Hi Peter,

What´s the size of your SSD to put there those 28.000 albums (meta data) plus the coverarts?.

Juan

For the ones interested in SSD, e.g. to put there the Galleries I´ve read today this test:

Best SSDs For The Money: August 2012:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,review-32512.html

I hope it helps you to choose a good SSD.

Best regards,
Juan

Maybe this article can apport some light on this issue:

How higher RPM hard drives rip you off:

Here is an extract of it:

"talking about the desktop storage market.  In that market, you will actually pay DOUBLE for 1/4th the capacity on 73 GB 10K SATA RPM drives than typical 300 GB 7200 RPM SATA hard drives.  Now the speed difference is more significant since the 7200 RPM drives have typical average seek times in the 8.9 millisecond range and you have to add 4.17 milliseconds average rotational latency for a relatively pathetic access time of 13.07 milliseconds.  The 10K RPM SATA drive designed for the enthusiast performance desktop market has an average access time of 7.7 milliseconds.  But since the 300 GB 7200 RPM drive is 4 times bigger than the 73 GB 10K drive, we can actually use quarter stroking and end up with a high-performance 75 GB partition along with a 225 GB partition we can use for large file archival such as a DVD collection.

By quarter stroking the 300 GB drive, we can actually shave 6.68 ms off the seek time which means we'll actually end up with an average access time of 6.4 milliseconds which is significantly faster than the 10K RPM "performance" drive.  This means that PC enthusiasts are paying twice the money for a slower hard drive with a quarter of the storage capacity!"


To understand it well please read the complete article:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ou/how-higher-rpm-hard-drives-rip-you-off/322

This was written in 2006, the hdd capacity was different but the argument of the article remains valid.

Best regards,
Juan

At this moments I don´t have any crack, ticks or plops with the 07 version. I wonder if it is necessary in this case to upgrade to the 09z-7-2 version. Is there other reason like better SQ or no more stops when playing without Playback Drive?.

Best regards,
Juan

Thank you Russ,

I´ve already read that and there is where I´ve found that maybe Windows 7 Starter could be unable to get remote communication from other computers but, if I understand it well, not to connect remotely from there to other computers as I think that it should be.
Please see the screen print "Which editions of Windows 7 include Remote Desktop Connection"
My laptop (CONTROLREMOTO) is running Windows 7 Starter.

I´ll wait to see if I receive some other opinion and if not I´ll install it again.

Best regards,
Juan

I post here some more screen prints, this time from the CONTROLREMOTO, the remote laptop.

Thanks again,
Juan

Thanks Mani for taking your time to help while travelling. Yes I used the Bluetooth IP address in my case 169.254.167.40

Peter, I tried also the LAN On in XX and with the DNS of the Ethernet LAN, in my case 192.168.1.136, from the PCMUSICA (Audio PC), entered in the CONTROLREMOTO PC (de laptop I use as remote). Same error message.

Maybe here could be an explanation: I see that the PCMUSICA (Audio PC) has a sign of ! in one of the screens. It does mean that it doesn´t have installed the drivers, it needs a driver called "Fresco Logic xHCI (USB 3.0 controller)", but on the other hand as can be seen in that screen the Unknow Device (Dispositivo desconocido) pops up a window saying that "There is no need for more drivers or the driver were already installed". At the end all quite confusing.

Tomorrow, if you don´t see something that could help in the screens, I´ll remove all the RDC installation and I´ll start again.

Thank you again and best regards,
Juan

Thanks Russ and Peter.

Ok, I slept well and I think I´m ready to start again, the problem is that I really don´t know what else I can do.


Yes I have set a password in both computers, the Audio pc and the remote laptop.

Btw the laptop system is Windows 7 Starter, I read in the Windows help menu that this specific system can be used to connect remotely to other computers with any W7 system but can´t be used bacwards to receive files or orders from other W7 systems, I´m not sure, though, if I understood it well.


Yes, I post here two screens of the Allow Remote Access that aren´t exactly equal to those from Russ although I also have W7 Ultimate.

I tested it again today but still have the same error window as before, the one posted by Mani at the start of this post: "Remote Desktop can´t connect to the remote computer for one of these reasons:..."

Regards,
Juan

PD: I activated XX with the new password, thanks Peter

After three days struggling with the RDC finally I decided to quit. I can get the Bluetooth connection but at the end an error message like the one posted by Mani at the start of this topic appears again and again. I followed all the recommended steps by Peter, Mani, etc. but no way. I never used any bluetooth connection before so maybe I am missing something easy and essential, who knows...anyway, I would appreciate if someone post a step by step guide for dummies on how to set up correctly the RDC from the beginning to the end, mostly the last part, I need to know what I have to do once the dongles see each other, because they see each other but at the same time there is that message of error. Do I have to start XX to complete the installation?, if so with what settings?, where I have to click, here or there?, etc. etc.
Sorry my friends but I´m quite tired, I go to sleep...maybe tomorrow I´ll see it with a better face.

Regards,
Juan

Ok, thank you, I´ll try with a new code.

Juan

Thank you boleary, I followed Peter´s recommendations to activate it as I did before, but this time it doesn´t work.

This is what Peter said:

Copy paste your Activation Code in the field for it under the PayPal button in XXHighEnd;
Press Activate and wait until the message Done appears.
Cause the WallPaper Coverart to appear at Attended Playback (see Settings);
Load one or two tracks in the Playlist Area and play one in Attended Mode for a short while;
Watch the Coverart and its yellow-ish borders;
Quit XXHighEnd and Restart XXHighEnd;
Again start Playback.
The WallPaper Coverart now has red-orange borders when Activation succeeded.

The deactivation happened once I installed the RDC, I´ll follow your recommendation of play some tracks and reboot before I paste the activation code to see what happens.

Best regards,
Juan

I did it but the error message appears in the screen of the laptop.
But when do I have to remove the monitor and keyboard from my  Audio Pc?. Once I have finished the RDC installation?.

I don´t understand well how I can recover the Bluetooth connection in my Audio PC if I restart it and I don´t have the monitor and keyboard.

The other problem I have is that XX has been deactivated, why?. I can´t activate it again.

Regards,
Juan

Juan

After installing the RDC in both computers, the Audio PC and a laptop that I´m going to use as remote, I´ve found that XX has been deactivated. I followed the usual procedure: http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=2131.msg21892#msg21892 but there is no way to activate it.
I don´t know if it has something to do with RDC or not...

On the other hand after finished the RDC installation I´m stocked because I don´t know how to continue, I mean what is the next step after I have in the laptop desktop the Remote icon?. I click on it I receive an error message with 3 points that tell me that the access to the remote server is disabled, the remote pc is off and/or the remote pc is not available in the net (sorry but these messages are in Spanish and I don´t know how to translate it correctly in English).

When I look at both computers I see that the Bluetooth connection is ok, but something must be wrong.

Regards,
Juan

If you want to use the Playback in your Velociraptor, where the XX and OS is installed, you have to make a partition in it. The Playback Drive needs to be installed in a physical drive and think that every time you turn off XX all the files you have in that Playback Drive are going to be erased. It is because of that that you need to install it in a partition or in another hdd with nothing more than the Playback Drive in it. I´m using now an external USB 3.0 hdd for Playback Drive.

About the structure of the Playback Drive are two important considerations:

- Name it without spaces e.g. D:/PlaybackDrive (D: is an example, windows will give you a letter for that drive).

- Put a folder inside the Playback Drive and call it whatever you like e.g. Folder. So at the end the structure of the Playback Drive is this: D:/PlaybackDrive/Folder
In that Folder is where XXHighEnd is going to put the Playlist, in fact a mirror of the "real" Playlist. That list will stay there even if you clear the real Playlist but will be erased once you turn off XX.

Once you have chosen where to put the Playback Drive go to the XX settings and in Settings/Data Location/PlaybackDrive/Folder choose the hdd or partition you have prepared to put the PlaybackDrive.

The idea behind the Playback Drive is to avoid differences in SQ between different placements and/or different kind of sound WAV/Flac files. But also and by now it also helps to get off of some glitches that otherwise, without Playback Drive, are present now like stalls, etc.

Best regards,
Juan

Definitively no more cracks at the start of the sound. Sometimes also no more ticks when the volume is changed on the fly but I have not yet the clue about it.

Now the problem to solve are the stalls when playing without the Playback Drive. If it is SFS and net Buffer related to find the correct combination, to get off the stalls and at the same time to get the best possible SQ, is going to be a trial and error work that needs of some time.

Arvind, try to update your drivers, it is easy and it only takes a few minutes. It solved my cracks and ticks. Try to differentiate between cracks, ticks, etc. As a crack I understand a quite big and dragged craaack, and it happens at the beginning of the first track or inside it (a few seconds). By tick or click I understand a short sound not so big, a plop I´d say it is a deaf sound not too big and it happens mostly when you stop the sound. I say this just in order to get all of us more or less the same criteria on regards of these sounds.

Hey Praphan, good luck with your flying tour the next week, don´t forget to post the pictures of your simulator, I was also an aficionado although since I have XX I have plenty of entertainment and not much time to fly, but you know what?, although I have another great sound here, sometimes I miss the sound of the propeller planes.

Juan