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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Spurious RAM OS
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on: February 09, 2018, 09:18:13 am
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Hahaha, well done !
Maxi, maybe you ran into the issue of error 28: selected item cannot fit into memory
I know what causes it, but once it is there I don't know how to solve it. And not for me, but for someone else.
Kind regards, Peter
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXhighend modification request
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on: February 04, 2018, 03:24:33 pm
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Henk,
No no, I am not suggesting at all that it is an OS issue as such. The issue is just your PC. Point is, the OS is ahead of me in the program of stalling things. So, I / XXHighEnd will do something alright with your drive A:, but it is the OS which does not report anything and hangs on it. Compare with the situation "Waiting for LAN to come up". There XXHighEnd detects (can detect) that your lastly accessed music file is not accessible, and tells you (or does it herself) to switch on the LAN. A similar situation, but no fault situation like in your case. And I must try to copy your fault situation with you as a guide ...
I hope it is clear a little ? Peter
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXhighend modification request
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on: February 04, 2018, 02:34:07 pm
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Hi Henk,
Thank you for the clarification. But this is not enough for me. To to be childish, but if I connect a music disk to an USB port, pull it out again and start XXHighEnd, for 100% sure nothing hangs etc. So what I like you to do is :
1. Start XXHighEnd. 2. Clear the Playlist Area (Play button). 3. Quit XXHighEnd. 4. Pull that cable. 5. Start XXHighEnd. Hangs ? then around #2 apparently more needs to be "fresh" and I don't know what. So the idea is that yuo must create a fresh situation that nothing goes wrong when you pull the A: drive. Done ? Then we continue :
5. Start XXHighEnd (same as above). 6. Do something, which you think incurs for the erroneous situation. E.g. load an album in the Playlist Area. 7. Quit XXHighEnd. 8. Pull the cable. 9. Start XXHighEnd. Hangs ? then report the exact sequence of matters. Does not hang ? back to #6.
In the end I need the exact sequence (as lean as possible) to solve it. I must first be able to mimic it ...
Thanks, Peter
PS: The fact that it requires the same USB port to let it go again, already tells me that it is an OS issues. But I told so right away. This does not mean I possibly can tackle it anyway. I hope.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: XXhighend modification request
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on: January 31, 2018, 04:08:23 pm
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Hi Henk,
If it is really just "hangs" then I can't do anything about it. If it is the situation that a popup tells you "Waiting for LAN to come up" (or something like that) we can talk further.
If that is a USB3 connection, you might want to try USB2 to see whether that helps. If Yes, again we can see further (maybe).
Best regards, Peter
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Spurious RAM OS
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on: January 30, 2018, 04:17:47 pm
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Dear Maxi, I would tell you right away about the timers when I could, but it is impossible because consistent with the whole setup (of two boot loaders). But super of you that you managed ! Regards, Peter PS: I think it took a year before "we" could use the timers ourselves in XXHighEnd. Maybe the difference is not even audible.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Message " Straight Contiguous Memory Allocation error 3-Lower SFS..."
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on: January 20, 2018, 05:16:24 am
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Is there a solution for the garbage collect button? Activate it again ... haha. Maybe it can work now because of your lower Max SFS ? No, only every 20 day’s a reboot of the system. I don't think it is about 20 days or such; it will be - after an amount of time (x days ?) - that you do something that makes the sound engine disappear (stop) and *then* the memory wil be eaten right away because it was pushing already (too few of it because of the for us unknown reason). Did you consider to "reinstall" the OS by means of such a "Copy" file ? Backup / RestoreIt only takes the work of the copying, after knowing jow to access it (which means boot into one of the other OSes first). Then we can also see whether this is right from the start now, after aplying 2.09 to it. And of course write down your important settings before doing it all. I am not saying that you *have to* do this, but we may learn something from it. Regards, Peter
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Interesting Music / Testmaterial / Re: Best / Interesting Albums of 2017
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on: January 17, 2018, 10:12:42 am
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So here is my little list of newly obtained "Nice Stuff" and then for the part which may tell you something. And please notice : these albums were new to me. Not new in absolute sense.
I must add that when an album is not "SQ compliant" it will never make it to my Nice Stuff Gallery.
In sequence of appearance :
Boris Vanderlek - Blues news Boris Vanderlek - Blue and Sentimental Chet Baker - In Milan Yello - Toy Paul Hattink - No limits {this is the guy behind Hatfield's End} Hans Zimmer - Crimson Tide Eric Vloeimans - Gatecrashin' Baba Blues - Fishermen {I didn't know this guy - really good} Odd Børretzen - Kelner Hans Theessink - Slow Train Keb' Mo' - Bluesamericana Christian Willisohn - Heart Broken Man Christian Willisohn - Blues on The World Roger Waters - Is this the life we really want {needs more listening before it is appreciated} Armin van Buuren - A stra of Trance (CD2)g Neil Young - Peace Trail (MQA) {superb SQ} Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion (MQA) Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish (MQA) Jimmy Smith - Any number can win Jimmy Smith - Rockin' the boat Various (Alligator Records) - Crucial Blues Neil Young - Storytone (MQA) {I didn't know this album at all - really different} Eric Bibb - A Ship called Love Enya - Dark Sky Island (MQA) Pink Floyd - The Early Years 1967-72 (MQA) {old but in MQA better sounding} Ron Boots - Bookworks Neil Young - Lucky Thirteen {did not know this album either - even more different !} The Cars - The Cars (MQA) {obtained because old stuff sounding really good} The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon is over The Crual Sea - Three legged dog Rob - Funky Rob way Tinariwen - Amassakoul Mark Knopfler - Tracker (MQA) Hans Vandenburg - Dig it yourself {the guy from Gruppo Sportive - a superb new album !} Train - Does Led Zeppelin II Beasty Boys - Communication {great album - possibly their best} George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic - Live at Montreux Boris Blank - Electrified {from Yello - I did not know this existed} The Traveling Wilburies - The Traveling Wilburies, Vol.1 Steve Earle - Guitar town Styx - The Mission {just tried it from my past glamour stuff - is quite OK !} Arrested Development- Unplugged {from my past - hip-hop of its own (nice) kind} Gaudi - Magnetic {the only "ambient" I mention - the guy is just the best} Scorpions - Acoustica {a left-over of my "metal" testing (works quite well these days)} Avisha Cohen - Into the Silence (MQA) Yello - Live in Berlin {a for so great album that I cancelled the concert last December (this album was stupidly published one month or so earlier)} Nick Bärtsch's Ronin - Live {I didn't know this band - really cool} Judas Priest - Hero Hero {more from the metal endeavour} T-Bear & the Dukes - Ice Machine {blue grass- didn't know the guy} Jimmy Smith - Root Down (live) (MQA) {how old stuff can sound superbly} Jonas Hellborg - Octave of the Holey Innocents Neil Young - The Visitor (MQA) {possibly the best new album from 2017 and really one of Neil Young's best}
So the above is an extract of the 132 in total I newly put to Nice Stuff. Below you see them all. Still, 2016 brought me some more (148).
Peter
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Interesting Music / Testmaterial / Re: Best / Interesting Albums of 2017
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on: January 16, 2018, 08:51:11 am
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Hi Paul,
Nice initiative ! I myself seem to be stuck in the old stuff forever. But it is also quite difficult to listen to the unknown while you actually "must" listen every day for tweaks working out for the better or not. Later I will go through my newest "Nice Stuff" (sort on date) and see whether there's anything interesting in there. Sure, there's sufficiently enough new in there, but I doub't whether this is new stuff as such.
And I will try yours !
Btw, about Neil Young ... try The Visitor. I think it is very special and this one is really from the old days (that good) - but better.
Regards, Peter
PS: I recall Loud Hailer as explicitly failed (squashed vocoded modern) so YMMV anyway.
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Interesting Music / Testmaterial / Re: Best / Interesting Albums of 2017
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on: January 16, 2018, 08:37:04 am
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The concert was a surprise from me sweet wife, Sandra, who said it was my birthday present, even though my birthday is in September! Dear Todd, When I read out the emphasized part I already had the shivers and saw it coming. And indeed ... Actually I am sitting here for a few minutes, not knowing what to type further. I must be careful because more and more I seem to get involved with you guys and things like this. In this case this started with a "since last week my dear wife is behaving strange" and although this was the about last message about it, I keep on being involved. So Todd, let's say that out of everyone, me (and you) know the very best how "loaded" your post is. I so much can imagine everything. With my text here, I hope that people reread yours and envision your expression. This is also what music can do / does to us. It keeps us remembring all the extra nice and special - and just the same severe moments throughout life. ... Peter
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