Crashing on multisession import

[Picolo Porco]

When I try to import the last track of a multisession disk or have any other kind of error reading a disk, Hoster gives me an error message then unceremoniously crashes. I know I won't be able to import the last track until 3.2, but how do I avoid the crashes?

XP Media Center
Athlon 64
Plextor 712SA

[Digital Party]

Before I knew about the multisession disc and would try to import the last song my computer would just lock-up......if this is what you are talking about.......

Just un-select the last song and the very last track (for it is nothing more then a small bit of info) EXAMPLE....you have 18 tracks on the disc. Hoster's import shows 19 tracks. Select only the first 17 tracks. The 18 & 19 track will cause the computer to lock-up.

This is what I do until something better comes along (3.2?????)
GOOD LUCK!

[Picolo Porco]

That's what I've been doing.... Seems strange that the whole app crashes, though, instead of handling the error properly. I get the same crash when I have a damaged disk and Hoster eventually gives up on trying to read the track.

I guess this could be a "feature" request for the import module to handle errors without completely choking.

[KickinKaraoke]

Hello Picolo Porco,

If you have Microstudio you can import the for instance the 18 music tracks of a 19 track multi session disk to your hard drive and then import the 18 music tracks into Hoster. Track "18" will still contain the add silent minutes that where added to the song but at least you'll have all 18 tracks that you paid for!

[mindonstrike]

I guess this could be a "feature" request for the import module to handle errors without completely choking.

Since yours is the only post I've seen where Hoster crashes predictably at this point I would suspect a hardware/configuration/driver issue. When lots of computers have an issue you can usually find something in common to figure out whats wrong, but when it's only one computer there's a bazzillion different variables that make it much more difficult.

Sam

[MTUSUPPORT]

I agree with Sam as to it being a Hardware/Configuration problem. I have not had any other clients reporting this type of problem to me. Please make sure that you have all of the Windows updates from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com

This is the only thing that I can think of. Also you might try making sure that you have the latest version of Firmware from www.plextor.com for your CDR drive.

[UPNext]

I did manage to finally figure out a successful means of getting the last track on multi-session CD's imported. First I would import all but the last track of each disc I am importing using hoster. Then I used Disc Juggler to create a disc Image of just the last track of each of the discs I was importing. Then I burned a new CD with the image I created. I then imported them into Hoster with no problem and everything looks great. The process is a little painful but until 3.2 comes out it is a means of getting around the problem.

[S. Parks]

Upnext,
Microstudio has a workaround for multisession that works too, use Multisession as the search criteria and you'll see.

[UPNext]

I've tried the workaround using Microstudio and the results are not good. Granted you do get the file imported but the quality of the graphics are poor.

[S. Parks]

I've never had problems with poor graphics. Perhaps it is your choice of recording media or your burner.

[MTUSUPPORT]

Microstudio will give you clean graphics. If you are getting bad graphics, this is probably the brand of Blank CD's that you are using or the drive is breaking the graphics up. If Hoster is working with Clean graphics then it has to be the brand of discs that you are using for Microstudio.

[UPNext]

My experience has been the following:

I used Microstudio to import the last track on the multisession CD's to the hard drive. Microstudio hangs and the program has to be aborted but the file does get created. When that file is imported into Hoster it works but the graphics are consistently poor quality. I tried an entire set of new Chartbuster CD's and got identical results. I changed the CD Rom drive and got the same results.
When I used Disc Juggler to create a custom CD of just the last track of all the Chartbuster CD's it created an image on the hard drive of just those tracks. I then used Disc Juggler to write that image to a CD. I then imported all the tracks into Hoster without a problem and the graphics were perfect.

It seems to me the Microstudio and Hoster are probably using very similar code to read in the CD+G tracks and the multisession discs are not being handled correctly yet. Microstudio sort of works but still has a problem or it wouldn't hang when reading the last track. I'm sure this will get corrected by MTU but in the meantime what I have described is a way I have found to successfully import the last track on multisession CD's with excellent results.

Maybe the graphics problem I experienced is because I have a slower CPU running Microstudio and Hoster (750MHZ), I don't know. I guess that if the workaround works for you, thats great, if not here is another potential way of getting around it until 3.2 comes out. At any rate I am thrilled with Hoster and the whole suite of MTU products. Keep up the good work MTU!!

[Island Extreme]

Using Microstutio and not selecting the extra track at the end works. If there are 15 songs on the CD there will be an extra track. Select all but the last track (it is uncessessary)- I backed up my multisession discs with Microstudio and used the backups to import in to Hoster and it worked PERFECT! Microstudio would freeze the computer on the last track but it was recorded perfect.

I never experienced the bad graphics problem. Perfect everytime!

[G-Force]

MTUSUPPORT,
This is not the first issue/problem regarding multisession discs and 3.110. see here...I think you missed this thread. We are still waiting for a resolution. http://forum.mtu.com/showthread.php?t=6216