4.22 install/no audio tip

[ddouglass]

Ok Emilio I'll pass it on and maybe they can find out why it didn't stay through the upgrade.

[EmilioM]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Ok Emilio I'll pass it on and maybe they can find out why it didn't stay through the upgrade.

Thanx for passing it on Dale. Like I said before, something must be different starting with 4.21, because it never happened before, and now it's happened with both 4.21 & 4.22. But this is minor, at the most a small inconvenience. And you're correct, once you reset the audio card, it is persistent. I just don't understand why people are so hesitant to try this because of a small glitch that is easily correctable. As far as I'm concerned, you can't do any better than this. This past Saturday, I had a musician who is also one of my singers sit down next to me. He was interested in seeing what I was doing, and how everything functioned. I gave him a quick rundown, and after watching for a while, he went away very impressed with the ease and capabilities of Hoster. My customers always remark on the marquee when I put messages on it like Happy Birthday, Anniversary, and so on, and they love the fact that they can come up to me and request a song and I have it ready to play within seconds. They also enjoy the Instabutton sound fx and that I can get through a rotation so much quicker than other places they've been to before. Hoster is the best by far!!!

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[billyo]

when i first installed v4.22 i had the out of sync, and rapid stutter and crashing after the stutter stops, and i played a vcd file there was no audio, i had to dragged the Hoster volume all the way up, and had to change mine from -0.5 to -0.4..

[EmilioM]

Originally Posted by billyo

when i first installed v4.22 i had the out of sync, and rapid stutter and crashing after the stutter stops, and i played a vcd file there was no audio, i had to dragged the Hoster volume all the way up, and had to change mine from -0.5 to -0.4..

Billyo, sorry to hear about your problems with 4.22. I too have the synch problem, but I can correct it with the offset, so that's alright by me. I haven't had any of the rapid stutter, crashing and low volume that you're talking about. Now I did have a major problem not last weekend, but the 3 weekends before that. Hoster would freeze when I hit play. It would stay on "cue". All 3 weekends I would test Hoster before I wrapped it up to go to my gigs, and everything worked fine. When I got to my gig and started Hoster, I would test it before I started and it froze again. I had to run the show with Microstudio which worked, but it's kind of a pain because you can't search for songs while a singer is singing. I have music in 3 different folders and I would have to search for the correct folder in between songs which is time consuming. Well anyway, I found out what the problem was, and it wasn't Hoster. It was low power coming from the outlet. Hoster was trying, but it didn't have enough juice. I pretty much suspected it had to do with power since I had power problems (power would go out for 15-30 seconds) every once in awhile. I even brought my HEAVY UPS to plug in so if it happened again, I'd have time to shut down instead of a hard boot. The reason I'm telling you about this is could it be possible you might have some of those same circumstances happening to you? Anyway, hopefully you get it all straightened out.

JRMerc
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[billyo]

Originally Posted by EmilioM

Billyo, sorry to hear about your problems with 4.22. I too have the synch problem, but I can correct it with the offset, so that's alright by me. I haven't had any of the rapid stutter, crashing and low volume that you're talking about. Now I did have a major problem not last weekend, but the 3 weekends before that. Hoster would freeze when I hit play. It would stay on "cue". All 3 weekends I would test Hoster before I wrapped it up to go to my gigs, and everything worked fine. When I got to my gig and started Hoster, I would test it before I started and it froze again. I had to run the show with Microstudio which worked, but it's kind of a pain because you can't search for songs while a singer is singing. I have music in 3 different folders and I would have to search for the correct folder in between songs which is time consuming. Well anyway, I found out what the problem was, and it wasn't Hoster. It was low power coming from the outlet. Hoster was trying, but it didn't have enough juice. I pretty much suspected it had to do with power since I had power problems (power would go out for 15-30 seconds) every once in awhile. I even brought my HEAVY UPS to plug in so if it happened again, I'd have time to shut down instead of a hard boot. The reason I'm telling you about this is could it be possible you might have some of those same circumstances happening to you? Anyway, hopefully you get it all straightened out.

JRMerc
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thanks for the adviced, but i don't think it's the power, since i was able to upgrade my show laptop,( 2nd time ) and i dont have the sync, and stutter problems anymore, , just wondering why would the kmh files works without dragging the volume all the way up, while the vcd had to be dragged way up, i still have v4.21 on my back-up and i could play both files w/o dragging the volume up.i am not able to see if i could install the upgrade on my back-up, since i am in the middle of packing all my gears , getting ready to move into a new house.

[EmilioM]

Originally Posted by billyo

thanks for the adviced, but i don't think it's the power, since i was able to upgrade my show laptop,( 2nd time ) and i dont have the sync, and stutter problems anymore, , just wondering why would the kmh files works without dragging the volume all the way up, while the vcd had to be dragged way up, i still have v4.21 on my back-up and i could play both files w/o dragging the volume up.i am not able to see if i could install the upgrade on my back-up, since i am in the middle of packing all my gears , getting ready to move into a new house.

Glad you got it working. And congrats on the new house.

JRMerc
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[Deeter]

I just installed the 4.22 upgrade last night and opened Hoster up. I started a song that I added to the playlist and no sound. I checked the volume on the laptop, the volume in the sound control panel, etc. Moving the sliders I had sound, but nothing from the song playing in Hoster. Hitting the instabutton, however, caused that sound to play. So I closed up Hoster, opened it back up and it's worked ever since.