#577 XLD Crashes Scanning Files

[Kenneth Krutsch]

1. What steps will reproduce the problem?

Any time XLD displays the 'Scanning files...' dialog, XLD crashes when the scan is complete. In other words, rather than starting batched conversion, it simply crashes.

To reproduce, start with a collection of FLAC files to be converted to AAC (M4A). It doesn't seem to matter what the target file type is - still crashes if converting to AIFF.

Seleect the collection of files, right-click and send to XLD. Scanning files dialog appears. Scan completes, XLD crashes. Every time.

1. How about the reproducibility (always, sometimes, rarely, ...)?

Always. Everytime. Note that with a smaller collection of files, so that no Scanning files... dialog appears, XLD works correctly without crashing.

I have also tried this on another Mac running an older OS (Monterey) - same result.

1. What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Expected output is seeing the batch conversion screen with the files and progress bars. What I see instead if the Mac OS crash report (see attached file with an example).

1. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Mac OS Version: macOS 13.0.1 (22A400)
XLD: Version 20220917 (155.1)

1. Please provide any additional information.

See the attached crash report.

[tmkk]

How about this test version? https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/XLD_dev_221222.zip

[Kenneth Krutsch]

Works perfectly! Well done and thank you for the quick reply.

[JO DONK]

Hi there, Made an account to let you know I had this exact issue as well - batch converting large numbers of flac files in separate folders. (On apple silicon macos (m1)) When I drag/dropped in large batched of files it would just crash straightaway. This test versions seems to have fixed it. Can this be merged into the next update?

[Kenneth Krutsch]

I spoke too soon. It is MUCH better. I can select hundreds of files and XLD works fine. When I select a very large number of files (e.g. 7,600, as shown in the attached screen capture), it finishes Scanning Files... and then it hangs trying to display the progress view. I can quit XLD and reduce the number to 1,300 and it works again.
So, something is still not right with larger collections of files.