singer's disc

[WDEWDAD7]

I have Windows XP Pro/2002/version 5.1; Western 200 GB Hard Drive, 107 used/79 free. Plextor Premium ...Pentium 4 , 1.5 GB RAM.

I had problems last year with 4 corrupted songs affecting this function. Re-unstalled Hoster and cleaned it up. Has worked until I did the 3.3 upgrade. Sent a message to critical before, was told 3.301 would probably clear it up. I uninstalled 3.3 and did the complete 3.301 upgrade. Music still slows down/drags while " reading " the singers disc; but resume to normal speed during recording. Of course, the words/video keeps going, som it ends up out of sync. Would liie to know how to remedy. Thank you, Daryl.

[WDEWDAD7]

Hello, I posted earlier in the week concerning " drag " while downloading a singer's disc. I know I entered it in critical registration, for a reason. I hope to find out what the problem is, and fix it. The first response was that it sounded like a hardware problem. I didn't have the problem until I downloaded the 3.3 upgrade. Probably coincidence; but, one post mentioned that the 3.301 would likely fix that problem. It didn't; but, I did uninstall 3.3 and did a full 3.301 download. If it is a Hoster thing, and avenue to fix it would be nice. But, if it is a hardware issue, is there a computer wise person out there that might have a suggestion or recommendation? I'm not necessarily trying to get free comp work; but the guy who built my computer is very busy, not always ready at hand to come and spend time on my computer. He is the wiz, I'm not. I am a musician/KJ. My computer wisdom only goes so far...like half way around the block..lol. Hope my humor on myself will peak some else's curiosity. In the meantime, I will keep trying my local comp guy here. Thanks, Daryl.

[ddouglass]

A few thoughts while MTUSupport ponders this problem.

1. Are your Hard Drive and CD both on the same cable or on separate cables. If on the same this could cause the slow down because the song you are playing and the one you are reading (importing) are sharing the same data path.

2. Are any other programs running in the background such as Nero, Roxio and antivirus program or spyware program. These will all eat up working memory. Have your computer guy shutdown any unneeded processes. When you are doing your show disable your antivirus and spyware programs, etc.

3. Just a wild shot but when was the last time you defragmented your hard drive? The more fragmented it gets the slower your machine goes.

You said this didn't start until you loaded version 3.300. I don't know of too many programmers these days who clean up their code. Most just jump over bad or changed code and leave it in the program. (Not saying MTU does that ) Version 3.300 did add quite a bit of changes and additions which means Hoster's resident memory size increased making the amount of free working memory more critical. So what may work fine with earlier versions may start causing problems with newer/larger versions.

[WDEWDAD7]

Thank you for replying and offering some suggestions. First, if I understand your question right, I am not running a seperate cd player. This is the Hoster program, downloading a singer's disc in to the rotation while another karaoke singer is singing. It reads and records the disc fine. Just that it drags way down during the first session. Next, I do clean and defrag my computer regularly. Also, I do have Winamp, and I usually have it in the background, or play an occasional song from the list, or for fill if there may be a gap in singers. My first thought was that it was Winamp; so I closed Winamp and tried a singer's disc. It still did the same thing. It worked fine before I upgraded to 3.3; not saying that 3.3 is the culprit. Just that it DID work right. I would have thought that the un-install of 3.3 and install of 3.301 would have been the remedy.

[ddouglass]

WDEWDAD7,
Actually my question was refering to the cable connection inside the computer. Are the hard drive and the CD drive both connected to the motherboard by one ribbon (flat) cable or two separate cables?

My second question was maybe a bit confusing. Do you have Roxio or Nero installed on this computer? Do you have an antivirus program (Symantec or Macafee) installed?

[WDEWDAD7]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

WDEWDAD7,
Actually my question was refering to the cable connection inside the computer. Are the hard drive and the CD drive both connected to the motherboard by one ribbon (flat) cable or two separate cables?

My second question was maybe a bit confusing. Do you have Roxio or Nero installed on this computer? Do you have an antivirus program (Symantec or Macafee) installed?

Well, I know that the hard drive and cd connections are seperate, and I have Nero. I have cleaned, defraqgged, re-started. As I said before, while a singer is singer, when I do the download from another singer's discs, when it " reads" the disc, it drags the music way down as the graphics continue. Then when it "writes" the cd, the music returns to normal. The music and graphics are no longer is sync. The download plays fine. I can download in-between singers, but that kind of defeats the purpose. I have plenty fo memory, and have all the updates. Help?? Would like to know how to remedy.

[ddouglass]

Unfortunately I have always used Roxio so if anyone has the info on Nero help us. The only thing I can think to try is look in Start/Programs/Startup and delete any shortcuts referring to Nero. This will prevent Nero from interfering and won't keep Nero from starting when you want to use it.

There may be a registry entry for Nero also, but someone else will have to direct you on how to fix that. Both Roxio and Nero will check the singers CD when you insert it, if their startup file is active and this will drag down the read for Hoster.

Hope this is it.