On my parents' old computer, they had WinXP Home SP2 with MusicMatch. They gave it to my cousin 2 years ago when I bought them a new one. Now the cousin is having problems with the computer crashing. The old system is something like a 500MHz Pentium III with 256M RAM, and a 13G hard drive. (MusicMatch was the paid-for full version.) I have a computer degree. My mother INSISTS that when you have "too much music" on the hard drive, it causes the PC to crash. And we're talking 15-20 MP3s, not a thousand. She insists that you have to burn the music off on CD for everything to work okay. There isn't much else on the hard drive. I've not worked with MusicMatch before, but even though I assure her I have over 1300 songs (which I've played through Winamp, WMP, and iTunes) on my computer (1.7GHz, 512M RAM, WinXP SP2), nothing is wrong with my computer. Even though I have an associate's degree in computers, she refuses to listen to me and thinks the only possible cause is "too many songs" on the computer. I have told her time and time again over the past few years that 15-20 files should not be "too much" for that computer to handle. Furthermore, she insists it makes the whole computer slow, not just MusicMatch, when you have that many files on it. (I have disabled MusicMatch's autoloader in MSConfig, and I'm proficient in antispyware and general computer maintenance.) If any of you happen to know of any fixes/patches for MusicMatch, please tell me! Edit note: My error, it was more like 500MHz, which I've corrected above, in which case it could be too slow. I will look up MM's system requirements. In the meantime, I still appreciate your help.
Not necessarily. Sometimes MM does crash it, but not always. The crashes seem to be fairly random. I see that MM recommends 1GHz, but requires 300MHz, so that could very well be why she has problems running it, but still - simply having numerous files on the PC (and by numerous, I mean under 100!), music or otherwise, is not the cause of the problem... and I can't get that through to my mom, who has passed this info on to my cousin. She insists that when she owned the computer and burned off all the music and photos to CD, and deleted them from the hard drive, the problem disappeared. That's why it's driving me so batty! I have, as I've said here and told her, over 1300 songs, and probably close to 3000 images/photos/other things on my computer, and it runs fine. The computer lives an hour away now and I won't have access to it until I visit again, probably sometime this week or next, but in the meantime I've suggested she avoid running MM.