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Freezes when playing sounds? #231333 13/04/11 04:04 AM
R RShackle
RShackle R	I'm using mIRC version 7.19, and whenever I attempt to play an mp3, mIRC freezes. I'm running 64 bit Windows 7, and just switched over from an older computer about a week ago.

Re: Freezes when playing sounds? #231334 13/04/11 08:47 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,641 Montreal, QC, Canada A argv0 Hoopy frood
argv0 Hoopy frood A Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,641 Montreal, QC, Canada	Any mp3? A specific mp3? Only mp3s? What about wavs? Need more info.

Re: Freezes when playing sounds? #231338 13/04/11 10:14 AM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA R Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood R Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA	Usually when I see this issue, it's due to a MP3 with corrupted ID3 tags. Get a free ID3 tag editor and remove the tags from the file and try playing it again. You can then add them back yourself if you want to.

Re: Freezes when playing sounds? #231340 13/04/11 12:11 PM
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,020 France W Wims Hoopy frood
Wims Hoopy frood W Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,020 France	Can you upload a/the mp3 file that crash mirc ? #mircscripting @ irc.swiftirc.net == the best mIRC help channel

Re: Freezes when playing sounds? argv0 #231345 13/04/11 06:47 PM
R RShackle
RShackle R	The problem occurs when I try to play any mp3, but wavs work just fine. I searched and found a user that was having the opposite problem, so they just converted their wavs to mp3s, but this solution isn't practical for me. The mp3s all worked in mIRC on my old computer, but for some reason, it locks up mIRC on my new computer when I attempt to play them. Last edited by RShackle; 13/04/11 06:49 PM.

Re: Freezes when playing sounds? #231352 14/04/11 08:16 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,641 Montreal, QC, Canada A argv0 Hoopy frood
argv0 Hoopy frood A Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,641 Montreal, QC, Canada	Did you read the advice given by Riamus?

Re: Freezes when playing sounds? argv0 #231365 14/04/11 11:04 PM
R RShackle
RShackle R	Yeah, I tried stripping out the ID3 tag data, but it still has the same problem.

Re: Freezes when playing sounds? #231527 22/04/11 12:42 AM
Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 306 Portugal T tontito Fjord artisan
tontito Fjord artisan T Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 306 Portugal	You made a manual play using mirc commands or are you using an addon? If you are using an addon, try a diferent one. Last edited by tontito; 22/04/11 12:43 AM.

Re: Freezes when playing sounds? #239339 17/10/12 05:09 PM
T Truk
Truk T	I have had serious issues with mirc crashing on sound events in my 64 win 7 OS that did not happen on another 32 bit win 7 OS. I messed with it until i discovered that I had multiple sound events firing on the same trigger. Example would be if someone said my nick name then under Highlight from Alt-n and Highlight settings would fire a sound event on my nick and I also had a script file that did a /sound event on my nick also. This would crash it no mater what the sound file format was and removing mp3 tags mad no difference at all. I tested wav and mp3. The only fix was to remove the multiple events and only have one sound event fire. Good Luck.

Re: Freezes when playing sounds? #239347 18/10/12 07:22 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,840 London, UK Khaled Hoopy frood
Khaled Hoopy frood Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,840 London, UK	Thanks for the bug report, unfortunately I am unable to reproduce this issue here under Windows 7 64bit with the latest release version of mIRC v7.25. The following script looks in your sounds folder for wav files and plays up to 10 files almost simultaneously. If you add the following script to your aliases section and then run it with the command /test, are you able to reproduce the crash? Code: test { var %dir = $mircdir $+ sounds var %n = $findfile(%dir, .wav, 0) if (%n > 10) %n = 10 var %m = 1 var %d = 100 while (%m <= %n) { var %file = $findfile(%dir, .wav, %m) timer -m 1 %d /splay %file inc %d 100 inc %m } } The most common cause for a crash when playing a sound is your Windows sound drivers. Some 64bit sound drivers seem to implement support for the Windows Media Control Interface (MCI) library in a way that is not reliable. Which sound card/drivers are you using? You should make sure that you update your Windows sound drivers to the latest version for your computer. You may want to try uninstalling them first through the Windows Control Panel Device Manager and then letting Windows reinstall them through Windows Update.

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