Interesting. In my debugging efforts, here is what I did today and
yesterday after reviewing your analysis of the debug report and after
reading the website that you provided a link to, in order:
a) Moved a few m4a files from my music file hard drive (f:) to my
regular hard drive (c:) that has all other program files (including
slimserver) and all data files. As I suspected, that didnt solve any
m4a playback issues at all.
b) Downloaded a few WAV and FLAC files and discovered that they play
perfectly through slimserver.
c) Went into the Control Panel to check out file associations. To my
surprise, there wasnt an entry for a .m4a extension. However, there
was an entry for an .aac extension. I changed the default program to
open an .aac file (what is the difference between .aac and .m4a?) from
Quicktime to slim.exe. This did not help with the .m4a playback
issues at all.
d) However, within minutes after making that modification, I received
an interesting error message, given that I had not seen it in my three
week effort since upgrading to Vista to get m4a files to play
correctly. Vista Ultimate has certain color schemes that are not
compatible with older programs. I soon received a message that
appeared only briefly, stating that A running program is incompatible
with certain elements of
[it disappeared before I could read the entire
message]. However, then the following message appeared:
The color scheme has changed
The following program has performed an action that requires Windows to
temporarily change the color scheme to Windows Vista Basic.
Program: mov123.exe
Publisher: <unavailable>
Process identifier (PID): 1260
Windows will automatically change the color scheme back to Windows
Vista Aero when this program or other programs performing similar
actions are no longer running.
What I find interesting is that given that I had never seen that error
message before, was Vista not recognizing mov123 before? That doesnt
seem likely.
e) In Vista, I can right-click on any executable file, click
Properties, then click the Compatibility tab, and then choose to run
the program in XP XP2 mode. At various times, Ive been running
slim, slimtray, mov123, socketwrapper, etc. in compatibility mode.
Mov123 was in compatibility mode when I received the above error
message. I went in and turned compatibility mode off for all
slimserver-related files, and I have no longer been receiving the above
error message. However, I had been running mov123 in compatibility mode
before, but had never been receiving that message.
f) I then right-clicked on a .m4a file, as I remembered that I could
also change what program opens the file in the General tab there. All
of the .m4a files were set to open with a windows system program
(unfortunately, I did not write down which, and as soon as I changed
the setting for one file, it changed the setting for all .m4a files).
I changed the default for .m4a to slim.exe. Once I did that, I
re-opened file associations in the control panel to see that a file
association for .m4a was not listed. However, that didnt solve the
problem: it still took 10 to 20 seconds for an .m4a file to start
playing (and that was after rescanning my library.
g) Next, I uninstalled both iTunes and QuickTime. Much to my surprise,
this had the effect of causing .m4a files not to play at all in
slimserver anymore. Id click on Play, nothing, nada. So, I
reinstalled both iTunes and Quicktime, and presto, I was back to my
same 10 to 20 seconds for an .m4a file to play.
h) Last, I changed the .m4a association from slim to mov123. That
didnt solve the problem, either.
So, Im back where I started, with no end in sight. Do I need to
convert my 150 gib library from .m4a to something else? Ugh. Do I need
to go back to XP? Other than this issue, everything has worked
flawlessly with Vista for me. Ugh. Any suggestions?
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