Hoster 4.01 Problems

[ddouglass]

Videos have been a problem and that is why you cannot import them into Hoster Songbook yet. The current beta versions are running much better now and working for the most part on Vista as well. MTU is still trying to get all the bugs fixed as quickly as they can so they can release 4.02.
Your best bet right now is to make sure your computer is up-to-date with Microsoft Custom Updates. Your best bet is to also make sure you have Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player 11, and SP3 installed. The IE7 and WMP are used by Hoster for displays.

[mykaraokedj]

hmm yes i have IE7. Not sure about SP3 will look tonight. But Media Player11(which is what I have) I don't think recognizes it as version 11 and I've been unable to until stall media player altogether and do a fresh install so I utilize divx and some others to ensure that I can play all types of files. But I'll try the SP3. Thanks.

[batman0001]

used hoster 4.01 for the first time last night at our show and played the first song OK but when we called the 2nd singer up the screen froze, took about 3 minutes b4 I could even close the program and had to revert to using our old hoster lite version. Any suggestions on why it freezes after playing songs. Also will not play MP3G?

[Beavis]

you should have reverted to version 3.40, its in the hoster folder !

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by Beavis

you should have reverted to version 3.40, its in the hoster folder !

Make a shortcut to:

c:\Program Files\Micro Technology Unlimited\Hoster\Hoster34.exe

and put it on your desktop. If Hoster 4 gives you problems just click on the shortcut, open 3.40 and keep on trucking.

Jim

[admin]

Originally Posted by mykaraokedj

Any reason it locks up after videos and sometimes before video right after a karaoke song? Any fix recommendations?

Be sure your videos (.wmv anyway) are not DRM protected. If you bought them from some web site, they probably are. We don't support DRM yet... Vista woes have taken all our development time to solve.

Originally Posted by slingshot

Has anyone had problems with the new 4.01 hoster? It locks up when a song ques or will not load songs to playlist. It also dose it when you load a singers CD that they bring. If you open 3.40 it dose fine. Any clue on how to fix it.

We found a major bug related to CUE status. This is when we are opening files to get them ready to play. We are finishing the fix today (Lord willing) for Beta 8 to go out tonight to our testers. God bless em' for all the investment they have done with us. Dale and MadJim are two of the most active!

Originally Posted by batman0001

used hoster 4.01 for the first time last night at our show and played the first song OK but when we called the 2nd singer up the screen froze, took about 3 minutes b4 I could even close the program and had to revert to using our old hoster lite version. Any suggestions on why it freezes after playing songs. Also will not play MP3G?

Bug in CUE code.

We HOPE to release 4.02 on Wednesday... if we get it out today for testing. We have found some BIG bugs that were causing what you all are reporting. Our beta testers are now running shows with 4.02 Beta 7 and most of the problems are gone. We got the lyrics-music and the Preview Display + Show Display to all get in sync. Vista has been a nightmare!!!!!!!

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