beep tone when highlighting search title.

[ddouglass]

Go to Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices and open it. Click on Sounds Tab. In dropdown window choose No Sounds click OK. That will turn off all the little annoying sounds Windows makes when you do things on the computer. This will not affect any output through your sound card.

ADMIN NOTE: Good advice for the expected "normal" solution, but it didn't work. This beep is a Vista BUG! Read on...

[N181RV]

I already had sounds disabled, but went there and double checked it and "No Sounds" is selected.

All computer sounds are shut off except this one little beep.

Don't know if Hoster got a glitch in it or if Vista got a glitch, but one of them is doing something they shouldn't be doing.

ADMIN NOTE: This beep turns out tobe a Vista BUG! Read on...

All other sounds are shut down.

I just get a single short duration beep when I hit left mouse button when I high lite a title listing on the search window. If I double click it, it only beeps the first click and then it adds it to the play list on the main Hoster window.

I am thinking I may need to reload the hoster program. Since I am new to all this hard drive song stuff, I don't know what that will require or what it will do to my existing database. luckily, I backed up the database on an exterrnal harddrive so things can't be too bad for old Phil.

Saturday night, I had a Hoster shutdown in the middle of a song. The program came back up ok and the playlist was ok like they say it will be, but later when I did a search for a song that a singer wanted, the songs pulled up but I got a beep when I high lited her brand of cdg. It has been doing it every since. I will try all suggestions and keep playing with it until i figure it out.

Tnx for your advice and still open to any more advice.

Phil

[ddouglass]

Phil, Hoster does not have anything to do with the sounds, so no need to reload. Check your mouse settings in the control panel. Maybe something in there controls sounds for it.

ADMIN NOTE: Good advice, but this beep is a Vista BUG! Read on...

Are you refering to a customer import as those unfortunately don't come back after a crash and have to be re-imported. If it was one of your loaded songs then you may have a corrupt file for that song.

ADMIN NOTE: That's incorrect. If you have imported songs into your Playlist from discs your Singer's bring in, they WILL remain in the playlist and on the hard drive after a crash and restart of Hoster. All will be fine, in the same order, ready to play. That's part of MTU's Failsafe design to keep your show running even after a crash. NOTE: Once an imported song plays it's imported image is deleted, AND... when Hoster closes normally, all imported CDG tracks are deleted to keep you legal, yet allow you to play tracks from your Singer's discs.

If you do reload Hoster it will not erase your database or the song files.

[N181RV]

Ok Dale, Tnx alot.
I will keep fiddling and I will let you know what I find...

Phil

[admin]

Dale is right. The beep is something Vista is creating. We haven't found a work around other than don't use Vista.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by admin

Dale is right. The beep is something Vista is creating. We haven't found a work around other than don't use Vista.

Now why didn't I think of that.

[mindonstrike]

I've been going through mine and can't figure out how to turn it off.

I found the wav file for it (windows ding.wav) and changed its name so windows couldn't play it but instead it switched to a nasty buzzer sound that was way worse than the ding.

It's strange that individual sounds can be turned off in XP but not vista.
I think what you can do however is record a small wav with no sound, name it "windows ding.wav" and replace the original with it.

Sam

[billyo]

Originally Posted by admin

Dale is right. The beep is something Vista is creating. We haven't found a work around other than don't use Vista.

thats why i havent loaded my vista software upgrade..i was told by a friend who works for dell tech support not to load it for about 6 months. too much problem..some of the drivers on xp are not compatible with vista..

[mindonstrike]

I found another workaround for this that's a little less drastic and probably easier for those who don't like messing with files.

Click the speaker icon in the tray at the bottom right of the screen. When the volume slider comes up there is a "mixer" button at the bottom of it. Click "Mixer". Now you will have a volume slider for the speakers, a volume slider for Windows sounds and assuming Hoster is open you'll have a slider for Hoster.
Click the Mute button below the Windows Sounds slider and it should silence the Windows Sounds without affecting anything else.

This is how it is setup and works on my computer, hopefully other folks will have similiar setups.

Sam

ADMIN NOTE: Good advice, but not the solution yet. Read on...