Hoster Shutting Down - Stopped Working: Upgrade DirectX and WMP

[Ed Beram]

music man, nice to hear honest input. i feel as though i have crashed a party on this forum. i said all along that i thought dale was a knowledgable and upstanding guy but just wanted to know his affiliation status with mtu all these years but can see that i have stepped on many toes. i don't apologise for my inquiry but do apologise if i have personally offended dale with my curiousity or the manner in which i wrote the post. i still feel as i mentioned in previous posts that the flaws encountered by us users have to be addressed. if we don't air these concerns they'll never get fixed, so i will continue to bring them to light in the future. i have also stated that i have made a good living over the years with hoster and prefer not to jump ship. the frustrations are still there but have been eased by my last conversation with bryan at mtu. he has assured me that they are working through these bugs and i believe he's not trying to appease me. i am still going to wait to download 4.21. i was going to do it yesterday but just felt the need to wait a bit longer.

[Susan Waites]

So far so good. I used 4.21 last night at my show. It worked great did not stop all night and it was running for 5 hours. I was not running BA, I will try that next time.

[muzicman144]

We do a fast paced show, no karaoke, so a breakdown by hoster is a big concern. We use 4.21, and it works flawlessly for me. I sometimes run as many as six Hoster programs at once to switch to different types of show material. I have found it useless, in my case, to run any other program in conjunction with Hoster. I use hoster for break music,(or could be for dj) I have found that Hoster can do anything musical i need to do without using other programs. If by chance Hoster failed at some point, a simple click of the mouse and instantly another hoster program in on screen, ready to work, with no time lost.
If i was having a problem with shutdowns, i would also run extra versions of hoster so a click of the mouse, another hoster is on the screen and less than two seconds of time lost, just in case it happens while i was waiting for an answer to the problem.
muzicman144

[billyo]

that's a good way of doing a karaoke show, i too always bring my back-up laptop with me everytime i play, we all know that comp. don't always work the way we wanted to, that's why it's always good to have a back-up. when i do a private party ( just djing ) i have 2 extra laptops that i bring with me w/ all diff. dj. programs. i can't expressed this enough, " do not upgrade on the day you'll playing, and if you do, don't upgrade both your show and back-up at the same time" just incase something like this happened...

[Musicman51]

My goodness i haul too much equipment now. The idea of me going to computer presentation software, was so i wouldn't have to keep hauling extra stuff. If i wanted to make more trips to the trailer, i'd stay with disc.

I have never had my laptop, or any computer i've ever owned drop dead during a show, in my studio, or even at home. Freeze up..yeah..but far and few between times. Almost unheard of as far as i'm concerned. I've got an old HP almost 6 years old, that will still hold it's own against a brand new one. Just outdated and tired is all.

One good laptop or PC, external drive, with nothing on it but hoster, and i can go forever..one song after another.

[muzicman144]

george, i run muliple hoster programs on the same computer. If i do have hoster shut down, click the mouse, no time loss, another hoster screen ready for business. i do carry a laptop, back up, in case my computer itself fails.
not sure what billyo is saying except to have a computer back up. that is not what i meant.
muzicman144

[kod]

Hoster shut down four times on me last night (Thursday night 6/3) during my show. I ran the BA for over an hour before the show with no problems whatsoever.

After I started the show, Hoster shut down once about an hour into the show with the BA running. After that, I did not turn the BA back on all night and Hoster shut down three more times. All of the shutdowns were between songs.

I now have a Saturday night show too. We'll see what happens Saturday night...

[billyo]

Originally Posted by muzicman144

george, i run muliple hoster programs on the same computer. If i do have hoster shut down, click the mouse, no time loss, another hoster screen ready for business. i do carry a laptop, back up, in case my computer itself fails.
not sure what billyo is saying except to have a computer back up. that is not what i meant.
muzicman144

i didnt know you were running a multiple programs, i thought you have hoster running on diff. comp. just in case the show pc shuts down..my mistake i'm sorry, but it's always a good idea to have a back-up .

[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by muzicman144

george, i run muliple hoster programs on the same computer. If i do have hoster shut down, click the mouse, no time loss, another hoster screen ready for business. i do carry a laptop, back up, in case my computer itself fails.
not sure what billyo is saying except to have a computer back up. that is not what i meant.
muzicman144

What version of Hoster are you running 2 copies of? I used to do that before the Singers Database was incorporated and kept 3.4 running along side for break music and to read alternate playlistslists, but I didn't think that was a good idea any more