4.06 Lyrics still out of sync.

[Picolo Porco]

Originally Posted by laddie

Are you running wmp 9 or wmp 11. If you are running 11, role back to 9. It may fix your problem

That solved it.

I have a ATI Radeon X300 card, by the way.

Begin rant: Why doesn't Hoster play nice with Windows? It requires and Admin level account (which I would prefer not to have to grant to my kj), apparently doesn't work with WMP11 installed, and is generally hogging up more and more resources with each version, becoming bloatware.

MTU should focus on making the karaoke part work better (customizing start and stop set points in songs, pitch-independent tempo control, etc.) and not waste resources with video jockey or audio features. There are plenty of other apps which do those much better than Hoster ever will.

[marklwood]

Originally Posted by Picolo Porco

MTU should focus on making the karaoke part work better (customizing start and stop set points in songs, pitch-independent tempo control, etc.) and not waste resources with video jockey or audio features. There are plenty of other apps which do those much better than Hoster ever will.

Because in business, you either grow or wither on the vine. Why do you continually buy more karaoke songs? same reason. Word is starting to spread around town about the new features I have that no one else has. It has gotten me new customers. The singers database and new display options are a HUGE resource hogs, but with a little investment in hardware (the price of a couple of CDs) and a little time tweaking your system, you can have it all.

MTU will continue to be the market leader. I, for one, am very happy about some of the changes. I don't agree with all of the new features, but I am just one man. There are many more KJs out there that like the features that I don't care about (videos, for 1). But trying to please each and every person is impossible. I will continue to evolve my business with MTUs help.

[billyo]

All of us or some of us hoster users asked for these features, thinking these will make our show look good, and mtu and the beta testers work so hard and tried to provide all these request, blaming mtu for all the glitches thats going on in our computers is not fair, we should know ( or maybe not )that all these requested features will used a lot of resources, so for those of us that has an old comp/laptops, maybe it's time to upgrade to a better one,if we wanted to have all these features...this is just my opinion..

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by Picolo Porco

doesn't work with WMP11 installed

I have to disagree here Picolo. If you will look at my signature (below my picture) you will see that I use WMP11 on all three of my computers that run Hoster 4.XX. I'm glad WMP9 is working for you.


Jim

[billyo]

my main and back-up laptops works with wmp 11

[bryant]

Originally Posted by billyo

my main and back-up laptops works with wmp 11

My backup laptop exhibits a slight refresh, blinking, (the little hourglass comes up for a split second) whenever I place the cursor on a different song while another song is playing, it never used to do that. Have you or anyone noticed that with their machines, esp. laptops.

This laptop has 1 gB memory with a 256 mB shared video card that has always played videos well both on virtual dj and hoster. I do keep virtual dj minimized.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by bryant

My backup laptop exhibits a slight refresh, blinking, (the little hourglass comes up for a split second) whenever I place the cursor on a different song while another song is playing, it never used to do that. Have you or anyone noticed that with their machines, esp. laptops.

Hey Bryant,
I see the same thing on Test Machine#1. I'll check my show machine at tonights gig.

Is it causing a problem for you? I can't make it cause a problem on mine.

Jim

[bryant]

Originally Posted by madjim

Hey Bryant,
I see the same thing on Test Machine#1. I'll check my show machine at tonights gig.

Is it causing a problem for you? I can't make it cause a problem on mine.

Jim

I usually move that cursor around pretty fast and maybe I did "two things at once" in that split second where the hourglass was showing.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by madjim

Hey Bryant,
I see the same thing on Test Machine#1. I'll check my show machine at tonights gig.

Is it causing a problem for you? I can't make it cause a problem on mine.

Jim

I wonder if its that wmp11 haunting us then.

[kedmison]

I used the 4.06 the other night. For the first time ever I had sync problems. Music stayed out in front the lyrics. Tried restarting and still made no difference. Used 3.40 rest of the night. 4.05 worked flawlessly. I do have windows media 11. I will try reverting back to 7. If that doesn't work I will go back to 4.05 and stay there awhile.

My laptop is a dell 1505 XP 2 gig ram and 128 video.

Kelly

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by bryant

I wonder if its that wmp11 haunting us then.

I've been using WMP11 ever since I stared testing Hoster 4.XX with no problems. This seems to apply to computers with fewer resources. WMP11 is a resource hog but works fine when it gets what it needs.


Jim

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by bryant

This laptop has 1 gB memory with a 256 mB shared video card

How fast is the porcessor on this laptop Bryant?

Jim

[bryant]

Originally Posted by madjim

How fast is the porcessor on this laptop Bryant?

Jim

Oh, it's that 1.8 gZ duo processor. It actually works better on videos with virtual dj, than a much newer model of the same brand, and it does this with a lower model video card too. The newer Dell laptop I have has a NVidea 7300, which has been known to freeze up videos with VDJ.

[marklwood]

Originally Posted by Picolo Porco

That solved it.

I have a ATI Radeon X300 card, by the way.

By rolling back to WMP9, all you did was save enough system resources for your system to handle the load. This is not a problem with Hoster, it is only stressing your system as any upgraded program will ALWAYS do.

ATI uses a term called "HyperMemory". What this means is a clever marketing tool to mislead you in to thinking it has more memory than stated. The 128 meg HyperMemory card really only has 32mb of memory on board and the "borrows" the rest from slower system ram. So when MTU says 32mb is minimum, you are at the minimum. I would seriously consider an upgrade to the video card. Do your homework and find a card that is in your budget that has at least 128mb actual memory. You will not regret the investment.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Picolo Porco

Begin rant: Why doesn't Hoster play nice with Windows? It requires and Admin level account (which I would prefer not to have to grant to my kj), apparently doesn't work with WMP11 installed, and is generally hogging up more and more resources with each version, becoming bloatware.

MTU should focus on making the karaoke part work better (customizing start and stop set points in songs, pitch-independent tempo control, etc.) and not waste resources with video jockey or audio features. There are plenty of other apps which do those much better than Hoster ever will.

Actually the big question is why doesn't Windows (especially Vista) play nice with existing programs. Instead of making the OS be backward compatible as Microsoft preaches, they change how programs have to interact with the OS so third party software companies have to scramble to make the programs work with the new OS.
As others have said it does work with WMP11 (which is a bigger memory hog than Hoster) but only if you have sufficient memory on the system and on the video card.
All of those added features and the additional ones to come were all asked for by users like you and me, so we have no one to blame but us.

[laddie]

Originally Posted by Picolo Porco

That solved it.

I have a ATI Radeon X300 card, by the way.

Begin rant: Why doesn't Hoster play nice with Windows? It requires and Admin level account (which I would prefer not to have to grant to my kj), apparently doesn't work with WMP11 installed, and is generally hogging up more and more resources with each version, becoming bloatware.

MTU should focus on making the karaoke part work better (customizing start and stop set points in songs, pitch-independent tempo control, etc.) and not waste resources with video jockey or audio features. There are plenty of other apps which do those much better than Hoster ever will.

I thougt it would work. You should be aware that MTU did'nt require you to use wmp 11.