Winamp crashes after adding media to library

[marillion2k]

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This thread is old and relates mainly to v5.62 which is a very old Winamp release and the issues which led to this thread have since been resolved.
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I have a really annoying problem that I can't seem to find a solution to ... Winamp keeps crashing after I add new media to the library.

I run 64 bit Windows 7 and have all my media on an external/usb powered hard drive. Up until recently I didn't have any issues but as of lately winamp will crash after I add new media to the library. I currently have a pretty large library (close to 60,000 songs) and I was wondering if Winamp has a library size limit. Also, would the fact that my media is on an external drive be an issue? Is there or will there ever be a 64 bit version of Winamp where issues like these will not exist?

Looking at my windows app log in the event viewer, I find the following info on the crash:

Faulting application name: winamp.exe, version: 5.6.2.3189, time stamp: 0x4ea85649
Faulting module name: MSVCR90.dll, version: 9.0.30729.6161, time stamp: 0x4dace5b9
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0003afac
Faulting process id: 0xec8
Faulting application start time: 0x01ccb53c7715e7b8
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\winamp.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.6161_none_50934f2ebcb7eb57\MSVCR90.dll
Report Id: 0e156ad4-2130-11e1-9ff5-0021704be9c3

Does anybody have any ideas on how I could go about solving this very annoying issue? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Cheers
Rudy

[MrSinatra]

do u embed artwork? what quality?

what audio filetypes? what ver winamp? any 3rd party plugins?

[marillion2k]

Hi MrSinatra. Yep, I embed artwork. The quality is varying. Sometimes they are fairly large sized pictures, sometimes they are as large as a google images thumbnail. I mostly copypaste from the web directly into the artwork section of the tag. Audio filetypes are all mp3's with different bitrates, all mostly CBR. Winamp is latest version (5.622 (x86)). I don't *think* I use any 3rd party plugins, but can't be a 100% sure.

[MrSinatra]

all signs point to your embedded art being too much, but post your onefornunz list anyway.

[marillion2k]

My onefornunz list is attached as a zip file. If the problem is embedded art, what can I do to circumvent? I don't have a very slow pc (core2quad 2.4 ghz, 8gb ram) so I would think that a large library including embedded art should not be a problem. If it is, it is not very clear anywhere that you should be mindful when adding art, looking at filesizes and such ...

[marillion2k]

Well I didn't see my attachments ... Let me try again...

[thinktink]

Does it still crash if you switch to Classic Skins?

[marillion2k]

Just tried and switched to classic skins ... seems to be holding up okay so far. So that certainly is a workaround for the issue seemingly ... I still would love to know how to fix it altogether though. Thanks for the hint, thinkthink!

[marillion2k]

Spoke too soon, just crashed again. It would let me work with it a while longer than with a modern skin setting though ...

[MrSinatra]

i'm no expert, but the only thing that jumps out at me is the mp3+g plugin, i know nothing about it.

in any case, winamp does seem to have a problem with embedded art, esp if you have lots of songs and/or the art is HQ/large filesizes.

i don't embed, i use one Folder.jpg in the album dir.

[feneyes]

hi, i have the same problem, i embedd artwork but never had this problem before, maybe it has to do with the size of the library, i have over 275000 mp3 files added to the library.

[Batter Pudding]

You could try scanning the library in chunks. It depends how your folders are organised really.

It is not the count of tracks that is the problem. It sounds like there are issues when lots of high res artwork is read in at the same time.

There have also been cases were some corrupted files can kill a scan. Watch to see if there is a pattern as to when your scan fails.

[feneyes]

Never had this problem before, scanning in chunks is a little difficult, all the files are held on a usb3.0 external harddrive, organised on genre\artist\album, all the files are tagged in the same way and renamed like artist - album - track - title

[Batter Pudding]

Have you checked it does not always die at the same point due to a corrupted file?

It could be helpful to the devs to know how much large artwork you have, and bring up task manager and watch to see if the memory allocation is climbing constantly (as per examples of this issue in other threads)

And if everything is in the one folder, you could scan using Drag and Drop maybe? At least to get your library up to date.

[MrSinatra]

this thread reminded me of these old issues, maybe the people having the crashes could try 5.7 and see if they can generate a crash report?

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?p=2945306