Centrafuse RC4.1 Bugs

**midiwall** · 10-31-2006, 12:23 AM

New bugs...

With XM playing, select MEDIA, pick a track, hit play. XM doesn't mute.
Is PAUSE in XM supposed to do something? It starts the counter but XM continues to play. (XM audio input is via MIC; MIC level in mixer is at 0)
If CF thinks there's a network (lamp is green), but there's not (because lamp is stale) when you configure weather, CF will hang for the duration of the network timeout - appx 3 minutes.
Audio still present with ALL level sliders (wav, CD, line, mic, etc) at 0.
The XM audio doubling is still there. REPRO:
- Start CF
- Verify that XM LINE_IN level is down ("MIC" in my case)
- Select XM
- Click PAUSE (side note: XM is still audible)
- Wait for counter to pass (go lower than) -0:04
- Push PLAY
- XM audio is doubled

Weirdness:

"<<> and ">>" buttons in XM don't do anything - how about making them walk up/down through the current filtered list. (i.e., FAVORITES, MUSIC, etc)
It seems that you need a network connection in order to configure weather. Why? Let us set the ZIP and if you don't have a network at that time do the lookup when you do. (if you don't have a network connection, then a dialog box is shown during config stating there's no network)
XM "now playing" title switches reasonably fast. XM audio switch is still painfully slow (9 seconds on my system).

**midiwall** · 10-31-2006, 10:38 AM

Update...

Originally Posted by midiwall

Weirdness:

"<<> and ">>" buttons in XM don't do anything - how about making them walk up/down through the current filtered list. (i.e., FAVORITES, MUSIC, etc)

Given point 32 from the release notes:

32. rewind and fastforward buttons properly work in satellite radio mode

I guess this is actually a bug...

**justintime** · 10-31-2006, 11:10 AM

If you go to add an app/plugin/weblink, the dialog itself will produce no click sound when clicking on any of those three options. It is a bug no doubt. Was there in 4.0 too....

**predator1** · 10-31-2006, 11:38 AM

Two things so far:

already reported this one but still present:
media manager: when adding to queue/playlist focus gets lost to notification dialog, no further kb control possible till you click somewhere on the media manager screen

listviews in dialogs: sometimes enter is accepted twice, i.e. selecting a skin directly from the listviews (by pressing enter) closes the browser-dialog but immediately opens it again.

**midiwall** · 10-31-2006, 12:46 PM

You have a memory leak, and a pretty nasty one.

REPRO:

Start CF
Start audio (MEDIA, XM, etc)
Bring up Task manager (Process Explorer is even better)
Find CF in list
(ProcExp)Double Click on process for task info
(ProcExp)Click on Performance tab
Watch Working Set grow by appx 2meg/SECOND

This manifests itself by Windows spitting a "Low on virtual memory" warning at some point. Once that happens, the system will be dog slow. This could be what people have reported as slow response and high CPU usage.

**SUVputer** · 10-31-2006, 03:06 PM

I loaded all my library into one playlist (about 2000songs) and played them randomly with shuffle option on, I noticed that there were several songs/artists that we selected very often, coming back again and again (I heard Phil Collins more than 10x today!)

If PRE and Front are at more than 50%, I'm not able to increase REAR/SUB more than 50%

The Playing Volumes between MEDIA and DVD are not the same, I guess that's a plugin issue.

Good luck

**veetid** · 10-31-2006, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by yossisibi

David, I found what happened, in the last version you are creating the media Playlist from the properties files (Title, Artist, Album title) and not as before all information from file name. Is that correct?

Can you tell me the name of CF playlist font?
Yossi.

You can disable this by going to settings, audio/video (maybe general), and disable folder tag reading...

It is century gothic, you can see all used fonts by looking in the skin.xml file, and replace the font and font size....

david

**veetid** · 10-31-2006, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by midiwall

New bugs...

With XM playing, select MEDIA, pick a track, hit play. XM doesn't mute.
Is PAUSE in XM supposed to do something? It starts the counter but XM continues to play. (XM audio input is via MIC; MIC level in mixer is at 0)
If CF thinks there's a network (lamp is green), but there's not (because lamp is stale) when you configure weather, CF will hang for the duration of the network timeout - appx 3 minutes.
Audio still present with ALL level sliders (wav, CD, line, mic, etc) at 0.
The XM audio doubling is still there. REPRO:
- Start CF
- Verify that XM LINE_IN level is down ("MIC" in my case)
- Select XM
- Click PAUSE (side note: XM is still audible)
- Wait for counter to pass (go lower than) -0:04
- Push PLAY
- XM audio is doubled

Weirdness:

"<<> and ">>" buttons in XM don't do anything - how about making them walk up/down through the current filtered list. (i.e., FAVORITES, MUSIC, etc)
It seems that you need a network connection in order to configure weather. Why? Let us set the ZIP and if you don't have a network at that time do the lookup when you do. (if you don't have a network connection, then a dialog box is shown during config stating there's no network)
XM "now playing" title switches reasonably fast. XM audio switch is still painfully slow (9 seconds on my system).

most of your issues appear that it is not muting the output channel, your mic or line in... It is suppose to mute that channel and playback through the recording buffer... this is your echo and why your audio does not mute when you switch to media...

I am guessing it is having problems controlling your mixer, which is causing all the issues....

I plan to put time into XM before the next release...

david

**veetid** · 10-31-2006, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by midiwall

You have a memory leak, and a pretty nasty one.

REPRO:

Start CF
Start audio (MEDIA, XM, etc)
Bring up Task manager (Process Explorer is even better)
Find CF in list
(ProcExp)Double Click on process for task info
(ProcExp)Click on Performance tab
Watch Working Set grow by appx 2meg/SECOND

This manifests itself by Windows spitting a "Low on virtual memory" warning at some point. Once that happens, the system will be dog slow. This could be what people have reported as slow response and high CPU usage.

cannot reproduce this... can anyone else? Do you have phone enabled? Try not with XM...

david

**veetid** · 10-31-2006, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by SUVputer

I loaded all my library into one playlist (about 2000songs) and played them randomly with shuffle option on, I noticed that there were several songs/artists that we selected very often, coming back again and again (I heard Phil Collins more than 10x today!)

If PRE and Front are at more than 50%, I'm not able to increase REAR/SUB more than 50%

The Playing Volumes between MEDIA and DVD are not the same, I guess that's a plugin issue.

Good luck

you can adjust the rear/sub ratio in the mixer section, it keeps it the same so as you increase one it should increase the other the same amount...

I gave DVD it's own volume because DVD's tend to be lower in volume, this was a feature that was added...

david