Haha Dennis,

Indeed, just paste the upgrade patch over your current XX folder (don't forget to unzip it).
First kill XXEngine3.exe and AutoHotkey.exe with Taskmanager.

Do NOT rename anything. So if your path now contains "2.07" or something, bad luck.

Good luck now !
Peter

This is solved in the newly uploaded 2.08d.

Assumed that indeed it was the ZIPing, it is solved now by means of a new 2.08d
in here, in RAR fashion.

This is solved now and concerned a stupid mistake.
There's a new 2.08d for it in here.

See ? no incident. It must be the ZIP.
So, sorry for those not liking RAR, but back to RAR it will be.

Thank you Arjan !
Peter

Ah Nick, great that you could solve it, because it looked like a tougher problem to troubleshoot.

Would you be able to tell or test whether this is because I used a Zip file this time ? So mind you, that is new (we did so in the beginning as well, for a few years), knowing that Windows these days can use ZIP too (and not RAR). So if you'd grab an old version (like 2.07), can you see happening the same for the blocking ?
I very rarely see it myself (meaning I see it happening some times with random files (from somewhere else)) so it might be caused by something more complex than your description.

Thanks a lot,
Peter

Hi Ramesh,

Anthony is correct. The prep'ed music will be picked up on your Audio PC later, just as usual (but you don't know yet whay "usual" is).
But you coud automate it a bit more than you might think of;

What I would do is make that "travel-disk" the standard disk for preparing the streams Thus, also when at home and playing music. Say you will give it drive letter T:.
When attached to the travel PC (laptop) you can also give it the driver letter T: (I am not sure whether this is only convenient or pratically necessary). And, when you get back home you just move the disk to the Music Server PC.

You may think that it is strange to have such a removable (probably USB) disk attached to your Music Server PC but then you never saw my Music Server with 4 of them attached like this, permanently (I have no need to travel with them). It is just a means to attach storage, but make it USB3 for the necessary speed.

If you combine all with working with Galleries, then at looking for albums on the Audio PC with the removable disk coincidentally not attached, will do no harm anywhere (because you see the Gallery data). Only when you'd actually want to play a file from the removable disk (which thus is not attached) you will get errors (this starts with all the track times showing as 0:00).

Peter

Thank you for that additional data, Joachim. Quite crucial !
So yes, with logging Off I can mimick the situation. In itself not so nice, because I need the logging so see what happens ...

Will keep you posted !
Peter

Robert,

This looks to be an issue with your PC settings. So especially when you never tried these lower settings with the PC you use at this moment, I could be right on this.

If you think it is 2.08 then please open a new topic for it.
Thanks,
Peter

I changed my sig now ...
Thanks !
Peter

Hi Brian,

What is your SFS and how are your Q settings ?
(I use 0.90 and Q1=14x1, Q3,4,5 = 1,1,1)

Regards,
Peter

OK Joachim, in that case the first mentioned log file will be sufficient.

Peter

Hi Nick,

This one seems not so easy ...
But let's make the attempts more easy for you ...

From now on, apply the install attempts to the OS version running from RAM. Does not work ? then simply reboot.
Then :

Assumed it still does not work (and when booted into the RAM version !!), delete all from the "C:" drive (your XXHighEnd folder and \XXData\) and apply a fresh install. I assume this will work.
Works ? then remove the RAM-OS Disk and reboot (or else your settings will be saved from something which you don't want to save).

With the proof that a fresh install works, we must find out what is different with the pasting of the UpgradePatch.

Before or after or in between, take into account your UAC setting. I feel that this is related, but I don't know how. Best could be to set it to normal (see rightclick on Stop), but only do that in Normal OS.
I reckon that it is best to perform this UAC thing first.

Because of the latter, a very first thing to do is make a copy of the currently running OS so you are back up in one minute when things go wrong again (no need to re-apply settings etc.). But maybe you already did that. Otherwise, boot into another OS to allow for this copy (no need to elaborate, I assume).

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Joachim,

Can you please do this :

- Switch on logging.
- Quit and restart XXHighEnd.
- Let this problem occur.
- With that message you showed still on-screen, grab the latest XX- log file and keep that safe.
- Click away that error message and again grab that same log file (after a few seconds, do not click anything else - the log file will contain additional data now).
- Attach the log file to a post in here.

Thank you !
Peter