Short Clip

[admin]

Originally Posted by goonie227

When Importing and playing a singers disc I noticed tonight that Host3.312 is playing just a short clip of the next song on the singers disc at the end of the song it's supposed to play not a problem just wondered if anyone else has noticed this.

What track were you adding from a Singer's Disc? Was it the last or next to last on the disc?

[dclark]

Originally Posted by admin

What track were you adding from a Singer's Disc? Was it the last or next to last on the disc?

Also, what is the setting for the hardware error correction (HWEC) for this drive? "Yes" or "No"?

[goonie227]

Originally Posted by admin

What track were you adding from a Singer's Disc? Was it the last or next to last on the disc?

I Duplicated it tonight at home on the first fifth and eighth track
from three different discs. HWEC is on.

[goonie227]

this glitch sounds alot like what is going on in microstudio could it be the same

[bill moore]

I was helping a user/m8 that upgraded to 3.312 a week or so ago
the clip or pop you are hearing is sound left over from last song

what we did was to capture the sound/pop/glitch that we heard and ran it in the sound board we repeated the glitch in a loop so we could make out what it was and in fact it was audio

The way we heard it the most was to stop a song after the audio started playing and hit stop. then go to the next song in the list when you started the next song is were you would hear the sound

now here is where this should help you narrow it down
if you let the songs play all the way out you will not hear this pop/sound

but if you stop the song before the audio is done and go to the next song
when you hit the play button you will here this sound

I do not know how mtu wrote the code but it looks like the buffer is not being unloaded all the way (or its trying to load it self twice)

lets say there is a meg of audio left in the buffer on the song you just stop
and say the next song you are playing is only 1.2 megs
and let's say the buffer is 3 megs are both in the buffer at the same time???

does the buffer do a dump after the stop button is hit or does the buffer
get dump when you hit the play for the next

he did not have this before the upgrade and I think he was using I think he was using 3.30X cant recall

just thought i would pass this on hope it helps

p.s the song's in ??? are kma's from the hard drive not from the cdrom

by the way since there is player code for each format could it be from the changing between players ??? just asking

[dclark]

Bill,

Thank you for the very informative post! With all of that information, there should most definitely be a way to zero in on the problem. It sounds very much like it has to do with not initializing buffers or buffer pointers after a song is prematurely stopped.

Anything else that anyone wants to add to this will be welcomed, too. Thanks again.

[admin]

Bill Moore, thank you for your in depth details.

Our programmers have been cranking our major upgrades to Vogone 3, Microstudio 3, Hoster 3.313 and working on Hoster 4 (for next year). My brain... and I'm sure our Beta Testers also... is in awe at how fast we have be cranking out the new code and fixing reported problems. Its been a real trip this month!

From your analysis, it does appear that a change made in Microstudio and ported over to the Hoster code didn't get handled properly under the "stop early" condition. I've documented this to be worked on first thing next Monday for 3.313 Beta 3.

Great job helping us do our jobs!

[bill moore]

Sorry i forgot one thing

It all so shows its nasty head more so if the audio starts before the video.

It seames that a lot of early sunfly sf001 to sf100 have a lot of songs that have audio starting before video.

You might want to take a look at how hoster is handling the fact that audio is starting then the video starts.

BUT ITS NOT JUST SUNFLY !!!!