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froggerman:
Hi Chris,

I am in the process of update some of my skins and making sure that I have all of the options set correctly. I used your version 3.1.2 default.skn as the starting point. While doing this I noticed that there are two [Timer] sections in the file. The first one:

[Timers]
# These timers are specified in hundredths of a second. 
# Pre and Post song delays default to 0, Inter (between)
# song delay defaults to 200 (2 seconds) if Pre and
# Post are 0, otherwise it defaults to 0.

PreSongDelay = 200
PostSongDelay = 100
InterSongDelay = 0

The second one:

[Timers]
# These timers are specified in centiseconds (1/100th of a second)

DelayBeforeSong = 100
DelayAfterSong = 0

# DelayBetweenSongs will override SongDelay if it's specified in
# jukebox.ini, on the assumption that if it's specified here there is
# probably an animation or sound effect tied to it.
DelayBetweenSongs = 100

I would assume that only one of these should be in this file. Is the first one the correct one?

I have just ripped an number of CD and am trying to add them to the database. Certain songs are causing WinCab to crash. I have set the debuglevel to 5. If I remove the last song found in the log file, it will continue to add files until it comes to another one. These files names are all very long but I am not sure that this is the problem. What should I be looking at to fix this problem?

Lastly, are you familiar with Replaygain? I have been using it recently and it seems to work very well. Is there a way that this could be used with WinCab?

Thanks, Bryce.

Chris:
How in the world did I do that?  Yes, the first one should be correct.

I am aware of ReplayGain but it is not likely to be supported any time soon.

The files that crash WinCab are likely to be bad MP3 files.  Windows Media Player is a lot more tolerant of bad MP3's than WinCab is, but Microsoft has a few more programmers on it than I do.  :)

froggerman:
Hi Chris,

I think there is zero chance that this problem is caused by bad MP3 files. These files were just generated from the wave files. I think it is because of the length of the ID3 Artist, Album and Title.

Here are the Titles (file names) that have the problem:

02 - I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be A Diamond Someday).mp3
11 - Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver).mp3
08 - If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me.mp3
20 - If You're Gonna Play In Texas (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band).mp3
14 - Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian).mp3
20 - Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You).mp3
13 - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor (On The Bedpost Over Night).mp3

Also, any Title in the following directory won't work:

The Rock 'N' Roll Era - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons- 1962-1967

I know that this is a strange problem, but you might want to have a look at your code when you have a chance.

This is not stopping me from doing anything. I just thought you would like to know.

Cheers, Bryce.

Chris:

--- Quote from: froggerman on April 12, 2007, 02:02:02 am ---I think there is zero chance that this problem is caused by bad MP3 files. These files were just generated from the wave files. I think it is because of the length of the ID3 Artist, Album and Title.

--- End quote ---
You could try turning off ID3 support if you belkieve ID3 tags are the problem.  The juke crops any long strings down to 64 characters before storing them, though, to deal with just this sort of issue.

--- Quote ---Also, any Title in the following directory won't work:

The Rock 'N' Roll Era - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons- 1962-1967

--- End quote ---
The ampersand is probably the issue.  Until I fix it, if you change & to "and" it should work.

froggerman:
Hi Chris,

I tired your suggestion to turn of the ID3 support and I was able to scan the entire mp3 collection with no problem. This does not produce the same results as the ID3 tags but it should help to localize the problem.

I tried taking out the ampersand for Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, but that did not change the problem.

I have the a small file with the last group of messages from the WinCab log file (Debug leve 5) if you would like to have a look.

Cheers, Bryce.

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