Topic: a little mkwACT help

[Rob D.]

I recently upgraded my old WIN98 to XP and everything's just fine, except when I drop wav files into mkwACT (ver 0.97) to convert to SHN, I get a  "Error reported by Shorten DLL:"  It converts without a problem if I turn off adding seek tables so there's only a problem if I have the 'create seek tables' option on.  Anyone else get this?

[hzgone]

give this a shot, change the compatibility option on the program to win2k it should fix your problem.  To do this go to the program in the start menu right click on the program choose properties and the click on the compatibility tab

[Gordon]

use flac

[Rob D.]

I've done some reading on this and apparently, mkwACT failing the seek tables on an XP platform is very common. So knowing that, I'm starting to (finally!) use FLAC. Thanks for the advice! Right now I'm encoding at 8 and once finished, creating a fingerprint file. Anything else I should be doing? Thanks! -Rob.

[Gordon]

I also test the files after I encode them.  I know it when it encodes it says "verifys ok" but I still test them.  just drop the files in and hit test.