Hoster 4.01 crashes and autosave does not work

[vitoa]

Ran 4.01 for the first time last night.
While a singer was singing a message appeared stating that hoster needed to be restarted. Luckily the singer could finish his song. Then Hoster shut down.
When I restarted Hoster, I found that only the kma files were saved. All of the songs that where imported from customers disks were deleted. This is the first time that I have ever seen Hoster autosave not work sorrectly.
I had to reimport all the customers cd's.

This happened twice during the showl.


Running XP w/sp3. (gave up on vista).

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by vitoa

All of the songs that where imported from customers disks were deleted.

Anytime a song is imported into Hoster off of a customers disc, the song will only stay in the playlist until it has played OR until the program is shut down, which is what happened to you.

It is illegal for us to keep and use a song we did not pay for. Hoster does not keep imported songs to protect us from this.

Hoster 4.02 will be released soon and should not crash on you which ia what cause this mess.

Got IE7?

Got WMP11?


Jim

[vitoa]

I don't belive this to be true.
Hoster has always kept the imported song until it has played.
Once the song has played it will then be deleted.
At least this is how hoster has worked for me in the past.

[madjim- with the Lord]

"Songs are NOT deleted if the computer crashes as part of your Crash Security and will play when the Playlist re-opens."

Straight out of the manual, you are correct. I've never had that problem and assumed...

Sorry

Jim

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by vitoa

I don't belive this to be true.
Hoster has always kept the imported song until it has played.
Once the song has played it will then be deleted.
At least this is how hoster has worked for me in the past.

It may be that the way Hoster was able to shutdown from the crash allowed it to close down normally and do its save. That would cause the imported files to dissappear. If Hoster has a hard crash as in it completely stops working then those files would be there. If you import a song and then close Hoster normally it will not be available when you re-open it. That is the way it has always been to ensure that we do not have files on our computer that do not belong to us.

[vitoa]

This sounds like a reasonable answer. However, I am concerned that it happened twice in one night.

[admin]

Originally Posted by vitoa

Ran 4.01 for the first time last night.
While a singer was singing a message appeared stating that hoster needed to be restarted. Luckily the singer could finish his song. Then Hoster shut down.
When I restarted Hoster, I found that only the kma files were saved. All of the songs that where imported from customers disks were deleted. This is the first time that I have ever seen Hoster autosave not work sorrectly.
I had to reimport all the customers cd's.

This happened twice during the showl.

Running XP w/sp3. (gave up on vista).

The fact your singer could finish says it was not a "true" crash... not to denigrate the negative impact on your show.

Originally Posted by ddouglass

It may be that the way Hoster was able to shutdown from the crash allowed it to close down normally and do its save. That would cause the imported files to dissappear. If Hoster has a hard crash as in it completely stops working then those files would be there. If you import a song and then close Hoster normally it will not be available when you re-open it. That is the way it has always been to ensure that we do not have files on our computer that do not belong to us.

I agree.

Originally Posted by vitoa

This sounds like a reasonable answer. However, I am concerned that it happened twice in one night.

I too am concerned.

Please upgrade to 4.02. We fixed a lot of problems, and one of them may have been involved in your problem.

http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster.htm gives what changed in 4.02.

[vitoa]

I have upgraded to 4.06. My system still crashes when imprting customers discs. Very consistent and very annoying.
Singers list still only shows the kma files and not the the customer CD's.

Started to use 3.40 and stil have the same problem exept that the the singers list is now correct after a crash and customers CD's seem to be reloaded.

I know this must be a computer problem and not a "Hoster" problem but the facts are that the crash window stated that "Hoster has crashed".

I don't know why no one else has this problem?
I have a Plexotor CD drive and a DVD drive both of which I purchased from MTU. Same problem with each drivel, so it's probably not a drive problem.

My computer is an Acer running XP SP3 with all updates.

Any help would be appreciated.