Won't go pass "cue"
 

My new version of Hoster (4.01) worked fine for a while, but now whe I press "Play" to play a song on the playlist it shows the word CUE as it did before but it does not budge from there. I need to close the program (using ctr-alt-del). The same song using my old version (3.4) plays great.

What's the problem?

The "Hang In Cue" bug was found and squashed in 4.02. At this point in time, the link to download 4.02 is delivering 4.01. This will be fixed first thing tomorrow morning. When the link is delivering 4.02, get a copy of the upgrade (4.02) and install it, this should put a stop to "hangin' in cue". :w :c

Jim :g

Is 4.02 Vista ready? I thought 4.01 was going to be? I haven't seen any updates or progress reports on Vista. Am I missing something??

4.02 runs on Vista. :) They even ran it on a Vista 64bit system. :c

MTU wanted 4.0 to be Vista ready but the beast had been hard to tame. :e

The beta team is working hard to find every bug in Hoster but it's a complex program and we are not perfect. Usually any bug that is reported, is gone in the next release but Vista has presented a whole bunch of new issues.

There will be lots of versions of Hoster 4 released for free before MTU gets it where they want it to be. Be ready, Hoster 4 is going to change the face of karaoke hosting programs, in my opinion. :w :c :g

The download link for Hoster 4.02 is delivering 4.01 right now. This will change in a bit, hang in there.


Jim :g

The Hoster 4.02 download link is now delivering 4.02. :r :w :c

Jim :g

We have been struggling with Vista since June 2007. If you disable all your Vista security (UAC bit turned off somewhere I don't remember where), you are vulnerable, but Hoster 3.3xx ran fine. 4.02 still doesn't run "perfect" on Vista. Please read my Factory News post this morning.

Whenever a digital software program runs correctly, then it stops running correctly,99.9999% of the time it is NOT that program's fault, but something in the System it is running on has changed. That's all I can guess happened here... some other program was installed... a memory cell in your RAM bank is failing... a hard drive sector where Hoster is installed is flaky or failing... and so on and so on.

I'm not trying to pass the buck, but I don't think it stops here on this one. :e :r

Hoster 3.40 uses our older "lyrics render" code that does not use DirectX. Maybe a Windows Update happened that knocked out our 4.02 "lyrics render" which is written in DirectX.

Read my Factory News using the link above. I address what we are doing, starting today, to overcome the crap Microsoft has given us to work with.

That's what's going on........ and I don't like it any more than you do. We are working hard to solve the problems we have NEVER SEEN before.

Last week we finished splitting our "player code" into an XP version and a Vista version. When it was one player, we'd fix something in XP and break Vista. Then we'd fix that and break XP. We'd spend tens of hours... actually one period went on for 3 weeks fixing this back and forth breakage. Now, when we fix XP it shouldn't effect Vista, and visa versa. To do this required our adding code to detect which OS Hoster is running under, so we know which player to activate.

Good Grief.......

Such a total waste of our time... Microsoft is on my BAD BAD SUPER BAD list!!!!!!!!!!