Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, trying it on Windows has the same
effect. It can scan some files, but it gets stuck on others.  I've done
more testing, and here's what I've found.

First, the problem is with specific files, not with analyzing in
general. In other words, if I take an album of files and scan file by
file, some files will be analyzed appropriately (doing local analysis)
others will not. It is always the same files that don't get analyzed.
In other words, if I copy a clean version of the files and try to
re-analyze them, the ones that could be analyzed previously can again
be analyzed again; the ones that previously failed will still fail.

Second, I've now tried this on my main Arch system, an Ubuntu 11.04
system, my previous Ubuntu 10.04 system that has always worked, and on
a Windows XP system. I've also tried both genpuid and the MusicIP
interface (from the headless server).  The problem is exactly the same.
All these systems will scan some files, but the files that don't get
analyzed on one system also never get analyzed on the other. The way it
fails is exactly the same:  The log file says that the file is
fingerprinted, and then for files that can't be analyzed, mipcore just
disappears from the process list. I don't get the "analyzing" line in
the log file for those files.  In other words, if I analyze three files
successfully and then it hits one that fails, the log will state
"analyzing" and then "analyzed" for the first three songs, and then the
log just ends with no other message and no note that it is analyzing the
fourth song.

I checked, and this problem occurs for files that have successfully
been tagged in the past. I copy a clean file (with no MusicIP tags) and
only some can be analyzed. So it is not some change that Amazon did with
their new files they are distributing.

I have also tried copying my mp3 files to flac, just to check. Files
that can be analyzed as mp3s can also be analyzed as flac; files that
cannot be analyzed as mp3s also cannot be analyzed as flac. So it is
clearly not file size, as all are much larger as flacs; but it is the
case that the longer songs tend not to be analyzed, and short songs are
almost always analyzed. 

I've tried removing all tags before analyzing (don't think that should
matter) and the problem persists. 

I'm stuck and don't know what else to try!


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