Sound "hiccup" (hesitation for a split second)

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by Karen K

We live in the land of 45 degrees for 6 mos of the year - October through April it seems (Seattle area).

I think it's cold when it get's below 60 degrees. I would not do well in Seattle. I've been living with the Palm Trees and the Spanish Moss too long. Down here in the deep south I always take my computer inside after a gig. My Black Honda CRV sits in the sun all day (no garage) and gets too hot. I left my computer in the car one summer day years ago by accident and my motherboard alert popped up as the computer was booting up telling me that it was too hot. As it ran, it cooled down and was fine.

Jim

[Karen K]

I spent 12 years in southern Cal - in Santa Barbara, the most beautiful city in California. I have NO idea why I left there ... LOL. Seattle is miserable except for about 5 mos....and today is April 1 and seriously, we might hit 50 today. Woohooo.... so no worries about computer getting too hot ...

[ddouglass]

That was why I said during the summer The rest of the year I know you have no worry about it. Like Jim I live in an area of Texas that we feel cold when it gets below 60. What I like about this area is we have about a month of "winter" and the rest of the year is nice.

[Karen K]

I am so envious. Frankly we may get a 'hot spell' once in a while here but if so, it is very short lived. Come to think of it, why would anybody live here at all??????

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by Karen K

Come to think of it, why would anybody live here at all??????

Ah c'mon, Washington has TONS to offer!

[Karen K]

Should have inserted 'tongue in cheek' because I believe we probably have the best karaoke in the country here - most venues, most dedicated singers, etc. etc.

It's just that 'when is it gonna be over' attitude setting in - had to run an errand this morning and it was snowing....

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Karen K

Should have inserted 'tongue in cheek' because I believe we probably have the best karaoke in the country here - most venues, most dedicated singers, etc. etc.

It's just that 'when is it gonna be over' attitude setting in - had to run an errand this morning and it was snowing....

Of course you do. What else are you going to do on a cold, dreary, snowy night?? If I lived in that climate I would be doing a lot of drinking and karaoke too.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by madjim

I think it's cold when it get's below 60 degrees. I would not do well in Seattle. I've been living with the Palm Trees and the Spanish Moss too long. Down here in the deep south I always take my computer inside after a gig. My Black Honda CRV sits in the sun all day (no garage) and gets too hot. I left my computer in the car one summer day years ago by accident and my motherboard alert popped up as the computer was booting up telling me that it was too hot. As it ran, it cooled down and was fine.

Jim

i'm with you on that Jim, anything below 60 is too cold for me, i used to live in philly and tell you what i dont care if i dont see snow again!.i got used on living here in so. fla..where you see palm trees everyday..

[Karen K]

Just finished my Thurs show - no uploaded cdgs, no skips. Will check RAM tomorrow before my show - I had so many people tonight I hit the ground running and totally forgot to check.

[Junester]

Hi there...I am new to this, but I was reading about the hiccup problem. I just started using the hoster 4.8 program last week. First night, no problem. Second night while importing singers own tracks my show did the hiccup thing during people singing. It only happened during the import of the song.
I am going to try changing the quality setting as someone suggested, but at the risk of sounding dumb, I don't know how to stop my cd drive from starting up when I put a cd in it. I have seached everywhere I thought it would be and can't find where to do it at. I was thinking that could be part of the problem too.
I have plenty of ram and memeory. Also do you guys leave your anti-virus off the computer you use for your shows?

Thanks

[Karen K]

Ironically, my hiccuping doesn't happen during the import process; it will happen later on in the evening; the more tracks I have imported, the more prevalent the problem. Just enough to confuse the singer - maybe one beat. Last night I didn't do any importing and had NO hicccups.

I don't use my system for anything but karaoke and don't use it to do instant downloads of songs during a show...I buy CDGs and upload them. I don't have anti-virus running.

[Roy Dennis]

This is in the manual

Disable CDRom Auto Play Option



Disable this option to prevent programs from automatically reading the a CDG or CDROM disc you load and running or playing it.

1. Click the Start button
2. Click the Run option
3. Type in "regedit" without the double quotes
4. Locate "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" and click it
5. Locate "System" and click it
6. Locate "CurrentControlSet" and click it
7. Locate "Services" and click it
8. Locate Cdrom and click it
9. Right click Auto Run and select "Modify"
10. Set the "Value Data"to "0" and click the OK button
11. Restart your computer

Roy.

[Junester]

I should have mentioned I'm on a Vista program so I don't know if it's different with that program...

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Junester

I should have mentioned I'm on a Vista program so I don't know if it's different with that program...

Is this a laptop system?
And just how much RAM do you have?

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by Junester

Hi there...I am new to this, but I was reading about the hiccup problem. I just started using the hoster 4.8 program last week. First night, no problem. Second night while importing singers own tracks my show did the hiccup thing during people singing. It only happened during the import of the song.

This is a diferent problem from Karen K.

I have similiar problems as you and always have had with 4.xx, which is why I'm still using 3.4. I get 5-10 singer disk tracks per night.
I've never been able to nail down the problem except that 4.xx uses a lot more computer power than 3.xx and my old computers can't quite handle it.

[Bonniej]

I have the same problem with 4.08 I have narrowed mine down, mine will hicup while I am importing the the disc while another singer is singing and will put everything out of sync from that point on unless I restart Hoster.
I am running Vista on laptop with 3 gig of ram. I solved this problem by going back to 4.06.

[Karen K]

Mine does NOT happen while uploading. Never had a problem with that. It is sometime after that, after the CDG is already loaded and in the queue.

[admin]

Originally Posted by Bonniej

I have the same problem with 4.08 I have narrowed mine down, mine will hicup while I am importing the the disc while another singer is singing and will put everything out of sync from that point on unless I restart Hoster.
I am running Vista on laptop with 3 gig of ram. I solved this problem by going back to 4.06.

Originally Posted by laddie

I have had this problem for a long time, but could not determine what was causing it till I read your post. I found, like you, that it only happens after I load a song from someones disc. It doesn't happen right away, sometimes up to an hour or more before it occurs. For the past 6 weeks it has not happened ( 4 shows a week). This week end I loaded a song from someone else's disk on both Friday and Saturday nights. Both nights I got the momentary pause afterwords.

Sunday I set up my show machine at home, created a playlist and played about 10 songs, then loaded a song from a CDG disc, then continued loading from the playlist. Approximately 30 mins. later i got the momentary pause. After the pause I exited Hoster and restarted. I did the same thing again except I loaded more songs from the playlist before loading from the cd. Same results except it waited almost 45 mins before the pause. Did all the above one more time this time I got the pause at about 40 min. I don't know why it does this, but I do know that I can duplicate it.

Bonniej, Laddie et al... have you tried using Hoster 4.09C? In 4.09 we spent several days of time over several weeks to prevent the sync dropping while importing a CDG track. IMHO we have solved this problem. It was very complex and took a lot of internal testing to find the right settings.

I'd be interested in knowing your results if you try 4.09C.