Long pause before song starts.

[Roy Dennis]

Used Hoster 4.06 for the first time in a show Saturday. One problem I have had is occasionally since using any 4.xxx version when pressing the play button there is a long pause before the song plays. It is not on every song. What I have been doing to get over this is press the play as soon as I call up the next singer so while I am waiting for them to fight their way through the crowds I can cue it up on the intro screen and pause until the singer is ready. Never had this with 3.xxx.

[ddouglass]

If your songs were imported from ZIP files then the long pause is Hoster having to unzip them before they can be played.

[Roy Dennis]

I have no zip files imported on my computer, have never used zips. Some are mp3+g. Next time I will check if it is these. Most of mine are imported direct from cd+g.

[Skybird74]

Roy, have you double-checked the "Delay" time? Maybe it got re-set from the way you had it set on a previous version. If you set it to "0", songs will start much quicker.

[ddouglass]

Roy define "long" delay for us.
Are you using Manual or Automatic play?
Where are your KMA files located?
How big is your C: drive and how much free space is on it?
These are all things that can slowdown the operations.

[Roy Dennis]

Hi Gerri
Thanks for your response, I was under the impression that time delay is only active when in auto mode. I have it set for a 3 second delay but only use auto when I need to use the toilet and I'm generally back before it comes into play so disable again.

Answer for Dale
Since I wrote about this problem I have been on the Dell web site and downloaded a driver update for my sound card (Sigma Tel Audio). I have been trying hard to get the same problem since then and it has only happened twice after a lot of tries. when doing my show is was happening about every third song. But to answer your questions just in case it starts again here are my answers
Time delay was between 7 & 10 seconds, I am in manual mode, my kma files are about 5000 on my C drive which is 55 GB with 11 GB free, and about 9000 on my external 149GB with 46 GB free, they are in the spec below. I am also using the old video player but it was happening in the new one as well.

The reason I am using the old player is I seem to get a lot of jitter with the new one on video. If I play some video's on the new player by the time the track reaches the end on the second display the preview screen is still showing about 10 seconds behind it.

I am thinking about trying to roll back to media player 9 to see if this cures that problem.

Thanks again for your responses.