Freezes when playing sounds? - mIRC Discussion Forums

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.

Any mp3? A specific mp3? Only mp3s? What about wavs?

Need more info.

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.

Can you upload a/the mp3 file that crash mirc ?

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.

Did you read the advice given by Riamus?

Yeah, I tried stripping out the ID3 tag data, but it still has the same problem.

You made a manual play using mirc commands or are you using an addon?
If you are using an addon, try a diferent one.

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.

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.