Hoster 4.21 Vs. 4.22

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Skybird74

Dale, have you ever run BA during an entire 3-4 hour Show? If not, then how do you know that it's our machine & not BA causing Hoster shutdowns? There were apparently many users requesting BA that got MTU to add this feature. Since then, very few people on this forum even talk about BA or have let us know how they liked it once they got it. And now, I see many more say that they still use a separate program for playing their music files in-between, so that makes me wonder, how many people are actually using BA.....?????

Also, can I ask what prompted you to ask what kind of "power conditioner" was being used, which started this discussion???

Yes I have run extended test shows at home with the BA on the whole time and never had any problems. As I said we don't use it during our shows mainly because our patrons don't like it. Too confusing to them. MTU has said all along that those who have under-powered computers (most of those being laptops) would have problems with using the BA with or without visualizations. This is a very large processor hog compared to the rest of Hoster. This is also why we ask the age of the computer and when or if it has ever been cleaned internally (mainly laptops).
The reason I asked about his power conditioner was to look it up and see if it had a battery backup to control low voltage. Surges will not cause the computer to have reduced power available but a low A/C input will. That is not to say surge isn't a problem but not the same kind of problem.
I have no doubt that the BA needs more work to fine tune it and get the amount of processor time down to make it work correctly for everyone.

[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Yes I have run extended test shows at home with the BA on the whole time and never had any problems. As I said we don't use it during our shows mainly because our patrons don't like it. Too confusing to them. MTU has said all along that those who have under-powered computers (most of those being laptops) would have problems with using the BA with or without visualizations. This is a very large processor hog compared to the rest of Hoster. This is also why we ask the age of the computer and when or if it has ever been cleaned internally (mainly laptops).
The reason I asked about his power conditioner was to look it up and see if it had a battery backup to control low voltage. Surges will not cause the computer to have reduced power available but a low A/C input will. That is not to say surge isn't a problem but not the same kind of problem.
I have no doubt that the BA needs more work to fine tune it and get the amount of processor time down to make it work correctly for everyone.

Thanks! I didn't think my computer was "under-powered", but

[ddouglass]

KOD,
Just did some research on your laptop at Dell, and found there are updates, especially for the Bios and Audio along with some others that came out in April this year that may be a big help.

[kod]

Dale,
Thanks for investigating this... Are these updates something I download from Dell?

Since Hoster didn't stop at all last Thursday night without using it, I am not going to run BA again anytime soon.

I have a show tonight (Thursday) and will see what happens. I'm now going to use Windows Media Player to play music prior to my show. I agree with not using BA between songs. Most of the time, only a little bit of a song gets played before the next song starts.

The visualization comment keeps getting mentioned here, but I have no idea what anyone is referring to, so it's apparent I don't use it.

I use only a singers monitor, because I don't like the whole bar watching and singing with the words on multiple monitors. I want them to watch the singer. If they know the words, they can still sing! Also, if the singer makes a blooper, no one really notices.

[ddouglass]

yes go to Dell website and under support they have downloads.