So, I spent a few days to get it to work on my test machine, as i was trying out different programs and seeing which one I liked the best, so it was my sandbox of sorts. Eventually I took the plunge and spent the money and bought it. Now, I want to install it on a different machine so I can have my sandbox pc back, which frequently gets reformatted, and it doesn't work! ARRGH! I did everything the same:
Installed it the same
Copied the same version of lame.exe
Configured encoding, and all options the same
I let it go through the automatic input selection, and it eventually finds the music and I can see it playing in the recording level meters. The information from slacker is being displayed in the application along with the album art. I choose record, and NOTHING! In the other machine, you would see every song that it was encoding in the log file. The new machine doesn't show anything, just START and END when I try to close and reopen the app. It DID, however, create a couple files. I don't know how or why, but it seemed like they were created by closing out AOM while it was recording. I don't know what jolt caused to create those files, but I maybe got like three files out of it, and that's all she wrote.
It is a Dell Optiplex GX620 with XP sp2 and I have upgraded the sound drivers to the latest from Dell. I have uninstalled and reinstalled more than once. It's not even creating the album art file, so it's like it doesn't even see the source, even though all things point to that it is seeing it. I have tried encoding with both wav and mp3 and nothing on either front. Because the log file is not picking it up, I'm assuming it's an input issue, not an encoding problem.
Also, during the install, I get an error that it cannot update the windows file c:\windows\system32\scrrun.dll because it is being protected by windows. I think I had this same error when i first installed it on my test machine, but it still eventually worked, so I didn't think anything about it when i installed it this time. Could this be the problem?
Did I just waste my hard-earned $37?? It worked well on my sandbox machine, but now I have to move it and it's not happening. Are these serial numbers tied to the machine hardware? I didn't think so, but...
Thanks
Ryan