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[bryant]

Okay, here's what I did tonight:
I did Not have virtual DJ up in the background, had McAfee disabled too (although I am never online anyway with Show machines during a show). Turn off gadget (wall clock).
Remove Silence was not used at all((except for the first two songs, then I put it back to normal ( no remove silence) mode)). Of course, tempo was disabled so must've been using old player. Fade in/out was left on at 3 seconds each. No B.A. as usual. Manual mode for playlist songs. 3 - 1/2 hour show with 48 songs with a lot of moving around singers, renaming, skipping, deleting, using mp3 instabuttons, etc. Most of my songs are cdcdg, some are hdmp3g, and a few are hdbin.

The one thing I did was to NOT let many songs at all reach the end. I would hit the stop button if I saw 4 or 5 seconds left (actually, shift-stop as I like to see played songs shown as "played". very few, if any, songs reached the end by themselves (where the crashes had been occurring).

There were no crashes. Not sure what this means, maybe just randomness?

Hoping I can supply clues and get advice from anyone on what I should try next?

Oh, show machine is Dell XPS15z, i5, 8 gB ram, dual core 2.67 MHz, 7200 rpm 750 GB HD, 1 gB nvidia dedicated video card, all tweaks and Hoster recommendations made on Windows 7 platform.

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by bryant

Okay, here's what I did tonight:
I did Not have virtual DJ up in the background, had McAfee disabled too (although I am never online anyway with Show machines during a show). Turn off gadget (wall clock).
Remove Silence was not used at all((except for the first two songs, then I put it back to normal ( no remove silence) mode)). Of course, tempo was disabled so must've been using old player. Fade in/out was left on at 3 seconds each. No B.A. as usual. Manual mode for playlist songs. 3 - 1/2 hour show with 48 songs with a lot of moving around singers, renaming, skipping, deleting, using mp3 instabuttons, etc. Most of my songs are cdcdg, some are hdmp3g, and a few are hdbin.

The one thing I did was to NOT let many songs at all reach the end. I would hit the stop button if I saw 4 or 5 seconds left (actually, shift-stop as I like to see played songs shown as "played". very few, if any, songs reached the end by themselves (where the crashes had been occurring).

There were no crashes. Not sure what this means, maybe just randomness?

Hoping I can supply clues and get advice from anyone on what I should try next?

Oh, show machine is Dell XPS15z, i5, 8 gB ram, dual core 2.67 MHz, 7200 rpm 750 GB HD, 1 gB nvidia dedicated video card, all tweaks and Hoster recommendations made on Windows 7 platform.

I know I asked this before but can't remember if you answered it but you say " Most of my songs are cdcdg, some are hdmp3g, and a few are hdbin." Have you ever noted if the crashes were related to any particular type ?
I personnly don't have any HDBIN files so that is one thing different on your computer to mine.

I would suggest running next time with everything dissabled as before except RS and see if you get the crashes again, if so disable the RS again but let songs play to their natural end and see if they crash then, at least that might narrow it down to either the RS or just the ending of the songs.
If it plays OK with RS enabled then try next time enabling virtual dj, it's just a process of elimination to find what is causing it.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

I know I asked this before but can't remember if you answered it but you say " Most of my songs are cdcdg, some are hdmp3g, and a few are hdbin." Have you ever noted if the crashes were related to any particular type ?
I personnly don't have any HDBIN files so that is one thing different on your computer to mine.

I would suggest running next time with everything dissabled as before except RS and see if you get the crashes again, if so disable the RS again but let songs play to their natural end and see if they crash then, at least that might narrow it down to either the RS or just the ending of the songs.
If it plays OK with RS enabled then try next time enabling virtual dj, it's just a process of elimination to find what is causing it.

Will do exactly that tomorrow night, as Wednesday's gig is cancelled.
Thx, Roy

[EmilioM]

Hey folks, I have submitted a ticket for this problem, but that may take a few days, so I'm hoping someone here might have an answer since I have gigs the next 3 days. I played a party outside on June 30th and it was very hot. I was in the shade with a fan and laptop cooler pad. Hoster performed fantastic throughout the party. At 6:30PM I broke down and went to my next gig to play. Hoster played the first few songs, but it had echo and some instruments were missing so it sounded somewhat hollow. This happen once before with my desktop when it overheated but the next day everything returned to normal. After playing about 6 or 7 songs, any song I tried to add, the status would say "skip". I couldn't use Hoster at all so I tried "Hoster Prior", and the same thing happened. So then I went to Microstudio, and that wouldn't work either. I have a free player which I won't name and started it and it was able to play the songs but it didn't pick up about 10% of my karaoke songs, but it was enough to get me through the night. I figured the next day everything would straighten up with Hoster, and the next day I ran a few songs and Hoster played them. Didn't pay anymore attention to it. Yesterday, Wednesday, I had to take over for a friend of mine when his wife became sick. Got my laptop out, went to play. It played the first song and then did the same thing again. Every time you add a song it says "skip". Fortunately Microstudio worked so I was able to limp through the night. Today I redownloaded Hoster 5.07 to see if it would clear the problem, but it's still the same. Anyone have any suggestions?

JRMerc
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[bryant]

Originally Posted by EmilioM

Hey folks, I have submitted a ticket for this problem, but that may take a few days, so I'm hoping someone here might have an answer since I have gigs the next 3 days. I played a party outside on June 30th and it was very hot. I was in the shade with a fan and laptop cooler pad. Hoster performed fantastic throughout the party. At 6:30PM I broke down and went to my next gig to play. Hoster played the first few songs, but it had echo and some instruments were missing so it sounded somewhat hollow. This happen once before with my desktop when it overheated but the next day everything returned to normal. After playing about 6 or 7 songs, any song I tried to add, the status would say "skip". I couldn't use Hoster at all so I tried "Hoster Prior", and the same thing happened. So then I went to Microstudio, and that wouldn't work either. I have a free player which I won't name and started it and it was able to play the songs but it didn't pick up about 10% of my karaoke songs, but it was enough to get me through the night. I figured the next day everything would straighten up with Hoster, and the next day I ran a few songs and Hoster played them. Didn't pay anymore attention to it. Yesterday, Wednesday, I had to take over for a friend of mine when his wife became sick. Got my laptop out, went to play. It played the first song and then did the same thing again. Every time you add a song it says "skip". Fortunately Microstudio worked so I was able to limp through the night. Today I redownloaded Hoster 5.07 to see if it would clear the problem, but it's still the same. Anyone have any suggestions?

JRMerc
Memories & More

In the search for songs and singers dialogue box there is a tickmark next to the word "skip" in the upper right, you need to uncheck that and you should be alright with the new songs added as ready"".

[EmilioM]

Bryant, Duhh and double duhhh! I feel ashamed. Thanks for the help.

JRMerc
Memories & More

[bryant]

Last night was:
Okay, here's what I did last night:

I did Not have virtual DJ up in the background, had McAfee disabled again
Remove Silence was turned back on for all 62 songs in my four hour show. Again, tempo was disabled so must've been using old player. Fade in/out was left on at 3 seconds each. No B.A. as usual. Manual mode for playlist songs. 4 hour show with 62 songs and 8 mp3's with a little bit of moving around singers, renaming, skipping, deleting, using mp3 instabuttons, etc.

There were no crashes!

Oh, show machine is Dell XPS15z, i5, 8 gB ram, dual core 2.67 MHz, 7200 rpm 750 GB HD, 1 gB nvidia dedicated video card, all updates, tweaks and Hoster recommendations made on Windows 7 platform.

Friday night I'm going to run the identical setup again to see if I can go another night with this arrangement. Then Saturday I'll leave VirtualDJ up in the background.

I wonder if the fade in fade out at 3 seconds made a difference? I also wonder if the remove silence's add 3 sec. Between songs and 3 after end of song made a difference? 00