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Random audio file played simultaneously with a video file!?
Using MS 3.5, Windows XP. Last Sunday we played a video file but somehow a random audio file on my hard drive played at the same time. It was very odd. Never happened before. Couldn't get it to happen again when I tested it after service. All settings were the same. Only programs open were MS and Audacity, but there were no files on Audacity. It was just open, ready to record the sermon a while later. Let's just say it was NOT a good audio file that played and I have no idea how this happened. A tad embarrassing and pastor was not happy.
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Inappropriate?I've never heard of such a thing! Wow! I understand the frustration and embarrassment. I would feel the same way, and I certainly would want to make sure it doesn't happen again. That being said, I don't know exactly what could have happened.
MediaShout should never fire a cue outside itself, and I've never known of anyone else experiencing that. I have used Audacity for editing, but never simultaneously with MediaShout—and I wouldn’t recommend it. Trying to run two programs that need to have ‘real-time’ response concurrently is a lot to ask from a computer.
The fact that you have not been able to reproduce it would lead me to believe that it was a completely random glitch on the part of one of the two applications. While I know this will appear to be completely self-serving, I honestly would suspect Audacity before MediaShout. As an open source, collaborative piece of software, it is subject to a certain amount of quirkiness and odd behavior. I’ve seen this first hand while using it for editing. I love the fact that it’s free, and I still use it, but I would not rely on it for mission-critical tasks.
Also, and I know this is pretty obvious at this point, I would recommend checking your entire computer for any audio files that would be objectionable in any way. It’s not likely to happen again, but stranger things have happened;)
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Inappropriate?Hey thanks. Ya - just so odd. Audacity wasn't doing anything. We just open it before service starts so we're ready to record once the sermon starts. Do you think that's a bad idea? Yes I'd suspect Audacity before MS too - same reasons.
I had other techs running the service and when that video sounded so weird, I ran back there to see if I could figure out what was playing. When I realized both audio sources were coming from the computer (video file on the hard drive plus that audio file) I couldn't just kill the audio send of the computer because we'd lose sound of the video too. I did notice that Audacity was open but I didn't click on it to see if it was playing anything. By that point the video was just about over. The weird file that was playing was funny - to those of us who knew it. It just was never intended for others to hear. Fortunately most people said it just sounded like noise.
When I tested it after service they had already shut down Audacity. So I opened it again and played the video file from MS (which was still up, untouched). That's when I could not get it to misbehave again, of course.
Well anyway, thanks for your reply. Yes stranger things have happened. I don't typically attribute LOTS of things to good ol fashioned spiritual attack (because as a technician I'm supposed to be able to fix things and make then run perfectly -right? ha). But we had a big event that day that was a great success in our community. We had a number of difficulties that week. That video glitch definitely threw me off course during the rest of worship (I help lead) and once I realized that I laughed and said it's going to take more than that to derail what God's got planned. So there. :)
Thanks again!
Susan
