Some Oggs Are Better Than Others?

[BigO]

Media Player was crashing and emptying the playlist on every third song or so, and about at the same point. I put the blame on Media Player and bought tckPlayer. It crashed while scanning for loading its library...  I discovered that it was crashing at the same point in each scan, so that if I deleted the oggs that it was loading when it crashed, the crashes would not happen. Oddly, these seem to be the same oggs that made Media Player crash.

What's going on here? I've been ripping with the built-in ripping thing that comes with the KDE desktop/Konqueror (you just go to audiocd:/ and it displays the contents of the CD as MP3s, OGG, etc).

(I just posted about this elsewhere a little while ago... But now know a little more, so another post.   )

[Stubear]

Media Player was crashing and emptying the playlist on every third song or so, and about at the same point. I put the blame on Media Player and bought tckPlayer. It crashed while scanning for loading its library...  I discovered that it was crashing at the same point in each scan, so that if I deleted the oggs that it was loading when it crashed, the crashes would not happen. Oddly, these seem to be the same oggs that made Media Player crash.

What's going on here? I've been ripping with the built-in ripping thing that comes with the KDE desktop/Konqueror (you just go to audiocd:/ and it displays the contents of the CD as MP3s, OGG, etc).

(I just posted about this elsewhere a little while ago... But now know a little more, so another post.   )
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Not sure about mediaplayer, but tkcplayer doesn't like ogg files with mp3 tags on them - especially version 2 tags.

I had a bunch of oggs that would crash tkcplayer or just not show in the playlist, removed the tags and they worked fine.

hope this helps

Stu

[tumnus]

I get occassional random crashes with tkcPlayer while playing oggs. There seems to be no pattern to me. Sometimes it plays for an hour without a crash. Other times it crashes every couple of songs and that's with the same songs that played ok over an hour or whatever.

I use the audiocd KDE IO to rip oggs too, but it may depend on what version of KDE and libogg and libvorbis you have. I have the version of KDE from SuSE's supplementary feeds and the latest libogg and libvorbis from Packman and I don't think I have any bad oggs AFAIK. It just seems like tkcPlayer and the vorbis plugin are a bit buggy to me. They both definitely have memory leaks, which may lead to some of the random crashing that I see.