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Originally Posted by psinkiws

I have performed some additional tests and found that the problem only occurs when Spyware Doctor 6 (SD6) is running. I tested Hoster with AVG and SD6 running, only AVG running, only SD6 running, and neither AVG or SD6 running. The end result is conclusive that SD6 is the culprit. Even if I need to access the internet during a show, I don't think that SD6 will be necessary since AVG will protect me against viruses and spyware. Other applications with a similar demand, like playing a DVD, do not seem to be effected by SD6. Hopefully either MTU or PC Tools will find a solution to this problem. In the interim, it is something that I can live without.

I don't think MTU or SD6 is going to do anything about it, so your best bet is to turn it off when you are doing a show. I seem to remember someone else had the same kind of problem with Norton's Commander.

Originally Posted by psinkiws

On a side note, the disc was actually in good condition although I have learned from experience that a disc with a single scratch can cause problems while a disc that looks like it was through WWII reads fine. The problem was cleared up simply by stopping Hoster from playing a track, waiting for the import process to complete, and then playing the track from the beginning.

4.06 should stop at the end of th eplaying track and wait until the import finishes. At least that is the way it is supposed to be working.

Originally Posted by psinkiws

It is refreshing to know that the button (Select Image Folder) was named before the feature was fully implemented. At least I have the slide show feature to look forward to.

I too am looking forward to this, but then I am also looking forward to several of the planned improvements due in 2009.

Originally Posted by psinkiws

I have retested the same image I had tried to use in the Hoster intermission but instead placed it on my desktop. I found that, as you already stated, the controls are identical to Microsoft's existing controls. Perhaps MTU can implement a fourth option of Maintain Aspect Ratio (See MS Vista) so that the picture will take up as much of the screen as possible without being distorted. MS Vista has also added a fifth option of crop to fit screen. Funny how Microsoft can implement some cool new features for desktop wallpaper but still cannot make Windows Vista reliable.

Mtu can only use what is available, so either Microsoft will have to implement it for XP or we all suddenly lose XP and have to install Vista.

Originally Posted by psinkiws

The number of characters allowed in the Singer field does not approach the 40 that you have stated. If I enter in a song by the BookID, I am allowed to enter 21 characters in the Singer field. If I use the Search button to find a track, I am allowed to enter 25 characters in the Singer field. What am I missing in order to be able to enter 40 characters.
Thank you to everyone who posted the clarification on the use of the Skip button. I was not aware that its function was dependant on what track was highlighted. I have tested it on my own and found it to work perfectly, just as was described.

Actually what I said was the SND only displays 40 characters across the screen that would be all fields (Time, Name, and Title). Not that the name could be 40 characters long. If anything makes it go over 40 characters it is truncated.

Originally Posted by psinkiws

Regarding the importing of CD tracks into my library, I retested that function to try to be more specific regarding the awkwardness I was vague about earlier. I believe that some of the awkwardness that I remembered was already polished up but I did find a couple of outstanding issues. It is not clear when editing a song title or an artist name that you need to right-click on that field in order to edit it. Once you are in this Edit mode, I found that you can easily navigate to the next field by using the Tab key or the previous field by using Shift-Tab. However, I did find that two subsequent clicks of the Tab button causes the mouse pointer to disappear. The only way out of this Edit Mode trap is by clicking on the ESC key.

The manual clearly states you have to right click on those fields to edit them. The same applies in the Edit tool and to edit a singer's name in the playlist. When you double tab and cursor dissapears have you tried typing anyway to see if it is in the next window. I have seen this in Internet explorer when I am trying to do a Google search and the page I am on is still loading. If I click on the Google search block too soon I get no cursor, but I can still type in it.

Originally Posted by psinkiws

To everyone concerned about the continued availability of 3.4 in future releases, you have to keep in mind that MTU can only make this available if the format of the HST file remains the same. If MTU adds new features requiring the alteration of the HST structure, then 3.4 will be useless. There is one caveat about using 3.4 even now. If you were to run 3.4 using a HST file that contain BookID data (a really cool feature of Hoster 4), this data is permanently deleted. It does not prevent you from opening up the HST file in version 4 and adding new tracks with the BookID displayed however.

The BookID and the File Type that we now see on the playlist, has always been in the saved lists (.HST files), but not displayed on the screen until this version. Nothing has changed as far as the .HST file is concerned. These two items were added to the display at the beta testers request to assist us in testing and prved to be so helpful that MTU left them in. This has nothing to do with the 3.4 version being available.
That was requested by some since version 4 was going to have a lot of new features requiring additional learning time. This was granted by MTU and left in while all the problems with the new version were worked out. Sometime in the future this will be removed when MTU decides that Hoster is absolutely stable and no further major problems come up.

Originally Posted by psinkiws

Perhaps someone should give a message to Jelsoft to not have the session time out if someone is actively typing in a window. For now, I have learned my lesson and created the entire message in Notepad later to be copied and pasted in the forum.
Thanks again,
Peter

I am not sure why your session timed out, because I have never seen this happen and I am usually in the forums all day and late into the evening. I have just spent 45 minutes answering your post and no problem. I would check with your internet provider to find out why your connection is dropping. I had that problem and yelled at them long enough and loud enough that they finally changed out the router. No drops since then.
However typing your message in Notepad will not work as Notepad add special characters into the text when you copy it into this forum message window. Try a short post (a couple of sentences), copy it into a message window, then preview it. You will see what it adds.