Problems with Hoster 4.04 and Xp

[laddie]

Am I the only the XP users who is having major problems with ver 4.04? I see a lot of vista users who have gone back to 4.03, but haven't noticed much from the XP users.

[Beavis]

mine doesnt work right.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Beavis

mine doesnt work right.

What was up with your XP machine again Lonnie?

[Lonman]

???

I never had XP until last week. The machine it's on now lost a motherboard. Up to then I was running 2000 Pro.
Still haven't been able to really use 4.03 on my XP machine in a show yet though. I went to use it last night & it started rebuilding the database at an extremely slow rate, so I cancelled & went back to 3.4, it was becoming show time - that & the fact my other host is leaving in a couple weeks so I want to train with my new host coming in. I rebuilt the database after the show & it took almost an hour for 14K songs - which it should normally take about 10 minutes or so. So we'll see what happens tonight.

[RIKKI TIKKI]

Originally Posted by laddie

Am I the only the XP users who is having major problems with ver 4.04? I see a lot of vista users who have gone back to 4.03, but haven't noticed much from the XP users.

Always have had XP on my Show Computer, and until 4.01 never had a bit of problems with Hoster.

Tried to use a few of the new features and Gremlins started rearing their ugly heads. Added clipart to create logo during intermission screen, and having to tweak the resolution was first noticible problem. Then the lyrics were running slow, and had to restart once in a while to sync. Then the computer would freeze and lock up once in a while when playing the first songs of the show.

Added the upgrades as soon as they came along, added more ram to both of my computers, and seemed to be getting better with 4.03. Then 4.04 came out and I have been back and forth to 3.4 a few times when one of these problems arise during show. The one thing that switching back to 3.4 from 4.04 is that I lose any rotation information that is added from the initial starting list, forward. So it shows the initial list, including songs that have already played, and truncates any changes made after the initial list was created.

Also with 4.04 some of the code changed for my Nikkodo songs, and the Title block introduction is garbled, as is the background pictures that show intermittently throughout the Nikkodo Sav selections.

I'm still using 4.04 but probably will be going back to 4.03 if these reoccurring glitches don't improve with 4.05, or maybe soooooner!

Rick
Rikki Tikki Karaoke

[laddie]

The following is a list of problems that I reported to MTU support. Could be more.

• music drop outs during search.
• Lyric stop and or lag while loading a singers CD.
• Using the singers DB causes the CPU to go to 100% and lyrics hang
• opening task manager or notebook or anything else causes music drop out
• doing anything while the singer is singing is risky, it seems almost anything causes dropouts.. like opening the marque or changing from the search window to the singers window.

[Skybird74]

Quote: by Laddie: "Added the upgrades as soon as they came along, added more ram to both of my computers, and seemed to be getting better with 4.03. Then 4.04 came out and I have been back and forth to 3.4 a few times when one of these problems arise during show. The one thing that switching back to 3.4 from 4.04 is that I lose any rotation information that is added from the initial starting list, forward. So it shows the initial list, including songs that have already played, and truncates any changes made after the initial list was created."

Laddie, one thing you might want to try is to keep 2 copies of Hoster open at the same time. (4.04 & 3.04) That seems to work for some people. I know it's a pain, but then you can add Singer's disks & play video MUX from 3.4 and then use 4.04 or 4.03 for the rest of the Show. At least then you won't lose your playlists. Many of us are waiting for the VideoMUX to work, so we have no other choice except to go back to using 3.321 or 3.3x.

[laddie]

Originally Posted by Skybird74

Quote: by Laddie: "Added the upgrades as soon as they came along, added more ram to both of my computers, and seemed to be getting better with 4.03. Then 4.04 came out and I have been back and forth to 3.4 a few times when one of these problems arise during show. The one thing that switching back to 3.4 from 4.04 is that I lose any rotation information that is added from the initial starting list, forward. So it shows the initial list, including songs that have already played, and truncates any changes made after the initial list was created."

Laddie, one thing you might want to try is to keep 2 copies of Hoster open at the same time. (4.04 & 3.04) That seems to work for some people. I know it's a pain, but then you can add Singer's disks & play video MUX from 3.4 and then use 4.04 or 4.03 for the rest of the Show. At least then you won't lose your playlists. Many of us are waiting for the VideoMUX to work, so we have no other choice except to go back to using 3.321 or 3.3x.

Sorry sky, not my quote, was Ricks and this may work for him

[Skybird74]

Sorry Laddie. I tried quoting from within a quote to save space....OOOPS
I hope RIKKI... reads it.