hey Peter,

have you seen this old thread ( I presume you may have in the past ) ...

http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-129136.html

If you scroll down to almost the end and see the post @ 4th November 2009, 16:49 , there is suggestion that HDCD.exe may not fully decode properly. XXHE appears to use the identical version. The links in that particular post to further discussion on Steve Hoffman's site are intriguing.

You'll make better understanding of it all than me I'm sure!

Cheers,

Russ

I've experienced that from time to time.

I just presumed it's simply a timing issue where a procedure/step in the chain of events hasn't had enough time to complete so it "terminates" and carries on with the next step. There's probably a tweak that Peter can apply, provided it doesn't hold everything up of course.

Russ

I have a small subset (about 700 albums) of my music residing on my "Study" PC, including the Yo-Yo Ma boxset, and 0.9z-5-1 processed them ALL without error  No unexpected "Various" folders in sight .. all nice and clean as I expected.

Well done Peter!

Time to revisit my main music server now (fingers crossed).

Thanks again for the efforts in this matter,

Russ

Copied the PresetLoader.XXSI from 0.9z-5 to 0.9z-5-1 and all OK now with new version

Cheers,

Russ

OK , tried same thing on my music server and had similar issue with that message popping up.

Have figured out what the problem is though ... there was no PresetLoader.XXSI file showing in the new version folder I just created. Doesn't even exist in the download zip  rar.

It was however in my 0.9z-5 folder so i copied that into new folder and all is well.

Not sure how or when that presetloader.XXSI file is created , but this is the cause of my problem.

Will see if it cures my "Study" PC now.

Cheers,

Russ

Hi Peter,

I've been trying to get 0.9z-5-1 running on my study PC, and whenever I try to either save a preset or when I exit XXHE, I get a "Save presets" error window pop up that says "Presets were not saved due to a problem loading them".

When I restart XXHE I then have to go through the process of defining the parameters again. I've tried various paths for XXData (which seems to be the common factor) all to no avail.

0.9z-5 behaves OK.

I cleaned out the config files in the \phasure folder also with no improvement.

Had a search through forum but couldn't find anything specific, so figured it might be something introduced in this version.

Haven't tried on my music server yet.

At one point it mentioned something about "presetloader.xxss" ( or similar wording I think ), but couldnt find any sign of that file anywhere.

Ta,

Russ

dunno mate! I'm guessing a residual path definition in your zip client. I downloaded via 2 PC's here to doublecheck and both showed the same folder structure, so I can surmise the issue is at your end.

Cheers,

Russ

Hi Peter,

I noticed the files in the zip for 0.9z-5-1 are contained in a folder structure:

\XXHighEnd-09-z51\PSPlayer4\Production24

I imagine you didn't intend this

Cheers,

Russ

Looking good Peter

I'll need to reread through the last post a couple of times to get the rules into my head but it's a great start. The complexity of the boxsets really dictated some "rules" be put in place and the above looks to cover it on initial inspection. I guess it's only by using 0.9z-5-1 that we will uncover some anomalies, and hopefully we, as individual's, can make whatever corrections are needed in the majority of cases without needing your help further on this.

Folks, don't underestimate the work that Peter has put into the gallery creation. It is a can of worms and I imagine literally 100's of hours have been spent on the logistics and coding of it.

Cheers for now,

Russ

More than anything, this demonstrates the improvement in I/O performance the latest motherboard chipsets and processors bring. Perhaps it's time to consider upgrading my audio server? Nah ... it's quiet, stable and I'm quite content with the sound quality. A few seconds quicker getting the music to start is neither here nor there in the scheme of things at this level.

We'll have a speed rematch when I get my quantum PC sorted out

Have a goodun'

Russ

OH .. BTW ...  meant to ask, those ocassional messages that pop up about running out of contiguous memory at start of playback (in unattended mode), and suggest a restart etc., can you send XX back to the GUI after you click on OK, rather than just leaving you looking at a blank screen. At the moment you need to Alt-X to get back. Would make sense to return you to the GUI automatically as there's nothing else you do at that point.

It's not a problem Pete. Happy to assist in any small way I can. I'm uploading a file "somewhere" now and will send you a PM in about 1/2 hour with it's location. Tales a while on these ol' 300 baud acoustic coupled modems !

BTW ... never fear, you'll soon be sweltering in your 28 degree summer days

Cheers,

Russ

OK, let me work on that tomorrow. Will get something organised and shoot you a link.

Just now I copied a sample of the boxset albums (some with the "dot" naming and a few deemed normal ) to a separate new Artist folder simply named YoYo and tried again with the gallery creation. This time the progress bar in XXHE stalled near the start, and upon examining the gallery results, found the albums UP TO the first having a "dot" name had been created, but the latter had not. This to me indicates the "dot" bug still exists here at least, regardless of the level under the actual artist name. Also to note, is that the albums still appeared under a "Various" folder , rather than a , now, expected YoYo one.

And Yes, I had cleared any of the x-ref.... files in the folders beforehand.

Hope this makes sense.

Russ (enjoying the challenges the first day of winter brings)

Yes, it's within a boxset that i noticed the "quirk"

I've attached a couple of text files showing the file structure of that boxset ( just part of it ) and the resultant file structure of the gallery created from it. Note the albums where those "dot" names exist (discs 05,12 and 16). The flac files from those three have all been grouped together under a single folder name and the folder/back.jpg's are from disc 05 of the set.

It's probably because the music files are effectively 3 levels deep from the artist , but thought it worth spending a few minutes to show you what I'm seeing here with this example.

I won't proceed any further with this analysis until the new version comes out.

Cheers,

Russ

Indeed. I noticed this also while experimenting with a Yo-Yo Ma boxset earlier today.

For example:

12_Beethoven~ Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol. 2
16_Mozart~ Divertimento, K. 563
19_Beethoven~ Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol. 3
22_Mozart~ Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, Schubert~ String Quartet No. 15

will cause an issue, whereas if you simply drop the "." near the end, to end up with:

12_Beethoven~ Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol 2
16_Mozart~ Divertimento, K 563
19_Beethoven~ Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Vol 3
22_Mozart~ Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, Schubert~ String Quartet No 15

all will get processed in the same manner as the others in the boxset. Not that boxsets are currently working faultlessly, but the examples above were just to illustrate the "dot at the end of the name" bug.

Others chars I have found OK to use are "~", "~ ", " ~ ", "_", "_ ", " _ ", "- ", "[", "]" etc.

Provided you recognise that " - " is a unique combination and is used as a delimiter, you still have a number of special chars at one's disposal to use.

Will await the next version before continuing the pursuit of gallery nirvana

Cheers,

Russ

hey there Pete, I spent some keyboard time today at the study PC playing with a really old batch of previously ripped albums. This was with 0.9z-5. There were a couple of points from your last few posts that I picked up on that may well have been the missing clues I needed to fully understand how these albums are now handled, so give me a few more days to play before I start inundating you with examples that don't work. It may well turn out that some minor revisions to my namings may get things in order, but it's going to take a little time still.

As always, thanks for your efforts.

Russ (master of chaos )