DW Jukebox 3.3.1 and loading mp3s issue

[swamprat96]

I'm just finishing off an upright for a friend and the entire system including DWjukebox is cloned from my cocktail cab that I built a couple of years ago.

However the friend wants to use the Jukebox in a slightly different way to me in that he wants to use a memory stick to store the music. No problem -changed the path and the stick works but:

If I load heaps of songs (say 50) onto the stick the database starts generating then seems to get stuck at a certain point. The message is "Updating Database" then a dot.

I'm suspecting one or more of the mp3s is in some kind of format that it does not like - or over a certain amount it slows down. If I load a shorter list it is lightning fast and ready to roll in seconds. If I hit escape it clears the error and most of the music is available.

So
1. Is there a type of MP3 not to use (say VBR?)
2. Is there any kind of test program I could use to verify the stick contents?
3. Is there a limit to the number of songs I can load?

I've checked through the forum but can't seem to find answers.

[Chris]

Are the songs in the root of the flash drive?  If so,does putting them in a folder make a difference?

Occasionally you will find an MP3 that is coded improperly... many of these will work properly in Windows Media Player but crash the jukebox.  Even so they shouldn't crash just on indexing, though.  Could be a corrpt ID3 tag, perhaps.  If you set DebugLevel=3, run the jukebox, then look at the jbdebug.log file after it crashes, it may show what the last song it tried to load when it crashed was.