mikea
February 6th, 2005, 07:16 AM
I've been using the latest version of NR (.20) with the latest Itunes for a few days now with a large library.
The whole thing is totally frustrating, whenever the client device is left for a period of time while songs are playing for example. When you come back to the client to select more songs, the "+" buttons on the tree menus are inactive and nothing will work. NR on the client doesn't give any connection problem errors....
But, when I switch on my monitor on the host PC MediaBridge has crashed. I hover my mouse over the system tray icon and it dissapears, indicating a crash.
This happens all the time. My PPC when left doesnt shut down, it remains in it's dock fully switched on but somehow causes mediabridge to crash after a period of inactivity.
I'm not sure whether or not it has something to do with the playlists, and the fact that on the host certain playlists are being updated by themselves(25 most played, recently added, recently played etc etc). In fact I often notice the recently added and recently played tree menus on the client don't open 90% of the time, and when they do they take ages. Much much longer than opening the full library itself(all songs).
This is happening to me everytime I use NR now, sometimes MediaBridge lists up to 5 clients connected even though there is only 1. In fact as soon as MediaBridge is launched it switches between 2 and 1 clients, like a twitch. This didn't happen with previous versions.
Just to recap:
Start up MediaBridge+itunes
Start up Client
Play a couple songs then stop
Leave PPC for a while ( say 20/30 minutes )
Go back to PPC
Doesn't work, because MediaBridge crashes.
I'm using the default skin btw.
Update: I think it's definately the playlists. Even just trying to view the playslits on the client causes MediaBridge to crash. I did a test just now. And when navigating through the playlists on the client, not playing anything, just opening the tree menus. MediaBridge starts adding more clients connected. I went from 1 --> 3 and then it crashed.
The whole thing is totally frustrating, whenever the client device is left for a period of time while songs are playing for example. When you come back to the client to select more songs, the "+" buttons on the tree menus are inactive and nothing will work. NR on the client doesn't give any connection problem errors....
But, when I switch on my monitor on the host PC MediaBridge has crashed. I hover my mouse over the system tray icon and it dissapears, indicating a crash.
This happens all the time. My PPC when left doesnt shut down, it remains in it's dock fully switched on but somehow causes mediabridge to crash after a period of inactivity.
I'm not sure whether or not it has something to do with the playlists, and the fact that on the host certain playlists are being updated by themselves(25 most played, recently added, recently played etc etc). In fact I often notice the recently added and recently played tree menus on the client don't open 90% of the time, and when they do they take ages. Much much longer than opening the full library itself(all songs).
This is happening to me everytime I use NR now, sometimes MediaBridge lists up to 5 clients connected even though there is only 1. In fact as soon as MediaBridge is launched it switches between 2 and 1 clients, like a twitch. This didn't happen with previous versions.
Just to recap:
Start up MediaBridge+itunes
Start up Client
Play a couple songs then stop
Leave PPC for a while ( say 20/30 minutes )
Go back to PPC
Doesn't work, because MediaBridge crashes.
I'm using the default skin btw.
Update: I think it's definately the playlists. Even just trying to view the playslits on the client causes MediaBridge to crash. I did a test just now. And when navigating through the playlists on the client, not playing anything, just opening the tree menus. MediaBridge starts adding more clients connected. I went from 1 --> 3 and then it crashed.