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Title: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Marius on January 27, 2014, 07:33:50 PM
Many reported bugs have been fixed, so please give a try and report remaining problems.

HOW TO UPDATE FROM THE LAST VERSION?

METHOD 1

1. Replace all your plugins (.dll files) with the new ones
2. Replace RadioDJ.exe with the new one
3. Replace PluginInterface.dll with the new one

METHOD 2

1. Unzip the new version somewhere on your HDD
2. Delete from the new package the settings files (they are named like settings_XXXXX.xml).
3. Copy all files from the new package over your old files in order to overwrite them.

ALTERNATE METHOD 3

1. Replace all the files with the new ones
2. Customize the settings for the program/plugins
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.4.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on January 27, 2014, 07:35:47 PM
Thanks Marius although shouldn't that be 1.6.5.7? :bash:
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Marius on January 27, 2014, 08:13:18 PM
Fixed 10x  :hihi:
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: TQ on January 27, 2014, 09:46:55 PM
Quote from: Marius on January 27, 2014, 07:33:50 PM
Many reported bugs have been fixed, so please give a try and report remaining problems.

Much appreciated
Nick
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: SnowHow on January 27, 2014, 10:50:47 PM
I will give it a spin this evening  :ok:


J-

Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: FL Coast on January 27, 2014, 10:57:06 PM
Thanks Marius.  You do FANTASTIC work.  :cool:  It is still early yet, but it appears that all of the issues I was having with the previous version are gone in RDJv1.6.5.7.   :-*  The only thing I have noticed is that given the same settings in Audio Processing, the audio now sounds slightly over- driven with the loss of some bass quality.  Not complaining.  I Love RDJ.  :P    :hihi:

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Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: TQ on January 28, 2014, 12:07:23 AM
Unfortunately, the after midnight problem remains.
Nick
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: AndyDeGroo on January 28, 2014, 12:49:31 AM
I'm testing it right now and the song repeat issue seems gone. In version 1.6.5.65 the problem was that RDJ was updating artist_played filed after selecting new songs for queue which resulted in current playing song being selected again.

I'll follow MySQLs genereal-log to see where is the issue if something goes wrong again.

The double-play issue also seems gone for now. At least I could not reproduce it by clicking play, stop and then play again.

I'm curious - what is that red x near vu meter? Tooltips would really help to understand what each button does.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: 704djs on January 28, 2014, 05:40:57 AM
only issue we had was double play and so far we are rolling along smooth and effective and we also notice that the load speed had picked up radio dj load faster than the last version
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Marius on January 28, 2014, 07:06:51 AM
Quote from: AndyDeGroo on January 28, 2014, 12:49:31 AM
I'm curious - what is that red x near vu meter? Tooltips would really help to understand what each button does.

I can add tooltips, but for each element i must add multilingual support and is a time consuming work.
Until now, in that place was displayed two labels, one for sweeper and one for voicetrack. I modified that, and now is displaying all that info in one label, in the play order. The red x allows you to clear/stop the sweeper/vt.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: vincent on January 28, 2014, 09:18:26 AM
@Marius : tooltips would be a great idea :
So I would be pleased to help for adding them, and I think some other people alsp  - please feel free to ask if you want
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on January 28, 2014, 10:59:39 AM
All working as it should here, No pesky "watchdog" errors in the error logs, Songs are playing as they should, Nothing double playing.

Great work as always Marius. :ok:
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on January 28, 2014, 11:13:12 AM
Only thing i have noticed is playlist builder build playlist from rotation still isn't behaving. It clumps jingles together with one rotation and with another this happens it loads the same artist/song  twice.

(http://kingsbridgecourt.com/images/playlist1.jpg)

It's loaded The Housemartins twice & The Cult 3 times. . When it should really only be loading them once.

There is this SQL error under events

QuoteYou have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ASC LIMIT 1' at line 1 (SELECT `ID` FROM `songs` WHERE `enabled`='1' AND `duration` <= '852' AND ((`start_date` <= Now() AND (`end_date` >= NOW()) OR `end_date` = '2002-01-01 00:00:01')) AND `id_subcat` = '32' AND `id_genre` = '149' AND (TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE, `tdate_played`, NOW()) > 1200 AND TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE, `tartist_played`, NOW()) > 300) ORDER BY `count_played`, ASC LIMIT 1;)
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: 704djs on January 28, 2014, 11:18:37 AM
could someone else try this to see if they are getting a double play when we're on air this morning we was playing lil jon and then the playlist was cleared and when the auto dj reset it was playing double when it reloaded a new play list and it bump the song that was playing and started playing the new play list that was set to play and it was not set to play with the (play!) setting

here how to re do what we did

have a song playing for about a min then
click the clear button while the song is playing
make sure your in autodj mode when your doing this
and let me know what you get before we say it a bug

thank you for your help
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on January 28, 2014, 11:24:33 AM
Quote from: 704djs on January 28, 2014, 11:18:37 AM
could someone else try this to see if they are getting a double play when we're on air this morning we was playing lil jon and then the playlist was cleared and when the auto dj reset it was playing double when it reloaded a new play list and it bump the song that was playing and started playing the new play list that was set to play and it was not set to play with the (play!) setting

here how to re do what we did

have a song playing for about a min then
click the clear button while the song is playing
make sure your in autodj mode when your doing this
and let me know what you get before we say it a bug

thank you for your help

Just tried what you suggested 704 and it's just reloading the playlist here without skipping to the next song. So that seems like a strange one. Have you checked the cue points on the songs involved?
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: creativegroup on January 28, 2014, 12:37:27 PM
Quote from: 704djs on January 28, 2014, 11:18:37 AM
we was playing lil jon and then the playlist was cleared and when the auto dj reset it was playing double when it reloaded a new play list and it bump the song that was playing and started playing the new play list that was set to play and it was not set to play with the (play!) setting


Sounds like the issue I was talking about when the last beta was released. I haven't upgraded yet, but when I do I will test it out for you and see if it still occurs.

BTW, thank you again Marius!  :ok:
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on January 28, 2014, 03:00:28 PM
The new beta seems to working rather well. just over 5 hours solid with No double plays or the dreaded "watchdog" errors, no repeating artists etc etc.....

Think you've cracked it  :ok: everything is playing as it should.

The only problem I've come across is the one I reported earlier with playlist builder.  :bash:



Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Vanlen on January 28, 2014, 03:43:03 PM
Same problem as KingsbridgeRadio with load from Rotation to playlist.  All Jingles and no music and it takes quite a while before it loads them.  Other than that working great. Thanks Marius for your coding genius and making RadioDJ continue to shine.   Not running extra plug ins and such and adding/deleting/moving things around on the beta and staring at the screen for another few hours until the coffee runs out.  LOL

Cheers

(Added Addendum)
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: creativegroup on January 28, 2014, 06:03:47 PM
Right so, upgraded to this beta on the test box and just ran an hour.

Very very smooth, no double plays, very nice seques, and just generally running nicely.

16:00 News... NO CRASH.. NO DOUBLE PLAY! Working exactly how it worked before!

Yay... thank you so much Marius!  ;D

oh and by the way, love the new sweeper/vt countdown, much clearer thanks for that as well!

Dan :-)
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: 704djs on January 28, 2014, 09:44:19 PM
Quote from: 704djs on January 28, 2014, 11:18:37 AM
could someone else try this to see if they are getting a double play when we're on air this morning we was playing lil jon and then the playlist was cleared and when the auto dj reset it was playing double when it reloaded a new play list and it bump the song that was playing and started playing the new play list that was set to play and it was not set to play with the (play!) setting

here how to re do what we did

have a song playing for about a min then
click the clear button while the song is playing
make sure your in autodj mode when your doing this
and let me know what you get before we say it a bug

thank you for your help


i take no one else had this if i'm correct so i need to re check our system on the test server
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: creativegroup on January 28, 2014, 09:59:37 PM
Just spotted a bug.

The manual playlist event 'Play' doesn't play the next track, it skips to the one after.

I checked that the files were ok, and they played fine on monitor so I think it is an error with the event. Hope you can find a fix.

Cheers

Dan
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: AndyDeGroo on January 28, 2014, 10:41:44 PM
I just realised that event are not working at all. I have TOH Jingle event set for every hour, but RDJ does not show any events when "View by Hour" is checked in events list. I tried editing, disabling and re-enabling the event, but the list is still empty.

This might be related to TQs midnight glitch but it is not past midnight yet in my time zone.

And I still don't see any RDJ entries in Windows Event Viewer.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: 704djs on January 28, 2014, 10:49:41 PM
are you using the same database, and did you deleted them and redo them because the new file change the setting you had, so you mat have to redo them again like we did
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: creativegroup on January 28, 2014, 10:52:45 PM
My automated events are working absolutely fine and have been all day. It's just the manual ones that aren't working right.

I'm not too sure about the midnight issue, because my station doesn't run 24/7 but I did notice at new year when I was live the events went haywire at midnight, but soon got back to normal again. Didn't have too much time to take a look at what was going on though.  :D


Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: creativegroup on January 28, 2014, 10:55:17 PM
704...

Actually, I have been using a different database due to my usual studio PC failing so I will try and create the events again and see what happens. Will feedback.

Dan
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: AndyDeGroo on January 28, 2014, 11:11:21 PM
It's eight minutes past midnight and I just noticed my events are back. That is strange and to my knowledge has nothing to do with database. Since my last post I have restarted RDJ twice but all events appeared only after midnight.

UPDATE: I had a silent crash on previous RDJ shutdown:

Faulting application name: RadioDJ.exe, version: 1.6.5.7, time stamp: 0x52e68e39
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.2.9200.16451, time stamp: 0x50988a1f
Exception code: 0xc0020001
Fault offset: 0x00012005
Faulting process ID: 0x1598
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf1c3ed34433bb
Faulting application path: D:\Program Files\RadioDJ\RadioDJ.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report ID: 71e737f9-8865-11e3-aff4-0008540dabcb
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Apparently the fault was in the kernel, but who knows what actually caused it.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: creativegroup on January 28, 2014, 11:31:39 PM
Quote from: AndyDeGroo on January 28, 2014, 11:11:21 PM
It's eight minutes past midnight and I just noticed my events are back. That is strange and to my knowledge has nothing to do with database. Since my last post I have restarted RDJ twice but all events appeared only after midnight.


Very weird! Will keep an eye out for that one.

@704djs I tried creating the manual events again and reloading them to the rotation, but still having the same issue. In the previous version the 'Play' event would simply play the next item, but it skips what is next and goes to the second item down. For those wondering why I use the event, I actually use it is a marker to tell the presenter when the links are so they follow the format. And so i just set the event to play, but it doesn't play the next item. Weird. But, everything else is working so well!  :)
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Tman on January 28, 2014, 11:47:03 PM
Annyone problems with the cart Players? Here a glitch on the cartplayer the firsttime radiodj stuck on it?
The second time on restart the cartplayers don't start? even when new assign to cart.

Till now no double playing.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: 704djs on January 29, 2014, 12:00:14 AM
Quote from: creativegroup on January 28, 2014, 10:55:17 PM
704...

Actually, I have been using a different database due to my usual studio PC failing so I will try and create the events again and see what happens. Will feedback.

Dan


alright
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Marius on January 29, 2014, 11:09:33 AM
The manual event is not a track, it just triggers the actions from the event and after it goes to the next playlist item, so internally there is a play after the event and with the one from the event, you have two "play" actions.

Quote from: creativegroup on January 28, 2014, 09:59:37 PM
Just spotted a bug.

The manual playlist event 'Play' doesn't play the next track, it skips to the one after.

I checked that the files were ok, and they played fine on monitor so I think it is an error with the event. Hope you can find a fix.

Cheers

Dan
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Copper007 on January 29, 2014, 11:51:05 AM
Hmmmm  got a problem here.... RDJ says: cannot communicate with Windows...

Probleemhandtekening:
  Gebeurtenisnaam van probleem:   AppHangB1
  Naam van de toepassing:   RadioDJ.exe
  Toepassingsversie:   1.6.5.7
  Tijdstempel van toepassing:   52e68e39
  Handtekening van vastlopen:   4689
  Type vastlopen:   256
  Versie van besturingssysteem:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
  Landinstelling-id:   1043
  Aanvullende handtekening 1:   4689e5d6063f698a045790f50f3dac5c
  Aanvullende handtekening 2:   5b23
  Aanvullende handtekening 3:   5b23ceccd96ca9e9386358df9e2a5893
  Aanvullende handtekening 4:   4689
  Aanvullende handtekening 5:   4689e5d6063f698a045790f50f3dac5c
  Aanvullende handtekening 6:   5b23
  Aanvullende handtekening 7:   5b23ceccd96ca9e9386358df9e2a5893

Using W7 Dutch version

Krid
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on January 29, 2014, 12:31:38 PM
Testing on the Win7 64bit box today and so far so good everything is running smooth as.  :cool: Not even so much as a hiccup.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: SnowHow on January 29, 2014, 12:43:48 PM
No double plays so far. Looking good from here....  ;D


J-

Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on January 29, 2014, 03:12:01 PM
It's just given me a "watchdog" error on one of my jingles. :bash:

Opened the jingle in audacity to see what was what. Removed the second or so of silence from the beginning of it re-saved the jingle and edited the cue points, I will keep an eye on the situation.


*Update* It's just done it on a song. checked the cue points and everything was fine.

It's baffling as to why it's just started happening now after RDJ has been on air for just over 6 hours.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Marius on January 29, 2014, 04:36:27 PM
The watchdog also triggered old double play issue, or it just started the new track?
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on January 29, 2014, 04:52:26 PM
There was no double play it just continued playing as normal. I think I need to rip the mp3 file again as it's the only song it's done it on.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Marius on January 29, 2014, 05:51:51 PM
If it didn't triggered the double play, it's not a real problem. Until the double play issue appeared the watchdog wasn't logged, even if from time to time was doing it's job, so most users have not been aware about it.
There are tracks with sudden end where the cue next is very close to the end and from my tests, those tracks sometimes don't have the time to trigger the next track and the watchdog kicks in.

//LATER: I found a little bug, the error log which contains the track filename that triggers the watchdog is not accurate, it actually contains the track after the one which has problems.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: 704djs on January 29, 2014, 06:30:44 PM
Quote from: Marius on January 29, 2014, 05:51:51 PM
If it didn't triggered the double play, it's not a real problem. Until the double play issue appeared the watchdog wasn't logged, even if from time to time was doing it's job, so most users have not been aware about it.
There are tracks with sudden end where the cue next is very close to the end and from my tests, those tracks sometimes don't have the time to trigger the next track and the watchdog kicks in.

//LATER: I found a little bug, the error log which contains the track filename that triggers the watchdog is not accurate, it actually contains the track after the one which has problems.


we had the problem where there was a dead end on song with no fade or nothing and it would trigger so now i have the engneer check all song thats place in the database and also place cue point on all track from this point on so we don't have any issue from the watch dogg
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Marius on January 29, 2014, 07:18:49 PM
I will add soon to the utility plugin the option to bulk re-cue the tracks (requested by KingsbridgeRadio) and onece i will have that code it will be simple to add also a cue points analyzer and to display tracks with possible problems.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: 704djs on January 29, 2014, 08:53:21 PM
thanks for focusing on the bugs
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: AndyDeGroo on January 30, 2014, 12:17:43 AM
Great to read updates on development progress, Marius.

Unfortunately tonight RDJ v1.6.5.7 beta froze after startup. It might be because I had plugged earphones in front panel since last launch and removed them right after starting RDJ. Now it is still frozen with white overlay and (Not responding) in window title. One hint might be that the VU meter displays full volume, but there is no sound from any output.

Process Explorer shows some CPU activity in RadioDJ.exe and most cycles are in RadioDJ.exe at offset 0x17069e
Here is the stack:

ntoskrnl.exe!KiUnexpectedInterrupt+0x3f
ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForSingleObject+0x26b
ntoskrnl.exe!NtWaitForSingleObject+0xd2
ntoskrnl.exe!XIPDispatch+0x5f9a
ntdll.dll!KiFastSystemCallRet
mswsock.dll!Tcpip6_WSHStringToAddress+0x4f3
WS2_32.dll!recv+0x103
System.ni.dll+0x143b44
System.ni.dll+0x143a40
System.ni.dll+0x14d874
System.ni.dll+0x14cd14
System.Data.ni.dll+0x4484dd
System.Windows.Forms.ni.dll+0x215427
mscorwks.dll+0x250f6
mscorwks.dll+0x2560c
mscorwks.dll!GetCLRFunction+0xca7a
mscorwks.dll!GetCLRFunction+0xcd6d
mscorlib.ni.dll+0x2155f8
mscorwks.dll+0x250f6
mscorwks.dll+0x2560c
mscorwks.dll!GetCLRFunction+0x13b01
mscorlib.ni.dll+0x235847
USER32.dll!gapfnScSendMessage+0x14b
USER32.dll!CallNextHookEx+0x35e
USER32.dll!DispatchMessageW+0x10
mscorwks.dll+0x250f6
mscorwks.dll+0x2560c
mscorwks.dll!CorExitProcess+0x18ed8
mscorwks.dll!CorExitProcess+0x193f5
mscorwks.dll!CorExeMain+0x168
mscorwks.dll!CorExeMain+0x98
mscoreei.dll!CorExeMain+0x71
MSCOREE.DLL!CreateConfigStream+0x126
ntdll.dll!LdrInitializeThunk+0x19c
ntdll.dll!RtlInitializeContext+0x120

Doesn't meke much sense to me, but Marius might recognize something.
I can see .NET performance counters, but nothing seems out of place there.

I fired up Process Monitor to see what is going on and I see that RDJ is reading mp3 files, so obviously it is playing something.

I'll force close it an see what comes up in error details.

... and I don't see anything much:

Faulting Application Path: D:\Program Files\RadioDJ\RadioDJ.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: RadioDJ.exe
Application Version: 1.6.5.7
Application Timestamp: 52e68e39
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.2.9200.16451
Fault Module Timestamp: 50988a1f
Exception Code: c0020001
Exception Offset: 00012005
OS Version: 6.2.9200.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1062
Additional Information 1: 55bd
Additional Information 2: 55bdb125e5f5eebba32ff4470f6d6db1
Additional Information 3: 8a84
Additional Information 4: 8a84dc171444a56e8503b3470906aff1

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 50ccfc111182e91ac43d48f0c293e143 (73053877498)


Now I get "Error starting sound engine!" error on startup and the VU meter displays same full volume. In settings all sound card output dropdowns are set to empty, but I can select devices.

After selecting right device, closing RDJ and relaunching, everything seems to be back to normal.

Excuse me for this long post, but I hope it will be helpful to Marius.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on January 30, 2014, 09:19:18 AM
Quote from: Marius on January 29, 2014, 05:51:51 PM

//LATER: I found a little bug, the error log which contains the track filename that triggers the watchdog is not accurate, it actually contains the track after the one which has problems.

Just done a check on the track that played before the one that it said was causing the "watchdog" in error logs and it was another jingle with more silence than was needed at the beginning so I've re-saved it without the excess silence. Hopefully that should sort it.

Looking forward to the bulk cue points analyzer!  :cool:

Going to keep the beta running most of today so will keep an eye out for anymore problems.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on January 30, 2014, 02:02:41 PM
Been streaming for a few hours again today and now I've sorted the silence at the beginning of some of my jingles. The error log is looking OK just notifying me that my events have ran as they should, No watchdog errors and everything seems to be playing nicely.

(http://kingsbridgecourt.com/images/event1.png)

So nothing to report really other than what I've previously mentioned with playlist builder. Just glad i got to the bottom of what was causing the "watchdog" in the first place.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on January 31, 2014, 03:55:37 PM
Just from the tests I've been doing with this beta version it appears to me that it's running better on a windows 7 32bit box than it was yesterday on a windows 64bit box.  It kept freezing on the 64bit version where as it's running normally on 32bit. Don't know if that's down to the some encoder plugin or not TBH.

That aside it seems to be running like a charm no double plays it just works.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: eLseven on February 02, 2014, 06:13:47 AM
playlist builder still doesn't work properly when bulding playlist from rotation
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Vanlen on February 04, 2014, 01:23:58 PM
Besides the Playlist from rotation issues, working great Marius and I just noticed the teaser in the Mood/Gender tab.  Oooooh :cool:
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on February 04, 2014, 01:30:53 PM
Quote from: Vanlen on February 04, 2014, 01:23:58 PM
Besides the Playlist from rotation issues, working great Marius and I just noticed the teaser in the Mood/Gender tab.  Oooooh :cool:

Mood/Gender tab am I missing something?
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: TQ on February 04, 2014, 01:36:16 PM
Quote from: KingsbridgeRadio on February 04, 2014, 01:30:53 PM
Mood/Gender tab am I missing something?
Me too, bring it on!
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Vanlen on February 04, 2014, 01:40:32 PM
QuoteMood/Gender tab am I missing something?
Just go to track import and the other tab at the top ;)


Cheers
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on February 04, 2014, 01:42:19 PM
Quote from: Vanlen on February 04, 2014, 01:40:32 PM
Just go to track import and the other tab at the top ;)


Cheers

Completely missed that!  :bash:
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: TQ on February 04, 2014, 01:45:12 PM
Quote from: Vanlen on February 04, 2014, 01:40:32 PM
Just go to track import and the other tab at the top ;)

Like you say, Oooooooh, yes please
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: FL Coast on February 04, 2014, 08:14:09 PM
Quote from: KingsbridgeRadio on February 04, 2014, 01:30:53 PM
Mood/Gender tab am I missing something?

You guys really need to get out and explore a little more often.  :hihi:  That has been there since about RadioDJ v1.6.5.6Beta1.   :)
Can not wait for it to be implemented.  Marius you deserve all the recognition you receive and more, a lot more.

FC
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: ricky on February 05, 2014, 05:39:34 PM
i don't know how it is doing it but after i had two tracks playing i stooped the one the other one is still playing with jingles and all no data ???????just running on its one

in events it says  cannot provide enough tracks to complete the rotation
but it can play two lots ??????
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: chrismadog on February 06, 2014, 12:22:06 PM
Marius and everyone,

I've been running 1.5.6.7Beta for a few days without any issues so far apart from the events after midnight bug.

However, I have news on that bug (possibly).
For three nights each week we receive an Internet stream and on the remaining 4 we transmit the Internet stream (using A******t - brilliant ! Thanks SnowHow).
On the three receive days, there are 4 events in the first 6 hours and it works just fine. On transmit nights, there are 32 in the first 6 hours - one every 15 minutes plus 8 others.
The machine has problems every time we have to transmit the stream and that may be related to how many events that it has to process at midnight and that in turn could be related to how much RAM is in the machine.
The machine is question has 1GB of RAM. I am hopeful that when we upgrade the RAM, it will suddenly be reliably doing it all perfectly. I'm hoping so and I will let you know when I get the RAM for the machine.
To get it working after midnight on a Transmit night, I have to click on the events display bar on the main screen and then it all performs perfectly. One click and then off to bed.

Otherwise, it seems to be working flawlessly here. Quite happy :)

Thanks Marius and supporters.

Regards,
Chris
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: TQ on February 06, 2014, 05:03:32 PM
Quote from: chrismadog on February 06, 2014, 12:22:06 PM
I've been running 1.5.6.7Beta for a few days without any issues so far apart from the events after midnight bug.

Hi chrismadog

I can state categorically that my own 'after midnight' issue (which manifests in the same manner as yours) was related to Google Update. When I first reported that I had discovered & resolved the cause I had disabled the scheduled tasks related to it and stopped the services.

RDJ worked perfectly from that point on until I rebooted the machine when the midnight problem reappeared.

I investigated further and discovered that Google actually install 2 services, one they claim you cannot remove. This is not the case so I have removed all reference to Google Update/snoopware and it appears the RDJ is again passing midnight without a problem.

Here is a good Youtube  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xry2rRCZzMg)video that will guide you through the Google update clean-up process.

FYI, my machine is running XP 64bit with 4Gb RAM, two public mp3 streams with Icecast 2.3.2. I have around 34 events/day (24 are news). RDJ's RAM requirements are very low, about 65Mb ram and 300Mb paged. CPU peeks at about 1.5% for RDJ and 10% overall. MySQL on the other hand uses 530Mb RAM and 470Mb paged RAM (30K tracks). The biggest memory offender is Firefox with about 650Mb each for both RAM and paged memory. I also have a ton of other stuff running on this machine yet peek RAM usage is just over 2GB.

If anyone is interested in who else is snooping on your machine, check out this site (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/), be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page so that you don't miss anything.

If any of this is relevant to your problem I hope it's been of assistance.

Nick

Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on February 06, 2014, 05:08:55 PM
Quote from: TQ on February 06, 2014, 05:03:32 PM
Hi chrismadog

I can state categorically that my own 'after midnight' issue (which manifests in the same manner as yours) was related to Google Update. When I first reported that I had discovered & resolved the cause I had disabled the scheduled tasks related to it and stopped the services.

RDJ worked perfectly from that point on until I rebooted the machine when the midnight problem reappeared.

I investigated further and discovered that Google actually install 2 services, one they claim you cannot remove. This is not the case so I have removed all reference to Google Update/snoopware and it appears the RDJ is again passing midnight without a problem.

Here is a good Youtube  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xry2rRCZzMg)video that will guide you through the Google update clean-up process.

FYI, my machine is running XP 64bit with 4Gb RAM, two public mp3 streams with Icecast 2.3.2. I have around 34 events/day (24 are news). RDJ's RAM requirements are very low, about 65Mb ram and 300Mb paged. CPU peeks at about 1.5% for RDJ and 10% overall. MySQL on the other hand uses 530Mb RAM and 470Mb paged RAM (30K tracks). The biggest memory offender is Firefox with about 650Mb each for both RAM and paged memory. I also have a ton of other stuff running on this machine yet peek RAM usage is just over 2GB.

If anyone is interested in who else is snooping on your machine, check out this site (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/), be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page so that you don't miss anything.

If any of this is relevant to your problem I hope it's been of assistance.

Nick

One of the reasons I refuse to allow Google software on any of my windows installs I use Firefox if i need web access from the windows PC.

Remove any services you think aren't needed use CCleaner to disable them, It's great for stopping services you don't want to run.

There is also "msconfig" but I wouldn't recommend fixing errant services via that unless you know what you are doing.

We also disabled several Microsoft related services from starting such as Silverlight and the windows search. Which speeded up windows no end.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: SnowHow on February 07, 2014, 02:35:15 AM
Another issue on XP that I ran into when I upgraded from SP2 to SP3 was svchost.exe (Microsoft Update) would peg my CPU at 100%. I found this guide (http://www.raymond.cc/blog/how-to-disable-microsoft-update-and-use-windows-update/) to disable Microsoft Update and go back to Windows update and now my CPU is happy!  ;D

If Microsoft Update is attempting to run while the event is trying to run it will kill the event. A really good tool that I have on all my machines is Process Hacker (http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/). I have it running in the system tray and I can know exactly what is going on on any machine at the click of a mouse. Highly recommended!  :ok:

J-

Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: AndyDeGroo on February 07, 2014, 03:37:05 AM
Quote from: TQ on February 06, 2014, 05:03:32 PM
MySQL on the other hand uses 530Mb RAM and 470Mb paged RAM (30K tracks).

I'll just repeat myself an post it here:
If you have MySQL 5.6 or later, you can reduce memory usage with these lines in your my.ini/my.cnf:

# solve high memory usage as of mysql 5.6
table_definition_cache=400
# turn off the performace_schema
# Info: http://www.chriscalender.com/?p=1278
performance_schema=0

Copied straight from my own my.ini for MySQL 5.6.12. I have many databases for my web projects besides RadioDJ database and mysqld.exe private memory is at 185MB.

To continue on off-topic: I control auto-run processes and services using Autoruns (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx) by Sysinternals (now part of Microsoft) and other tools from Sysinternals Suite (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062) to troubleshoot performance problems.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: TQ on February 07, 2014, 11:04:56 AM
Quote from: AndyDeGroo on February 07, 2014, 03:37:05 AM

# solve high memory usage as of mysql 5.6
table_definition_cache=400
# turn off the performace_schema
# Info: http://www.chriscalender.com/?p=1278
performance_schema=0


Thanks for that. I opted not to go for disabling the performance_schema but the cache change reduced my mySQL memory requirements dramatically. I also second the use of the Sysinternals suite.

Regarding the off-topic comment, I think it would be very helpful if there was a dedicated "Tweak" topic somewhere on this board (now you're going to tell me there is one and I've missed it).

Nick


Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on February 07, 2014, 01:08:09 PM
I've ran some tests this morning and I'm struggling to see the mysqld.exe  use more than 3,656 K of memory.

I don't know if it will work on a XP box but try upgrading your SQL to 5.6.5 I did that last week and everything seems to be a lot better no RDJ freezes everything runs smooth as.

They seem to have sorted a lot of bugs out in MySQL 5.6.5 or so it would seem.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: linawebradio on February 08, 2014, 12:00:53 AM
I have updated from 1.6.5.65 with method 2.
But now I can't load VT from playlists onair  :'(
Take a look at this topic i dedicate:
http://www.radiodj.ro/community/index.php?topic=4609.0
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Tman on February 16, 2014, 02:21:51 AM
So Marius how is the new bug release 1.6.5.7 update? its been a couple off days i was wonder.
Or is your job to busy?  8) no rush but wat i say "i was wonder"

greetings

Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Marius on February 16, 2014, 08:31:00 AM
From the feedback i received, it's better than the last stable release.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: DJ Garybaldy on February 16, 2014, 11:20:16 AM
Quote from: Marius on February 16, 2014, 08:31:00 AM
From the feedback i received, it's better than the last stable release.

Apart from everything mentioned at the start of this topic the beta is really stable. it works like a charm.
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Vanlen on February 16, 2014, 12:22:21 PM
QuoteFrom the feedback i received, it's better than the last stable release
+1

Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: chrismadog on February 16, 2014, 12:53:09 PM
QuoteFrom the feedback i received, it's better than the last stable release.

Yes. My thoughts exactly.
Apart from the events past midnight problem it is performing 100%

Regards,
Chris
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: linawebradio on February 16, 2014, 06:07:48 PM
Quote from: Marius on February 16, 2014, 08:31:00 AM
From the feedback i received, it's better than the last stable release.
Sorry Marius... do you have any news about my VT issue?
Quote from: linawebradio on February 08, 2014, 12:00:53 AM
I have updated from 1.6.5.65 with method 2.
But now I can't load VT from playlists onair  :'(
Take a look at this topic i dedicate:
http://www.radiodj.ro/community/index.php?topic=4609.0
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Compdoggie on February 18, 2014, 04:52:31 PM
I have been running v1.6.5.7Beta on a Windows 7 32bit machine for about two days straight and it's rock solid.  How about a small clock at the top of the screen that shows uptime in hours?  Just a thought...  Great work!
Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Tman on February 18, 2014, 06:54:06 PM
QuoteFrom the feedback i received, it's better than the last stable release.

So there is soon a 1.6.5.7 stable release!
Have you a idea when we can aspect directory inport the "auto genre" such as in the old version 0.1.6.0?

Again just curious about it.

Keep up the good work!

Title: Re: RadioDJ v1.6.5.7Beta released!
Post by: Marius on February 20, 2014, 07:40:30 PM
Ok, i marked this version as final 1.6.5.7.
Next beta version will fix some more reported bugs.