Last night I (finally) got a folder that played all the way through from end to end in Jukebox.

I still don't believe this is a bug in BiaB, though.

And that is simply because *Any Other Folder of Songs I Have Here, And I Have Many, Does Not Exhibit This Jukebox Malfunction* -- only your folder of songs that you sent to me.

There is a clue somewhere in this thread. When you said that you hit the X to get out of a frozen BiaB. I *always* use ctrl-alt-del when BiaB freezes like that. If I don't, and continue working without a reboot, then the problem complicates as certain parts of BB likely didn't shut down or get cleared properly from memory cache, etc. This will indeed make you think that the program itself is written poorly as resources go on the decline, but the real reason for it is that BiaB MUST be abole to address its own critical and volatile files by writing to them when the program closes down. A freeze prevents that from happening - and worse yet, can corrupt the file to the point that if you just reopen BB and continue working, you run the risk of *all files after that point that you save can also become corrupted*.

I think that is the case here.

Matter of fact, I am the one who asked Peter Gannon if he could develop the "Return to Factory Settings" menu item because I used to have to do it so much and before the advent of that automated feature you had to open the bb folder and search for files and delete them in order to do the same thing. --And it was brought about for precisely the reason mentioned above, I did NOT do that only one time when BB froze up and, of course, that was night when I was preparing a LOT of work-critical resaves and the like.

There was no rhyme nor reason that I could figure out as to *which* files were corrupted and what was possibly corrupted in them, but my situation was presenting a rather different difficulty than this Jukebox situation. I never even thought about trying the Jukebox on those files back then, so I don't know what they would have done there.

I'm still investigating and testing, though.


--Mac

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