Hoster 5.03 Bug Reports

[Joe Nieves]

Okay, so basically just copy the Hoster folder too another drive and swap if needed to revert back to 5.2..?

What about the "KMA Files" folder..?

Thanks Roy,
Joe...

[p-buchanan]

Hi All,
I've run into a problem with Hoster 5.03. 5.02 worked fine on my Dell I7 6Gig Windows 7 Professional system.

I downloaded and installed the upgrade and it appeared to work just fine (with the exception of that wierd source error that they warn you about). After the reboot, I started Hoster and it converted the database. After the conversion, I tried playing a song, and it starts and stops. It does not play the song. I tried playing an mp3 file and the same thing happens. I tried reverting back to 5.02 and the same thing happens there now as well.

It has all of the latest updates, I've followed the steps for making sure that hoster runs on Windows 7, and I'm stuck.

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by p-buchanan

Hi All,
I've run into a problem with Hoster 5.03. 5.02 worked fine on my Dell I7 6Gig Windows 7 Professional system.

I downloaded and installed the upgrade and it appeared to work just fine (with the exception of that wierd source error that they warn you about). After the reboot, I started Hoster and it converted the database. After the conversion, I tried playing a song, and it starts and stops. It does not play the song. I tried playing an mp3 file and the same thing happens. I tried reverting back to 5.02 and the same thing happens there now as well.

It has all of the latest updates, I've followed the steps for making sure that hoster runs on Windows 7, and I'm stuck.

Are all your song files on an external drive and if so was it plugged in when you first started Hoster ?

If you did not have the external plugged in then it would not rebuild the database correct. To remedy this go to your C:/MTU/Hoster folder and delete your songs.mdb file then restart Hoster and it should rebuild the database again.
You will have to do this even if you are trying to re-install version 5.02 as the 5.03 database will not run on 5.02, don't interfere with it while it's rebuilding.

[p-buchanan]

Hi Roy,
Thanks for the response. My songs are not an an external drive, but on a second hard drive installed within the laptop. I replaced the songs.mdb, with an older copy (prior to the update), but I took your advice, and deleted the songs.mdb file and rebuilt the songs database. I received the *same* exact results, which is that hoster starts, but when I try to play any song, from any mode, the song stops immediately. Hoster does not crash.

I've seen similar results happen when the songs.mdb reports that a song file has a duration of 0 (such as what happens when a zip file is imported that is corrupt), but that is not the case here. I have Access 2010 installed on the system, and can open the songs.mdb file. The songs appear to have the correct durations, in comparision with an older songs.mdb.

This happens on both KMA and KMZ files. I tried re-importing a karaoke song, but while the importing seems to work, the karaoke song will not play.

This same thing happens if I try to play a .mp3 file. If I turn on the background audio function, it just highlights one song after another, but plays none of them. It continues to the end of the list.

The problem appears to be with playing an audio file. The code cannot access the file and just appears to move on to the next file.

Other functions seem to work, such as editing a song, or looking up a song.

I have tried installing an older version of hoster (5.02.07), but the same results here as well.

Here are my technical details:

Dell XPS 702X
Windows 6 Professional 64 bit
Intel Core i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00 Ghz
4 Cores/8 Threads
6 GB RAM
Songs on secondary 640 GB HD.

==> What else do you need to diagnose?

[p-buchanan]

Hi Roy,
The problem *may* be related to a secondary USB sound card that was recently installed. I'm getting different results now that it is plugged in. I receive no sound, but the songs appear to try to play! I'm going to reinstall 5.03, rebuild the songs.mdb, and see what happens!

[p-buchanan]

Hi Roy,
It was the secondary sound card. Somehow Windows saw it has primary sound, and Hoster saw it as secondary sound. The clue was that Audio would not play, and it appears to have occurred because the secondary sound card was not installed (it plugs into USB). Once installed, I just had to configure things to use the correct card.

I fixed the problem in Windows, using the on board sound as the primary output, and for hoster made the secondary sound the secondary (as it should have been). Things are working great now, and thanks!

[KenKelley]

Originally Posted by p-buchanan

Hi Roy,
Thanks for the response. My songs are not an an external drive, but on a second hard drive installed within the laptop. I replaced the songs.mdb, with an older copy (prior to the update), but I took your advice, and deleted the songs.mdb file and rebuilt the songs database. I received the *same* exact results, which is that hoster starts, but when I try to play any song, from any mode, the song stops immediately. Hoster does not crash.

I've seen similar results happen when the songs.mdb reports that a song file has a duration of 0 (such as what happens when a zip file is imported that is corrupt), but that is not the case here. I have Access 2010 installed on the system, and can open the songs.mdb file. The songs appear to have the correct durations, in comparision with an older songs.mdb.

This happens on both KMA and KMZ files. I tried re-importing a karaoke song, but while the importing seems to work, the karaoke song will not play.

This same thing happens if I try to play a .mp3 file. If I turn on the background audio function, it just highlights one song after another, but plays none of them. It continues to the end of the list.

The problem appears to be with playing an audio file. The code cannot access the file and just appears to move on to the next file.

Other functions seem to work, such as editing a song, or looking up a song.

I have tried installing an older version of hoster (5.02.07), but the same results here as well.

Here are my technical details:

Dell XPS 702X
Windows 6 Professional 64 bit
Intel Core i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00 Ghz
4 Cores/8 Threads
6 GB RAM
Songs on secondary 640 GB HD.

==> What else do you need to diagnose?

Greetings,

We have near itentical sysstems! Which Nvidia video card do you have?

[p-buchanan]

Originally Posted by KenKelley

Greetings,

We have near itentical sysstems! Which Nvidia video card do you have?

Hi Ken,
I have a NVidia GeForce GT 550M, which supports 3d!

Pat

[KenKelley]

Originally Posted by p-buchanan

Hi Ken,
I have a NVidia GeForce GT 550M, which supports 3d!

Pat

Hi Pat,

My 445 supports 3D also but I have uninstalled it as I don't a use for it.

Just out of curiousity, what is the date on the Nvidia Driver that you are using?

For Hoster, do you use the Nvidia Card or the CPU onboard graphics?

[Roy Dennis]

Deleted this answer as It has already been solved.

[hwheeler43]

You will love 5.03. I cannot believe how fast the Singers Database is now. It is almost instantaneous even with singers with over 60 songs each. I cannot wait to load it on my desktop machine that serves as my backup. It was going way to slow on searches before. This is going to fix that problem. Kudos MTU.

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Joe Nieves

Okay, so basically just copy the Hoster folder too another drive and swap if needed to revert back to 5.2..?

What about the "KMA Files" folder..?

Thanks Roy,
Joe...

Don't worry about the kma folder.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Joe Nieves

Okay, so basically just copy the Hoster folder too another drive and swap if needed to revert back to 5.2..?

What about the "KMA Files" folder..?

Thanks Roy,
Joe...

KMA files will be ok. The only thing that changes is the Songs database file which would make it incompatable with 5.02.