I haven't seen any real helpful replies to this thread, or in the
Knowledgebase, so thought I'd post my experience with this problem.

WMP10, WinXP Home SP2, 996 MHz PIII w/256 MB RAM

I didn't notice the problem until I installed the software that came with my
wife's Creative Zen Nano (same as MuVo) MP3 player. It installed a USB mass
media driver, an alternate media player and a few other bits.

Soon after I noticed the > 2 minute freeze on every track information edit
attempt in WMP. Editing worked, it was just painfully slow. Otherwise WMP
worked alright. Updating to the latest WMP10 download didn't help.

I used the Add or Remove Programs control to uninstall all of the MP3 player
software, and Add/Remove Windows components to uninstall WMP10. Then
re-downloaded the latest version of WMP10, installed it, and reinstalled the
MP3 player mass media driver only. Problem is gone.

I haven't tried reinstalling the MP3 player's alternate media player, don't
care enough to find out if I can.

Hope this helps somebody.

John


"Squall_leonhart" wrote:
>
>
> "Mike Williams [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Brad wrote:
> > > I am getting this same behavior on a new Dell system I just set up. I
> > > haven't identified the cause yet. But any time I edit any album data,
> > > WMP stops responding for between 30 seconds and a minute. If I'm
> > > playing music at the time, the playback continues.
> >
> > Quite common in my experience in v9 and v10. I was editing a field in
> > the Rip window and WMP v10 froze for 30 seconds. I don't think it
> > handles threading between UI and background tasks (e.g. updating media
> > files) very well.
> >
>
>
> oddly enough all is well again
>
> i have noticed that some programs that run off the Rundll32 core do have
> some lockups
>
> i am having troubles with long load times on sandrasoft programs and
> sometiems easy cd creator 6
>
> they all load up in the end though so who knows

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"J. Lowery" wrote:

> I haven't seen any real helpful replies to this thread, or in the
> Knowledgebase, so thought I'd post my experience with this problem.
>
> WMP10, WinXP Home SP2, 996 MHz PIII w/256 MB RAM
>
> I didn't notice the problem until I installed the software that came with my
> wife's Creative Zen Nano (same as MuVo) MP3 player. It installed a USB mass
> media driver, an alternate media player and a few other bits.
>
> Soon after I noticed the > 2 minute freeze on every track information edit
> attempt in WMP. Editing worked, it was just painfully slow. Otherwise WMP
> worked alright. Updating to the latest WMP10 download didn't help.
>
> I used the Add or Remove Programs control to uninstall all of the MP3 player
> software, and Add/Remove Windows components to uninstall WMP10. Then
> re-downloaded the latest version of WMP10, installed it, and reinstalled the
> MP3 player mass media driver only. Problem is gone.
>
> I haven't tried reinstalling the MP3 player's alternate media player, don't
> care enough to find out if I can.
>
> Hope this helps somebody.
>
> John
>
>
> "Squall_leonhart" wrote:
> >
> >
> > "Mike Williams [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> > > Brad wrote:
> > > > I am getting this same behavior on a new Dell system I just set up. I
> > > > haven't identified the cause yet. But any time I edit any album data,
> > > > WMP stops responding for between 30 seconds and a minute. If I'm
> > > > playing music at the time, the playback continues.
> > >
> > > Quite common in my experience in v9 and v10. I was editing a field in
> > > the Rip window and WMP v10 froze for 30 seconds. I don't think it
> > > handles threading between UI and background tasks (e.g. updating media
> > > files) very well.
> > >
> >
> >
> > oddly enough all is well again
> >
> > i have noticed that some programs that run off the Rundll32 core do have
> > some lockups
> >
> > i am having troubles with long load times on sandrasoft programs and
> > sometiems easy cd creator 6
> >
> > they all load up in the end though so who knows

well the problem appears gone.. i think it was a damn via bug.... man.. via
chips suck bad these days