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Originally Posted by Joe Nieves
Any chance of Hoster and Microstudio getting a assignable sound card option?
This would be a BIG PLUS because then you are able to assign 1st Hoster to main sound card and the 2nd Hoster to another sound card for cueing or having the added feature of letting someone hear the song before they sing it you don't know how many times this was requested.
Thx Joe....
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Joe, Microstudio 4.006 already has this now.
As soon as we finish Hoster 4.02 running reliably on Vista, we'll finish intigrating our new Sound Manager technology, already about 90% done and used in Microstudio. SoundMan in Hoster will provide at least these functions:
1. Choose the Output Audio Port the Playlist plays through.
2. Assign a new Play function in the Search menu to a different Audio Port to allow previewing a song before adding it to the Playlist. Could you assign a different port to a second Hoster copy running? Don't know, but my guess would be no as they would both use the single instance of the Hoster Registry Keys. If we didn't make the port selection "persistent" it may work, but the new Search-Play function an port assignment is designed to do this.
3. Crossfade one playing track out while the next one fades up
4. Play Instabuttons with MP3 and WMA and Video (11 formats currently supported)
simultaneously with the Playlist song now playing. Hoster 4.00 allows one .WAV file assigned to an Instabutton to play at the same time as a Playlist track.
5. Have (target design goal) 10 simultaneously playing audio files, auto-mixing so no one amplitude swamps out the others.
.... more I'm sure, but I'm running from memory right now.
NOTE: We will be activating Hoster's Intermission View "Play Videos" option in V4.03, so you may no longer need your VideoDJ to do this.
This weekend, our beta testers and programmers identified there is a problem when Hoster's Show Display (Lyrics, Intermission, Audio DJ, Video VJ 4 views) is moved to the second display/TV. Under some now identified conditions Hoster can crash. I expect that is what Bryant is seeing that is mentioned here.
We will work on this first thing this morning, expecting a fix by Tuesday eve for beta testing. We believe this is "THE" problem that has been plaguing Hoster 4.0x for some time. We're on it!
