference at all. I am pretty much a pro at setting up computers and have neevr had this problem happen before, nor have I seen this occur, at least around this forum....It is really quite annoying though. I am "living with it" at the moment, but when I decide I want to up like 20 CDs thru SS, i find myself having to re-start the program very often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogville Posted July 27, 2006 Report Share Posted July 27, 2006 (edited) no difference at all. I am pretty much a pro at setting up computers and have neevr had this problem happen before, nor have I seen this occur, at least around this forum....It is really quite annoying though. I am "living with it" at the moment, but when I decide I want to up like 20 CDs thru SS, i find myself having to re-start the program very often.Something like that happens to me but with simple burner and even with SS at times. It's really a crappy software with my computer Edited July 27, 2006 by dogville Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmageddon Posted August 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 so i guess there is no fix for my problem...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted August 6, 2006 Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 it doesn't sound like anything i've seen come up here, just to confirm all the windows/database/driver stuff is up to date?might need to be sent to sony & try & get it escalated, not just one of the drones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmageddon Posted August 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 (edited) all my drivers & software are fully updated. well SS is at 3.4. I am actually VERY scared to remove 3.4 as I don't want to lose my 600+ CD Library stored in 192.This crashing is VERY consistant as well. I can pretty much predict when it will go down. It is 98% of the time after I have imported 3 CDs. After they have been imported as WAV, converted to 192. Deleting of the wav files. Re-importing the OMA files from the Optimized Folder and then moving those files into its own folder.It will usually give up on me with error messages once I have the "Move File" directory tree open. It will usually flicker like mad and strange characters will appear where the check marks should be. Also the program gets REAL SLOW sometimes, like It will take 5 minutes to scroll from the top fo the page of My Albums to the bottom...very very odd indeed..Very rarely I do get another error message from Windows saying "Dr. Watson Postmortem Debugger has encountered a serious error" Or it might say "Recovered from a serious error".......Can anyone else chime in? Edited August 7, 2006 by karmageddon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 This crashing is VERY consistant as well. I can pretty much predict when it will go down. It is 98% of the time after I have imported 3 CDs. After they have been imported as WAV, converted to 192. Deleting of the wav files. Re-importing the OMA files from the Optimized Folder and then moving those files into its own folder.Just curious - after you have conveted a WAV track to 192 and you delete the WAV file the Atrac version should already be in the library. (assuming you deleted the WAV via the Track Properties dialogue) Why do you need to import it again manually from optimized files? Am I missing something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted August 7, 2006 Report Share Posted August 7, 2006 Just curious - after you have conveted a WAV track to 192 and you delete the WAV file the Atrac version should already be in the library. (assuming you deleted the WAV via the Track Properties dialogue) Why do you need to import it again manually from optimized files? Am I missing something?They'll be in "/optimized files" instead of an actual album folder... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 They'll be in "/optimized files" instead of an actual album folder... Sure - I can understand the move file process to move the converted version into a different folder, but I couldn't figure out why he needed to re-import. Maybe I was just mis-reading what he had wrote. No worries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmageddon Posted August 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 (edited) yea sorry about the confusion. I maybve didn't describe it clearly enough.Once I have converted the WAV file(s) I delete them but then re-import from the Optimized Folder.Is there another way of doing this that I am missing? Do I not need to re-import from the Optimized folder? is there a way that when I delete the WAV files, it only delets those files, and not the ATRAC ones from the Library? Could this be what is causing the problem?It would be so much easier if the ATRAC files I make end up staying in the folder that had the oirginal WAVS Edited August 8, 2006 by karmageddon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 If I import a WAV (either from a cd or from the file system) and do a manual convert format to 192, if I examine the properties of the track I will see both files. The WAV in the original location and the Atrac version (in the library but physically in the Optimized Files folder). I can delete the WAV via the track properties and am left with the atrac. Here I can use the move file dialogue to move the Atrac file that is left into the same location as the original WAV. I can then click the next button to move on the to the next track and repeat the process. As far as I'm aware you don't actually need to re-import at any stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmageddon Posted August 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 Hmmm so what you are telling me is that I would need to change the properties for each additional track? That is really time consuming and that is why I delete the whole album (in WAV) then re-import from the Optimized folder.A lot of CDs I have have well over 15+ trax, and If I was to change the properties and location of each track seperatley...well you get the point. Unless there is a way to globally delete all the wav files in that specific album at ONE time (not individually) then I will stand by my method.anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobt Posted August 9, 2006 Report Share Posted August 9, 2006 You could always co int commad prompt, to the directory and go del *.wav It will then confirm that you want to delete, very easy, sometimes command line is so nice.Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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