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ran ver 58 tonight and no crash.
did have one oddity though
the volume starts at 0, and has to be brought up regardless of the closing volume.
also, it must be done manually. i did it with the hot keys for the fill in. brought it up to 30%, played a karaoke song, brought it to full up with hot keys. after the karaoke song the fill in was back to 0, and the next karaoke song was also at 0. i moved the slider manually and it stuck.
tried for giggles to raise fill in to 40% and after the next karaoke song it was back at 30%.

also, don't know why, but later in the night it slowed down adding songs. i had a 20 singer rotation and even with removing singers that left leaving 12 in rotation at one point, adding a song or singer took longer than normal and got longer as the night went on. nothing extreme, but at the end it took about 3 seconds to add a song as opposed to the normal half second. this did not happen with previous builds.

but there was no crash (i do notice that when i hit play it takes almost a second longer than before to start playing the song, assuming this is part of the fix?)

We are aware of the problem with the volume, sorry for the annoyance.

As of the slowdown, it should not happen. Is the log switched on? If yes, please try switching it off and see if that helps. Also please see if disabling checking for silence at start or at the beginning makes a change (I know it is not a solution, but would be a pointer for us).

Played with 58 all day off and on. had no issues with volume. I did how ever have and issue that I have never had before. a few times the preview screen on the computer (as I did not have monitor hooked up) just went blank. then I had a pop up message come on that Display Driver had stopped. The entire screen did not go out only the display screen that was showing the graphics. A couple of times they would go out and then come back on in 2 or 3 sec. but the warning would then come up that the Display Driver had stopped working and recovered. I have never had this happen before and I was using my Show computer. No log was generated.

Dana, this does not look like Siglos issue to me. I understand Enhanced Renderer is selected in Display / Settings?

ok, it was not the logging as far as i can tell (though it was on)
i unchecked skip silence, but no change.
what DID make it move at normal speed was unchecking "show announcements".
with it checked it takes a good second for the song to be added even from quick songs with only 3 singers, unchecked it is less than half of that.

here is a video of what i am seeing
https://mega.nz/#!OllDHaQY!KtaGY1yc-ve ... F1JgUNvfWg

yes enhanced rendering is set, I have not seen this on any other programs or videos. I did how every just get some Win 10 updates. Will reboot and watch for a while and even try roll back and then reinstall 58 to see what happens. Will keep you informed.

I will upload a new build today. We are moving in the right direction. Thank you all!

One more question -- did you have custom singer announcements for these singers, or regular ones?

Paradigm Karaoke wrote:ok, it was not the logging as far as i can tell (though it was on)
i unchecked skip silence, but no change.
what DID make it move at normal speed was unchecking "show announcements".
with it checked it takes a good second for the song to be added even from quick songs with only 3 singers, unchecked it is less than half of that.

here is a video of what i am seeing
https://mega.nz/#!OllDHaQY!KtaGY1yc-ve ... F1JgUNvfWg

The first singer Leyla does have a custom screen but the other two did not. I can try it with three people that don't have screens when I get home, but I'm on my way to the doctor for my son's one week check up.

ok, it does not matter weather it has custom screens or not.
i also tried on my second system which is an identical computer (HP G6, AMD A10, 8GB ram) and it was the one that would only play discs once then require a reformat, that is still happening but not the slowdown. if i create a new login the problem goes away.
here is the cd crash log


https://mega.nz/#!D5FFjKID!dHhcclZV_PSU ... YrHU-Vj0lU

they are the same computer, same settings (a cloned drive actually) and they have two very different problems.

on the cd issue, resetting the registry fixed it, but i'm more worried about what keeps causing it in the first place.

ok, one issue i think fixed.
i noticed the crash came back when i pointed Siglos to my database instead of the new default database.
so it had to be something with the singers or screens.
i changed my announcement screens from PNG to JPG files and the size dropped dramatically (750k down to 190k) and bingo....no more crash. apparently PNG files are too large even at 800x600 and it is getting hung up there.

as for the slowdown, this system is doing it as well.
i have tried using singers with no custom screen as well as deactivating the custom screen in edit singer properties with no difference at all. if i uncheck show anno9uncements it works as expected. also, the same delay applies to deleting songs, not just adding them, and also goes away with show announcements unchecked.

Paradigm, thanks for these details. I am not sure why PNG do not work properly, maybe the library we are using to decode them does something wrong.

If you are using custom images and background videos they would also help to pinpoint the problem.

Paradigm, SKP reacts the same way on my laptop as it does on yours. Piotr, I am not using any custom screens so I don't think the slowdown is caused by the custom screens.

One question, how do you reset the quick songs' data like the date added or the amount of times played?

the PNG was causing the CD crash, but not the slowdown.

hornet59 wrote:One question, how do you reset the quick songs' data like the date added or the amount of times played?

You would have to remove the song from the history in Add Singer.