Bob,

I take your point, but the specification here...

http://www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.requirements.htm

...makes no mention of CPU type or clock speed, and only asks for a minimum of 512MB of RAM.

Crashes, segmentation violations and missing instruments on songs don't immediately suggest to the user that his computer isn't powerful enough.

I wonder if a dual progress indicator like there is in a YouTube viewer could be implemented instead of the text indicator saying how many % of the track for each instrument had been generated. If proportion of total played is seen to catch up with proportion of total generated just before things start going wrong, the obvious conclusion can be drawn.

I'm not getting these crashes now that I've disabled fast generation, and I hope my colleague will follow suit.

Mac,

Thanks for the tip - it's just a matter of knowing (and remembering!) where to look...