Making desktop image show after a song plays

[novakaraoke]

I Have this problem when bringing up Hoster with the tv hooked up. If I just close Hoster and don't shut down the puter, when I reopen Hoster and play a song I still have to resize the screen. I have to resize everytime I open Hoster. With the version before 2.209 and 2.212 I never had to resize it at all after the first time, I went through and made all the changes to prevent audio dropouts and was wondering if I set something thats making it act like this. Randall

[CochrellGary]

Randall,

I'm sure you do this already but make sure that your TV and/or TV modulator is turned on before you turn on your computer otherwise the dual display card won't detect the second screen.

Gary

[novakaraoke]

It's all on, the tv won't work if you don't have it hooked up, I think the problem is the the puter is not saving the changes when I shut down Hoster. It worked fine till I made suggested changes to prevent dropouts, I don't know whice one to change back so it will work the way it should, Hoster is a great program, I haven't had any crashes or problems running shows since I first started back in April. I can live with resizeing the screen on start up, I have over 8600 songs on the hard drive and I really like the shuttle I bought from MTU. It's a great piece of equipment. I was trying to prevent dropouts while downloading songs from singers disc. I don't use the PHM or CHM disc, I buy all Chartbuster and Sound Choice and the play back quailty is great. I do have some singers that bring in all kinds of cheap disc and have had no real problems playing them for the singers. Thanks for the help, I'll try undoing the changes one at a time and see if I can figure this desktop thing out. It should hold the changes but it don't. Randall

[admin]

We didn't upgrade the display code between 2.127 and 2.209.

We massively upgraded the Hoster 2.209 thread priorities to overcome the audio dropouts, which helped a LOT! We further tweaked the threads and their priorities in 2.212, which has mostly eliminated the audio dropouts for everyone.

I would prefer you install and try to use 2.212. It is a free download from your download instruction email link. See if it has any dropouts while playing. Then, undo the changes we suggested.

Please... let us know what you find today if at all possible. We are finishing up 2.213 to go out for testing tomorrow. We want to make sure this is not a problem with the Hoster persistence saving the screen size/location, versus your computer modifications.

[novakaraoke]

The disc that came with the Shuttle that i ordered in March says 2.127, but I'm sure you guys used an upgrade and I don't remember the version no. I downloaded 2.209 and it worked fine till I made suggested changes, I have downloaded 2.212 and used it at one show last night, I had a problem I've never had, I hooked it all up as I always do had every on all screens, amp and all the other equiptment, I put in song and clicked play, the screen changed and started playing the song but I had on audio, it 30 min.s of turning the shuttle on and off to finally get the audio to work. It was in the shuttle as I put a recorded disc in my cd recorder and the amp played fine, it worked fine here at the house before going to the show last night, I turned the shuttle on and off at least 5 times before the audio came back. I had minimal dropouts while downloading singers songs from their disc, it flutters the music when the importing cdg window jumps on the screen and when the writing kma file screen jumps on the screen, and when it closed the kms window, it was just a split second, kinda like a jitter, all in all it worked fine through out the show after i got started. Randall