Hoster shuts down after 35-40 seconds.

[EmilioM]

Haven't downloaded 4.10 yet because I'm a little afraid after reading some of these posts. Just bought a new computer because the other one crashed and may not be able to get repaired. Anyway, just wanted to know if this version would give me any problems. I'm hoping I can get it because of some of the features, like being able to change brand on multiple songs. Here is my the info on my computer.


OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Build 6002
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ARDLJQX0RP
System Manufacturer Gateway
System Model LX6810-01
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz, 2336 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. R01-A0, 10/31/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6002.18005"
User Name ARDLJQX0RP\Owner
Time Zone Central Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 8.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 6.16 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.2 GB
Available Virtual Memory 14.1 GB
Page File Space 8.29 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Please let me know, cause I'm looking forward to getting this.

Thanx

[RIKKI TIKKI]

Emilio,

Give it a try... it is very stable on most user's computers, with alot less features, speed, memory, etc. that your computer has... Report back if you incurr any problems after downloading 4.10, and you'll get a bunch of eager beta testers helping you along the way... Enjoy!

P.S.
Make sure all the Vista guidelines are followed prior to downloading... and if later you find it necessary to switch back to 4.xxx ( have a copy of your current version ) just do a uninstall / install, and you are back to where your computer was stable... I'm betting that you will not have any problems, once the Vista recommended proceedure for Hoster is followed..

[billyo]

i was hesitant at first, but i took a chance caused you wouldn't know if youre going to have a problem till you tried, but anyway everything seems to be working fine on my laptop, just got to figure out the background audio..

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by Kobesdad

I hear you Dale I've been fortunate to run Hoster on this machine for a long while probably five years or so.I now have a workaround for my problem by just keeping the display always on but I still don't think that I should have to...

If all you want to do is hide the snd you can simply check the "Hide" box under singers name display in the intermission screen and choose the same background image you use for your desktop and no one will ever know any diference. This is a 2 step process compared to the one step process of unchecking the "always on" box, but then that was designed for folks who don't have dual display cards.

Sam

[EmilioM]

Okay, I downloaded 4.10 last night and played a few songs on it and it's working fine. I haven't checked everything out on it yet, but so far so good. I was looking forward to this version very much because of being able to change brands on multiple songs at once. I suggested this change a little while ago. I had a lot of songs that had Sound Choice Pro, Brick, 6+6, Chartbuster Essential, etc., that I wanted to label as Sound Choice, or just Chartbuster. It gets maddening when downloading lots of music and it keep stopping to tell you this Disc ID uses Sound Choice 6+6 and so on. So I've been busily changing all the names, and I'm very happy. Also I've noticed another improvement in the edit utility which I thought should be changed, and that is when you highlight title or artist to make a correction, eg., The Beatles - Beatles, The, the entire artist name or the title would dissappear, requiring you to type in the title or artist. I used it last night and highlighted just the "The", and the rest of it stayed. Kudos to MTU for all the work in making the BEST hosting program on the planet even better. And of course, thanx to all the people on these threads that provide many answers to the various problems we encounter. You're all the greatest.

[admin]

Originally Posted by billyo

heres my other laptop's info ( Dell E1505 ) Processor x86 Family Genuine Intel ~1595 Mhz
Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 1.37 GB

Originally Posted by billyo

...my laptops info,(Dell E1405)
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Processor x86 Family... Genuine Intel ~1664 Mhz
Total Physical Memory 1,536.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 930.28 MB

OK... here's a good example of why we can't tell you what you need exactly.

Billyo's 1st system has 2048MB RAM, but 630MB is unavailable, used by Windows and other drivers/programs. Only 1370MB is available for Hoster and other programs.

His 2nd system has 1530MB RAM, but 400MB is unavailable. Only 930MB is available for Hoster and others.

If you have 1000MB (1GB) RAM, and your OS and drivers are taking 630MB, you only have 370MB available for Hoster and others.

If you enable Visualization, we have seen 60MB be required.

With a large Songs Database, I have seen Hoster go from 17MB (first run) to 129MB by doing several things.The Songs Database was 14MB in size. When I opened the Search dialog and entered * to find all, 28MB RAM was consumed peaking the usage up to 128MB.

If you have a large Singers Database, it too will require more RAM. You think things are slow when we load them into RAM, they become worthless if we tried to thrash the HDD... i.e. it woulldn't work.

The larger your Songs & Singers Databases are, the more RAM you need. That's a simple fact of life.

TIP... several of our Beta Testers used "System Mechanic" (cleanup) program from Iolo Systems. I run it daily. It compacts my physical RAM to free up fractured RAM space (yes, that can happen just like discs get fragmented). Problems with low ran have disaappeared after RAM compaction.

We found that opening IE7 with 5 tabs, the closing 3 tabs and viewing with Task Manager, 5 tabs were still being shown. Since we use ID for our Show Display, it could well be that IE/Windows is NOT freeing RAM after the Show Display switches from, say Lyrics to Intermission or Audio or Video. We'll do some more testing on this.

Keep in mind that the Show Display (in its current form) has been around for a number of versions, not just 4.10.

If you don't have 2GB RAM, don't expect Hoster to work correctly. Again, running System Mechanic may help you free up fractured RAM that Windows doesn't give back automatically.

[admin]

Originally Posted by billyo

ok i turned it on and talkover button is now blue-green ,but how do you add a song in the background audio, i can add audio track to the hoster playlist, just can't on the background playlist , do i have to have my audio tracks imported to hoster and add it to background playlist?

Originally Posted by billyo

i was hesitant at first, but i took a chance caused you wouldn't know if youre going to have a problem till you tried, but anyway everything seems to be working fine on my laptop, just got to figure out the background audio..

Billyo... forgive me. I don't want to say this, but after spending 140 hours PER WEEK fortwo weeks, and 80 hrs/week for about 2 months, I feel like I have invested half a year in... writing the MANUAL... and have the right to say... it's in there. Please read it.

Thanks!!!

[billyo]

Originally Posted by admin

Billyo... forgive me. I don't want to say this, but after spending 140 hours PER WEEK fortwo weeks, and 80 hrs/week for about 2 months, I feel like I have invested half a year in... writing the MANUAL... and have the right to say... it's in there. Please read it.

Thanks!!!

thanks for taking the time in looking and my laptops configurations, i downloaded the new version and i only did a little bit of tweaking, like changing my virtual memory settings from 2046/4093 to 3055/4096 and i also did the playback offset to -0.50, and everything is working fine, did a mocked up show for 3 1/2 hrs non stop set it to auto/man, and i didn't encounter any problems , like i said in my previous post i had never had a problem with any of hosters version new and old and if i did mainly just minor ones that i could fix, BA player was working yesterday ,it just happened this morning when i decided to create a new mp3 folder, and believed me i do read your manual, it might take me sometime to figure/comprehend it out, but i do read it, but anyway thanks for taking the time in responding, i know you guys are very busy, so i apologized for taking your time away on your busy schedule..

[ddouglass]

Billy read my response in your new thread.

[billyo]

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Billy read my response in your new thread.[/

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thanks i got it to work, created a new folder on windows explorer, dragged my playlist in, opened BA player clicked on browse and clicked on the folder, all the songs were added into BA playlist...thanks again, the key word was " windows explorer "