9w-2 does not work help!

[beto]

Hi Peter, I tried your new version and I get these error messages when I try to play:

the path is not of legal form
and
Music file does not exist(1): UnicodeTrack0001.wav

I get this error to on 9w-1a also? however, I can play 09v-7 with no problem at all..

Nice player BTW. Sound wise..

Beto

[PeterSt]

Hi,

Can you make that picture working please ? And since I don't know how informative the picture is, can you please tell me what you are exactly doing with what kind of file and with what settings ?

If you installed XX in the Program Files folder that wil most probably your problem.
And take care that you have uplevelled administrator rights !

Peter

[Gerard]

Peter,

I have that error so now and than when i have downloaded a new version. Playing around a bit solves the problem.

 

[PeterSt]

"That error", but what error ??

[beto]

Peter,

I never install XXHE in the program files, I have a directory specially for this player.
I usually install to C:\XXHE\new_version_dir\, then I setup a shortcut to the desktop and always run it
as administrator.

in the setting tab, I just select my Music directory, the dac I select is 16bit 44.1khz, select engine#3,
set the Volume slider all the way up, then set the Q slider to -2. I do it exactly this way on any new version
you release.

after I do the above, I close HE and open it again then select what I want to listen to, then when I highlight a
track to listen to, I click on play... then 2 error windows show up with the messages I posted on my initial message,
which I have seen other users get the same message..

and as I said, version .9v-7 works great, .9u-14a works great (my favorite sounding thus far). only the latest 2 releases
I am unable to use due to these problems.


Sorry about the pictures, I don't have a site were I can link them from.

Last night I noticed on version .9v-7 that when I play an album in flac format, they get uncompressed to
.wav files in the directory where the data resides.. and it looks like the new version is trying to do the
same and there's where the errors occur. (I think). Otherwise too bad I can not check your latest releases..

[PeterSt]

Ok, I must look into this, but the picture of the error message really would help;

Just press "Additional Options" at the bottom, and then click Browse. From there you can upload the picture from your local drive (or whereever your have it). Please try that ...

[beto]

when I get home I will try the picture again.. this is one of the errors I get...

[PeterSt]

Ok. Whatever you do, please also try it at first clearing the Playlist Area (press the Clear button) and then load track in there.

If this doesn't help, try Attended (press Clear again) and Unattended in that sequence.
Please let me know (and try to keep track of the subsequent activities you applied).
Thanks,
Peter

[Leo]

Hello Peter,

I get this message when I use quad + upsampling + AA. When I switch off the AA , the program works again without a problem. I tried it a couple of times and it is a repeatable error.
I have not tried AA before so I am not sure whether previous versions had this as well.

regards,

Leo

[beto]

Peter, I tried your suggestion above to the T and I still do not get it work on Flac/Mp3 files. but it works fine with Wav files attended and Unattended.

here is the error I get

[Gerard]

"That error", but what error ??

Sorry mist this...

With "that" i meant this one.... But i guess you already figured that out...

 

[PeterSt]

Beto,

the path is not of legal form

I am sorry that I asked for the error, while you just gave it. I just never saw this error (would merely be "Illegal path"), and took it that it was your own interpretation.

At this moment I can only say that this will be a tough one, unless hopefully Gerard can find out what this is about by comparing situations ??

Gerard, please note : I am talking about above quoted message, and *not* about the "Music file does not exist" message. This latter is more general and can emerge for several reasons, like with Leo's example (I must be careful though, because the AA implies conversion as well, see below, and Leo too may mean that he gets the above quoted message just the same).

The message "The path is not of a legal form" obviously is about some path somewhere not being legal, most definitlely because I do something wrong. Think of presenting a path like e:\music\The Who\\Who's Next
It must be related to the conversion of files, but I can't think of what, since I don't have it (and also, the message is a strange one to me).

All together, if anyone can give some more insight, please let it know. Currently I don't know where to start ...

Thanks,
Peter

[beto]

This "path is not of a legal form" error message is either a bug from Visual Studio or maybe there are some old references
in the code? I don't know, just thinking out loud on what could be the cause.. On top of that, That message is just to vague, I wish microsoft would give more detail in their error messages.. Anyway Pete, your application sounds marvelous to me.

On the bright side, I think, and to me, this latest version sound even better. I like the way it sounds so much that I have started converting my flac files to wavs, last night I could not stop listening to it.. the highs seem to have changed and I can hear some instrument more redefined. I'll be doing some heavy listening this weekend..

Cheers

[PeterSt]

Thank you very much for the nice words !
I'll be working on your problem !!


PS: Sadly, Leo's AA example (which indeed goes wrong -> will be solved ASAP as well) does not produce your error beto.

[PeterSt]

Ok, here's an intermediate version which contains more extended error messages (but I don't know what will occur ar your site).
Some things have radically changed, although I can't tell whether it helped, and since I found nothing explicit related to the matter, probably nothing changed as such (but hoping for more clear messages).

When the error "Path is not of a legal form" still occurs, please copy all the messages occurring now, and note that after a first message, another may occur.
Then :

When indeed the error still occurs, switch on Logging (Settings Tab) and please email me the XX-...log file concerned (resides in the TemporaryData subfolder in your XX folder). Best is to do this in Attended mode, because then you will be sure the latest XX (not X3 !) .log file is the one to take (but don't stop/start XX in the mean time again, because there will be newer log files then).
I hope it is clear.

Careful : Many things have been put upside down in this version, mostly concerned about the Anti Alias conversion (which just appeared to be forgotton at all since 0.9w) and the combination with FLAC and MP3 which can occur at the same time. Since this is an intermediate version really, don't be surprised when other things now don't work, but please report them anyway.

Thank you,
Peter


Save your current XXHighEnd.exe, and past the one from the zip below in your XX folder.