Explorer/OGG-crashes

[Gornot]

I have had this problem since the first time I started encoding my music to OGG. Whenever the file has a big name (for example: 08 - The Odyssey (Odysseus' Theme - Overture - Journey To Ithaca - The Eye - Circe (Daughter Of The Sun) - Sirens - Scylla And Charybdis - The Fate Of The Suitors - Champion Of Ithaca.ogg), Windows Explorer crashes down on me and totally destroys my system-tray icons (for example, if WinFastWizard was running before the crash, after it, when Explorer goes back again, the process is still there in Task Manager, but the tray icon doesn't appear). Is that a problem with the OGG or the Explorer (although I suspect both) and can it be fixed?

I don't think that encoding settings matter, but just in case:
I'm using I'm not gonna tell you which software; 44100 kHz,16 bit, stereo, 96 kpbs which produces great quality with abnormally small filesize (a 2 hour concert=80MB)

[gameplaya15143]

This sounds like the winxp preview + oggds0995 issue.

I highly recommend disabling the 'preview' thing in winxp completely by using:
regsvr32 /u c:\windows\system32\shmedia.dll
(where c: is your drive where windows is installed)
By disabling it completely, you will never run into these kind of problems again, not to mention killing that annoying 'first frame preview' junk for a lot of video files (which is slooow). Becides you are better off with a better shell tagger like mp3infp, etc.

If you don't want to do that...

To disable the preview for just ogg, open regedit, start searching from the top of the tree for "ogg", the first thing it finds is the extension in classes, delete it completely, and ogm as well. Re-associate your ogm and ogg files to the programs of your choice and the problem should be gone.

[setarip_old]

@Gornot

Hi!Whenever the file has a big name ... Windows Explorer crashesHave you tested your theory by simply renaming one such file to Test.ogg or similar? - Or by eliminating blank spaces, apostrophes, and parentheses?

[foxyshadis]

Win32 has a 255 character path limit. If that name is in a path any longer than 67 characters, windows explorer and most media players will lose the ability to access it. The only way to get it back in that case is the use of software that uses kernel-mode to open the file. (One workaround is to move the folder containing them to the root.)

Maybe it's OggDS crashing nonetheless, since Explorer would simply stop doing anything to the file if you hit the limit. Should still make sure you avoid it.

If you happen to have oggds, it's a good idea to toss it. Haali's splitter is a much more stable shell extension, and it's more stable and bug-free (also for decoding when combined with a current ffdshow) even if you don't use that.

[Gornot]

@Gornot

Hi!Have you tested your theory by simply renaming one such file to Test.ogg or similar? - Or by eliminating blank spaces, apostrophes, and parentheses?

I have 7000 songs in .ogg format, it only happens if the file has a long name.

Thanks for the tips...

EDIT - I highly recommend disabling the 'preview' thing in winxp completely by using:
regsvr32 /u c:\windows\system32\shmedia.dll
Thanks, this one workes out. i'll have to remember it :)