PROBLEM: SecondSpin won't recognize inserted audiodisc.
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- shouldn't happen.. recheck installation and preferences.
PROBLEM: bad audio quality.
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- some cd-rom drives output truncated audio packets which cause bad
audio quality.
- not all cd-rom drives support proper trackdownloading
HINT: Download a recent demoversion of MakeCD. It is able to extract
cdda tracks and you can easily see if you cd-rom drive sucks.
Also see the list of known working drives
- the layer 3 fast mode is in highly experimental stage. It can
result in decreased quality in all possible cases. Normal and HiFi
modes always give better results...
- if encoded mpeg files sound like some audio is missing now and then
(one beat is missing etc.), it usually is caused by badly
configured hd-filesystem. Try to download a track to ramdisk and to
harddrive and test if the audio is ok.
PROBLEM: The SecondSpin just freezes when it starts to encode a track
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- The LAME engine might have got jammed because of corrupted input.
Check the aiff file created by SecondSpin. If it's 0 bytes or very
small, the audio grabbing (cdda leeching) process might fail.
PROBLEM: When using AsimCDFS direct mode, the encoding goes well but I can't
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- you haven't enabled reselection and your cdrom takes over the scsi
bus.
PROBLEM: The track leeching / asimcdfs direct mode hangs
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- your cdrom or scsi settings etc. suck.. my philips cdd-3600 did
this but when taking care that scsi asyncron mode is on and
reselection is also on, I could eliminate the problem..
PROBLEM: The SecondSpin encoder crashes.
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- you might have installed a FPU version of the encoder although your
cpu doesn't have one, or it isn't working properly.
- you have found a bug in the code. please report it and hope it will
be fixed when the next release comes. (yeah, sure)
PROBLEM: Unable to initialize program GUI requester appears!
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- SecondSpin cannot open a window for its GUI. You're most probably
trying to run SecondSpin on too small screen. 640x480x1 is minimum.
PROBLEM: When encoding layer 1 or 2 files the speed display is nonsense
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- The speed display is correct only with 44100Hz 16 bit stereo files.
PROBLEM: Converting a lot of files with SecondSpin, the process halts until
-------' I select the window with mousepointer!
- Yup, this may happen and I have no clue why! It's more secure to use
iconified mode, then it works :(
PROBLEM: I'm trying to handle med modules, but only some of them appear in the
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- SecondSpin doesn't support MMD0 modules (due to med2xm restriction).
You'll have to load them into Octamed Soundstudio or older version
which is able to save them as MMD1, MMD2 or MMD3.
PROBLEM: When encoding directly from ASIMCDFS cd-rom device, ram-memory fills up!
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- Disable Stream CDDA Audio in ASIMCDFS Prefs.
GENERAL PROBLEM INFO:
- LAME engine is under continuous development so it might very well hang your
machine.. these things aren't caused by secondspin. So it's better to contact
the LAME port author.
- elfloadseg MUST be running if you try to run the ppc version or optinally
ppclibemu.
- After encoding of one track has been completed, your system might lock up
for couple of seconds. I have no precise idea what might cause it, possibly
the encoder additions made :).
- If you're going to send a bug/nag report, please tell these things too:
a) Your configuration, including CPU & CD-ROM Drive!
b) Send the information file, which is generated by SecondSpin:
- Use BETA VERSION MENU / SAVE SYSTEM INFORMATION
c) What audio cd / file were you encoding.
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