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Originally Posted by stublack

Will this problem be solved in 4.0 initially or in a later release? I personally don't believe in DJ breaks, and would rather tell the customer I'm not capable of playing their CDG's, at least until this problem is fixed!

First, as can be seen, it is not clear that Hoster 3.321 is failing. However, since a number are experiencing the "3" import and then crash, there does seem to be something going on. I've scheduled it to be reviewed this coming week. We're closing in on Hoster 4.0 release.

I'll be looking for your post as to what happens when you do CUSTOM update of Windows.

Originally Posted by madjim

I just imported nine CD tracks in a row into the playlist while Hoster 3.321 was playing. I even messed with the program trying to move songs on the playlist while it was playing/importing. I could not recreate the "import three CD tracks and 3.321 crashes" bug that is being reported here. Hoster did not crash.

Originally Posted by hwheeler43

I have never had this problem on either of my laptops. I do use an MTU supplied External burner for adding the cdg's though. I use hoster 3.316 and it also worked fine in earlier versions.

Proof that this problem is not a simple bug in Hoster. It is system related, and that's harder to diagnose.

Originally Posted by Skybird74

I have been having this problem for the past 2 years using Hoster from 3.1 to 3.317. It wasn't my Drive, because I could play a Singer's Disk using another program, but could not add it to the Playlist in Hoster. Before I found that other program, I carried a separate CDG Player just for playing Singer's Disks. (I still do)

I attribed my problem to using an old laptop that just wasn't fast enough. But now I have a dual-core with all the bells & whistles & still Hoster crashes when I Add a Song from a Singer's Disk at the same time Hoster is running a Show.

Low RAM can cause all sorts of unexplainable problems. Since we are importing a CDG track, that can require 30-90MB RAM during the import, the actual track being imported may also be significant. Shorter duration files may work and longer ones not.

Since some others don't experience it, the strong indication is there is some system dependency is at play here. 512MB RAM today, with all the Windows Updates that continually are downloaded and installed, could explain the problem.

The fact you have had a problem with this for 2 years is painful to hear. I thought everything was smooth with this CDG import.

Is it possible to upgrade your RAM to 1GB?