Numan Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 (edited) Prety much as the topic states. I have SonicStage 3.4 installed which I mainly use to make Atrac3 CDs for my Sony car CD deck. Last week I made a playlist that came out to 400ish megs full of mp3s and made an Atrac3 cd overnight while sleeping. No problem. I got some newer MP3s this weekend that I added to my MP3 directory. Booted up SS, told it to scan my MP3 directories, it starts to do something with a progress bar and then Omgjbox.exe crashes. Never done that to me before.My next step was to reinstall SS3.4 (I origanally got it from Connect.com) Same problem. So I did a full uninstall/reinstall and the same thing. Then I came across this site, grabbed the fixed SS3.4 off here, double checked that I uninstalled all OpenMG/SS things from Add/Remove, deleted all Sony/SS folders from Documents and Settings, deleted all registry options from Sony/SS, rebooted, installed the newer SS and the same problem adding songs from a blank database.I haven't done anything to this computer since last week so I am lost as to what started causing Omgjbox.exe to crash. I just want to compress my MP3s into Atrac3 files so my Sony car deck can read them like I've done a few times in the past. Any ideas? Edited April 10, 2006 by Numan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Welcome to AtracLife !Do you have Service Pack 2 installed on your computer ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdiotSavant Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 I actually had the same problem a week or so back. SS had always been fine for me.. then all of a sudden it kept crashing on import. It turned out to be some of the MP3s I was using (which had been sent to me as a compilation) which SS couldn't seem to be able to handle.(A good indicator of this being the problem would be if SS seems to crash when the progress bar reaches a certain point each time, as that would indicate it's the same files it's crashing upon trying to load.)Try deleting all your mp3s from SS and then re-importing - for example - a quarter at a time, figure out which batch of mp3s doesn't work, then splitting that into smaller and smaller groups until you find which the problem mp3s are.Perhaps someone should mention that in the FAQ? I'm sure it would solve a lot of people's problems with SS crashing on import. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numan Posted April 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Yes I have SP2. In fact I am running XPMC 2005 with all the updates so that I can goof around with streaming video on my Xbox 360 I have not tried to update my library with a few file folders at a time, I just tend to point at my MP3 directory which has pretty much all my music in there (easily well over 1000 files)I'll try the few dirs at a time method, see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numan Posted April 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Ok, it's working again. It was one mp3 that I got over the weekend that it kept crashing on. Figures. Never had this problem before. At least it's working now! Had to redo my playlist (I find it easier to just make a playlist, add/sub songs to it and then just pick the playlist to burn) but at least it's all working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdiotSavant Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Can you give us the specifics on the mp3 that was giving you grief? Like if there were any 'interesting' characters used in the ID3 tag, and what the properties of it were? It might be nice to try and figure out what mp3s SS can't handle, so future users don't get confounded.(And so we don't have to fear adding each mp3 to our library, hah.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDX-400 Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 One way to avoid this MP3 crashing is to not use MP3s in SS. I don't. I only use SS for fiddling around with folders on the device and ripping to ATRAC3plus.For MP3s it is much easier to just use MP3FM instead. Unfortunately MP3FM is a little functionless so I have to make the appropriate group folder in SS first but other than that I still use MP3FM to transfer MP3s. If you do that I doubt you'll ever run into crashing problems like this with SS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdiotSavant Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 One way to avoid this MP3 crashing is to not use MP3s in SS. I don't. I only use SS for fiddling around with folders on the device and ripping to ATRAC3plus.For MP3s it is much easier to just use MP3FM instead. Unfortunately MP3FM is a little functionless so I have to make the appropriate group folder in SS first but other than that I still use MP3FM to transfer MP3s. If you do that I doubt you'll ever run into crashing problems like this with SS.As far as I'm aware, MP3FM doesn't work with all ATRAC devices... hence learning to live with SS is a must Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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