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
-------' use my system properly, eg. wb hangs etc.

          - 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 :(


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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