Will,

although we get pre release versions of operating systems, unfortunatly we have to wait along with everyone else before we can get our hands on the service packs.

We are pretty keen to get our hands on SP2, to see if it resolves some of the ongoing problems.

Back to your database - if you want to get in contact with the support team we can try to get to the bottom of the exits.

When we have any news on XP Service Packs, we'll announce it here.

Regards

David Boulton
Brand Manager
Broadcast Radio Ltd

I have a copy of SP2 as I am on the beta test. they have just released RC2.

I could provide a copy, if you want to test it :-)

Will

Just a quick update: My Windows XP box is still playing now, 8 days later. Will update you when it crashes!

Alex

Thanks guys.

Will - don't worry about sending it to us - it maybe that the development team have received it and are evaluating it already. (I don't like disturbing them - when they are in their darkened office they can be quite intimidating :shock: ).

In our quest to support XP, if you feel you would like to try and upgrade to SP2 and see how it performs - we would be very interested.

Alex - I think our record so far without a crash is 13 days, so let's see if you can beat it :-)

Regards

David Boulton
Brand Manager
Broadcast Radio Ltd

[quote:46e197bad6=\"David Boulton\"]Alex - I think our record so far without a crash is 13 days, so let's see if you can beat it :-)[/quote]

Hope so! Mind you, it failed to make that long last time so I am not optimistic!

Alex

Fraid it crashed this afternoon, 4:56 into a track. I had to move it forward, recue it, play it, recue it then play it when it played for 30 sec or so. It then crashed and took a few minutes to \"recover\", when I ejected the cart and it carried on.

So lets start that timer again!

Alex

Joining the thread a bit late...

Radio Royal have been using Myriad & Win XP on air since last summer.

So far no unexplainable problems (ALL our PC's are XP pro).

Craig

Craig Arthur

Engineering & IT Manager
Radio Royal, Royal 2 & Royal Gold.

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So far no unexplainable problems (ALL our PC's are XP pro).
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My understanding is that is fine as long as there is manual operation for at least some parts of it: the problems arise using weeks of automatic scheduling (which we dont normally do, but are doing to test it). What worries me, though, is that these problems indicate that there are problems with the software on XP.

How long have you been using XP? I have run SCOOP, for example, in a live enviroment with no problems.

Best wishes,

Alex Davies

We played with SP2 a couple of months ago when it first started doing the rounds of developers and had a few problems with it - like the PC then needing a complete reinstall

The Latest release candidate is pretty good though and once they release the full edition we'll upgrade our test rig here to see if anything gets better (or of course worse!) and let you all know how we go

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Peter Jarrett, Technical Director
Broadcast Radio Ltd.

Bill Bailey: No win, no fee, no basis in reality. Just a room above a minicab office in Acton and a steady stream of greedy simpletons whose delusion is only matched by their clumsiness

Hi All,

Slight change of plan - we've been running the RC2 (Release Candidate 2) version of the XP Service Pack 2 for a little while on a couple of machines and it seems to be going well.

Therefore we have just upgraded our \"big\" test rig to XP SP2 RC2 (Alphabetti Spagetti anyone?) and will keep you all posted on how it performss.

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Peter Jarrett, Technical Director
Broadcast Radio Ltd.

Bill Bailey: No win, no fee, no basis in reality. Just a room above a minicab office in Acton and a steady stream of greedy simpletons whose delusion is only matched by their clumsiness