Hoster 5.06 Bug Reports - Closed: 5.07 is RELEASED

[admin]

Originally Posted by bryant

I hope the problems with

1. Singers' database adding random songs to new singers and

2. Songs being slightly out of sync when using remove silence are also being looked at.

I know I and a few others have been able to duplicate that quite easily.

Bryant, please post your step-by-step facts to duplicate both of these so we can write them up to be looked at.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by admin

Bryant, please post your step-by-step facts to duplicate both of these so we can write them up to be looked at.

Mindonstrike had reported this problem first (the one about the R.S. and songs being out of sync). My reply to his post was:

""I have found that when RS is on most of my music maestro lyrics are a full 1 second fast. It occurs only when the MM logo precedes the audio. Tracks where the music starts before the logo comes up do not seem affected. I believe it has something to do with it being somewhat animated (the flashing "CD" that changes colors) I also came accross an All Hits song that does the same thing, AH8006, "you Oughta Know" The marqui and flashing lights pop up before the music on that one and is out of sync as well.
If I restart or turn off RS the songs will be in sync. Kind of...

I also found that with RS on All of my songs that have any graphics come up before the music starts are approximately (the lyrics) .25 sec ahead of where they should be. Again if I restart or turn off RS they go back to where they should be.""

My Reply:

I have verified this in RS mode with one of the only songs that I know word for word without looking at the words. (I'm not a singer). I could not even make a difference when I tried to use the audio offset, while in RS mode. When I switched OFF RS mode, song was right on and the audio offset functioned properly. I did also notice that the song did have a quick credit screen flash on and off before any audio was heard. as Sam mentioned as a possible "cause".

1. RS mode is on.
2. Play song from playlist.
3. Credit screen blinks on and off quickly, as expected, and audio starts.
4. Song is out of Sync.( unless someone really knows the songs well, they may never catch this).
5. I start over by adjusting audio offset, and play the song again, song is still out of sync by the same amount. Audio offset made no difference either.
6. I start over, except this time I turn off RS mode and the song is right on.
7. With RS mode off, I play with the audio offset adjustment and now the adjustments DO make a difference as they should.
5. Sam and I test on very different machines and have both seen and reported this.

[bryant]

The problem with the Singers database was also reorted by Roy Dennis who tests with a very different computer than I do:He mentioned a workaround, which was merely a way to fix thedatabase after it contained the wrong songs for the singers. Impractical to do with a singers database of 100 singers and 20 to 30 songs for each.Roy detailed hisobservation in beta 20 test thread with reference to beta 7 and beta 13 test thread.

1.When I have the Search & Singers dialogs up
2. and I enter a song in search, then
3. type in a brand new singer's name(one not yet in database), and
4. S+ that new name with the song (then expect ONLY that one song in that newly added singer's database?),
5. then I noticed that other songs besides that newly S+'ed song now show up as part of his database.[/quote]

I just noted that some of those new singers adopted the songs of another singer that was in the database already. I only have about a dozen singers in the singers database with an range of 1 to 8 songs each, so it was easy to determine that. It is not happening to every new singer, however. There is some connection between these singers (newly S+'ed and current ones) that seems to be causing this.


From Roy: "Just want to point out one thing I mentioned in Beta 11 about if you enter a new singer name then press the S+ button it adds extra random songs to the singers list. I posted the steps here: http://forum.mtu.com/showpost.php?p=111127&postcount=49"

The above is what I easily duplicated...

[bryant]

From Mindonstrike: Video Instabuttons show the video screen until a Playlist Karaoke or Audio song plays, or an Audio Instabutton plays, then VI's only show a black screen.

After closing and reopening Hoster the Video Instabuttons work again until the above playing happens.


Mindonstrike detailed his procedure using various files in beta 20test thread. video files were wmv and mpg, playlist files were mp3, cdcdg,etc. It didn't seem to matter.

1. Play video Instabutton wmv, okay.
2. Play video Instabutton mpg, okay.
3. Play first song in playlist, song plays okay.
4. Play video mpg instabutton , only see black screen.



Step three can be replaced by "play audio instabutton" and step 4 repeats with black screen.