Thanks for the link Cris. I have just grabbed the X64 version and will have a play tomorrow on a test HDD in my music server. Hopefully I can get the audio driver for the Juli@ working, otherwise it's 'all over red rover'.

Will provide some feedback one way or other.

Cheers,

Russ

Still existed under SP1.

Russ

Hi Bert,

I suspect it's the drivers for the Juli@ card non getting re-initialized. Happens here also with mine. I just try and remember to reboot after coming back from hibernation. I'm quickly reminded when I forget and no sound eminates

Cheers,

Russ

Hi Ivo,

noticed you're probably running the E6300 still, and depending on how low you have your Q1 set, and whether you oversample you may still be OK with 0.9z-6. I think 0.9z-6 has tipped my slightly overclocked E8400 over the edge for speed but it's hanging in for the most part.

Not gonna harm to give it a whirl on your current PC though.

Cheers,

Russ

I can't even begin to imagine how many hours you've spent on 09Z-6, but we all appreciate the mammoth effort, and it's paid off in spades. The sound is really "smooth" and easy to listen to. Great bass extensive and control, and wonderful clarity in the mids and highs.

I shall spend tomorrow listening rather than tinkering methinks

Ánágodziih doleel

Russ

A-HA !! The missing pieces of the puzzle. Don't you just love it when you forget to do the bleedin' obvious .. doh!!!

All I needed to do was ... WAIT ... a little, and up pops the coverart on the second track. Thanks Nik for the clue and to Peter for indicating there was a lot of CPU activity needed initially; apparently more than previous.

After spending the whole afternoon, reformatting the C drive, then taking copious notes on events sequence, I can now narrow my search to a solution. It may be time to upgrade my faithful 8086 PC

Just now, after reading the above, I had task manager running over the top, and as anticipated, ChangeWP did not appear initially at first track commence, but did appear briefly at subsequent tracks.

I can go to bed tonight comfortable in the knowledge that there's basically nothing amiss from a software point of view, and I'm sure you , Peter, will like that too

Cheers for now,

Russ

BTW Peter, the settings you use, that you provided yesterday, (ie. with the OSD TEXT box ticked), always worked fine. Perhaps there was enough of a time window for ChangeWP to sneak in and do its thing while the OSD display is being prepared.

oh ... i didn't realise it was still in progress. OK ... all forgotten

That will teach me to quickly scan the release notes on my phone while still in bed half awake, then jump straight to the lounge and play with a new version .. haha.

I shall have a further play tomorrow, and there is certainly no rush in getting this hiccup sorted. I'm sitting here about to head to bed listening to Allan Taylor and he sounds as if he's in the room with me I've finished fiddling for the day!

re. that Interrupt Mechanism message (for me), it occurred around the time I was getting AutoHotKey sorted. I had inadvertently left the AutoHK folder intact on the C drive, and somehow, whenever I ALT-X'd to get the GUI up, it was loading up 0.9z-5-2 instead, even after reloading the script. I renamed the old z-5-2 folder and everything sorted itself out. May be unrelated to the Interrupt message, but can't recall anything else I was doing at the time. Hasn't re-occurred (touch wood).

Was just about to hit send and saw last reply from you. Yes, I saw that timer layout here a couple of times initially, but then something "broke" and it's never been the same since. Should have mentioned that .. oops! I can't remember whether it was the first attempt at installing z6 on the tweaked system, or a subsequent install on the plain vanilla system after the restore.

Bon nuit,

Russ

I posted the first picture for you to give feedback as to whether it was normal size or not. Apparently it is supposed to be this big, so thanks for confirmation. It had been quite a few versions back since I last activated that feature.

While I had the camera out I wanted to show you the time bar extending right across the screen, as it may have some bearing on why the coverart isn't showing. Perhaps it IS unrelated but in my mind, introducing a new timer display function and then not having the coverart come up as it has on all other versions just seemed like too much of a co-incidence.

I can also tell you that in ATTENDED mode, the coverart will not display until the OSD TEXT box is ticked.

As a test, I removed the existing entry of Wallpaper.bmp from the z6 folder, and ticked the 'SHOW AS WALLPAPER' At Attended button. After pressing play, I looked in the z6 folder and the wallpaper.bmp had not been created. I then stopped playback, ticked the OSD TEXT box, and pressed play. This time the wallpaper.bmp was created and it appeared behind the XX GUI. I also noted that all desktop icons disappeared. I can't recall if this is normal though as I havent used unattended mode in ages.

Is this sounding like an issue with ChangeWP?

Would logs help?

I'm happy to scr*p the new z6 folder and start afresh (again) if you think that helps, but my only concern is that something may be still residing in the registry or in the USERS folder somewhere.

ta,

Russ

The font cache service was set to Manual but was not Started. I set to disable and rebooted and tried again. No change. This was how I would have had that service set when i tweaked the system for 0.9z-5-2.

Happens both in the initial unMinimised OS and the Minimised OS mode.

I have taken a couple of quick, and somewhat blurry pictures, via phone, to show the screen.

error_01 shows the font size I'm talking about, and it's always been this big, so I suspect that's normal. (but ugly )

error_02 shows a close up of the scale digits. Notice that for this track they are starting at the 101 minute mark (last red digit a little hard to see 'cus it's masked by the 1/4 symbol). Note: It's only a 10:10 length track and the whole album is only about 40 something minutes long i think.

Hope this helps a little.

Russ

I only see that large font when the OSD text is enabled, and I presume it's supposed to be that large. Also, I'm pretty sure I had the font cache disabled on my tweaked system, so maybe that helped there. Will go have a play now on music server.

back soon.

Russ

Ignore the text about a reoccurrence of the error message. I had "Paint" open showing the error code I captured earlier, and I had forgotten about it !! Trying to do too many things at once at the moment here. Need a good granny nap .. haha

Russ

When i first installed 0.9z-6 this morning it was on the same environment I had been using with 0.9z-5-2, and all I did was set up the parameters and ticked the Monitor OFF and Minimise OS boxes, then let it do the reboot. At first play at unattended I noticed the monitor shut down as expected, and a mouse movement brought the monitor back to life, but no coverart showing. It was a while before I figured the OSD TEXT box brought it to life.

After I had restored the C drive I did run into a re-occurring error that I thought was related to AutoHotKey, but I eventually got that sorted out and haven't seen it again. AutoHotKey is now working fine.

The message was ...

"Interrupt Mechanism Out of order; Notify XXHighEnd development. (Restart Playback)"

Perhaps I should have used the term LARGE font, instead of UGLY font. Regardless, I don't particularly want it cluttering up my screen.

Another FYI, when the TIMER OSD is active, the left and right limits change with each track change. IOW, it might start at 9 minutes and go across the screen fully, and the next track might start at say, 11 1/2 minutes.

While I was writing up this reply (on another PC) I had a further instance of that "Interrupt Mechanism" occur, so there's still an issue there.

Still think it's related to ChangeWP somehow, as that has caused issues in the past, but normally sorts itself out after a whle.

ta !

Russ

hey there Peter,

have just spent a frustrating afternoon trying to get the folder/back artwork displaying in unattended mode without the encumbent OSD TEXT or RUNNING TIME OSD, and I've not succeeded

The only way to get the coverart shown is if I tick the OSD TEXT box, but then that ugly font invades the screen.

In addition, if I tick the TIMER OSD, the new graphic extends the full width of the screen at the bottom, with the left hand side starting anywhere between 9 to 12 minutes, and the right side showing something like 30 odd minutes.

I initially installed 0.9z-6 on my fully tweaked system, and found the issue with the coverart there. Tried may things to no avail, so restored my C drive to an image prior to all the tweaking I had made, so in essence it was as plain as can be. Tried again with 0.9z-6 afresh and still no go.

Thinking it might be due to the unique screen res I use ( 1280 x 834 ), I reverted to a standard 1280 x 1024, but still no good.

I'm thinking there may be some glitch with ChangeWP, or something has got out of sync. Went searching in registry for anything to do with ChangeWP but found nothing. Is there a way to reset things back to zero ?

Also tried with a clean \XXDATA\ folder.

I'm outta ideas !!

Cheers,

Russ

PS. what i've heard so far sounds nice though  

Hi Bert, just a comment on the above from me ....

wouldn't it be easier to simply rename those track names to something like "01 - 4-30 AM etc etc" , "02 - 4-33 AM etc etc" and so on ?

It would take a user about 2 minutes to amend, but Peter may have to spend hours chasing down the piece(s) of code responsible, then add yet more code to accommodate, what is generally regarded, as a file going against the usual naming convention.

Given that Peter hasn't noticed the issue before, not anyone else here mention it, suggests it is a rare occurrence and one best handled by the user themselves.

Cheers,

Russ

Last night I listened to "Picture Music" (a favourite amongst many) by KS, and was most impressed by the clarity and definition I'm now hearing. There is a section about 15 to 20 minutes or so in on the first track where he plays something like tubular bells. Previous playbacks had those bells noticeable but not striking. This time those bells rang out nicely and clearly delineated from the other instruments with a believable metallic tone and decay.   

I've also just finished listening to "The Gamut" album by Robert Hohner's Percussion Ensemble (on the DMP label), and still have a grin firmly etched on my face! I had never experienced that album with such clarity as I have just now. The sound stage is wide and very very deep, and each instrument is clearly defined within its own space. Everything is beautifully balanced, from the timpani drums to the tiny triangles. The style of music may not appeal to a broad audience, and I don't listen to it that often, but it is very well recorded, (being on the DMP label), and the instruments sound lifelike to my mind, which is the true test of any album.

Next up is "Jazz at the Pawnshop" in 24/176.4

Cheers,

Russ (currently listening to "Drive Inn Vol 1 by Klaus Schulse & Rainer Bloss)