Bad Singer disc freezes Hoster

[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.

[bryant]

Dale,
Do you simply switch the video cord from your
laptop/computer to your karaoke machine to your
monitor(s). Then switch back over? Or are you Y'ed into a switch box of some sort?
Bryant
I keep my laptop on top of my karaoke (JVC) and use the mic inputs anyway fro the two mics hung by the singers' monitor. Buy I always seem to get tempted to try imports anyway, but cringe every time too.

[lmcmains]

I have a mixer and all I have to do is push a button to select the input. I have the computer pluged into one input and the player into the other input. It makes it easy to play a singers disc that way.

As Dale said there can be lots of things cause the proplem. If I use a singers disc the first thing I do is clean it before I play it.

Larry

[bryant]

The video out is plugged into the mixer too, hmmm.
I do know that the audio outs are as that is what I do, but the yellow video out goes to a Y in my case then to both the singer's monitor and the big screen across the hall. Now when you put a cdg in the karaoke player...wouldn't you have to reconnect the monitors to come FROM the video output of the Karaoke machine?

[Skybird]

Dale, I always use a CDG player at my shows - already know about all the problems that can happen.
I'm only referring to uploading my own back-up copies I personally made with Microstudio at 1x speed. Many of these upload with bad graphics or just take forever and I have no choice but to Eject the disk. And yet, I have found I can put these disks back onto my computer with Microstudio and then convert the CDGs directly from the hard drive into KMAs. I just wonder why - if Microstudio can read them, why can't Hoster, since they were originall made with Microstudio?
It's just a pain! I backed up all my CDGs several years ago until I could afford to go computerized & now it seems I have to start all over again. It's just double work & I'm just complaining.
It is, however, worth the effort. I LOVE HOSTER!!!