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[EmilioM]

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

JRMerc
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[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

[bryant]

Friday night's setting were precisely the same as Thursday's as detailed in my last post.
It was only a three hour show with little editing done in the playlist and not as much use of the instabuttons as I typically do. I let most of the songs go to completion. I would shift-stop some that had longer than 10 seconds of audio after the singing part was over. This was pretty much the same crowd as I had last Friday when I had four crashes and that very last song even caused a crash.

There were no crashes last night, for the third night in a row.

The big differences between these two Friday nights was this Friday had McAfee disabled, no use of VDJ, fade in set at 3 sec. Instead of 2 sec. Fade out set at 3 sec. Instead of 2 sec., Remove silence had 3 sec. Added before audio instead of 2 sec., and 3 sec. Added after audio instead of 1 sec.

Have a gig tonight and will keep the same procedure going as last night except I will use a lot of VDJ before and during the show as I used to. Any further suggestions ( Roy) or anyone else after tonight?

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by bryant

Any further suggestions ( Roy) or anyone else after tonight?

No, do as you suggested just making the one alteration at a time, that should eventually pin point the problem.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

No, do as you suggested just making the one alteration at a time, that should eventually pin point the problem.

Thanks Roy. The reason why I spend 3 or 4 nights on the same scenario is to avoid as much randomness as I can. For example, If a crash occurs 1 of 100 songs on average, mathematically it can still happen three times in a row or even not at all for 300 songs. I'd just hate to eliminate one source over a short period of time (say 40 songs), but all the time that source COULD have been the cause, without knowing. Then I would never get anywhere with any certainty.
Am I making any sense?

Anyway, I'll hammer on VDJ this week, and then add McAfee in next week, perhaps. Thinking way ahead here, what if I work back to where I was in the very beginning and getting no crashes with that beginning scenario that caused up to 4 a night. Then I'd still be worried about "when will it crash next".

[kod]

I had another flawless show Thursday night with VirtualDJ running all night. I always keep it up every show because after every 4th or 5th Singer, I play a dance song. I also use it to play music before the show.

Tempo was enabled and Norton enabled. Fade in "0" ; Fade out "5"

I use Instabuttons frequently (I have 83 set up), at times one after the other in sequence while they are still playing. All are mp3's.

I have run with and without RS enabled and had no problems.

Because of some past problems with it, I never use BA...

I do still get "crashes," but they are very rare (sometimes one a month, sometimes longer)...

[bryant]

Originally Posted by kod

I had another flawless show Thursday night with VirtualDJ running all night. I always keep it up every show because after every 4th or 5th Singer, I play a dance song. I also use it to play music before the show.

Tempo was enabled and Norton enabled. Fade in "0" ; Fade out "5"

I use Instabuttons frequently (I have 83 set up), at times one after the other in sequence while they are still playing. All are mp3's.

I have run with and without RS enabled and had no problems.

Because of some past problems with it, I never use BA...

I do still get "crashes," but they are very rare (sometimes one a month, sometimes longer)...

How often do you gig, Kod?

With remove Silence on, did you use and added silence between songs, such as before song audio starts and after song audio ends (in the remove silence options)?

Do you use videos with Virtual DJ before and during the show?


Was your crashes that you did have similar to mine (at the very end of a song after it has stopped completely)?


When you did crash and restart hoster, did the singers screen appear half-sized when it came back on?

Oh, also, what was your audio setting at, mine is at the default ten.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by bryant

Friday night's setting were precisely the same as Thursday's as detailed in my last post.
It was only a three hour show with little editing done in the playlist and not as much use of the instabuttons as I typically do. I let most of the songs go to completion. I would shift-stop some that had longer than 10 seconds of audio after the singing part was over. This was pretty much the same crowd as I had last Friday when I had four crashes and that very last song even caused a crash.

There were no crashes last night, for the third night in a row.

The big differences between these two Friday nights was this Friday had McAfee disabled, no use of VDJ, fade in set at 3 sec. Instead of 2 sec. Fade out set at 3 sec. Instead of 2 sec., Remove silence had 3 sec. Added before audio instead of 2 sec., and 3 sec. Added after audio instead of 1 sec.

Have a gig tonight and will keep the same procedure going as last night except I will use a lot of VDJ before and during the show as I used to. Any further suggestions ( Roy) or anyone else after tonight?

Show only lasted 2 hours and played mostly music for dancing. Will do using this scenario on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, however.