Centrafuse 3.0 Crashes When Scanning Music Library

[mario]

Well I had the same thing when I installed cf 3 about a month ago. While CF 3 starts scanning the music folder it almost immediately stops ( am i right ?) CF3 does not crash but the scanning stops. This almost certain has to do with not having SQL compact edition installed (or installed correctly). the installation is included with CF 3 but i noticed that for some reason on my carpc the installation did not detect correctly if the SQL edition was installed. It must have thought it was installed because it did not install it. On my other pc the installation saw no SQL edition and installed it and it worked. On my carpc I manually had to install it. If it is still not working then the manual installation did not go well either (according to the log files it keeps complaining about missing SQL database). In my case I was no problem that I installed SQL after I had installed CF 3. So basicly I think that SQL is causing the problem

[ggalt]

Thanks to everyone who pointed me towards SQL. The issue appears to be a failed or only partial install of the Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition (v3.1, aka 2005). As you can see from my earlier attempts, I tried to load the latest version (v3.5) with no effect.

My steps for solving were:
1) Uninstall Centrafuse
2) Uninstall all versions of Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition
3) Restart
4) Install Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition v3.1 (aka 2005) from this link: http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...verCE31-EN.msi
5) Install Centrafuse
6) Rebuild library.

There are a few other things. At one point, I added the SQL Server path to my PATH environment. I have not deleted it, so I'm not sure if it is needed or not. No one else has seemed to need this, so it's not likely to be necessary.

Also, SQL Server Compact Edition v3.5 IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE. Installing it is ignored by Centrafuse. You need to have v3.1.

George

[Reagan]

George - Thank you for sharing your findings and detailed feedback with us.

[Setesh82]

I'm having the same issue the rebuild will get to around 20 songs and then Centrafuse crashes. I did find that if I slow my system down by starting a virus scan the rebuild will complete successfully.

Its not that difficult of a work around but any chance of limiting the speed at which the library is built if that is indeed whats going on?

[mrees]

Is there a command that can execute a library update so it could be scheduled after a file copy?

Cheerz