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181  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Uninstall Completely on: September 22, 2010, 08:53:50 pm
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Did you miss/forget about my request about tool-tips? About posting them as a file or sending a copy to me?

who am I to imply a lot of extra work from you only because you offered it ? But I will send it to you. No obligations !!
Peter

It's the kind of thing I enjoy doing. Assuming I can make heads and tails of it I'll be glad to, but it may take some time.

Chris
182  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Common Glitch? on: September 21, 2010, 08:41:15 pm
Yesterday I was listening to the Goldberg Variations (N.B. solo piano, J. S. Bach). Along about the sixth variation a violin made an entrance, in fact it sounded suspiciously like part of a Vivaldi violin concerto. Ii hung around for about 40 seconds (an estimate) and then the piano reappeared solo style and played merrily along it's way.

I was astonished   Shocked  (maybe a bit strong) and naturally took a gander at my play list. No sign of anything but the piano music. The 40 seconds of violin that was nowhere to be found sounded like an excerpt of a piece I listened to before the variations, which I had completely cleared from the play list prior to loading the Goldberg.

Is this a common glitch?

Chris
183  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Uninstall Completely on: September 21, 2010, 05:45:45 am
Ehm, unless you have less than 2GB of internal memory ?!

Peter

Ehm, I have 4GB, but who's counting.

It's not the 100 split, because I've had the same problem with a 26 split and a 45 split. And I've not had the problem at times with 100 or bigger when using XX several times, closing it and using various pieces of music.

Having said all that, I think I might be on the trail for real this time. However, I shall not say more until I've gotten XX to work for several days. I will report back one way or the other in a few days.

Did you miss/forget about my request about tool-tips? About posting them as a file or sending a copy to me?

Thanks for racking your brain Peter; I truly appreciate it.  yes

Chris
184  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Uninstall Completely on: September 20, 2010, 09:16:57 am
Well Peter,

I just started up the pc with XX and went to play music not expecting a problem since it worked nicely earlier today. Wrong. All the settings were as per your request except "split file size," was at 100. Music mp3. As soon as I realized it was going to be slow again I started a timer.
 
hard disk light on almost constantly
3:41 plus about 20 seconds to start timer, so about 4 minutes in all for music to start.
hard disk light on almost constantly
played the whole first piece, 2:05 long (2 minutes 5 sec) and stopped.
hard disk continued with frantic activity
I could do nothing in XX, (I tried to high light another piece in the playlist)
hard disk continued with frantic activity
A few minutes later the hard disk activity stopped
clicked play on the same piece I played at first, it played immediately as did everything else
Very little hard disk activity now that music is playing normally

That's the full report.  wacko It's 3:00 A.M.

Chris

185  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Uninstall Completely on: September 20, 2010, 06:09:10 am

I am pretty sure you have a software conflict of some kind.

It also could be PC memory at a fault too but thats rare in my experience.

Per

Thanks for your comments Per. I have almost no software on this computer, never mind running. It's neither connected to the internet nor a network, I even have various services related to networking disabled. This pc is just meant for music and occasional word processing, so no virus or malware apps either. So there's not much to have a conflict with. I do run J River Media Center on it (not at the same time) and have had no problems with it.

The boot up memory test doesn't show any memory problems, but maybe I should find a memory test utility, just to check it out more thoroughly.

Thanks again for your thoughts Per.

Chris

 
186  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Uninstall Completely on: September 20, 2010, 05:57:22 am
Chris, suppose I ask you to choose Arc Prediction Upsampling (2x or 4x doesn't matter), untick "Copy to XX Drive", set Split File size to 60, untick "Start Engine3 during conversion", use normal Attended Playback, load one album of 10 tracks or so in the Playlist Area, and click Play on the first track (and do this only one time) ...
How long does it take for sound to emerge ?

Peter, You didn't seem to notice that I said it was working correctly at the end. As to the settings you mention, those are what I use, Arc Prediction, 2x, Split size 60, (also less and 100 all of which didn't work when I used them) Engine 4, adaptive and I never tick "copy to XX Drive" and "start engine3 during conversion." The only time I clicked play a second time was when nothing happened after some time, much longer than a few seconds.

The last time I tried it and it didn't work it was with the above settings with 5 tracks chosen and it took approximately 2 minutes to start and then stopped after about a minute. No errors. If I have troubles again, I'll try it again.

Chris

187  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Uninstall Completely on: September 19, 2010, 03:18:21 am
But what about ctrl-f and looking for those words in your mind, once you found back the topic concerned ?

Normally I would, but my ctrl key had too much wine.  WTF !
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Btw, when it is about dutch screen shots, I always took care of "referencing" it such that one will be able to see what it is about. Ehhmm, *if* you try to follow from the start ...
Anyway, right now it is as it is, so I can only tell you that you must be able to deal with it, if you're only not too much in a hurry ? (but who isn't).

I've always had trouble following instructions (reading manuals) my eyes cross and my head cramps; and I've been a computer tech/consultant since Apple computers first made their appearance. It's not because I'm in a hurry, instructions are usually so poorly written, I find it quicker to figure things out on my own. Unfortunately that does not always turn out to be true... but hey...
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About those tooltips ... If it could be done that they stay as long as I like, I would have done it.

You must have the latest tool-tips in a file somewhere. Maybe you could post them or email them to me, and we/I could figure what belongs to what, and what doesn't apply to the version we're using, and use them as a manual of sorts. In fact if you send them to me, I'll put them together in a manual like fashion. I'll note what applies to what, and send a copy back to you.
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Allright. Do you have a clue what you did to have it workable again ?

I haven't gotten 9z working. I haven't tried. If you're referring to 9-y8. It worked immediately when I installed and did for another day or so. Then it acted up too; same problem; long times, 2 minutes to start, stops in the middle of a song, locks up the system while getting ready to play and after closing (x-ing) XX the system remains unavailable for minutes.

So, without the help of the del-configfile-instructions (he mentions proudly) I found and deleted all of them, just left the empty Phasure folder, and deleted all recent files that had been modified in the last few minutes, cleared out the XXdata folder. Rebooted. Prayed--I'm a pagan.

Restarted 09-y8; settings stuff again, propelled My Bloody Vanlentine to the playlist, clicked play. It didn't look good, of course I'm using 9y not the snazzy new 9z (I think I actually prefer the clunky old school 9y look). But it didn't sound good. Nothing. No sign of life. I let it roil for a bit--it would be nice if XX showed that it was working so one wouldn't be tempted to click play again (which makes things much worse); but I digress. We can all thank my patience, because after 2 minutes? Music, er Bloody, Loveless.

Things got better from here.  sounds good !  I stopped and closed XX, restarted, no wait time, and later again, no wait. I have my fingers crossed. (I'm thinking that the time XX took at first may have had to do with reconstructing all the files that I deleted, although I think that's probably stretching it a bit.
 OffTopic
Peter, I was at the J River forum recently. (I have their program too; I didn't know about yours or). I noted in a response to a post that there are people out there who believe that pc background activities etc. going on during music rendering influence the sound. The response "They're wrong." They're so eloquent and open minded over there--yes every one of them.  no Tomatoes !

Chris
188  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Uninstall Completely on: September 18, 2010, 05:11:20 am
One more thing Peter--unless it's more.

I have a suggestion, that if applied would be helpful to me and possibly a number of others. Write a short version of basic instructions for computer literates, like for the delete-config-file, or how-to-install section.

Why? Take delete-config-file instruction. Many of us just need to know where it is (which dir) which one to delete if there's more than one, what to edit if anything, and any other steps. We don't need to know how to do each step.

For me, your long instructions are confusing and headache provoking. The other day when re-installing XX I decided to look through your install instructions; I thought you'd mentioned something unusual about installation. Well it was a nightmare trying to find anything because of millions of screen shots, and billions of words. Since I was looking for about 5 of said words I gave up and fudged it with head throbbing. (Some may find slight exaggerations in the above, others will not--I'm thinking martians for instance)

Don't get me wrong, The long version is fine for computer noobies, or the lost. But it would be soooo! helpful to have a short succinct version, at the beginning. It should take no time at all to do and with anything new you write it could serve as your outline for the nooby version. You could put a skull and cross bones near the succinct version and warn noobies off.

And just for your info, I have no idea what you're talking about in the Delete-Config-file instructions (I'm impatient with all instructions but particularly when they involve Dutch screen shots). The computer that has XX on it is not on-line so I can't look now, but I'm guessing that I'll figure it out if I can find those/that config file.

Chris
189  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Uninstall Completely on: September 18, 2010, 04:23:00 am
Hi Peter,

I just read your response, thanks. I'll look into that sometime in the next few days... weeks... years.  Since I've finally got XX working reliably using 09-y8, I'm not too eager to muck about with 9z anytime soon. Plus I can actually see the controls on 09-y8.

And speaking of controls, is there a help section in this version? (The wordy tool-tips disappear before I'm done with them) If not, is there a way to pause them on screen?

Chris
190  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Uninstall Completely on: September 16, 2010, 11:56:26 pm
Peter,

I think you should either create an uninstaller that completely removes XX... and all its components from the system, or at least tell us where all the parts are in the registry and where ever else scattered about the computer.  yes

I've had continuous trouble with 09-z2. Some of the problems (all in attended mode) include :

1. Not playing at all, no error message.
2. Playing one or two pieces and then no sound although the bar keeps moving, no error message.
3. Locking up the whole system when clicking on next track.
4. Locking up the whole system at various times when I click on a second button when the first didn't respond.
5. Taking five minutes (literally) to start a new track and then stalling a track or two later.
6. Great desire to throw chair through monitor

I didn't have these problems initially and got it running pretty well although never completely smoothly. What I didn't have was lock ups and eternal waits which led me to think that something was corrupted somewhere along the line. So, uninstall etc. Well...

I've un-installed and reinstalled, gone through the registry and cleared what I could find, all to no avail. I could tell by the XX's reaction (it remembered settings) that I hadn't found all the pieces. And XX kept having the same problems.

I've finally given up on it and went to 9-y8, which so far is playing well except for a tiny tick at the beginning of tracks. It does exhibit one similar problem to 9-z2. When I hit Next track nothing happens, if I then click play everything locks up, program doesn't respond etc. I have to wait 5 minutes or more until anything responds again, can't even get to task manager. So I'm thinking this version might share a registry entry or .ini or whatever file somewhere that hasn't been cleared.

So please let us know how to completely uninstall this lovely sounding (I think, I get so nervous expecting it to blow up it's hard to enjoy completely  Cry ) bugger.

Chris







191  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: ToolTips text on: August 31, 2010, 10:26:42 am
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I don't think I'll try that. You can check it out if you must by switching to classic. Why would anyone want to run aero if the goal is to make Vista run lean and mean, or at least not so wimpily?

I won't. Read my post (better) Chris. Sorry ...
(no matter my english)

I'm don't know what you mean. If it's about Aero, I'm assuming you designed the tool-tips under Aero and that's why you don't know that they might not look right in classic. However, as I mentioned earlier, I don't really care about the tool-tips, I thought you did. And if you don't then hey, or as a hillbilly acquaintance likes to say "it don't make no."

Chris



192  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: ToolTips text on: August 29, 2010, 06:12:52 pm

I'm not sure how easy it is for you to switch on the normal Aero look etc., but somehow I expect that to be related. Not sure at all.
Not that you must use Aero again from now on, but just for testing.

I don't think I'll try that. You can check it out if you must by switching to classic. Why would anyone want to run aero if the goal is to make Vista run lean and mean, or at least not so wimpily?


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I can't get a preview in Chrome (the browser);

If you mean of the picture ... that never happens. If you mean of the text you just typed ... no I didn't know that.

?

I mean nothing happens when I click preview, picture or no.  no

Chris
193  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: ToolTips text on: August 28, 2010, 04:41:18 am
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Well, now that I'm thinking about it, long and hard, this is what you must mean.

I know, my english is not the best. Sorry for that.
Happy
Hey, my English is not the best either, and I'm American--sort of (come to think, that may explain it). That Dutch stuff looks mean on your screenshots by the way.

 
PS: If you have an analogue camera and have to develop the film and all, better don't do it. But you can always put yout monitor on a scanner, right ? Cool

I was going to scan my monitor, just for a lark--that's one bird in the bush, but I had only one ac outlet available so here's a digital photo instead, enschulden sie mich bitte.

By the way, the tool-tips thing is of no great consequence to me; I just remember reading somewhere that you'd wanted to spiff up the interface for version 1.00. On the other hand you could go to version 9za-0 and give yourself another 26 letters to rectify those niggling impurities, you know, take the Godot route. Look at Gmail, people actually use a false beta icon to give themselves comfort. Of course Gmail hasn't made it very big.  Tomatoes !

 OffTopic I can't get a preview in Chrome (the browser); so if it don't look good blame that upstart Google. Is it a known issue?

Chris
194  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: ToolTips text on: August 27, 2010, 05:23:07 am
Chris,
Is it an option no make a photograph of the screen. Let's call it a screenshot. Happy

Ah... Did you not see my lovely pointillistic image? That is my desktop, with XXHighend in its full glory, tool-tips ablazing. It's not my fault it's shy and doesn't show up in screenshots.

Pretty odd really. Do you have a thought as to why this would happen? It never disappeared and was still there afterwards. Could it have blinked on and off more quickly than the eye can observe?

Do you mean that I should take an actual photograph (with a camera) of the screen?  grazy I could try that, although I'd need to be pretty agile and quick as your tool-tips don't hang around very long. Well, now that I'm thinking about it, long and hard, this is what you must mean.  Huh !? I'll go charge up the battery. Demain peut-etre.

Chris



195  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: ToolTips text on: August 27, 2010, 04:57:12 am
Peter, Alright--which is not the case by the way, I have no idea of what you speak. However that won't stop me from answering.

There is no such thing (or thang as some might say) as a hoovercraft (unless some forward looking company with a sense of humor makes a vac with said moniker). It's called a hover craft, and guess what it does.  unsure It hovers.  Shocked  and then suddenly takes off like a dragonfly.  Shocked nea Yes it do.

So don't hoover your mouse unless you intend to suck the icons off your desktop. On to serwious stuff, next post, so you don't fergit agin.

By the by, you'll have either to pardon my silliness, use of accents (dialects, not circumflex) and wordplay, or ask me politely or bluntly--if you must, to stop. But just be forewarned, you'll surely be shortening my life.

Chris
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