Thank you Dale for your soothing influence here. Your 40+ years in the Air Force (God bless you!) on Tech Support has given you much grace and wisdom, as I clearly need more of.
WaltR, what can I say? There was nothing in my post pointed at you. If you feel I owe you (not Dale) and apology, then I offer it now. I truly appreciate ever customer and participant in the MTU.Community.
I had been up since 12:06AM and posted 8 hours and 5 minutes later. I was doing CREATIVE writing, which is very taxing. I was so tired I was punchy. I let my hair down and joked for one post. I'm sorry you didn't pick up on it.
As a MAN, I very well know my reticence to read manuals, even though I write them myself. I got tired of writers I hired not learnling how the product worked and thus writing fiction. The manual may be hard to read, but it is accurate.
As Dale posted, he and I have had MANY discussions how to better organize the manual. I have been doing just that.
My comment about "maybe I'm tupid" was at me written to Dale, not you or any other honored customer. I have been burning 20 hours/day for over a week on the 4.10 manual, and my brain is about at its limit.
I am not as sharp as I used to be, and at that moment, I truly was feeling stupid... unable to grasp the new concepts and write clearly about them.
I'm restructuring the manual from being "reference" focus to being "feature" focus. It's stressful as I'm an engineer by talent and skill. I've got to come out of my comfort zone to restructure the manual.
The new changes we are finishing in 4.10 are incredible; audio fading in/out, a new Background Audio Player under automated control by Hoster to fade in audio whenever Hoster stops (or before your show begins), and one of the longest requested features... removing silence at the start/end of Karaoke songs.
But we didn't just remove silence, we draw the TItle page and any others very quickly so you can see in a fraction of a second (i.e. no wait time). It is SO GOOD, that some of our Beta Testers croaked on us!
They said there isn't ENOUGH time before the music starts. No, that was our goal; the song now starts exactly where the music starts. One can say we did TOO GOOD a job. So, we have added a new feature in the Remove Silence dialog box where you can add an exact amount of silence BACK IN (0-9 seconds) before the audio starts, and independently, after it finishes.
But then some songs didn't have that much silence in front of the audio to start, so they were erroring out. So, we change the code so if the start of the song to the start of audio (the silence we remove) is LESS THAN the fixed silence you want, we can give you back the silence we removed, but no more. This will go out for testing today, Lord willing.
This release is being pollished as never before. While I'm writing now, I run Hoster in background. It is so pleasing to hear the audio fading, with no silence (I set my Add Silence values to "0") between them.
Do we need crossfade? That means adding an OVERLAP where two songs are playing together. Well, given that the DEMAND was to add silenece back in, I don't think Hoster users will want OVERLAP, but if I'm wrong, as I have been many times, then we'll add an Overlap field so you can dial in what you want. We're just toolmakers... you folks are the users and we do our best with our talents and skllls to give you the very best possible to meet your DESIRES... not just needs and wants.
I hope you have a great day,and again I am sorry for the misunderstanding.