Hoster 5.04 Bug Reports

[admin]

Please only post Video Hoster 5.04 bugs here.

We released 5.04 much faster than normal as 9 users had difficulties with 5.03. The polishing changes below should make 5.04 easier for everyone to install and use:

1. NEW Hard Drive Missing Message - When Hoster runs, the last opened Playlist automatically opens. Now if any songs in the Playlist are on a drive(s) that is not found, a message appears showing the missing drive letter(s). Hoster then opens the Playlist and shows UNAVAIL status for songs on the missing drive(s). You can close Hoster and plug in the drive(s) or continue without the drive(s) available.


2. CHANGED Playlist "UNAVAIL" Songs Not Deleted - If an external hard drive wasn't plugged in with songs in the Songs Database and Playlist, AND your Tools menu > Options command > "Keep songs after played" was not checked (i.e. songs delete after they play), when Hoster opened it automatically deletes all UNAVAIL status songs in the Playlist. In 5.04 these files are NOT deleted, regardless of the "Keep songs after played" selection.


3. FIXED Build Database Will Not Run - If the Build Database dialog's "Indexed Folders" list had no folders, when you tried to add a folder with KMH or KMA files an error message appeared stating "Incorrect Parameter". This was fixed so you can now add folders to the "Indexed Folders" list as expected.

You can download version 5.04 from: http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster.htm

We are confident that the 5.03 and these 5.04 changes will make quite a positive impression on you and your singers and audiences.

[kod]

I downloaded Hoster 5.04.10 today (Sunday 10/2) and now I'm having problems with it freezing and crashing when I use my Instabuttons.

I have ~50 Instabuttons set up and I frequently press them back to back to go from one sound effect to the other.

I did this several times Saturday night without any problems with 5.04.09 and have not had this problem before!

And... everytime I open Hoster, the screen is minimized and I have to maximize it.

Is anyone else having problems?

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by kod

I downloaded Hoster 5.04.10 today (Sunday 10/2) and now I'm having problems with it freezing and crashing when I use my Instabuttons.

I have ~50 Instabuttons set up and I frequently press them back to back to go from one sound effect to the other.

I did this several times Saturday night without any problems with 5.04.09 and have not had this problem before!

And... everytime I open Hoster, the screen is minimized and I have to maximize it.

Is anyone else having problems?

Do you mean Saturday with 5.03.09 not 5.04.
With your instabuttons, are some of them .wav files ?
I encountered problems with wave files that played in the earlier versions, I ended up converting my .wav files to mp3.
If you open the Tools/Instabuttons dialog look down the Dur column and see if any are showing 00.01 or less then check if they are a .wav format, If so I think these are the culprits, try unchecking them so they don't play and see if Hoster still crashes. If this cures it change them to mp3.

When you say the screen is minimized, are you referring to Hosters main dialog or the singers screen ?
If you mean it's main dialog try this: Right click the Hoster Icon select properties then select the shortcut tab, in the box next to "run" from the drop down arrow select "NormalWindow" then Apply and OK.

[jerst]

I accicentally updated to 5.4 right before a show, which I never do. WHen opened up Hoster after the computer re-booted, the second lyrics screen that would generally pop up and land somewhere in the middle of the screen, didn't come up. We tried everything thinking that the video settings were off or something. Nothing worked. A friend of mine not familiar with the program went into show display settings and clicked on a box he said something like
"dock or un-dock lyrics screen" what this did was to allow us to pull the small screen that usually stays in the top left corner over to the second monitor and re-size it. A major pain in the butt.

Also the search function was affected. Let's say I put in "Pat Benatar" nothing would come up. If I typed in "Pat" or "Benatar" I could find it. What's up with that?

I uninstalled it and went back to 5.02

[kod]

Roy,

Sorry, you're right, it was 5.03.09...

All of my Instabuttons are mp3's.

Hoster's main dialog screen was minimized but now it's stopped doing that. It opens full as it should now and I didn't change anything.

And now the Instabuttons work as they should. I just now clicked on 10 in a row without any problems. Go figure!!!

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by kod

Roy,

Sorry, you're right, it was 5.03.09...

All of my Instabuttons are mp3's.

Hoster's main dialog screen was minimized but now it's stopped doing that. It opens full as it should now and I didn't change anything.

And now the Instabuttons work as they should. I just now clicked on 10 in a row without any problems. Go figure!!!

Gremlins....gotta love em... Glad it is working ok now.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by jerst

I accicentally updated to 5.4 right before a show, which I never do. WHen opened up Hoster after the computer re-booted, the second lyrics screen that would generally pop up and land somewhere in the middle of the screen, didn't come up. We tried everything thinking that the video settings were off or something. Nothing worked. A friend of mine not familiar with the program went into show display settings and clicked on a box he said something like
"dock or un-dock lyrics screen" what this did was to allow us to pull the small screen that usually stays in the top left corner over to the second monitor and re-size it. A major pain in the butt.

Also the search function was affected. Let's say I put in "Pat Benatar" nothing would come up. If I typed in "Pat" or "Benatar" I could find it. What's up with that?

I uninstalled it and went back to 5.02

If you go to Tools/Options there is a Reset Displays button that would have moved the Singers Display back to default position on the computer monitor then you can place it where you wanted it.
Your search for Pat Benatar will not work because the Artists names are stored as Last name , First name or in other words Benatar, Pat. By using just one word then the search will look for any instance of that word. This has always been the way the search has worked. In this case less is better.

[dbeland50]

Reposting previous post.
Occurs randomly, but I'll be running a show & have my little Preview window resized & positioned in the lower right corner. All goes well, then suddenly, boink...window gone! I have to reset everything, resize, etc. Sometimes lasts, sometimes doesn't. Very strange. Any ideas?

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by aznetbear

2. I was attempting to run Streaming Video via the TOOLS, SHOW DISPLAY, INTERMISSION, HTML URL option and got echoing on the audio. It appears that the PREVIEW Window is pushing out audio. I reset the Show Display and the audio is still off anywhere from a half a second to a second, therefore causing echoing or double audio.

I don't know if this could help as i have not tried what you are doing but if you open the volume mixer (On my windows 7 it is right click on speaker icon in task bar and select "Open volume mixer")
Then play html file and see if more than one item shows in the volume mixer, if so try turning one down.

I attach view of mine when Hoster is playing, as you can see my system sounds are right down, just wonder if yours is showing anything other than Hoster volume set or a second Hoster volume.

[aznetbear]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

I don't know if this could help as i have not tried what you are doing but if you open the volume mixer (On my windows 7 it is right click on speaker icon in task bar and select "Open volume mixer")
Then play html file and see if more than one item shows in the volume mixer, if so try turning one down.

I attach view of mine when Hoster is playing, as you can see my system sounds are right down, just wonder if yours is showing anything other than Hoster volume set or a second Hoster volume.

i did try that but, didn't work. thanks

[Roy Dennis]

Krockyman3 has reported a problem with must close after song ending or being stopped in this thread http://forum.mtu.com/showthread.php?p=109552#post109552

I have gone through all I can think of to help him without success.

This seems to have been solved after posting this. He updated to Explorer 9 and now seems OK.

[kod]

I just downloaded Hoster 5.04.10 to my back-up system and everything works (that I've tried) but I have lost my Singers Database songs.

All of my Singers databases are blank now!

Hoster did a rebuild on start-up.

What went wrong?