adding more songs at once to media library not possible

[beg]

Hi,

As I asked and described in winamp technical discussion forum there is following problem with the latest version of winamp 5.52

Whenever I try to add more than appr. 5000 songs to the media library I get the runtime error: (and the songs don't make it into the library of course)

Program: winamp.exe
R6025
-pure virtual function call

I use latest version of winamp.

I am adding only mp3-songs from a network folder which is mounted with a drive letter.

No change after clean reinstall.

I installed version 5.1! and added 40000 songs with same soft-/hardware setup in one scan/session without a problem. So there is definitely a problem with the latest version of winamp! An very, very annoying problem!

Bernhard

[DJ Egg]

We haven't been able to reproduce the problem
(one of the main Winamp devs has all his music on a network drive, and has successfully managed to add ~25,0000 files all in one go with 5.52)

v5.5x reads a lot more metadata than v5.1x did,
eg. composer, disc#, album artist, replaygain, bpm, apev2 tags, encoder, embedded albumart, etc etc.

More than likely, the file it's crashing on is corrupt in some form or other.

You'd need to watch the scan progress via:
Winamp -> Prefs -> Media Library -> Local Media -> Watch Folders
and find out which file it's crashing on,
and then upload said file to some webspace and provide us with a download link.

[beg]

thx for the answer.

hm, it's still very strange since I have organiced my mp3s in many different folders. So I tried to add different folders and when there are more than some thousand files I got that error when it took quite a long time to scan the folders..

But I will try to identify a file - I don't know how to do this by what you said.. How can I identify a certain file by watch the scan progress there? I never experienced problems doing that.. But I started to rescan again a folder which lead to that error while adding files..

but still - there is no problem with scanning the same files with version 5.1. ok, even if 5.52 is scanning more meta data it should not crash to the desktop while running into something what was no problem for 5.1. and this happened to several different scan processes. so for this special version of winamp I seem to have many buggy files which were no problem before.

cheers,
Bernhard

[DJ Egg]

There's a Scan progress meter in that dialog that shows the files being scanned,
so you should be able to see what file it actually crashes on.

Do the same files crash Winamp if you copy them to your internal ide hard drive and scan them in from there?

Was this a clean install of Winamp 5.52, with no extra / 3rd-party plugins?

[beg]

Hi,

it is a clean reinstall (deleted everything like it is said in the tutorial for clean deinstallation/reinstallation) - see first post..

install for german language - thats everything.

the files run through while being scanned, but this rescan of folders finishes without any message - so I don't know if it finish because it scanned everything, or maybe stopped in between, but without crashing to the desktop..?! There is not a filename displayed..

did not try to copy the files on the local disc yet, since it's a lot..

[DJ Egg]

Hmmm... so you're saying that the Scan actually completes all the way to 100%?
If so, then where/when is it crashing exactly?
Does it get past the "compacting files" section right at the end of the scan?

[beg]

Hi,

I don't know if the scan goes all the way.. There is no log, or finish dialog or any information. Therefore I have no idea how this can be of any help?!

It crashes when I try to add songs to the media library for the first time via the menu "add media to the media library" (translation from german..) which is no problem in 5.1 and leads to many crashes with 5.52.

There is no message doing the folder scan afterwards.

cheers,
Bernhard

[DJ Egg]

Hmm, but I already said above that you can watch the Scan progress meter via:
Winamp -> Prefs (Ctrl+P) -> Media Library -> Local Media -> Watch Folders tab.
Click the 'Rescan now' button.
Watch the progress meter as the filenames being scanned flash by
and tell us at what file or stage the crash occurs.

If it crashes on a file, provide us with a download link.

We can't fix anything unless we can reproduce the crash first.

[beg]

Hi,

I think there is a misunderstanding here - or it's too difficult for me to explain..

I get the error message when adding songs via the button Medienbibliothek (media library) on the bottom left corner in the bento skin > add media to the library. Then I can select a certain folder to be scanned and the files being added to the library. I can not watch the progress and I don't see a file provoking the error.

I do not get the error message using the watch folders tab you suggested. At least not when all the files are in the library already. I see thousands of files beeing scanned, rushing through the line and then it's over. No information here.

Bernhard

[the_straw]

DJ Egg,
The problem described here sounds like the same problem I'm having except it occurs when I rescan my music directory from withing Options/Prefs/Media Library/Local Media/Watch Folders/Rescan now, as you described in previous post (I have v5.5 + the in_mp3 plugin patch). The problem occurs when scanning the file and not the directories. Also, I tried Begs method and get the same problem but, without info regarding file.

Via the first method above I've noticed that the same song would cause the problem every time. The file plays fine. I can add the song to the library by setting the button "Automatically add played files" and then play thru Windows Explorer's file context menu. The file will then show up in the library. Then scanning the library again just finds another file with the same problem. The previous song forced into the library does not cause any additional problems.

Scanning the specific folder where the problem song resides using File/"Add Media to Library" method allowed it into the library without problems.

As Beg mentioned a log would be good as the single line in the Preferences window is shorter than some filenames. It also provides no info on progress other than watching it scan descendingly or ascendingly and randomly other times.

Before seeing this thread I posted a seperate message where I did a clean install, no 3rd party plugin and no pre-existing library files. The problem still occurs. Here is the link.
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=291967

I really do not want to start with a new library as there are a lot of ratings info, etc. which have been added to the current library, but not in the files, so they would be lost.

[spicetrader]

I think I have the same problem as beg. I'm using a mapped drive M:\ on Windows XP on a 10-year-old computer. M:\ has nothing on it but music mp3s arranged in folders and subfolders. I set the watch to rescan every 27 minutes. I deleted everything from the library. I left it for a day. Watch added nothing to the library. There was no error message.

[MrSinatra]

did you refresh the ML view?

and how many files are you adding? i would tell it every 120 minutes too, as u might be over taxing it.

[Aminifu]

Hi spicetrader,

What version of Winamp are you using? Are you sure the mapped drive is up and running and you have proper (unrestricted) access to it? Maybe the path + filenames are too long. Can you select and play songs from the mapped drive?