Remove Silence Problem

[kedmison]

Okay, I've kept my Hoster updated. But it has been some time since I added any new music. All of a sudden this "Remove Silence " thing pops up. I have searched here on the forums but I am failing to find my answer. And I'm sure it may be looked at as stupid,...but What is it? Not trying to be a comedian, but if it's silent; why do I need to worry about removing it????

Kelly

[ddouglass]

The purpose is to Remove any Silence at the start and end of a song file. This shortens the wait for a song to start or end getting rid of the wasted time in between singers.
This is the information from the Support/Upgrades page for Hoster on the MTU web site.
"NEW Remove Silence From Karaoke & Audio Songs - The Tools menu Remove Silence... command automatically scans and marks leading and trailing silence in your KMA (karaoke and audio) files and in your Songs Database. Once processed, you can select to play with or without the silence. The Edit Songs dialog allows adjusting or clearing the Start or End pointers on any song."

[billyo]

Originally Posted by kedmison

Okay, I've kept my Hoster updated. But it has been some time since I added any new music. All of a sudden this "Remove Silence " thing pops up. I have searched here on the forums but I am failing to find my answer. And I'm sure it may be looked at as stupid,...but What is it? Not trying to be a comedian, but if it's silent; why do I need to worry about removing it????

Kelly

removed silence is one of the features on 4.11, it will removed the the silence between songs,( depends on how long you had it set.), it will make the next song to start right away, just to make you aware if you choose to do this it will take sometime, about 4-8 sec. per file (song ) it also depends on how fast your comp. is and it will also take a lot of ram resources, it took me a week to do mine..but it's a very good feature, it will make your show run faster..

[kedmison]

Thanks Billyo!

Kelly

[bryant]

Originally Posted by billyo

removed silence is one of the features on 4.11, it will removed the the silence between songs,( depends on how long you had it set.), it will make the next song to start right away, just to make you aware if you choose to do this it will take sometime, about 4-8 sec. per file (song ) it also depends on how fast your comp. is and it will also take a lot of ram resources, it took me a week to do mine..but it's a very good feature, it will make your show run faster..

Billy,
Have you been using the remove silence extensively through all of your songs and shows?

[billyo]

Originally Posted by bryant

Billy,
Have you been using the remove silence extensively through all of your songs and shows?

yes i used it in all of my shows, but come to think of it, i really havent noticed it now, if the rs is still working, i know it used to,

[stublack]

I am just now trying to use the remove silence feature and like others it is crashing. I read the past posts about after it crashes use the "*" with the no se selected and the first record that appears will be the culprit. I deleted that song (which was the first song alphabetically by title on my database). I ran it again it got to about 5 files processed and crashed again. I did the "*" again and it was showing the first song by title again (second song actually I deleted the first song before). This can't be what you meant??? Is the first song alphabetically by title the first song the remove silence is trying to process and so on???

I don't have access nor would I know how to use it if I did so I have no clue how to finish. I am sure I am doing something wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Stu

[admin]

Originally Posted by stublack

I am just now trying to use the remove silence feature and like others it is crashing. I read the past posts about after it crashes use the "*" with the no se selected and the first record that appears will be the culprit. I deleted that song (which was the first song alphabetically by title on my database). I ran it again it got to about 5 files processed and crashed again. I did the "*" again and it was showing the first song by title again (second song actually I deleted the first song before). This can't be what you meant??? Is the first song alphabetically by title the first song the remove silence is trying to process and so on???

I don't have access nor would I know how to use it if I did so I have no clue how to finish. I am sure I am doing something wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Stu

Stu, I checked and you had installed 431 (September release), but you removed it.

What version are you running and seeing the crash? I believe this bug was fixed in version 4.22 http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster.htm#422, item #3.

[stublack]

I have 4.22

I tried it several times yesterday and the hoster screen would white out and I had to do a ctl alt del to stop the non responding program.

I started it again before I responded to this post and I have processed 41 of 33519 records and it is still running, so I don't know for sure the problem I was having yesterday had anything to do with remove silence

I'll post again when it is complete or I have problems

Thanks, Stu

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by stublack

I am just now trying to use the remove silence feature and like others it is crashing. I read the past posts about after it crashes use the "*" with the no se selected and the first record that appears will be the culprit. I deleted that song (which was the first song alphabetically by title on my database). I ran it again it got to about 5 files processed and crashed again. I did the "*" again and it was showing the first song by title again (second song actually I deleted the first song before). This can't be what you meant??? Is the first song alphabetically by title the first song the remove silence is trying to process and so on???

I don't have access nor would I know how to use it if I did so I have no clue how to finish. I am sure I am doing something wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Stu

Did you note this in post # 39

Originally Posted by mrsmokeys

A quick ammendment though, the Remove Silence tool started with my first DiscID alphabetically, so I had to hit the DiscID tab after the No S-E search to get the offending file to list first.