I don't yet use hoster in my show
I am still importing my songs, which is no easy feat since I keep adding new discs every week! But I am 1/4 of the way into my 520+ Discs.
Anyhow, my experience in the Player world is this, if the CD accidentally skips (too much bass in the room, some drunk bumps the booth, whatever) I get some of the characters that remain on the screen during the remainder of the song, sometimes they are small, other times they are whole phrases in the song.
After the song ends, my JVC clears the screen with a blank screen, also my Pioneer 888 does it too. I have another player by VOCOPRO (i don't recommend the brand, as I only use it to DJ and for filler music) that doesn't clear the screen when the last song is played and the last screen remains on the video line.
My thoughts are along the lines of Flipeoke. When you imported the track there was some corruption, as you have imported the track more than once, then there may be something wrong with the CD. Most people forget that the most delicate part of a CD is the label side. I constantly admonish people for placing their discs label side down. That is the worst thing you can do, if you scratch the label, you are more than likely to have scratched the necessary mirror. There is about .3 mils of polymer plastic protection your data on the bottom of the disk. The top only has a very fine layer of paint (if that) protecting the mirror. Remember that the laser shoots out and waits for the "RETURN" of the beam to determine a "0" or a "1" in binary.
I would take the disk and hold it to the light and see if you can see through the disk or see any wholes. Look hard, you may not see them immediately. I have one two disks that were scratched this way in my Case Logic cases... Actually worn through the paint from pulling it out so much. The mirror got worn away as well. When I imported the disk, some of the tracks have these anomolies that do show up on the screen. Some times the audio is still there, sometimes it isn't and digitally skips.
If you have scratched the top of the disk, there is nothing you can do. I have heard rummors about using metallic finger nail polish. I don't wear fingernail polish, so I haven't got a spare to try. But I might. If the bottom is scratched use NON-ABRASIVE toothpaste or car polish, or go out and get DiscDoctor. Works great at $29.99 at Bestbuy or Compusa. They have an automated one for $39.99 too. You can always repair the bottom.
Now as to the continuation of the unwanted image, I don't know that MTU initiates a "CLEAR SCREEN" command in their program -would be a good button to have
If the screen doesn't get cleared, then the problem will carry over as long as no clear screen occurs. I am wondering what it would take to clear the screen. If I had the problem to reproduce, I might try creating a track in KPro that just has a title page to clear the screen (or redraw the screen) make it an unused track number and import it. then play it whenever this happens.
It doesn't sound like it happens all the time, just once in a blue moon.
Here are some questions for those having this problem:
1. Does it just happen in the song and you don't want to finish the song? Or is it transferring to the following songs?
2. Is it transferring to ALL the next songs? or just some (certain brands like Chartbuster?)
3. Can you identify that a scratch is on the label side?
Let know know these and maybe I can do more. I don't know even if the KPro would be able to clear the screen. Of course, I may try using the VOCOPRO to emulate it and then see if a KPro clear screen works.
Hope we can help!
By the way mindostrike, I am in Seattle, maybe I'll get to Spokane sometime and get a chance to see your show!
