4.06 Beta 1 Problem

[James w murray]

Hi just posting my experience with 4.06 B1 at my show tonight.
There were a couple of problems
The audio stuttering problem is still present but less frequent
Three times during my show tonight the audio slowed down and stuttered.
This occured while I was either searching for a song or adding an audio file to the playlist while a karaoke or audio song was already playing.

Twice during the night I had the window pop up saying hoster has stopped working and the application will be closed at which point I had to restart Hoster but lost my playlist content and had to re-enter it

Also a couple of times when a singer had picked the wrong version of a song that they wanted to sing I proceded to hit stop and add the correct version but when hitting the stop button the button went from red to greyed out and the song kept playing and the only way to stop it was to close and re-open Hoster
One very good thing was that the lyrics stayed in sync the entire night!!!!!!!!:
I had informed all of the singers at the beginning of the night that I was using a beta version and they gave me there full support and ask me to let all of the staff at MTU know that they appreciate all of the hard work they are doing to solve these problems with Vista

[ddouglass]

James, how big is your C:\ drive and how much free space does it have? I know you have enough memory but hard drive work space can also effect those things. Search and importing are the most memory intensive things you can do in Hoster especially when playing at the same time. If the drive is heavily fragmented or has limited free space to work in, then things like those will slow things down.
It is kind of like trying to listen to streaming audio over a modem connection.

[James w murray]

My c drive is 150gb and has been defragmented
I still have 100gb free of the 150gb
I also have a 2nd internal hard drive of 150gb which I have even tried to allocate most of the 150gb space to virtual memory but this has had no effect on the problem either
this problem does not occur when using versions 3.4 or 4.03
I have also tried setting my virtual memory on the c drive higher as well with no effect on the audio stuttering.

Just a funny note to pass along about the support of my singers:
When I was playing The "Cupid Shuffle" about half way through I was searching for another audio file to play and the stuttering and slow down ocurred and without missing a beat the 37 singers on the dance floor went into slow motion and finished the line dance.

[ddouglass]

Iguess the hard drive isn't the problem. Just for information how many songs do you have in your database? This could be a factor.
That's funny. I don't think any of mine are that coordinated to pull something like that off.

[James w murray]

I have 62,000 kma files and 4,200 DJ Audio files on an external seagate 1TB drive
I'm going to try using my 400 firewall cord instead of the 2.0 usb cord to see if that makes a difference
my external drive has a e-sata connection as well but i don't have a port on my computer for that high speed connection

Yep i wish a would have had a camcorder to record it
I've been in the same club on Sat nights for 14 years with the same following for over 10 years. Its just 1 big family now and some people have sang the same 4 songs for 10 years every week