TimeTrax Recast Public Beta Program

[dserianni]

Hi,

Since there has been a lot of requests for people to beta test our software we decided to create a public beta program rather than a private one like we tried before.

I am happy to announce that our latest beta build is now available for download.

Please visit this page for further details:

http://www.timetraxtech.com/tt_support_betaapp.asp

We thank you for your patience while we work on correcting issues.


Thanks

Derek

 

[awillc]

Is this the place for comments? Assuming so, my Recast Online seems to never refresh or update what's playint. It is currently playing, displaying the song about four or five ago, waiting for the next song to record, and I cannot change channels. Actually, all hitting any option gives me is a little "ding".

 

[dserianni]

We welcome all feedback on the new beta and this thread can remain open till the next beta is released.

So that we don't stumble over different versions I will open a new thread each time a beta is released.


Derek

 

[dserianni]

Is this the place for comments? Assuming so, my Recast Online seems to never refresh or update what's playint. It is currently playing, displaying the song about four or five ago, waiting for the next song to record, and I cannot change channels. Actually, all hitting any option gives me is a little "ding".

Thanks for the feedback.

Let's get some info to further help us investigate this issue.

1) What type of internet connection do you have?

2) Are you running any type of Anti-Virus with Worm Protection, or Firewall?

3) Do all choices in the software give you the "ding" are you sure that there are no hidden windows open?

4) Can you confirm that the directory where you are storing the files is valid and that your naming convention is valid?


Thanks

Derek

 

[awillc]

DSL connection (have tried both low and high speed connection with the same results). Antivirus is a commercial F-Prot. When it locks up, the radio keeps going - but the info never changes. The channel listing will come up but you can't change to any other channel (none of the titles in the channel listing change either), the VU meter is stuck at about 20%, and the record option continues to "wait for next song" through unlimited song changes. No hidden windows, directory and naming convention are all OK.

 

[pizzaguy]

After the installation, I had a similar problem with the display (artist/song etc) not updating after multiple songs were played.

This was using regular Recast, but configured to get the tag info from XM online.

After closing TT, then restarting, it seemed to work properly.

I have it running a test today and will have a better idea of how it is working when I get home from work later.

BTW I am running XP pro with a DSL connection.

I am also using symantic anti-virus (which I fully intend to keep it that way).

I also have a hardware firewall.

Dan

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I have been running the beta for about an hour, and so far (knock on wood) everything has been good.

However here is a suggestion for a future version, I would like to see the Regular TimeTrax recast program also list the online exclusives and AOL channels and allow me to tune into them without exiting and runing Recast Online.

Perhaps make it so it will only show the online exclusive channels if it detects a internet connection at startup.

There are times I would love to listen to Special X on XM Channel 30 (Online only) but I find it a pain to exit recast to go into recast online. And I dont want to eat internet bandwidth at the office listening to channels I can get off the satellite.

Thanks for a great product.

 

[pizzaguy]

I have tried the beta on my W2K machine at work and I am afraid I have to report the same result as the last 2 or 3 versions.

The program starts and then crashes (message was TT has generated errors and will be closed by windows).

I have tried starting in debug mode, but the error log does not really seem to show much.

Dan

 

[dserianni]

I have tried the beta on my W2K machine at work and I am afraid I have to report the same result as the last 2 or 3 versions.

The program starts and then crashes (message was TT has generated errors and will be closed by windows).

I have tried starting in debug mode, but the error log does not really seem to show much.

Dan

Dan,

Can you send the debug to: bugreports@timetraxtech.com

We are reporting positive feedback from all our other W2K users with the beta release.

I am curious if it is isolated to your PC and there is something we can do to make it work for you.....

Thanks

Derek

 

[dserianni]

DSL connection (have tried both low and high speed connection with the same results). Antivirus is a commercial F-Prot. When it locks up, the radio keeps going - but the info never changes. The channel listing will come up but you can't change to any other channel (none of the titles in the channel listing change either), the VU meter is stuck at about 20%, and the record option continues to "wait for next song" through unlimited song changes. No hidden windows, directory and naming convention are all OK.

I will admit that I am not familiar with F-Prot so pardon my next comments if they do not apply.

We are finding that with some users the use of certain Anti-Virus programs that block for worms and have built in firewall protection cause a hick-up with TimeTrax.

This also goes to say that stand alone software firewalls cause a problem too.


What needs to be done is that if a user wishes to use the XM-Online features (either for the streaming or just for the channel info) you need to make TimeTrax a "Trusted Application". This is true for the Windows Firewall too.


If you could double check this for me and let me know I would appreciate it.


Something else you can do is:

1) Uninstall all versions of TT from your machine

2) Use the cleaning util from our website and make sure it is completely wiped out

3) Install the beta version


Derek