Crash on startup on Windows

[RJ Skerry-Ryan]

Hello at all,

I'm following this developers newsletter for some time and was very
excited seeing 1.11 growing up. As I read that it is released I was so
excited to see the result and installed it immediately on my laptop.
Unfortunately there is a huge bug and I first want to ask if anyone had
this bug too until now. I describe the situation and the things I've done:

I had 1.10 already on my computer and installed 1.11 (without
uninstalling 1.10). I started Mixxx and tested it with some music from
my internal hard drive. I loaded a file into the left deck and started
it. All good, the file played and I heard the music. After that I wanted
so search another song and load it into the right deck. While browsing
in the file browser (to be correct: while changing the folder) the left
deck didn't play anymore. So, the waveform kept moving, but there was no
sound at all. The right deck played without any problems. OK, maybe a
problem with the file itself, so I tried loading another one into the
left deck. But trying this I only get the message that the song is
loading and nothing happens. This state continues until I restart Mixxx.
The problem still exists after restarting. I thought maybe it's a
problem the arises because of installing 1.11 over an existing 1.10. So
I uninstalled all Mixxx stuff I had on my computer, deleted the user
config files from the windows user folder and reinstalled Mixxx. But,
the problem still exists.
So I wanted to ask if I did something wrong?! Is there anything that I
can try which I didn't tried until now? Does anyone of you had or have
this problem too?

Best regards,
Stefan Hinkel

Hmm... some kind of strange things are happening. I think I have to do
more tests. I tried 1.11 also on my subnotebook running Windows 8
Professional 64 bit, and after the first start, where both decks
crashed, it worked after the second start. On this computer I first
uninstalled 1.10 an installed 1.11 subsequent. On my big laptop running
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit it still doesn't work. I will try it with
my Hercules RMX to figure out if this behavior is due to the used sound
card. If I have any further information and the problem still remains I
will file a bug.

Best,
Stefan

[Stefan Hinkel (t-root-stefan)]

Hi,

Ich just wrote an email some days ago and asked where to get such a compiled debug build of mixxx, but I didn't get any answer ^^ Nevertheless I experimented a little bit with the behaviour. I also reinstalled windows completely to make sure it is not the problem. The bug still remains. BUT I could investigate, that the "crash" only appears when I load files that are typed as m4a. Mixxx obviously discovers not only plain music files but also video files and tries to play them. When I play such a file in a deck and then try to list the content of a folder that contains music files in the file browser of mixxx, the playing deck gets silent immediately (though the waveform is still running). All tries to unload the file from the deck or load another file (even if it is a plain music file) fail. Mixxx just tells me that it loads the file... and it loads and loads and loads and loads... This remains until I restart mixxx completely.
So far for now. I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Stefan Hinkel

[Sean M. Pappalardo (pegasus-renegadetech)]

Sorry about that. We don't have any pre-compiled debug builds yet because we actually must rebuild all of the dependencies as well in debug mode in order to make one and we had problems doing that the last time we tried.

As for your issue, it sounds like you've gotten past the crash-on-startup problem? When Mixxx is stuck loading a track as you last described, what are the last 10 lines in mixxx.log?

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

For anyone else experiencing this issue, please try out our new Windows builds:
http://mixxx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6617&p=22695

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/7029