Centrafuse RC2 Bugs

**sivart321** · 08-23-2006, 03:42 AM

It will still need to buffer something initially, otherwise the audio won't be upconverted to more than 2 channels, correct? I imagine that the buffer/recorded audio could be a few hundred milliseconds... was that your plan? A fraction of a second is "instant" enough for me, but you had me scared using that word as I am afraid you might lose the buffer entirely, making the upconverting 'feature' dissapear at the same time.

I hope I was clear with my concern?

**midiwall** · 08-23-2006, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by sivart321

It will still need to buffer something initially, otherwise the audio won't be upconverted to more than 2 channels, correct?

My baseline for the past 6 weeks has been "A.I.M.E.E.", that app switches pretty durn quick. Right now, I'm seeing a total of about 12 seconds for CF to switch to a new channel and start playing audio.

update: I played with this on the way in to work. I'm seeing either 9 seconds or 12 seconds. 9 seconds comes when I bounce back & forth repeatedly between two channels. If I go away from the XM plugin, and let CF sit idle for "a while" (at least an hour on my system) then come back into XM, the first channel switch will be 12 seconds. The additional 3 seconds is more than likely from something being swapped in, either via Windows or CF itself.

**kbreeden** · 08-23-2006, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by midiwall

My baseline for the past 6 weeks has been "A.I.M.E.E.", that app switches pretty durn quick. Right now, I'm seeing a total of about 12 seconds for CF to switch to a new channel and start playing audio.

Is anybody else having trouble getting all of the XM channels to load properly?

I also have a couple of questions about the channel refresh setting:

1. What does it do (yes, I know that it refreshes the channels, but why is it necessary to refresh the channels?)

2. How often should I refresh the channels?;

3. When I refresh the channels should I just hit OK when the refreshing channels window comes up or is the window supposed to disappear after it finishes doing what it's doing?

Sorry if I'm being dense about this, but I'm wondering if this setting has something to do with all of my channels not loading properly.

**midiwall** · 08-23-2006, 01:14 PM

new bug...

Starting at XM favorites screen, with XM audio playing
Put system into hibernate (soft press on PC power button)
Resume from hibernate
CF restores with XM plugin showing, in FAV screen.
"LOADING" message comes up
CF is hung

100% repeatable

**hornyleprechaun** · 08-23-2006, 01:26 PM

I don't know if this is a problem with me or if it has been listed or fixed (I tried looking!) When I try to switch songs a lot it will stop playing all together... This happens roughly 30 minutes into playing and all I have to do is restart CF and reload it. This happened in RC2 and in RC1 (which I am currently using). I don't know if anyone else has experienced this problem or has any suggestions.. thanks!

**mike6789** · 08-23-2006, 03:00 PM

It's asking me for my serial number again... and when I enter it, it still doesnt get out of trial mode...

Please help!!!

**clemen** · 08-24-2006, 06:24 AM

This is a bug, when running in dual screens.
The DVD, and video a starting i monitor 2, and its working fine.

But when your are hearing music, and want to have the vis. in monitor 2, its not starting there automatic, you have 2 make a click in the vis square.

Then the vis. a in monitor 2, and CF in monitor 1, but now you cant controle CF, but only click in the song list, you cant use any of the buttons, until you click in the vis. square again to close it.

Also a nice future would be to move the gps to screen 2.

**RPM_VR4** · 08-24-2006, 02:09 PM

Ok, I got one. The other day I was getting a lot ot the next-track causing a FastForward issue, so I had to keep hitting play/pause in order to get it to play again instead of FFing. After doing that a bit, I got it in a state where it was playing 2 songs at the same time. One song changed with navigation/play/pause, but the other one would never pause or anything. I had to exit CF and restart it in order to make it stop playing the 2nd song.

BTW: It's not just next-track that sticks causing FF, I have had the favorites button get stuck (causing a load of the favorites playlist) and the page-down button get stuck (causing continual scrolling/looping of the now-playing list)

David: When can we expect a new release that doesn't have sticky buttons?

**veetid** · 08-24-2006, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by RPM_VR4

Ok, I got one. The other day I was getting a lot ot the next-track causing a FastForward issue, so I had to keep hitting play/pause in order to get it to play again instead of FFing. After doing that a bit, I got it in a state where it was playing 2 songs at the same time. One song changed with navigation/play/pause, but the other one would never pause or anything. I had to exit CF and restart it in order to make it stop playing the 2nd song.

BTW: It's not just next-track that sticks causing FF, I have had the favorites button get stuck (causing a load of the favorites playlist) and the page-down button get stuck (causing continual scrolling/looping of the now-playing list)

David: When can we expect a new release that doesn't have sticky buttons?

The sticky button is the only bug remaining before I release RC2.1...

I was not able to reproduce it on a machine until last night...

the issue can happen on any button that can be held down, so that includes volume up/down, fastforward, rewind, dim, page up/down, dim, back, and favorties...

The mouse up event stopped firing for some reason, which is what tells the system to stop the threads from the hold fucntionality...

I am working on it and hope to have it solved tonight...

david

**justintime** · 08-24-2006, 03:55 PM

That makes a lot of sense... had not made the connection that it only happened on buttons that allowed hold-down. Good detective work on that one. Looks like we will finally have a release with single click back!