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Originally Posted by Harryoke
Switched to 4.06 and have been using it on a Vista loaded laptop.
I have been able to make it crash by trying to start a new song without finishing or stopping the first song... but then when I restart, it generally has the rotation still intact, maybe with the exception of the current song. No big whoop.
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How are you doing this? Are you hitting Stop and then Play on the next song you want? Or are you highlighting the new song and hitting Play? If it is the first way try doing it the second. This was added with the version 4 to decrease the number od steps required. It also automatically controls the timing to prevent crashing.
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Originally Posted by Harryoke
After using it, I noticed a lot of the SAV and Top Tunes discs that I had ripped had graphic errors. Thought it may have been because I ripped them on the old machine, so I reripped a few discs to see if a different drive would read them better, and alas, that did not work...so I have to accept that I am going to be surprised when playing a few of those discs that the lyrics may not show properly...then attempt to replace those songs with other versions.
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What do you have your drives set for importing? There is a dropdown box in the CD\DVD drives setup for Play and for Importing. The settings are Fast, Better, Best. This controls the amount of error correction used. Fast would have very little correction and of course Best would use the most attempts to correct disk problems. The SAV disks do have problems with the title pages being garbled but the lyrics are ok as long as the disk is.
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Originally Posted by Harryoke
Another pain has been some database errors caused by the auto naming feature. Most are accurate, but I am encountering discs that are not labeled correctly by the MTU program, and I have to manually go in and edit them...that and mispellings, such as looking for Goodbye Earl and not finding it, just to see it is listed as Goodby earl in the database by MTU...or not being able to find The Christmas Song because it is shown as Chestnuts Roasting, LOL! Doctor Music 104, the Kiss disc, was completely wrong from track 9-17. And on and on...overall no complaint, but it is the little things that aggravate, LOL...especially at the show when you KNOW you have a song, just are not able to find it quickly.
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The Auto Naming feature only comes into play if you are editing the Title and Artist blocks. This helps to keep you from having to type in the whole Title or Artist. It has nothing to do with the database search buttons.
Which Search Database are you using (On-Line or Local)?
The On-Line database is not in MTU's control. This is a link to FreeDB a free internet database that users of subscribing programs have added all the entries you get. MTU does not subscribe to it so nothing we enter goes into that one.
The Local database is MTU's and they are using our imports and edits to correct and add to that database to try to keep it up-to-date. Every time you add a new CDG or edit the items in one you have that information is put in a file and transmitted to MTU when you connect to the internet. No it isn't a perfect database but it is getting better by our fixing it.
Perhaps a feature down the road would be to be able to search a partial term...like typing "lake segar" could turn up Fire Lake by Bob Segar.[/quote]
You can search by partial terms now, but the partial has to be all title or artist and cannot be in both. So search for lake or segar but not both. This is using a Windows search routine so that won't be changing to allow both, because MTU cannot modify that.