PMM 3.92 30-day Trial and crashing problems

[m3tan]

I just downloaded and installed PMM 3.92 and am having two major problems.  First of all it seems to have overwritten my PMM 3.76 registration so now I have an unregistered trial version that I cannot upgrade.  I also do not have the old registration info or install files to reinstall 3.76.  Furthermore 3.92 crashes every time I try to encode a CD.  It is able to encode the entire CD but always get stuck on the last track - it displays 100% but never actually finishes.  Windows becomes almost totally unresponsive and I can't even terminate PhatNoise with a ctrl-alt-del.  I have to hard power cycle my PC (painful) every time I encode a CD.  I have 100+ CDs to encode and don't want to destroy my PC to copy them.  I'm running Windows XP Pro SP3 on a brand new PC.  Any suggestions?

1) How unlock product or get rid of annoying trial registration.
2) How to fix encoding problem.

TIA,

Mike

[VorTechS]

1) Go to 'Phatnoise.us', register and download the '3.92 NO ACTIVATION' version of the software

2) No idea.  Sorry.

[m3tan]

VorTechS,

Could you please send me the registration e-mail so that I can activate my account on phatnoise.org?  I actually registered yesterday but haven't gotten the confirmation e-mail back yet.  Thanks!

Mike

[VorTechS]

Mike, PM me the registered nick and the e-mail address and I'll activate the account manually for you

[S80_UK]

Furthermore 3.92 crashes every time I try to encode a CD.  It is able to encode the entire CD but always get stuck on the last track - it displays 100% but never actually finishes.  Windows becomes almost totally unresponsive and I can't even terminate PhatNoise with a ctrl-alt-del.  I have to hard power cycle my PC (painful) every time I encode a CD.  I have 100+ CDs to encode and don't want to destroy my PC to copy them.  I'm running Windows XP Pro SP3 on a brand new PC.  Any suggestions?

Mike,

For what it's worth, PMM is a pretty poor CD ripping/encoding program.  I suggest that you try EAC (Exact Audio Copy) - free - and also dBpoweramp which now has a ripping capability (free to evaluate for a useful amount of time).