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songbird 1.2 crashes in Microsoft XP
I know a lot of people have reported crashes in various OS with songbird. But I couldn't find anything on Microsoft XP - a guy called Atreiu says his is working fine on XP. But I'm having all sorts of issues. Crashes like every 5 minutes. I haven't added any add-ons recently no settings changed in both my OS and songbird. It seems to me like it might be a problem with the update. It currently plays AT BEST upto one song before crashing.
Any comments, suggestions and ideas would be greatly appreciated (cause I love songbird and I hope this gets fixed quick!)
Any comments, suggestions and ideas would be greatly appreciated (cause I love songbird and I hope this gets fixed quick!)
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Hi there Naegling,
Have you used previous versions of songbird before? If yes, is this a problem that appeared with version 1.2.0 ? -
Inappropriate?Hi Lenny,
Thanks for responding. Yeah Ive been using songbird since about January i think. First crash I have ever had and yes it has happened only after I downloaded songbird 1.2
I’m hopeful
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Inappropriate?I myself have no problem running 1.2.0 on XP.
In your case guess it wouldn't hurt to try and download a nightly, even though i suspect it is a little too soon to hope for it to work.
The second thing you could try would be to nuke your current Songbird profile completely, alternatively create a second one. This will only have a chance of success if you used the same profile over the previous versions of Songbird though.
Whatever your decision, I'm here to help you out.
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?Hi Naegling, like Lenney, I think that you might want to try to create a new Songbird Profile with the Profile Manager.1 Comment
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Yeah, I recon that might be the problem, no idea why though? -
Inappropriate?Hm, and somehow I have the totally arbitrary feeling, it might have something to do with the known L3CODECA.ACM problems...
It's pure instinct, but it can't hurt to try this, too:
1. Quit Songbird.
2. Open the Start menu and select "Run..."
3. Type "REGSVR32 L3CODECA.ACM" (no quotes) and hit enter.
4. Launch Songbird.
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Inappropriate?hey guys thanx a lot for the info - i tried atreiu's suggestion about the whole start menu run thing - and it seems to have worked! love your work atreiu. That said, I'm still having web browser issues - a guy called andrew put up a bug page for it on this link:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show...
do you reckon nuking my profile might fix this lenny? If so Ill give it a shot
I’m excited
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I'd recommend to create a new profile and see if that helps.
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Inappropriate?umm this mite seem silly but is this what u type in cmd window?
"cd C:\Program Files\Songbird\songbird -ProfileManager &" -
Inappropriate?I spoke too soon... its crashing again. Yeah Lenny I think Ill take your advice and go ahead and create a new profile - on that note could you instruct me on how to use profile manager?
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Inappropriate?hey lenny. doh' i cant download it because of the web browsing problem - do i just download it in a normal web browser? then what?
cheers
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yes, then drag and drop the .xpi file onto songbird
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Inappropriate?After you've installed the songbird dev tools, go to [tools] in the Songbird menu and select [enable profile manager].
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Inappropriate?hi lenny,
Ive tried all possible ways of dragging and dropping lol.
i exited songbird, drageed the .xpi file onto the songbird icon - this opened up songbird automatically but it didnt have any option there to enable profile manager1 Comment Add a comment
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did you try to just drop it in the playlist?
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Inappropriate?drop it in the playlist? what do u mean?
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Inappropriate?nvm i figured it out thanx
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Inappropriate?Have you had a chance to try it out? If you have, how did it go?
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Inappropriate?hey lenny
Just tried it out - thanks a lot for your help mate. For whatever reason, a new profile seems to have fixed both crashes and web browsing issues - ill make it a point to post this up on the bug page as well.
The only down point of course is installing all add-ons etc again but that a small price to pay for the genius that is songbird :)
Cheers dude
I’m thankful
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I'm just happy I could help. Enjoy your bird! :-D
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