Report Hoster 5.01 Problems - Upgrade to 5.02

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by ollertos

1. I am unable to listen to the audio track of a song that is selected in the search window. I have TWO sound cards; one assigned to the main play list and the other to search audio card. Both sound cards are working.

I click the search button on the main hoster play/control screen, this opens the search song database screen shown on page 10 of the manual (bottom half of page). I highlight the buttons title, artist, karaoke and type in a search string e.g. bon jovi. When I press enter or hit tab I get a list of matching songs that show up in the results list. So far all good. If I highlight ANY one song then click the preview play button to listen to the song via the second sound card I get the error 'cannot open zip file' in a popup window. If I click add to add the song to the main playlist I can return to the main control screen and play that same song with no problem. The song files are all CDG and MP3 file pairs zipped as .zip files. Note I do not used brand or book id's. These are system defaulted to unknown and XYZ... etc. Any ideas?

I can confirm this problem is happening with zip files, it doesn't happen with any other type of files.

[ollertos]

Thanks for the backup there Roy. I would have thought 3Gb RAM would be enough. Nothing else running. The songs I try to preview are NOT in the playlist at that time. I just double click or click the add button to make that happen then cue and play them without issue from the main play list.

So this begs the question, can any of the MTU guys duplicate this problem so we can get a fix for it. The reason I would like to have the preview working is that I have multiple versions of the same song in my library so when I am deciding which song I should add to the main play list it would be handy for me to preview the audio for each duplicate and then decide which one to go with.

[admin]

Originally Posted by ollertos

Thanks for the backup there Roy...

So this begs the question, can any of the MTU guys duplicate this problem so we can get a fix for it. The reason I would like to have the preview working is that I have multiple versions of the same song in my library so when I am deciding which song I should add to the main play list it would be handy for me to preview the audio for each duplicate and then decide which one to go with.

I've aded this to our 5.02 spec to look at this week. We're tracking down a crashing bug in Auto mode when a song finishes playing, and fixing a few other reported gremlins.