0.9b adds the facility of "copying" the Activation Code to another PC.

Edit : For this to work, ALL PCs must be upgraded to 0.9b first !

When two PC's are LAN connected, and PC-A received the Activation Code over the Internet, PC-B could refer to "Licence Holder" PC-A as per version 0.9a.
As off now, PC-B can generate its own Activation Code, based upon the Activation Code from PC-A.

As before, on PC-B enter the reference path to PC-A (the original License Holder) and press Activate (the button is new);
After all went OK, an obtained Activation Code will be shown in the field for Activation Code;
If you now press Activate again, a new Activation Code will be registered for PC-B.

The latter implies that you now can disconnect PC-B from the LAN and run XXHighEnd on it without the Demo running time.

The new procedure implies that there are now two ways of letting a second (etc.) PC in your household run XXHighEnd : the means by reference path and the means of generating a new Activation Code;
Currently it is not sure what advantages both means might have for future options. Choosing for the one always allows for choosing for the other again, later.

There were two objectives for creating the means of "copying" the Activation Code :

1. You Activated one PC, but really wanted another, and it can't be LAN connected to the first;
2. You foresee that the PC holding the License has to be rebuilt etc.

The second case would be the same as anticipating on a computer crash which may happen sometime, so you should always "backup" your Activation Code by this means. Backup sounds heavy, but in this case it means :
Go to another connected PC, install (ehh, copy-paste) XX, start XX, go to the UnDemo section and enther the path to the shared disk of the PC to "backup", press Activate Twice. Done.
Now keep this PC available when something goes wrong with the original. If so, you can do exactly the same as just described.

Please note that future upgrades can require the originally obtained Activation Code (which you might not even have running somewhere anymore), even where the newly generated Activation Codes are derived from the original. So always keep that original and ... don't pass it on to someone else, because your name is connected to it, hence you would have passed it on, and nobody stole it ).

Johan, I just gave up in getting it done today. I'm sorry !!

Werner,

I didn't look into this yet, but this slipped to my mind :

I think because of the phenomenon "jack sensing" I discovered (already many months ago) that if you'd switch off the power amps (or one of them), this might influence the DAC, and because it talks to the software (in Vista), the software is triggered to shut off (like it won't run with the DAC out of power -> try it). BUT : where I should capture such a situation, I completely forgot about it. Now :

Suppose ... just suppose your DAC, by whatever means, responses to an end of track situation the wrong way (or the MS Class USB drivers you'd be using don't respond to that appropriately) ... it would be a perfect reason for the player to respond back with a "does not work anymore" (translation from dutch from what you described).

It's a bit of a long shot, and I wouldn't know how you could deal with this in discovering whether this can be the culprit.
What *I* can do, is trap this situation, and if from then on you'd get "my" error message, it should be in the direction.

Currently I've some other priorities though, but I sure won't forget it !

Thanks for your patience.
Peter

Hi there Russ ... thank you for your nice words. But man, I'm looking now for over 10 minutes at your speakers ... I think they are really gorgeous. I can only imagine beautiful sound coming from them (by the design mostly of course). And if that's a band tweeter I see in d'Appolito there ... go get Vista !

Now, get a listen to your piano lack ! (which is a serious remark with a meaning

Regards,
Peter


PS: Hafler ... that's been long since I heard about that ... nice !

All,

It only now occurs to me that we have been in a rather close community (which was not at Phasure), where we kind of got used to calling Traktor Kraktor, and Foobar Foolbar and so on. Maybe it was even me starting it, I don't know anymore. Good to know anyway, is that we were talking like this to eachother as persons who knew eachother rather well, in the mean time looking for good Players and disagreeing about eachothers choices.

Please do not do this anymore just because it is not nice, it is provocing and it is also out of context overhere. On this forum we are not alone, and there is really no need to degrade others on behalf of whatever it is we have in here.

Please, if you have the urge of making a reference to another Player because you think XX is better, it would even be best if you could express why. If you can't or don't know how to express it what you feel, I think it's good enough to say nothing.

I'm not addressing anyone in particular, but I'll go through the posts now and clean up where necessary.
Thanks,
Peter

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Excuse us (well, me) for any offends !

Just a question Johan : would you have 2 PC's LAN connected ?

I'm not saying that you must create this situation (for now . So it's just a question indeed.

Hi,

In other places I read back about the demo running time of XXHighEnd, and that it's 6-15 minutes; this is not exactly so.

The least time it will run is 6 minutes, and on average it is 34 minutes with a maximum of 68.
So if you are really unlucky it quits after 6 minutes, and in just as rare cases it will quit after 68 minutes.

I know, it never quits at a convenient time.
If you want to be sure that you can listen out this one track (and I'd take my chances for 10 minute tracks ), it is my advise to stop and restart XX in advance.

First off, when it will turn out that it changed to demo mode I'll help you out no matter what. For the specific problem Bert had I found a solution, but it has to be programmed yet. Most probably tonight. BUT, this requieres this solution to run in advance of things, while your case might be an "afterwards" case because it kind of requires a "safety backup" to something you can't have (think of two PC's running, while you can't run both XP and Vista at the same time on the same PC).
Still I think the solution foreseen can manage, but then you should have it FIRST before you proceed with this migration.

Could you wait a bit ?
And not be disappointed when I bump into unexpected stuff and don't have it tonight ?
and be a testcase then ?

Peter

Ah, very good. You are not the first who has to perform this twice. Otoh, I think you had this installed earlier ? 
If we only could find our ways in these specific Microsoft pages (which version is the newest, which implies what. etc.).


No. This only happens when Double or Upsample is ticked (and this is not possible with #1).


Literally, no. That's what Upsample is for (not possible with #2 so far). It outputs in 88K2 though (bps is twice as high -> doubles the data).

Thank you Gerner. But for others : the fact that this works for you, sadly, doesn't say much; all depends on the current stage of your system (PC). So, what I intended with a more "raw install" for XP, was getting out of the way the probably error message masking DLLs.

The problem often is : once you get it working, there's hardly a way of getting back to the situation it didn't work (like on a development PC there's no way that things like this can be tested).

Luckily this case is already solved now.

Hi,

First of all you pointed out that lately there's two EXEs in there, while I never told which one to run (on the just too many pages that deal with that). Indeed it's XXHighEnd.exe.

Then ...
It can well be so that the "install" as how it is since a week or so, wasn't excessiveley tested on XP. And, all what is in there for DLLs and Manifest files is for Vista. So could you please try this :

Remove everything except for what you see in the picture below;
I can only hope for error messages you might then receive, so we can proceed from there.
Anyway, I don't recall a situation that one just gets the Demo message and nothing further (i.e. without an error message). Or maybe I do, but it's too long go to recall what it was about.

Maybe others had the same ?

Peter

Am I stupic ... can't find it anymore.
Anyway, this surely can be set to your wishes, within EAC. The screen is similar to the one I showed in the before post.
(too long ago that I touched this).

 

Edit : I was too fast here. The second picture is not the one I want to point out. Wait a minute ...

Hahaha, didn't think of that.

But you really should get those pictures !

Of course you saw this topic : http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=67.0

But specifically, the picture below shows that the folder.jpg is in the folder of the album itself ("Billy Cobham - The Best Of", in this case). There are variations though. See referred to link above.

If it's not clear, just ask away.