Making desktop image show after a song plays

[novakaraoke]

I need help with the 2.209 upgrade, when I open Hoster and start a show the desktop image does not show up on the tv when song stops playing, I did the info in the manual and it works 1 time. when I shut Hoster down and bring it back up it will not show desktop again. Do you have to resize the darn screen everytime you open Hoster? I never had this problem till I downloaded the 2.209 upgrade. Randall

[admin]

To my knowledge, the resized play window is persistent, retaining its size and location where you change it to after a song plays. By shrinking it down, you can have the desktop appear.

If it is not working this way, you may want to install 2.212. Something is wrong with your current installation.

However... I may be wrong and a bug crept into 2.209. Maybe a user who does this can comment on 2.209 or 2.212's performance.

[novakaraoke]

I resize the screen and when I close Hoster and open it back up it does the same thing and I have to resize it again. I never had to do this before loading
2.209. I downloaded 2.212 last night and it still does the samething. Randall

[CochrellGary]

I'm not sure if this is what is being experience by others with the screen persistence but this is what happens to me and I don't think it's a bug. I think it's a feature of the dual display card remembering it's last setting.

When I unpack my laptop at home I don't hook up a second screen (TV monitor). When I play a song the laptop viewing area becomes the lyrics display (full screen), this is normal. I double click the lyrics screen and resize to a small screen in a lower corner as described in the manual.

Now when I fire up Hoster at my next gig, with dual screens, after the first song has played the singers screen is black and blank. The blank screen is an empty lyrics screen, no wallpaper displayed. I have to move my cursor to the blank screen and drag it to my laptop screen where I resize it and move it to the lower right corner. I do this one time and now the singers screen displays the wallpaper after each song has finished. This setting remains persistent from one gig to the next as long as I don't start Hoster in single display mode.

Could this be what others are experiencing?
If not, please excuse the ramblings of an old KJ .

Gary

[novakaraoke]

I Have this problem when bringing up Hoster with the tv hooked up. If I just close Hoster and don't shut down the puter, when I reopen Hoster and play a song I still have to resize the screen. I have to resize everytime I open Hoster. With the version before 2.209 and 2.212 I never had to resize it at all after the first time, I went through and made all the changes to prevent audio dropouts and was wondering if I set something thats making it act like this. Randall

[CochrellGary]

Randall,

I'm sure you do this already but make sure that your TV and/or TV modulator is turned on before you turn on your computer otherwise the dual display card won't detect the second screen.

Gary

[novakaraoke]

Hi guys, had new problem Sat. night, Hoster crashed 6 times on me when importing singers songs from their disc.I'm running the new version, 2.212.
I would start a song playing and then start the add track and Hoster would shut down completly. I would open Hoster back up and wait till the song playing was about half way through and then start the add track and it would add it. If I started the add track before a min. of song had played Hoster would shut down, this happened 6 times Sat. night. I am still having audio dropouts everytime I add singers songs from their disc, they are minimal but there still there, so far I had better luck with 2.209, I'm still trying to figure out whats going on with 2.212. The shuttle I bought from you has only been online 2 times to download upgrades of Hoster and the only thing it's used for is to run Hoster. I have not added any other programs to the shuttle. It is the same way that you sent it to me except for making the suggested changes to the operating system and importing my songs into the Hoster program. I never had Hoster crash with 2.209 while adding songs from singers disc, I just had audio drops. I also have noticed a big difference in audio output since downloading 2.212, before I never had to use more than a 1/4 of my volume control on my amp, Sat. night I noticed having to turn up the volume control to over 1/2 way to about same volume, I need some help with this program, Thanks Randall from Nova Karaoke.

[admin]

Well, we crawled into the display control code and found the persistence operation was a real mess. It had evolved and was never "cleaned up". We spent the time and it is now clean, and 30 lines of buggy code removed.

Read the Hoster 2.213 upgrades and you will see we have totally revamped the Singers Display Window performance. Initial Beta Testing reports are favorable.

As to your problem with 2.212 in your last post, I'm wondering if there is a cable that is now lose in the Shuttle. It sounds like it was working, and now is not the same. Hoster didn't change, so the hardware must have.

I'll flag MTUSUPPORT to read this thread and comment.

[novakaraoke]

This morning I get error message: deF001.hst-Hoster: Windows Application Error
The Instruction at "oxoo476c68" referenced Memory at "oxooooooc". The Memory could not be read.
and the other error message is: Error Signature, APPNAME:Hoster.exe APPVER 2.2.1.2 MOD NAME: HOSTER.exe MODVER 2.2.1.2 OFFSET 00027c83.
I'm Still having Hoster shut down every once in a while while adding tracks from singers disc. It seams it will only shut down while playing a kma. file, it has never shut down while playing added tracks and adding more tracks, and it only shuts down if you start a song playing and immediately start the add track button. I have noticed that you don't have to have a song playing to add tracks from cdg's so I will add songs from singers disc when I call them up to prevent Hoster from shutting down on me at shows and to stop audio drops. It will take a min. or 2 but at least it won't be as bad as having someones song stop before they get started singing. Randall

[novakaraoke]

Has anyone ever defraged a system on which Hoster is installed ? I defraged the shuttle with Win. XP Home and I noticed it was moving kma. files in the process of defragging. I wrote down some of the song numbers it was moving and after it finished defragging I fired Hoster up and brought up some of the kma. files, what I found was that it was moving files that I imported and had never played since importing them. My question is why would am improted file that had never been played be some place where it shouldn't be. I know all of the files I imported into Hoster went into the song. database for Hoster as I checked often to make sure they were all going to the same place. I didn't have any problems last night at my show the Hoster worked great, no drops and no crashes. I was just wondering if anyone had ever encountered this before. I mentioned in an earlier post that I had noticed a difference in audio volume since downloading 2.212, I figured that out, under accessories I went in Volume control and turned it all the way up and this solved the problem with the audio level, I did not change it before downloading and had never been in the volume control before but when i downloaded the new upgrade i noticed the audio difference, I read the 2.213 version stats that were posted and the fixes, I am waiting on it to become available so I can see the changes. I hope you guys will comment on the defragging, Thanks Randall.

[kedmison]

Novakaraoke,

I have the MTU laptop, and I defrag mine about once a month. Just good house cleaning. And yes I have seen take place what you described. No, I don't know why it does that either. I figure as long as Hoster does what it's supposed to then I won't worry about things the computer does that I probably wouldn't understand anyway.

Kelly