MTU.Community


Go Back   MTU.Community > Microstudio Software & Burners > Microstudio Help

Microstudio Help Post Microstudio questions, tips and suggestions here.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old November 2nd, 2006, 05:44 PM
George George is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 5,299
Kelly,

Nice "seeing" you again.

I know this is too simple, but it is new to the game, so I'll ask you anyway.

Did you try TOOLS, DEFAULT DRIVES, highlight the writing drive and click
HWERROR CORRECT, APPLY.

Didn't help me any, but may resolve yours...dunno, just brainstorming.

Take care,
George
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old November 2nd, 2006, 07:42 PM
kedmison kedmison is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 491
Yes I did. To no avail. Now for an update. I neber could get it to copy the 19 songs. There was over 2 min left on the disc. This was never a problem in previous version. I finally got it to copy "18" songs. Strange. I sent the same "19" songs to my laptop which has the older version of MS and it copied fine. But would only do 18 with new version.

Now there is a few other "things." I noticed after you copy a disc. There seems to be no way to delete those songs from your file (computer) without getting completely out of MS and going to say Explorer for i.e. and deleteing them there.

Second, I noticed that when you insert a disc to play, it takes on the average 4 minutes to get the songs to move to the play side of the screen. I'm sure this isn't suppose to be this way either.

Kelly
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old November 2nd, 2006, 08:36 PM
kedmison kedmison is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 491
George, nice "seeing" you again too. Sounds like your gonna have to take another "chill pill.' Just teasing sir. Always appreciate yours and everyone else's help. Gonna call it quits for tonight. It will all work out. With MTU it always does.

Kelly
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old November 3rd, 2006, 02:20 AM
ddouglass ddouglass is offline
Super Moderator
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Ace, TX (5 miles past Nowhere)
Posts: 9,395
Quote:
Originally Posted by kedmison View Post
Yes I did. To no avail. Now for an update. I neber could get it to copy the 19 songs. There was over 2 min left on the disc. This was never a problem in previous version. I finally got it to copy "18" songs. Strange. I sent the same "19" songs to my laptop which has the older version of MS and it copied fine. But would only do 18 with new version.
This may be one of those little bugs missed in beta testing that Admin needs to take a look at. I don't think any of us tried to fill up a disc.

Quote:
Originally Posted by kedmison View Post
Now there is a few other "things." I noticed after you copy a disc. There seems to be no way to delete those songs from your file (computer) without getting completely out of MS and going to say Explorer for i.e. and deleteing them there.
This was brought up during testing but decided to leave it that way. Maybe Admin can expand on the reasoning behind it. And you don't have to close MS to go to Windows Explorer to delete them....multi-tasking.

Quote:
Originally Posted by kedmison View Post
Second, I noticed that when you insert a disc to play, it takes on the average 4 minutes to get the songs to move to the play side of the screen. I'm sure this isn't suppose to be this way either.
MS does not play directly from the CD. The files have to be imported as BIN files to play in the player which takes time since it involves reading from a CD and not a hard drive.
__________________
Dale Douglass
2nd Generation Karaoke
I am not a member of the MTU Staff.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old November 3rd, 2006, 08:12 AM
kedmison kedmison is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 491
Thanks for the information.

Kelly
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old November 4th, 2006, 01:13 AM
kedmison kedmison is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 491
Apparently, the new MS 3.0 is not designed to compile a disc containg more than 18 songs. Years ago when I began karaoke I used a Sony 400 to hold my cdgs. I used MS to compile songs so I could get as many on a disc a possible to conserve space while keeping my originals at home. Since then of course I have gone digital. But I still compile my discs before putting them into Hoster.

I also from time to time find a version of a song which I feel is better than the one I have. At that point I take the compiled disc; copy it back into MS; switch out the song I want; rewrite the compiled disc and then put it back into Hotser. Very few of my compiled discs contain less than 20 songs. I even have some discs with as many as 26 songs. These being "oldies" songs which are much shorter in length compared to todays music.

Until maybe MTU can find a way to correct this , I will revert to the older version. I must admit I also find the older version much faster in operation. I am sure there are major benneifts to the newer version. But until they meet my need I will use the older one.
Maybe this is something that MTU can address.

However I am still a very satisfied MTU customer.

Kelly
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old November 4th, 2006, 03:47 PM
George George is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 5,299
Kelly,

Having difficulty believing there is a track limitation.

There is no mention of a track limitation in the manual, and the example shown under the HOW TO WRITE CUSTOM DISCS section shows the write screen with 21 tracks.

Certainly hope there's not such a low track limitation as 18, considering the number of discs out there that have 20 tracks; 10 demos and 10 Karaoke tracks. Would make it impossible to re-do a badly swept track in KHP and write a new disc.

Take care,

George
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old November 4th, 2006, 04:29 PM
kedmison kedmison is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 491
I wouldn't think so either George, but today I repeatedly tried different discs that contained at least 20 songs. It failed on 20; failed on 19; but would begin writing if the song count was lowered to 18. So,... for the time being I have deleted 3.0 and went back to 2.613.

Kelly
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old November 5th, 2006, 12:27 AM
admin admin is offline
Administrator
 
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
Posts: 10,515
Quote:
Originally Posted by kedmison View Post
1. Apparently, the new MS 3.0 is not designed to compile a disc containg more than 18 songs. Years ago when I began karaoke I used a Sony 400 to hold my cdgs. I used MS to compile songs so I could get as many on a disc a possible to conserve space while keeping my originals at home. Since then of course I have gone digital. But I still compile my discs before putting them into Hoster.

2. Until maybe MTU can find a way to correct this , I will revert to the older version. I must admit I also find the older version much faster in operation. I am sure there are major benneifts to the newer version. But until they meet my need I will use the older one.
Maybe this is something that MTU can address.
1. We'll check on this first thing Monday morning. It could be a bug lurking.

2. I'd love to know any functions where you find 3.0 slower. That will give us a target to shoot for.
__________________
Making Karaoke the best it can be!
http://www.mtu.com/
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old November 6th, 2006, 10:03 AM
kedmison kedmison is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 491
Thanks Admin. The slowest thing I have found and I guess it's because of the bin. file; put in a disc and say ie. select songs 3, 4, 6 8. And you click to add those songs to the play side. It takes a LONG time before it moves them there. I'm sure it's because MS is converting them to bin.

I just know that when you do the same thing with the older version; it almost instant.

The writing in the new version does seem faster.

Kelly
Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:52 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.1
Copyright ©2009 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
The contents of this forum are copyrighted by Micro Technology Unlimited, 2000-2008. Use of any material from these Forums is prohibited without written agreement from MTU.