This has happened in the past and and I've had it happen twice in the past 2 weeks. I'm using MP3Tag and renaming the files. MP3Tag gets to a file and hangs and crashes the computer but it's not on everything. Is there a way to check if the file is corrupt first?
Marc
Have you ruled out defective memory or CPU?
QUOTE (Marc @ Oct 28 2008, 16:51) 
Is there a way to check if the file is corrupt first?
Before attempting to tag, you could load your MP3s in foobar2000 and use the optional File Integrity Verifier component.
- M.
The whole computer should never crash, regardless of any possible errors in the mentioned program or audio file.
QUOTE (spoon @ Oct 29 2008, 09:51)
The whole computer should never crash, regardless of any possible errors in the mentioned program or audio file.
I realize that but it does! I used M's suggestion on the verifier and there were problems with the file so I ran both the "Fix VBR header" and "Rebuild MP3 string" ran MP3Tag again and it worked.
Marc
Perhaps you should have uploaded the files and settings which crashed your computer to see if this was a general and reproducible (and correctable) issue.
Simple applications like taggers should not even be able to bring down the whole OS. You usually have to target device driver vulnerabilities to do such thing.
Simple applications like taggers should not even be able to bring down the whole OS. You usually have to target device driver vulnerabilities to do such thing.
I'd run Memtest86+ on the machine.
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