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Properties dialog refresh failure: bad allocation

First time I ever see this warning. It occurred on a beta 17 installation after I tried opening the properties dialog window of a library selection (EsPlaylist). What does it mean?
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Re: Properties dialog refresh failure: bad allocation

Reply #1 –
It means the process ran out of memory.

Re: Properties dialog refresh failure: bad allocation

Reply #2 –
It generally means that the system was not able to hand us the amount memory we just asked for.

This can happen for a couple of different reasons:
- Something within the foobar2000 process (main app itself or an add-on component) requested a lot of memory and did not release it, nearing the 4GB barrier that we cannot exceed being a 32-bit application.
- Due to some kind of a bug we asked for an amount of memory that we cannot possibly ever obtain, such as a continuous block of 1 gigabyte.
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