Congratulations Peter!

As has been said before; We always knew it was the best but now it is more or less "official". 

Looking forward to receiving my NOS1 USB tomorrow! Perhaps the first one to take delivery in 2013?

Keep up the good work and can't wait to see what you come up with this year....

Mike

The only thing missing is a NOS1. 

Thank you Peter.

I suspected as much but was curious.

Of course I am on the edge of my seat...

Mike

Any comments from the Beta testers regarding the BT remote control?

Mike

Hi Peter,

I am in for a pair.

Mike

Hi Peter,

OK, I did as you suggested and all appears to be running fine as long as XX is run as administrator. I will play most of today and watch for errors.

It does affect how my machine runs though so (forgive my ignorance here) what is UAC and how do I shut it off? I seem to be getting a lot of Host Process Stopped Working errors when XX is run as Administrator.

As always, thanks for your help Peter.

Mike

PS: I’ll try Eric’s suggestion on the next version.

Hi Gerard,



Beats me.... just seemed like it couldn't hurt. 

If anybody missed something way back I think it's probably me. 

Mike

Hi Peter,

This is how I change versions of XX; I download the zip and extract all files to another folder. Then I create a Shortcut of both XX and Engine 3 and drag them to my desktop. Then I cut and paste my activation code to un-demo and finally set my settings. When I change versions, I delete both Shortcuts from my desktop and repeat the process with the newer (or older) version. I have never had an activation fail before and I have activated many versions.

 Perhaps I am having so much trouble because I am not installing XX correctly each time?

Hard to start is defined by pushing Play and having an Engine 3 Stopped Working error over and over. This also happens a lot when I push Pause and then try to play again. V-6a is fairly stable.

I rarely run XX as Administrator as it seems to cause problems with my other programs. I use my computer for other tasks while listening to XX.

Mike

Hi Peter,

I get the same thing as above (I think). It didn’t happen when I then ran XX as Administrator. But then my activation failed (first time this has happened). I am back to V-6a again as it is the most stable version on my machine. Everything later is hard to start (attended or unattended) on my machine.

Mike

Hi Peter,

Things are working perfectly here now for 3 days or so in attended mode  Thanks again for getting this straightened out.


Mike

Hi Peter,

Thanks for all your hard work on this. I am having good results now for the most part with 09v-5. Still getting quite a few tracks that play through silently but, all in all, XX is working well here and things seem much more stable. I will continue in unattended mode for now though.

Thanks again.

Mike

 

Hi Peter,

Yes, I will try Unattended Playback and let you know my findings.

As I stated before XX is the best player I have heard. And maybe because of that it takes more effort to dial in the computer to get it to work properly. I have tried a few other players and although they don't sound as good they seem to be simple to setup and to use. They also play the files without problems.

Of course I acknowledge my part in all this; I just don't have the time or the inclination to read all the posts that might be related to this issue and then try to figure it out on my machine. I am of the group of people I think that just wants to install the player, make a couple of adjustments and then listen. Not sure if you have developed a Help system yet but that would also be good for people like me.
Listening now in Unattended Playback……….
Best,

Mike






 

Hello Peter.

Well, I think it has come time for me to put XX on the shelf for now. I have no doubt it is the best sounding player around but it doesn't function well for me. It causes me more frustration then it does pleasure and it doesn't seem that that will change for a while.

The wav stops playing thing has gotten steadily worse, with all kind of variations on the theme. Sometimes the song playing will be cut short towards the end and it will jump forward to the next song and play silently through. The other day I detected very low volume coming from the speaker and could barely hear the song (ear at the speaker) and it was playing back garbled, like at slow speed? There is always lots of no data given messages when I return to my computer. Lots of system index out of range messages etc. Today while playing an album that I have played many times before, the music stopped and high volume static replaced the music. Luckily I was using low sensitivity speakers at the time so my speakers don't appear to be damaged. This was accompanied with a large message box that said something to the effect that "System out of range index was out of bounds of the array". I don't know how to do the screen shot thing. I realized when I bought the software (almost a year ago to the day) that it was in the beta stage but I guess I thought things would be ironed out by now. Hopefully someday there will be a fully functional version.
Maybe it is just me having these difficulties, I don’t know. I guess it could be my machine, or my lack of computer skills. But my experience with software is either it works or it doesn’t. Easy for me to say I guess, because I don’t write it.
So it is back to good old fashion CD’s for me, at least for now.
Best,
Mike

These are the same error messages that I get (albeit in a different language) and I have had them for a while now, probably as long as the silently played track thing.... They don’t come up all the time though and not as often as the silently played track.

Mike