Bad Singer disc freezes Hoster

[Skybird]

How do I know if I need the latest upgrade or if it was already included with my new Plextor drive?

When songs take a long time trying to upload, and Cancel will not work, and I've waited as long as 15 minutes for 1 song to try to upload, I have no choice but to just press the eject button on my drive and stop the process.

Any other suggestions?
Thanks.

[gpayne]

Originally Posted by Skybird

How do I know if I need the latest upgrade or if it was already included with my new Plextor drive?

When songs take a long time trying to upload, and Cancel will not work, and I've waited as long as 15 minutes for 1 song to try to upload, I have no choice but to just press the eject button on my drive and stop the process.

Any other suggestions?
Thanks.

If you have the Plextools software loaded that came with your drive, you can start it and select drive information from the menu. You will see the firmware revision that the drive is currently using. Find out what it is and go to the Plextor website to see what the latest firmware version available for your drive is.
You can also look in the device manager under cd and dvd drives. Right click on your plextor drive, select properties and then click details. The firmware version will be listed on the far right hand side of the line that lists your drive. My Plextor 760A says "1.01".

Hope this helps!!!

gpayne

[Beavis]

if it aint broke i dont fix it !

[gpayne]

Originally Posted by Beavis

if it aint broke i dont fix it !

I think it's pretty much a good idea to always upgrade the firmware in your drives. I am not so sure about Windows updates but if you don't install windows netframe I don't think you will be able to use Hoster 3.310. I guess in that case if you install 3.310 your machine will be broke if windows netframe is not on it.

Later!!

gpayne

[MTUSUPPORT]

You should also see the Firmware version at the far right of the Default drive under Hoster.

If you go to the Tools Menu\CD/DVD Default drives under Hoster it should show you the Version of the firmware. This will show something such as Plextor Px-760A 1.01. The Firmware version on this drive would be 1.01. So you could go to Plextor's website and see if this is the latest version and if not download the latest version from http://www.plextor.com/english/suppo...downloads.html

[Skybird]

I got the latest firmware and some songs that previously uploaded with unreadable graphics will now upload with graphics that have some spots but can at least be read. But, there are still some songs that take so long to upload (several minutes), that I still have no choice but to click "Eject" to get it to stop because clicking "Cancel" does nothing. So upgrading the firmware did not solve this problem.

[ddouglass]

Skybird,
There are a lot of possible causes for long loading times. Some manufacturers use cheap disks for their production. Those cheaper, thinner disks cause a large number of errors which forces the read speed to slow drastically.

Importing from a singer's disk brings a whole lot more problems into play. The disk they hand you can be dirty, scratched, cracked or even a bad copy (not correctly copied). There is no way that any program can over come these physical problems. Importing a singer's disk is risky at best.

And as Bryan said previously once the disk is in read mode this is a hardware function and you cannot get out of it (except by ejecting cd) until it finishes. The Cancel button only works after the read is finished.

I personally still carry my CDG player and have it setup into my mixer to use for singer's CDs. The player is light weight, easy to set up, and is much more tolerant of bad tracks than the computer drive.