Windows XP SP3; Easy Media Creator 9; 2.8 GHz dual core AMD processor with 4 MB memory and 1.5 TB DASD. M-Audio 2496 sound card. Music recorded with Audacity V3.5

After using Easy Media Creator for some years yesterday I finally got around to creating an Audio CD, using the Music
Disk Creator function. Worked fine (- after I changed to using CD-R rather than CD-RW). That was then; this is now:


Today Music Disk Creator does not fully open - it just hangs at the brightly coloured introductory image. I can only close this using Windows terminal.

If I open Easy Media Ceator 9 Home I am able to create a playable Audio CD, using the 'Audio CD' option. But if I select the 'Music Disk Creator' option then I get a different sort of hang: I now see an orange coloured rectangle, containing just a small part of the introductory icon or image, with the message "Please wait..... Loading component". This wait appears to be infinite (but I can't measure that length of time....)

This is most probably a user error, as usual. Is there any advice?

Thanks for reading.

In Add/Remove Programs there is a Repair option.

Give that a try.

Thanks for the suggestion; sadly it makes no difference - I stll get the same hangs after the repair.

I guess a full remove/install cycle is required. However, I have yet to find a software application which properly un-installs itself - they all leave some modifications to the file structure and/or to the registry, so I'm not sure that a re-install is going to be effective either.

Clean Install process is - Here

The trick to Clean Install is to print it out so it is by your side and follow it step by step using the More or Less method. (Don't do More than it says and don't do Less!)

Try these to see if it fixes the problem before you do a clean install.

Brilliant!

Thanks for this guidance - I can confirm that the registry edit to delete the MDC registry key works on my version of EMC 9 too - even after a reboot.

Of course I knew all this - to some of us you newbie's it may seem like black-magic, but to you us cognoscenti it is a completely and blindingly obvious fix; I was just testing, you undertand... (He says wholly unconvincingly).

Now I can on with converting my 50 year old collection of black vinyl into 0's and 1's....

Thanks again.